Fossils and living taxa agree on patterns of body mass evolution: a case study with Afrotheria

Extant-only comparative methods fail to recover the disparity preserved in the bird fossil record

(2015) Jonathan S. Mitchell   EVOLUTION

An evaluation of fossil tip-dating versus node-age calibrations in tetraodontiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)

(2015) Dahiana Arcila et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals

(2015) Joanna Baker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complex body size trends in the evolution of sloths (Xenarthra: Pilosa)

(2014) Sara Raj Pant et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Inferring ancestral states without assuming neutrality or gradualism using a stable model of continuous character evolution

(2014) Michael G Elliot et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

GenBank

(2014) Dennis A. Benson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Using More Than the Oldest Fossils: Dating Osmundaceae with Three Bayesian Clock Approaches

(2014) G. W. Grimm et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

POTENTIAL PITFALLS OF RECONSTRUCTING DEEP TIME EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY WITH ONLY EXTANT DATA, A CASE STUDY USING THE CANIDAE (MAMMALIA, CARNIVORA)

(2013) John A. Finarelli et al.   EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

(2013) Graham J. Slater   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Genomic Evidence for Large, Long-Lived Ancestors to Placental Mammals

(2012) J. Romiguier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman

(2012) Erik R. Seiffert et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Coenozoic mammals

(2012) P. Raia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Analysis Using Lévy Processes: Finding Jumps in the Evolution of Continuous Traits

(2012) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

JOINT RECONSTRUCTION OF DIVERGENCE TIMES AND LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION IN PLACENTAL MAMMALS USING A PHYLOGENETIC COVARIANCE MODEL

(2011) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   EVOLUTION

Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

(2011) Chris Venditti et al.   NATURE

The Trouble with Topology: Phylogenies without Fossils Provide a Revisionist Perspective of Evolutionary History in Topological Analyses of Diversity

(2011) James E. Tarver et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees

(2011) Gavin H. Thomas et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Body Size Evolution in Mammals: Complexity in Tempo and Mode

(2010) Natalie Cooper et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA

(2010) Luke J Harmon et al.   EVOLUTION

SHORT COMMUNICATION: Little evidence for Cope’s rule from Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of extant mammals

(2010) M. J. MONROE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees

(2010) Tanja Stadler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Combining Phylogenomics and Fossils in Higher-Level Squamate Reptile Phylogeny: Molecular Data Change the Placement of Fossil Taxa

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and conservation priorities of afrotherian mammals (Afrotheria, Mammalia)

(2010) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Analysis of comparative data with hierarchical autocorrelation

(2008) Cécile Ané   Annals of Applied Statistics

Afrotherian mammals: a review of current data

(2008) Rodolphe Tabuce et al.   MAMMALIA