Lab Publication List
Peer reviewed papers/Book chapters
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Ascarrunz E, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Betancur-R R, Laurin M (2019) On trends and patterns in macroevolution: Williston’s law and the branchiostegal series of extant and extinct osteichthyans. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19 (1):117 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1436-x].
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Barido-Sottani J, Aguirre-Fernández G, Hopkins MJ, Stadler T, Warnock R (2018) Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth-death process. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1902) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0685].
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Bouckaert R, Vaughan TG, Barido-Sottani J, Duchene S, Fourment M, Gavryushkina A, Heled J, Jones G, Kuehnert D, de Maio N, Matschiner M, Mendes FK, Muller N, Ogilvie HA, du Plessis L, Popinga A, Rambaut A, Rasmussen D, Siveroni I, Suchard M, Wu C-H, Xie D, Zhang C, Stadler T, Drummond AJ (2019) BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis. PLOS Computational Biology 15: e1006650.
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Cadena EA, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2019) First fossil of Rhinoclemmys Fitzinger, 1826 (Cryptodira, Geoemydidae) east of the Andes. South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (1):19-23.
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Carrillo-Briceño JD, Luz Z, Hendy A, Kocsis L, Aguilera O, Vennemann T (2019) Neogene Caribbean elasmobranchs: diversity, paleoecology and paleoenvironmental significance of the Cocinetas Basin assemblage (Guajira Peninsula, Colombia). Biogeosciences 16 (1):33-56.
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Carrillo-Briceño JD, Parra JD, Luque J (2019) A new lamniform shark Protolamnaricaurtei sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia. Cretaceous Research 95:336-340.
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Ceballos, SG, Roesti M, Matschiner M, Fernández DA, Damerau M, Hanel R, Salzburger W (2019) Phylogenomics of an extra-Antarctic notothenioid radiation reveals a previously unrecognized lineage and diffuse species boundaries. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19 (1):13 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1345-z].
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Geiger M, Asher RJ (2019) Schultz’s rule in domesticated mammals. Mammalian Biology 98:36-42.
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Heck L, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Stange M (2019) Why the long face? Comparative shape analysis of miniature, pony, and other horse skulls reveals changes in ontogenetic growth. Peerj 7:e7678 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.7678].
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Hüppi E, Núñez-León D, Nagashima H, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) Development of the chondrocranium in the domesticated fowl (Gallus gallus f. domestica), with a study on the variation of the of hypoglossal foramina. Vertebrate Zoology 69 (3):299–310 [doi: 10.26049/VZ69-3-2019-03].
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Kerber L, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) Morphology of the middle ear ossicles in the rodent Perimys (Neoepiblemidae) and a comprehensive anatomical and morphometric study of the phylogenetic transformations of these structures in caviomorphs. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26:407–422 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-017-9422-9].
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Klinkhamer AJ, Woodley N, Neenan JM, Parr WCH, Clausen P, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Sansalone G, Lister AM, Wroe S (2019) Head to head: the case for fighting behaviour in Megaloceros giganteus using finite-element analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1912):20191873 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1873].
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Langangen Ø, Färber L, Stige LC, Diekert FK, Barth JMI, Matschiner M, Berg PR, Star B, Stenseth NC, Jentoft S, Durant JM (2019) Ticket to spawn: Combining economic and genetic data to evaluate the effect of climate and demographic structure on spawning distribution in Atlantic cod. Global Change Biology 25:134-143.
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Matschiner M (2019) Gondwanan vicariance or trans-Atlantic dispersal of cichlid fishes: a review of the molecular evidence. Hydrobiologia 832:9-37.
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Matschiner M (2019) Selective sampling of species and fossils influences age estimates under the fossilized birth-death model. Frontiers in Genetics [doi:10.3389/fgene.2019.01064].
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Matschiner M, Salzburger W (2019) Genomic signatures of mimicry and mimicry of genomic signatures. Current Biology 29:R363-R365.
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Musilova Z, Cortesi F, Matschiner M, Davies WI, Patel JS, Stieb SM, de Busserolles F, Malmstrøm M, Tørresen OK, Brown CJ, et al. (2019) Vision using multiple distinct rod opsins in deep-sea fishes. Science 364 (6440):588-592.
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Musilova Z, Cortesi F, Matschiner M, Davies WIL, Stieb SM, de Busserolles F, Malmstrøm M, Tørresen OK, Mountford JK, Hanel R, Jakobsen KS, Carleton KL, Jentoft S, Marshall J, Salzburger W (2019) Vision using multiple distinct rod opsins in deep-sea fishes. Science 364:588-592.
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Núñez-León D, Aguirre-Fernández G; Steiner A, Nagashima H, Jensen P, Stoeckli E, Schneider RA, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) Morphological diversity of integumentary traits in fowl domestication: Insights from disparity analysis and embryonic development. Developmental Dynamics 248 (11):1044-1058 [doi: 10.1002/dvdy.105].
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Salas-Gismondi R, Moreno-Bernal JW, Scheyer TM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Jaramillo C (2019) New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (12):1049-1075 [doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1495275].
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Sánchez-Villagra MR, van Schaik CP (2019) Evaluating the self-domestication hypothesis of human evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 28:133-143 [doi: 10.1002/evan.21777].
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Scheyer TM, Hutchinson JR, Strauss O, Delfino M, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sánchez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) Giant extinct caiman breaks constraint on the axial skeleton of extant crocodylians. eLife 8:e49972 [doi: 10.7554/eLife.49972].
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Teng CS, Cavin L, Maxson REJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Crump JG (2019) Resolving homology in the face of shifting germ layer origins: Lessons from a major skull vault boundary. eLife 8:e52814 [doi: 10.7554/eLife.52814].
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Varadharajan S, Rastas P, Löytynoja A, Matschiner M, Calboli FCF, Guo B, Nederbragt AJ, Jakobsen KS, Merilä J (2019) A high-quality assembly of the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) genome. Genome Biology and Evolution 11:3291-3308.
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Veitschegger K, Kolb C, Amson E, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) Longevity and life history of cave bears – a review and novel data from tooth cementum and relative emergence of permanent dentition. Historical Biology 31 (4):510-516 [doi: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1441293].
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Villafaña JA, Marramà G, Hernandez S, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Hovestadt D, Kindlimann R, Kriwet J (2019) The Neogene fossil record of Aetomylaeus (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae) from the south-eastern Pacific. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:e1577251.
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Zurita-Altamirano D, Buffetaut E, Forasiepi AM, Kramarz A, Carrillo JD, Aguirre-Fernández G, Carlini AA, Scheyer TM, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2019) The Allemann Collection from the Santa Cruz Formation (Late Early Miocene), Argentina, In Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 138:259-275.
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