To what extent do new fossil discoveries change our understanding of clade evolution? A cautionary tale from burying beetles (Coleoptera:Nicrophorus)

Tectonic calibrations in molecular dating

(2016) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah   Current Zoology

Diversification of North American natricine snakes

(2015) John D. McVay et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Adaptive radiations in butterflies: evolutionary history of the genusErebia(Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

(2015) Carlos Peña et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Historical species losses in bumblebee evolution

(2015) F. L. Condamine et al.   Biology Letters

Higher speciation and lower extinction rates influence mammal diversity gradients in Asia

(2015) Krishnapriya Tamma et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The fossil record and taphonomy of butterflies and moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera): implications for evolutionary diversity and divergence-time estimates

(2015) Jae-Cheon Sohn et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Extinction can be estimated from moderately sized molecular phylogenies

(2015) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   EVOLUTION

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

(2015) S. Blair Hedges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings

(2015) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

The fossil record and macroevolutionary history of the beetles

(2015) D. M. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification

(2015) Q.-J. Meng et al.   SCIENCE

Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

(2015) C. Montes et al.   SCIENCE

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applications of the “Molecular Clock” in Systematic Biology

(2015) Charles D. Bell   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Deciphering the evolution of birdwing butterflies 150 years after Alfred Russel Wallace

(2015) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   Scientific Reports

Calibrated chronograms, fossils, outgroup relationships, and root priors: re-examining the historical biogeography of Geraniales

(2014) Kenneth J. Sytsma et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The extinction of the dinosaurs

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The De Geer, Thulean and Beringia routes: key concepts for understanding early Cenozoic biogeography

(2014) Leonidas Brikiatis   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Molecular-clock methods for estimating evolutionary rates and timescales

(2014) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Distribution of Extant Richness Suggests Metamorphosis Is a Key Innovation Driving Diversification in Insects

(2014) James L. Rainford et al.   PLoS One

Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms

(2014) Anne-Claire Chaboureau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles

(2014) Chen-Yang Cai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

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

Multiple transgressions of Wallace's Line explain diversity of flightless Trigonopterus weevils on Bali

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

Morphological Clocks in Paleontology, and a Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Crown Aves

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Unveiling the Diversification Dynamics of Australasian Predaceous Diving Beetles in the Cenozoic

(2014) Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Secondary extinctions of biodiversity

(2014) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The towering orogeny of New Guinea as a trigger for arthropod megadiversity

(2014) Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint et al.   Nature Communications

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The palaeogeography of Sundaland and Wallacea since the Late Jurassic

(2013) Robert Hall   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)

(2013) Derek S. Sikes et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Jurassic mammaliaform and the earliest mammalian evolutionary adaptations

(2013) Chang-Fu Zhou et al.   NATURE

Amphibious flies and paedomorphism in the Jurassic period

(2013) Diying Huang et al.   NATURE

How the Red Queen Drives Terrestrial Mammals to Extinction

(2013) T. B. Quental et al.   SCIENCE

Earliest Evolution of Multituberculate Mammals Revealed by a New Jurassic Fossil

(2013) C.-X. Yuan et al.   SCIENCE

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

Australasian sky islands act as a diversity pump facilitating peripheral speciation and complex reversal from narrow endemic to widespread ecological supertramp

(2013) Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global biogeographical pattern of swallowtail diversification demonstrates alternative colonization routes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres

(2012) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond 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

Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China

(2012) Diying Huang et al.   NATURE

A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

(2012) Romain Garrouste et al.   NATURE

Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China

(2012) K.-Q. Gao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Late Jurassic–Cenozoic reconstructions of the Indonesian region and the Indian Ocean

(2012) Robert Hall   TECTONOPHYSICS

A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China

(2011) P. A. Selden et al.   Biology Letters

Origin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms

(2011) Thomas LP Couvreur et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae

(2011) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Cenozoic climate change influences mammalian evolutionary dynamics

(2011) B. Figueirido et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts

(2011) T. Stadler   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

(2011) R. S. Etienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating Fossil Preservation Biases in the Selection of Calibrations for Molecular Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Alex Dornburg et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

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

Evaluating Fossil Calibrations for Dating Phylogenies in Light of Rates of Molecular Evolution: A Comparison of Three Approaches

(2011) Vimoksalehi Lukoschek et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Current Knowledge of Mesozoic Coleoptera from Daohugou and Liaoning (Northeast China)

(2010) Alexander G. KIREJTSHUK et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers

(2010) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

A Basal Alvarezsauroid Theropod from the Early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China

(2010) J. N. Choiniere et al.   SCIENCE

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

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

Biogeography and Speciation Patterns of the Golden Orb Spider GenusNephila(Araneae: Nephilidae) in Asia

(2010) Yong-Chao Su et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

(2009) Dongyu Hu et al.   NATURE

High-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Jehol Biota

(2009) Su-chin Chang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Global Cooling During the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition

(2009) Z. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Impact of the Representation of Fossil Calibrations on Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Extinction and environmental change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Tanzania

(2008) Paul N. Pearson et al.   GEOLOGY

The conditioned reconstructed process

(2008) Tanja Gernhard   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

(2008) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY