Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity

Trophic convergence drives morphological convergence in marine tetrapods

(2015) N. P. Kelley et al.   Biology Letters

A global synthesis of the marine and terrestrial evidence for glaciation during the Pliocene Epoch

(2014) Stijn De Schepper et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Anatomical evidence for low frequency sensitivity in an archaeocete whale: comparison of the inner ear ofZygorhiza kochiiwith that of crown Mysticeti

(2014) Eric G. Ekdale et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation

(2014) Jonathan H. Geisler et al.   NATURE

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals

(2014) R. M. D. Beck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

(2014) A. Martinez-Garcia et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Herpetocetus morrowi(Cetacea: Mysticeti), a new species of diminutive baleen whale from the Upper Pliocene (Piacenzian) of California, USA, with observations on the evolution and relationships of the Cetotheriidae

(2014) Joseph J. El Adli et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current

(2013) Daniel J. Hill et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Iron speciation in aerosol dust influences iron bioavailability over glacial-interglacial timescales

(2013) A. Spolaor et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Basilotritus uheni, a new cetacean (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the late middle Eocene of eastern Europe

(2013) Pavel Gol'din et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Juvenile morphology: A clue to the origins of the most mysterious of mysticetes?

(2013) Felix G. Marx et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Middle Eocene to Late Oligocene Antarctic glaciation/deglaciation and Southern Ocean productivity

(2013) Giuliana Villa et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships ofMiocaperea pulchra, the first fossil pygmy right whale genus and species (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Neobalaenidae)

(2012) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenomic reconstruction of lactic acid bacteria: an update

(2011) Zhi-Gang Zhang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

(2011) Alexandre Hassanin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

HOW DO GEOLOGICAL SAMPLING BIASES AFFECT STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN DEEP TIME? A CASE STUDY OF PTEROSAUR (REPTILIA: ARCHOSAURIA) DISPARITY

(2011) Richard J. Butler et al.   EVOLUTION

The extinct baleen whale fauna from the Miocene-Pliocene of Belgium and the diagnostic cetacean ear bones

(2011) Mette Elstrup Steeman   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The systematics of right whales (Mysticeti: Balaenidae)

(2011) Morgan Churchill et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Relaxed Clocks and Inferences of Heterogeneous Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution and Divergence Time Estimates across Whales and Dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea)

(2011) A. Dornburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Comparative Osteology of the Petrotympanic Complex (Ear Region) of Extant Baleen Whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti)

(2011) Eric G. Ekdale et al.   PLoS One

What Happened to Gray Whales during the Pleistocene? The Ecological Impact of Sea-Level Change on Benthic Feeding Areas in the North Pacific Ocean

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   PLoS One

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of Antarctic Circumpolar Current Development on Late Paleogene Ocean Structure

(2011) M. E. Katz et al.   SCIENCE

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Global connections between aeolian dust, climate and ocean biogeochemistry at the present day and at the last glacial maximum

(2010) B.A. Maher et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Southern Ocean iron fertilization by baleen whales and Antarctic krill

(2010) Stephen Nicol et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Multiple fossil calibrations, nuclear loci and mitochondrial genomes provide new insight into biogeography and divergence timing for true seals (Phocidae, Pinnipedia)

(2010) Tara L. Fulton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The More the Merrier? A Large Cladistic Analysis of Mysticetes, and Comments on the Transition from Teeth to Baleen

(2010) Felix G. Marx   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

A stratigraphically precise record of Protosiren (Protosirenidae, Sirenia) from North America

(2010) Brian L. Beatty et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Phylogenetic corrections for morphological disparity analysis: new methodology and case studies

(2010) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin

(2010) Joe Roman et al.   PLoS One

Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans

(2010) G. J. Slater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales

(2010) F. G. Marx et al.   SCIENCE

Improving Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Bayesian Phylogenetic Model Selection

(2010) Wangang Xie et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Divergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans

(2009) Michael R. McGowen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

(2009) Mette E. Steeman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia

(2009) ERICH M. G. FITZGERALD   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti

(2008) Mark D. Uhen   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Taxon Sampling Affects Inferences of Macroevolutionary Processes from Phylogenetic Trees

(2008) Tracy A. Heath et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales

(2008) Thomas A. Deméré et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Skull anatomy of the Oligocene toothed mysticeteAetioceus weltoni(Mammalia; Cetacea): implications for mysticete evolution and functional anatomy

(2008) THOMAS A. DEMÉRÉ et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY