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Research interests
My research is focused on the relationship between evolution and embryology, integrating living and fossil organisms, developmental biology, and knowledge of their evolutionary relationships, to provide an holistic understanding of major episodes in evolutionary history.
I have particular interest in the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates, and of ecdysozoans, but also in the evolutionary emergence of animals and plants more generally. This entails classical palaeobiology, but also molecular genetics – to calibrate the Tree of Life to time using molecular clock theory, and to determine the role of genetic regulators of development in effecting organismal-level evolutionary change.
My group has facilities for rock digestion, high-end computed tomography, animal culture facilities and a molecular laboratory for RNA and DNA library preparation, gene cloning, and in situ hybridisation.
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Evolutionary dynamics of Neuropterida and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution
1/04/22 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Research output
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The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships
Wu, R., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 11 Jan 2023, In: Biology Letters. 19, 1, p. 20220497 17 p., 20220497.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data
Álvarez-Carretero, S., Tamuri, A. U., Battini, M., Nascimento, F. F., Carlisle, E. M., Asher, R. J., Yang, Z., Donoghue, P. C. J. & dos Reis, M., 10 Feb 2022, In: Nature. 602, 7896, p. 263-267 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Dietary inference from dental topographic analysis of feeding tools in diverse animals
Stockey, C., Adams, N., Harvey, T., Donoghue, P. C. J. & Purnell, M. A., 15 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13, 7, p. 1464-1474 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Datasets
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Data: Response to “placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth”
Donoghue, P. C. J. (Creator) & Ruecklin, M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 15 Sep 2016
DOI: 10.5523/bris.37q0cntawxcq1rkktq3e9mr1p, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/37q0cntawxcq1rkktq3e9mr1p
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Data from Yin et al. (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
Donoghue, P. C. J. (Creator), University of Bristol, 29 Apr 2020
DOI: 10.5523/bris.tznl7b6dt7kr23cd1d5eokvcz, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/tznl7b6dt7kr23cd1d5eokvcz
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The early Cambrian fossil embryo Pseudooides is a direct developing cnidarian, not an early ecdysozoan.
Duan, B. (Creator), Dong, X. (Creator), Porras, L. (Creator), Vargas, K. (Creator), Cunningham, J. A. (Creator) & Donoghue, P. C. J. (Creator), University of Bristol, 10 Oct 2017
DOI: 10.5523/bris.3vd8kczvuzo3y2nrn6n8m6l2y4, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3vd8kczvuzo3y2nrn6n8m6l2y4
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Prizes
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President's Medal
Donoghue, Philip C J (Recipient), 18 Dec 2014
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Donoghue, Philip C J (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants