2020

Research contributions: top-rank journals (IF > 30) [4]

Chen, H., Parry, L.A., Vinther, J., Zhai, D., Hou, X., Ma, X. 2020. A Cambrian crown annelid reconciles phylogenomics and the fossil record. Nature 583, 249-252 (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2384-8).

Daza, J.D., Stanley, E.L., Bolet, A., Bauer, A.M., Arias, J.S., Andrej Čerňanský, A., Bevitt, J.J., Wagner, P., and Evans, S.E. 2020. Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders. Science 370, 687-691 (doi: 10.1126/science.abb6005).

Stoddard, P.R., Lynch, E.M., Farrell, D.P., Dosey, A.M., DiMaio, F., Williams, T.A., Kollman, J.M., Murray, A.W., and Garner, E.C. 2020. Polymerization in the actin ATPase clan regulates hexokinase activity in yeast. Science 367, 1039-1042 (doi: 10.1126/science.aay5359).

Venditti, C., Baker, J., Benton, M.J., Meade, A., and Humphries, S. 2020. 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature 587, 83-86 (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8).

Research contributions: high-rank journals (IF > 9) [29]

Almudi, I., Vizueta, J., de Mendoza, A., Wyatt, C., Marletaz, F., Firbas, P., Feuda, R., Masiero, G., Medina, P., Alcaina, A., Cruz, F., Gomez-Garrido, J., Gut, M., Alioto, T.S., Vargas-Chavez, C., Davie, K., Misof, B., Gonzalez, J., Aerts, S., Lister, R., Paps, J., Rozas, J., Sanchez-Gracia, A., Irimia, M., Maeso, I., and Casares, F. 2020. Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings. Nature Communications 11, art. 2631 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16284-8).

Bowles, A.M.C., Bechtold, U., and Paps, J. 2020. The origin of land plants is rooted in two bursts of genomic novelty. Current Biology 30, 530-536.e2 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.090).

Cooney, C.R., Sheard, C., Clark, A.D., Healy, S.D., Liker, A., Street, S.E., Troisi, C.A., Thomas, G.H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., Wright, A.E. 2020. Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications 11, art. 2383 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x).

Dal Corso, J., Bernardi, M., Sun, Y.D., Song, H.J., Seyfullah, L.J., Preto, N., Gianolla, P., Ruffell, A., Kustascher, E., Roghi, G., Merico, A., Hohn, S., Schmidt, A.R., Marzoli, A., Newton, R.J., Wignall, P.B., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science Advances 6, eaba0099 (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0099).

Dombrowski, N., Williams, T.A., Sun, J., Woodcroft, B.J., Lee, J.H., Minh, B.Q., Rinke, C., and Spang, A. 2020. Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution. Nature Commununications 11, art. 3939 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17408-w).

Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020. Fossil cells. Current Biology 30, R485-R490 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.063).

Donoghue, P.C.J. and Paps, J. 2020. Plant evolution: assembling land plants. Current Biology 30, R81-R83 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.084).

Ferrón, H.G., Martinez-Perez, C., Rahman, I.A., Selles de Lucas, V., Botella, H., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020, Computational fluid dynamics suggests ecological diversification among stem-gnathostomes. Current Biology 30, 4808-4813.E3 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.031).

Guijarro-Clarke, C., Holland, P.W.H., and Paps, J. 2020. Widespread patterns of gene loss in the evolution of the animal kingdom. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 519–523 (doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1129-2).

Harris, B.J., Harrison, C.J., Hetherington, A.M., Williams, T.A. 2020.Phylogenomic evidence for the monophyly of bryophytes and the reductive evolution of stomata. Current Biology 30, 2001-2012.e2 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.048).

Lewis, W.H., Lind, A.E., Sendra, K.M., Onsbring, H., Williams, T.A., Esteban, G.F., Hirt, R.P., Ettema, T.J.G. and Embley, T.M. 2020. Convergent evolution of hydrogenosomes from mitochondria by gene transfer and loss. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37, 524–539 (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz239).

Liu, A.G. and Dunn, F.S. 2020. Filamentous connections between Ediacaran fronds. Current Biology 30, 1322-1328.e3 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.052).

Lowery, C.M., Bown, P.R., Fraass, A.J., and Hull, P.M. 2020. Ecological response of plankton to environmental change: thresholds for extinction. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48, 403-429 (doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-081619-052818).

Martijn, J., Schoen, M., Lind, A., Vosseberg, J., Williams, T.A., Spang A., and Ettema T.J.G. 2020. Hikarchaeia demonstrate an intermediate stage in the methanogen-to-halophile transition. Nature Communications 11, art. 5490. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19200-2).

