From Teeth to Baleen and Raptorial to Bulk Filter Feeding in Mysticete Cetaceans: The Role of Paleontological, Genetic, and Geochemical Data in Feeding Evolution and Ecology

Baleen wear reveals intraoral water flow patterns of mysticete filter feeding

(2016) Alexander J. Werth et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Inactivation of C4orf26 in toothless placental mammals

(2016) Mark S. Springer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

(2016) Michelangelo Bisconti et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new species ofMetopocetus(Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands

(2016) Felix Georg Marx et al.   PeerJ

On the Anatomy of the Temporomandibular Joint and the Muscles That Act Upon It: Observations on the Gray Whale,Eschrichtius robustus

(2015) Joseph J. El Adli et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Eye, Nose, Hair, and Throat: External Anatomy of the Head of a Neonate Gray Whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Eschrichtiidae)

(2015) Annalisa Berta et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Morphometrics and Structure of Complete Baleen Racks in Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) From the Eastern North Pacific Ocean

(2015) Samantha Young et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Vascularization of the Gray Whale Palate (Cetacea, Mysticeti,Eschrichtius robustus): Soft Tissue Evidence for an Alveolar Source of Blood to Baleen

(2015) Eric G. Ekdale et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Sensory Hairs in the Bowhead Whale,Balaena mysticetus(Cetacea, Mammalia)

(2015) Summer E. Drake et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Cetaceans evolution: insights from the genome sequences of common minke whales

(2015) Jung Park et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

(2015) Cheng-Hsiu Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Prenatal cranial ossification of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

(2015) Oliver Hampe et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

An Early Pleistocene gray whale (Cetacea: Eschrichtiidae) from the Rio Dell Formation of northern California

(2015) Cheng-Hsiu Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand

(2015) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

(2015) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   PeerJ

A new Early Oligocene toothed ‘baleen’ whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest

(2015) Felix G. Marx et al.   Royal Society Open Science

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

(2015) F. G. Marx et al.   Royal Society Open Science

From Problem Taxa to Problem Solver: A New Miocene Family, Tranatocetidae, Brings Perspective on Baleen Whale Evolution

(2015) Pavel Gol’din et al.   PLoS One

Morphology of accessory structures of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) eye

(2014) Fernanda M. Rodrigues et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans

(2014) Robert W. Boessenecker   GEODIVERSITAS

Brandtocetus, a new genus of baleen whales (Cetacea, Cetotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Crimea, Ukraine

(2014) Pavel Gol’din et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Morphology of the eyeball from the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

(2014) Fernanda M. Rodrigues et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

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

Molecular decay of enamel matrix protein genes in turtles and other edentulous amniotes

(2013) Robert W Meredith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Flow-dependent porosity and other biomechanical properties of mysticete baleen

(2013) A. J. Werth   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Taxonomic revision ofIsocetus depauwi(Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic ‘cetothere’ mysticetes

(2013) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Ancient marine isoscapes and isotopic evidence of bulk-feeding by Oligocene cetaceans

(2012) Mark T. Clementz et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata: the last of the cetotheres

(2012) R. E. Fordyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphology of the Eye of the Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis)

(2011) Mónica R. Buono et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Archaeocete-like jaws in a baleen whale

(2011) E. M. G. Fitzgerald   Biology Letters

Evolutionary changes of the importance of olfaction in cetaceans based on the olfactory marker protein gene

(2011) Takushi Kishida et al.   GENE

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

Olfaction and brain size in the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)

(2010) J. G. M. Thewissen et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Pseudogenization of the tooth gene enamelysin (MMP20) in the common ancestor of extant baleen whales

(2010) R. W. Meredith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Calcification provides mechanical reinforcement to whale baleen  -keratin

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

Molecular evolution of dentin phosphoprotein among toothed and toothless animals

(2009) Dianalee A McKnight et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Loss of teeth and enamel in tetrapods: fossil record, genetic data and morphological adaptations

(2009) Tiphaine Davit-Béal et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Divergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans

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

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

Morphology and Development of Blue Whale Baleen: An Annotated Translation of Tycho Tullberg's Classic 1883 Paper

(2009) Douglas S. Fudge et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Molecular Decay of the Tooth Gene Enamelin (ENAM) Mirrors the Loss of Enamel in the Fossil Record of Placental Mammals

(2009) Robert W. Meredith et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new eschrichtiid genus (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Early Pliocene of northern Italy

(2008) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY