Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Preservation of proteins in the geosphere

R Umamaheswaran, S Dutta - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Deep-time protein preservation has attracted increasing interest and rapid research activity
within the palaeobiological community in recent years, but there are several different …

Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles

JJ Cornee, P Münch, M Philippon… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Our study aims to reconstruct the palaeogeography of the northern part of the Lesser Antilles
in order to analyse whether emerged areas might have existed during the Cenozoic …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Increasing information content and diagnosability in family-level classifications

M Kuntner, K Čandek, M Gregorič, E Turk… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Higher-level classifications often must account for monotypic taxa representing depauperate
evolutionary lineages and lacking synapomorphies of their better-known, well-defined sister …

Bayesian total-evidence dating revisits sloth phylogeny and biogeography: a cautionary tale on morphological clock analyses

JV Tejada, PO Antoine, P Münch, G Billet… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating
allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa …

Colonizing the Caribbean: new geological data and an updated land‐vertebrate colonization record challenge the GAARlandia land‐bridge hypothesis

JR Ali, SB Hedges - Journal of Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past three decades, the hypothesized mid‐Cenozoic GAARlandia walkway (34±1
Ma) has featured prominently in discussions on Caribbean biogeography. However, a …

Reassessing the phylogeny and divergence times of sloths (Mammalia: Pilosa: Folivora), exploring alternative morphological partitioning and dating models

DM Casali, A Boscaini, TJ Gaudin… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

Eocene intra-plate shortening responsible for the rise of a faunal pathway in the northeastern Caribbean realm

M Philippon, JJ Cornée, P Münch… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Intriguing latest Eocene land-faunal dispersals between South America and the Greater
Antilles (northern Caribbean) has inspired the hypothesis of the GAARlandia (Greater …

On the standardization of ZooMS nomenclature

S Brown, K Douka, MJ Collins, KK Richter - Journal of proteomics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is rapidly becoming a staple in
archaeological and cultural heritage science. Developed a decade ago, this peptide mass …