Martin, J.E., Tacail, T., Braga, J., Cerling, T.E., and Balter, V. 2020 Calcium isotopic ecology of Turkana Basin hominins. Nature Communications 11(1), art. 3587 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17427-7).

Martin-Silverstone, E., Habib, M.B., and Hone, D.W.E. 2020. Volant fossil vertebrates: potential for bioinspired flight technology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35, 618-629 (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.005).

Navalón, G., Marugán-Lobón, J., Bright, J.A., Cooney, C.R. and Rayfield, E.J. 2020. The consequences of craniofacial integration in the adaptive radiations of Darwin’s finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 270-278 (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1092-y).

Newham, E., Gill, P.G., Brewer, P., Benton, M.J., Fernandez, V., Gostling, N.J., Habertür, D., Jernvall, J., Kankaanpää, T., Kallonen, A., Navarro, C., Pacureanu, A., Richards, K., Robson Brown, K., Schneider, P., Suhonen, H., Tafforeau, P., Williams, K.A., Zeller-Plumhoff, B., and Corfe, I.J. 2020. Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals. Nature Communications 11, 5121 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18898-4).

Pigot, A.L., Sheard, C., Miller, E.T., Bregman, T.P., Freeman, B.G., Roll, U., Seddon, N., Trisos, C.H., Weeks, B.C., Tobias, J.A. 2020. Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds. Nature Ecology Evolution 4, 230–239 (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1070-4).

Pisani, D., Rota-Stabelli, O., and Feuda, R. 2020. Sensory neuroscience: a taste for light and the origin of animal vision. Current Biology 30, R773-R775 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.009).

Sheard, C., Neate-Clegg, M.H.C., Alioravainen, N., Jones, S.E.I., Vincent, C., MacGregor, H.E.A., Claramunt, S., and Tobias, J.A. 2020. Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology. Nature Communications 11(1), art. 2463 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16313-6).

Sheridan, P.O., Raguideau, S., Quince, C., Williams, T.A., and Gubry-Rangin, C. 2020. Gene duplication drives genome expansion in a major lineage of Thaumarchaeota. Nature Communications 11, art. 5494. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19132-x).

Simões, B.F., Gower, D.J., Rasmussen, A.R., Sarker, M.A.R., Fry, G.C., Casewell, N.R., Harrison, R.A., Hart, N.S., Partridge, J.C., Hunt, D.M., Chang, B.S., Pisani, D., and Sanders, K.L. 2020. Spectral diversification and trans-species allelic polymorphism during the land-to-sea transition in snakes. Current Biology 30, 2608-2615.e4 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.061).

Tian, L. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Predicting biotic responses to future climate warming with classic ecogeographic rules. Current Biology 30, R737-R758 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.003).

Tian, L. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Response to Delhey et al. Current Biology 30, R1408 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.073).

Vinther, J. 2020. Reconstructing vertebrate paleocolor  Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48, 345-375 (doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-073019-045641).

Williams, T.A., Cox, C.J., Foster, P.G., Szollosi, G.J. and Embley, T.M. 2020. Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 138-147 (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1040-x).

Yang, Z.X., Jiang, B.Y., McNamara, M.E., Kearns, S.L., Pittman, M., Kaye, T.G., Orr, P.J., Xu, X., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Reply to: No protofeathers on pterosaurs. Nature Ecology & Evolution online first (doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01309-8).

Yin, Z., Yin, Z., Sun, W., Liu, P., Zhu, M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020. Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China). Science Advances 6(24), art. EABB0083 (doi: 0.1126/sciadv.abb0083).

Research contributions: others [137]

Andersson, E.R., Stewart, J.A., Work, T.M., Woodley, C.M., Schock, T.B., Day, R.D. 2020. Morphological, elemental, and boron isotopic insights into pathophysiology of diseased coral growth anomalies. Scientific Reports 10(1), art. 8252 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65118-6).

Angst, D., Barnoud, J., Cornette, R. and Chinsamy, A. 2020. Sex and ontogenetic variation in the crest of Numida meleagris: implications for crested vertebrates. Anatomical Record 303, 1018-1034 (doi: 10.1002/ar.24275).

Bai, B., Meng, J., Janis, C.M., Zhang, Z.Q., and Wang, Y.Q. 2020. Perissodactyl diversities and responses to climate changes as reflected by dental homogeneity during the Cenozoic in Asia. Ecology and Evolution 10, 6333–6355 (doi: 10.1002/ece3.6363).

Ballell, A., Rayfield, E.J. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Osteological redescription of the Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus based on new material from Tytherington, southwestern England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, e1770774 (doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1770774).

Beavan, A.J.S., Donoghue, P.C.J., Beaumont, M.A., and Pisani, D. 2020. Performance of a priori and a posteriori calibration strategies in divergence time estimation. Genome Biology and Evolution 12, 1087-1098 (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa105).

Benton, M.J., Nemeth, K., Makovic, S.B., and Vasiljevic, D.A. 2020. Geoconservation in the Carpathian area: Special Issue. Geoconservation Research 3(2), 1-7 (doi: 10.30486/gcr.2020.1913822.1058).

Botella, H., Olive, S., Pradel, A., Rodríguez-Charry, G., Colmenares, F., Román-García, L., Manzanares, E., Paredes-A liaga, M.V., Navas-Parejo, P., and Martínez-Pérez, C. 2020. First occurrence of fossil vertebrates from the Carboniferous of Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, e1764967 (doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1764967).

Buckley, M., Harvey, V.L., Orihuela, J., Mychajliw, A.M., Keating, J.N., Milan, J.N.A., Lawless, C., Chamberlain, A.T., Egerton, V.M., Manning, P.L. 2020. Collagen sequence analysis reveals evolutionary history of extinct west indies Nesophontes (island-shrews). Molecular Biology and Evolution 37, 2931-2943 (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa137).

Buffetaut, E. and Angst, D. 2020. Gargantuavis is an insular basal ornithurine: a comment on Mayr et al., 2020, ‘A well-preserved pelvis from the Maastrichtian of Romania suggests that the enigmatic Gargantuavis is neither an ornithurine bird nor an insular endemic’. Cretaceous Research 112, 104438 (doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104438).

Cai, C.Y., Fu, Y. and Huang, D. 2020. A large artematopodid beetle (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its systematic position. Cretaceous Research 105, art. 103986 (doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.10.009).

Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Pan, Y., Yin, Z., Jiang, R., Xia, F., and Huang, D. 2020. Structural colours in diverse Mesozoic insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society 287, 20200301 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0301).

Cai, C.Y., Tihelka, E., Pisani, D., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020. Data curation and modeling of compositional heterogeneity in insect phylogenomics: a case study of the phylogeny of Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 147, art. 106782 (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106782).

Carey, S., Sparks, R.S.J., Tucker, M.E., Li, T., Robinson, L., Watt, S.F.L., Gee, M., Hastie, A., Barfod, D.N., Stinton, A., Leng, M., Raineault, N. and Ballard, R.D. 2020. The polygenetic Kahouanne Seamounts in the northern Lesser Antilles island arc: evidence for large-scale volcanic island subsidence. Marine Geology 419, art. 106046 (doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106046).

Cavicchini, I., Zaher, M., and Benton, M.J. 2020. An enigmatic neodiapsid reptile from the Middle Triassic of England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, e1781143 (doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1781143).

Chambi-Trowell, S.A.V., Whiteside, D.I., Rayfield, E.R., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Biomechanical properties of the jaws of two species of Clevosaurus and a reanalysis of rhynchocephalian dentary morphospace. Palaeontology online first (doi: 10.1111/pala.12493).

Chambi-Trowell, S.A.V., Whiteside, D.I., Rayfield, E.R., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Biomechanical properties of the jaws of two species of Clevosaurus and a reanalysis of rhynchocephalian dentary morphospace. Palaeontology 63, 919–939 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12493).

Chapelle, K.E.J., Benson, R.B.J., Stiegler, J., Otero, A., Zhao, Q. and Choiniere, J.N. 2020. A quantitative method for inferring locomotory shifts in amniotes during ontogeny, its application to dinosaurs and its bearing on the evolution of posture. Palaeontology 63, 229-242 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12451).

Coatham, S. J., Vinther, J., Klug, C., and Rayfield, E.J. 2020. Was the Devonian placoderm Titanichthys a suspension-feeder? Royal Society Open Science 7(5), art. 200272 (doi: 10.1098/rsos.200272).

Conti, S., Vila, B., Sellés, A.G., Galobart, À., Benton, M.J., Prieto-Márquez, A. 2020. The oldest lambeosaurine dinosaur from Europe: insights into the arrival of Tsintaosaurini. Cretaceous Research 107, 104286 (doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104286).

Cooper, J.A., Pimiento, C., Ferrón, H.G., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Body dimensions of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon: a 2D reconstruction. Scientific Reports 10, 14596 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71387-y).

Cueille, M., Green, E., Duffin, C.J., Hildebrandt, C., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Fish and crab coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 131, 699-721 (doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.07.011).

Culwick, T., Phillips, J., Goodwin, C., Rayfield, E.J., and Hendry, K.R. 2020. Sponge density and distribution constrained by fluid forcing in the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, art. 395 (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00395).

Da Fonseca, R.R., Couto, A., Machado, A.M., Brejova, B., Albertin, C.B., Silva, F., Gardner, P., Baril, T., Hayward, A., Campos, A., Ribeiro, Â.M., Barrio-Hernandez, I., Hoving, H.-J., Tafur-Jimenez, R., Chu, C., Frazão, B., Petersen, B., Peñaloza, F., Musacchia, F., Alexander, G.C., Osório, H., Winkelmann, I., Simakov, O., Rasmussen, S., Rahman, M.Z., Pisani, D., Vinther, J., Jarvis, E., Zhang, G., Strugnell, J.M., Castro, L.F.C., Fedrigo, O., Patricio, M., Li, Q., Rocha, S., Antunes, A., Wu, Y.am, Ma, B., Sanges, R., Vinar, T., Blagoev, B., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Nielsen, R., and Gilbert, M.T.P. 2020. A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux. GigaScience 9(1), giz152 (doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giz152).

Demuth, O.E., Rayfield, E.J., and Hutchinson, J.R. 2020. 3D hindlimb joint mobility of the stem‑archosaur Euparkeria capensis with implications for postural evolution within Archosauria. Scientific Reports 10, 15357 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-70175-y).

Díez Díaz, V., Demuth, O.E., Schwarz, D., and Mallison, H. 2020. The tail of the Late Jurassic sauropod Giraffatitan brancai: digital reconstruction of its epaxial and hypaxial musculature, and implications for tail biomechanics. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, art. 160 (doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00160).

Felice, R.N., Watanabe, A., Cuff, A.R., Hanson, M., Bhullar, B.-A.S., Rayfield, E.R., Witmer, L.M., Norell, M.A., and Goswami, A. 2020. Decelerated dinosaur skull evolution with the origin of birds. PLoS Biology 18(8), 3000801 (doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PBIO.3000801).

Ferrón, H.G., Greenwood, J.M., Deline, B., Martínez-Pérez, C., Botella, H., Sansom, R.S., Ruta, M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020. Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology 63, 717-732 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12482).

Fikáček, M., Beutel, R.G., Cai, C.Y., Lawrence, J.F., Newton, A.F., Solodovnikov, A., Slipinski, A., Thayer, M.K. and Yamamoto, S. 2020. Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?). Systematic Entomology 45, 175-187 (doi: 10.1111/syen.12386).

Fleming, J.F., Feuda, R., Roberts, N.W., and Pisani, D. 2020. A novel approach to investigate the effect of tree reconstruction artifacts in single-gene analysis clarifies opsin evolution in nonbilaterian metazoans. Genome Biology and Evolution 12, 3906-3916 (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa015).

Gomes, J.P., Bunevich, R.B., Tedeschi, L.R., Tucker, M.E. and Whitaker, F.F. 2020. Facies classification and patterns of lacustrine carbonate deposition of the Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin, Brazilian Pre-salt. Marine and Petroleum Geology 113, art. 104176 (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104176).

Grossnickle, D.M., Chen, M., Wauer, J.G.A., Pevsner, S.K., Weaver, L.N., Meng, Q.-J., Liu, D., Zhang, Y.-G., and Luo, Z.-X. 2020. Incomplete convergence of gliding mammal skeletons. Evolution 74, 2662-2680 (doi: 10.1111/evo.14094).

Guillerme, T., Cooper, N., Brusatte, S.L., Davis, K.E., Jackson, A.L., Gerber, S., Goswami, A., Healy, K., Hopkins, M.J., Jones, M.E.H., Lloyd, G.T., O’Reilly, J.E., Pate, A., Puttick, M.N., Rayfield, E.J., Saupe, E.E., Sherratt, E., Slater, G.J., Weisbecker, V., Thomas, G.H., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2020. Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity. Biology Letters 16, art.  20200199 (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0199).

Hadi, M., Ozgen-Erdem, N., Sinanoglu, D., Sarkar, S., and Zareh, A. 2020. Distribution of Alveolina assemblages in the Ypresian (Ilerdian-Cuisian) successions from Iran and Turkey (central and western Tethys): biostratigraphic implications for regional correlation. Micropaleontology 66, 51-74.

