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

Updating the evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia): a new species-level supertree complete with divergence time estimates

(2012) Katrin Nyakatura et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode

(2012) Gene Hunt   PALEOBIOLOGY

Comparative analyses of evolutionary rates reveal different pathways to encephalization in bats, carnivorans, and primates

(2012) J. B. Smaers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

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

Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

(2011) Chris Venditti et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic Utility of Nuclear Introns in Interfamilial Relationships of Caniformia (Order Carnivora)

(2011) Li Yu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Curvature in metabolic scaling

(2010) Tom Kolokotrones et al.   NATURE

Fossils provide better estimates of ancestral body size than do extant taxa in fishes

(2009) James S. Albert et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)

(2009) Richard H. Tedford et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Deciphering and dating the red panda’s ancestry and early adaptive radiation of Musteloidea

(2009) Jun J. Sato et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Brain-size evolution and sociality in Carnivora

(2009) J. A. Finarelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Total Evidence Phylogeny of the Arctoidea (Carnivora: Mammalia): Relationships Among Basal Taxa

(2008) John A. Finarelli   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Hierarchy and the reconstruction of evolutionary trends: evidence for constraints on the evolution of body size in terrestrial caniform carnivorans (Mammalia)

(2008) John A. Finarelli   PALEOBIOLOGY

Testing hypotheses of the evolution of encephalization in the Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)

(2008) John A. Finarelli   PALEOBIOLOGY

Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity

(2008) D. Jablonski   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA