• Teaching and learning Human Anatomy

Mostly focused on Comparative Anatomy and translational studies involving zebrafish using a variety of techniques including dissection, osteology, histology, immunohistochemistry and radiological techniques

• Martini, A., Sahd, L., Rücklin, M., Huysseune, A., Hall, B.K., Boglione, G. & Witten, P.E. (Joint first authorship). 2023. Deformity or variation? Phenotypic diversity in the zebrafish vertebral column. J Anat 243: 960-981. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13926
• Sahd, L., Doubell, N.S., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S.H. 2023. Muscle architecture and muscle fibre type composition in the forelimb of two African mole-rat species, Bathyergus suillus and Heterocephalus glaber. J Morphol 284: e21557 https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21557
• Sahd, L., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S.H. 2022. Hind foot drumming: A volumetric micro-computed tomography investigation of the hind limb musculature of three African mole-rat species (Bathyergidae). J Anat 240: 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13534
• Sahd, L., Doubell, N.S., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S. H. 2022. Hind foot drumming: Myosin heavy chain muscle fibre distribution in the hind limb muscles of three African mole-rat species (Bathyergidae). Anat Rec 305: 170-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24712
• Sahd, L., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S. H. 2021. Hind foot drumming: Muscle architecture of the hind limb in three Bathyergidae species. J Mamm Evol 28: 511-525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09527-4
• Sahd, L., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S. H. 2020. Hind foot drumming: Morpho-functional analysis of the hind limb osteology in three species of African mol-rats (Bathyergidae). J Morphol 281: 438-449 https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21110
• Sahd, L., Bennett, N.C. & Kotzé, S.H. 2019. Hind foot drumming: morphological adaptations of the muscles and bones of the hind limb in three African mole-rat species. J Anat 235: 811-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13028