Publications

Recent Publications from Tempo and Mode

  • Rasmussen B, Fletcher IR, Brocks JJ, and Kilburn MR (2008) Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria. Nature 455: 1101-1105. PDF
  • Pueyo JI*, Lanfear R*, and Couso JP (2008) Ancestral notch-mediated segmentation revealed in the cockroach P. americana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105: 16614-16619. (* equal first authors) PDF Appendix
  • Lanfear R, and Bromham L (2008) Statistical tests between competing hypotheses of Hox cluster evolution. Systematic Biology, 57(5):708-718. PDF Appendices Python script
  • Davies TJ, Fritz SA, Grenyer R, Orme CDL, Bielby J, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Jones KE, Gittleman JL, Mace GM, and Purvis A. (2008) Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105: 11564-11570. PDF
  • Cardillo M, Gittleman JL, and Purvis A (2008) Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 1549-1556. PDF
  • Cardillo M, Mace GM, Gittleman JL, Jones KE, Bielby J, and Purvis A (2008) The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 1441-1448. PDF
  • Bromham L (2008) Reading the story in DNA: a beginner’s guide to molecular evolution. Oxford University Press. WEBSITE.
  • Ho SYW and Endicott P (2008) The crucial role of calibration in molecular date estimates for the peopling of the Americas. American Journal of Human Genetics, 83: 142-146. PDF
  • Ho SYW, Larson G, Edwards CJ, Heupink TH, Lakin KE, Holland PWH, and Shapiro B (2008) Correlating Bayesian date estimates with climatic events and domestication using a bovine case study. Biology Letters, 4: 370-374. PDF
  • Bromham L (2008) Molecular Evolution: Rates. In: Encylopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001802.pub2]. PDF
  • Bromham L (2008) Molecular Evolution: Patterns and Rates. In: Encylopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001799.pub3] PDF
  • Gilbert MTP, Drautz DI, Lesk AM, Ho SYW, Qi J, Ratan A, Hsu C-H, Sher A, Dalén L, Götherström A, Tomsho LP, Rendulic S, Packard M, Campos PF, Kuznetsova T, Shidlovskiy F, Tikhonov A, Willerslev E, Iacumin P, Buigues B, Ericson PGP, Germonpré M, Kosintsev P, Nikolaev V, Nowak-Kemp M, Knight JR, Irzyk GP, Perbost CS, Fredrikson KM, Harkins TT, Sheridan S, Miller W, and Schuster SC (2008) Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105: 8327-8332. PDF
  • Welch JJ, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Bromham L (2008) Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:53. PDF