Han, Y., Sun, B., Yan, H., Tucker, M.E., Zhao, Y., Zhou, J., Zhao, Y., and Zhao, H. 2020. Biomineralization of carbonate minerals induced by the moderate halophile Staphylococcus warneri YXY2. Crystals 10(2), art. 58 (doi: 10.3390/cryst10020058).

Hancy, A.D. and Antcliffe, J.B. 2020. Anoxia can increase the rate of decay for cnidarian tissue: using Actinia equina to understand the early fossil record. Geobiology 18, 167-184 (doi: 10.1111/gbi.12370).

Hannaford, N., Heaps, S.E., Nye, T.M.W., Williams, T.A., and Embley, T.M. 2020. Incorporating compositional heterogeneity into Lie Markov models for phylogenetic inference. Annals of Applied Statistics 14, 1964-1983 (doi: 10.1214/20-AOAS1369).

Heaps, S. E., Nye, T.M.W., Boys, R.J., Williams, T.A., Cherlin, S. and Embley, T.M. 2020. Generalizing rate heterogeneity across sites in statistical phylogenetics. Statistical Modelling 20, 410–436 (doi: 10.1177/1471082X18829937).

Herraiz, J.L., Ribé, J., Botella, H., Martínez-Pérez, C., and Ferrón, H.G. 2020. Use of nursery areas by the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes). Biology Letters 16(11), 20200746 (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0746rsbl20200746).

Hose, T.A. 2020. Historical viewpoints on the geotourism concept in the 21st century. In Sadry, B.N. (ed.) The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century: The Origin, Principles, and Futuristic Approach. Apple Press, Palm Bay, pp. 23-92.

Hose, T.A. 2020. Geotrails. In Sadry, B.N. (ed.) The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century: The Origin, Principles, and Futuristic Approach. Apple Press, Palm Bay, pp. 247-275.

Howard, R.J., Puttick, M.N., Edgecombe, G.D. and Lozano-Fernandez, J. 2020. Arachnid monophyly: morphological, palaeontological and molecular support for a single terrestrialization within Chelicerata. Arthropod Structure and Development 59, 100997 (doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.100997).

Janis, C.M., Figueirido, B., DeSantis, L., and Lautenschlager, S. 2020. An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator”. PeerJ 2020(6), e9346 (doi: 10.7717/peerj.9346).

Janis, C.M. and Martín-Serra, A. 2020. Postcranial elements of small mammals as indicators of locomotion and habitat. PeerJ 8, e9634 (doi: 10.7717/peerj.9634).

Janis, C.M., Napoli, J.G., Billingham, C., and Martín-Serra, A. 2020. Proximal humerus morphology indicates divergent patterns of locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27, 627–647 (doi: 10.1007/s10914-019-09494-5).

Janis, C.M., Napoli, J.G., and Warren, D.E. 2020. Palaeophysiology of pH regulation in tetrapods. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B 375, art. 20190131 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0131).

Johanson, Z., Jeffery, J., Challands, T., Pierce, S.E., and Clack, J.A. 2021. A new look at Carboniferous rhizodontid humeri (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(3), e1813150 (doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1813150).

Jones, M.E.H., Gröning, F., Aspden, R., Dutel, H., Sharp, A.C., Moazen, M., Fagan, M.J., and Evans S.E. 2020. Biomechanical role of the chondrocranium and the material properties of cartilage. Vertebrate Zoology 70, 699-715 (doi: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-10).

Kay, C., Williams, T.A., and Gibson, W. 2020. Mitochondrial DNAs provide insight into trypanosome phylogeny and molecular evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20, art. 161 (doi: 10.1186/s12862-020-01701-9).

Keating, J.N., Sansom, R.S., Sutton, M.D., Knight, C.G., and Garwood, R.J. 2020. Morphological phylogenetics evaluated using novel evolutionary simulations. Systematic Biology 69, 897-912 (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa012).

Keeble, E. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Three-dimensional tomographic study of dermal armour from the tail of the Triassic aetosaur Stagonolepis robertsoni. Scottish Journal of Geology 56, 55-62 (doi: 10.1144/sjg2019-026).

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King, J.L., Sipla, J.S., Georgi, J.A., Balanoff, A.M., and Neenan, J.M. 2020. The endocranium and trophic ecology of Velociraptor mongoliensis. Journal of Anatomy 237, 861-869 (doi: 10.1111/joa.13253).

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