This article reviews the form and function of cranial sutures across the temporal and spatial
scales. The temporal scale spans 530 million years, from ostracoderms to contemporary …

Introduction Progress in cranial suture research is shaping our current understanding of the
topic; however, emphasis has been placed on individual contributing components rather …

In addition to their role in skull growth, sutures are sites of flexibility between the more rigid
bones. Depending on the suture, predominant loading during life may be either tensile or …

This study investigates the role of bone resorption in defining interdigitations characteristic of
cranial suture waveform. Male mice from the CD‐1 (ICR) background were analyzed at six …

Phenotypic variation across mammals is extensive and reflects their ecological
diversification into a remarkable range of habitats on every continent and in every ocean …

Skull sutures serve as growth centers whose function involves multiple molecular pathways.
During periods of brain growth the sutures remain thin and straight, later developing …

It is widely believed that rapid growth of the human brain generates tensile strain in cranial
sutures, and that this strain influences the rate of bone deposition at the sutural margins …

Cranial sutures play a critical role in calvarial morphogenesis, serving as growth centers
during skull development. Both biomechanical tensile forces originating in the cranial base …

This book provides an in-depth review of the sutures of the skull. The premature closure of
the sutures of the skull (craniosynostosis) due to genetic or metabolic etiologies results in …

Cranial sutures are fibrocellular joints between the skull bones that are progressively
replaced with bone throughout ontogeny, facilitating growth and cranial shape change. This …