Neoproterozoic - Phanerozoic transition – Research Outputs

2023

Postcranial disparity of galeaspids and the evolution of swimming speeds in stem-gnathostomes

Gai, Z. K., Lin, X., Shan, X., Ferron Jimenez, H. G. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 27 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: National Science Review.

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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.

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2022

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

Harris, B. J., Clark, J. W., Schrempf, D., Szöllősi, G. J., Donoghue, P. C. J., Hetherington, A. M. & Williams, T. A., 29 Sept 2022, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 11, p. 1634–1643 10 p.

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Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity

Smith, T. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 15 Aug 2022, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 10, p. 1489-1500 12 p.

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Internal anatomy of a fossilized embryonic stage of the Cambrian-Ordovician scalidophoran Markuelia

Dong, X-P., Duan, B., Liu, J. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 5 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 10, 9 p., 220115.

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Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome

Liu, Y., Carlisle, E. M., Zhang, H., Yang, B., Steiner, M., Shao, T., Duan, B., Marone, F., Xiao, S. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 17 Aug 2022, In: Nature. 609, 7927, p. 541-546 6 p.

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The origin and early evolution of plants

Bowles, A. M. C., Williamson, C. J., Williams, T., Lenton, T. M. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 31 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Trends in Plant Science. 28, 3, p. 312-329 18 p.

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2021

Diversification dynamics of total-, stem-, and crown-groups are compatible with molecular clock estimates of divergence times

Beavan, A. J. S., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 11 Jun 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 24, 8 p., eabf2257.

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Exceptionally preserved early Cambrian bilaterian developmental stages from Mongolia

Steiner, M., Yang, B., Hohl, S., Li, D. & Donoghue, P., 15 Feb 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 10 p., 1037 (2021).

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Experimental taphonomy of organelles and the fossil record of early eukaryote evolution

Carlisle, E. M., Jobbins, M., Pankhania, V., Cunningham, J. A. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 27 Jan 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 5, 8 p., eabe9487.

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Fossilization processes have little impact on tip-calibrated divergence time analyses

O'Reilly, J. E. & Donoghue, P. C. J., Sept 2021, In: Palaeontology. 64, 5, p. 687-697 11 p.

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Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity

Smith, T. J., Puttick, M. N., O'Reilly, J. E., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 22 Oct 2021, In: Palaeontology. 64, 6, p. 765-787 23 p.

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The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs

Dunn, F. S., Liu, A. G., Grazhdankin, D. V., Vixseboxse, P., Flannery-Sutherland, J., Green, E., Harris, S., Wilby, P. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 23 Jul 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 30, p. 1-13 13 p., eabe0291.

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Ultrastructure and in-situ chemical characterization of intracellular granules of embryo-like fossils from the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota

Sun, W., Yin, Z., Pengju, L., Donoghue, P. C. J., Li, J. & Zhu, M., 6 Dec 2021, In: PalZ. 95, p. 611–621 (2021) 11 p.

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2020

A novel approach to investigate the effect of tree reconstruction artifacts in single gene analysis clarifies opsin evolution in non-bilaterian metazoans

Fleming, J. F., Feuda, R., Roberts, N. W. & Pisani, D., 7 Feb 2020, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. evaa015.

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Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity and adaptation to heterogeneous environments

Yin, Z., Sun, W., Pengju, L., Zhu, M. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 12 Jun 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 24, 11 p., eabb0083.

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Nucleus preservation in early Ediacaran Weng’an embryo-like fossils, experimental taphonomy of nuclei, and implications for reading the eukaryote fossil record

Sun, W., Yin, Z., Cunningham, J. A., Pengju, L., Zhu, M. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 12 Jun 2020, In: Interface Focus. 10, 4, 10 p., 20200015.

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Performance of a priori and a posteriori calibration strategies in divergence time estimation

Beavan, A. J. S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Beaumont, M. A. & Pisani, D., 22 May 2020, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 12, 7, p. 1087-1098 12 p., evaa105.

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The origin and rise of complex life: progress requires interdisciplinary integration and hypothesis testing

Wood, R., Donoghue, P. C. J., Lenton, T. M., Liu, A. G. S. C. & Poulton, S. W., 12 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Interface Focus. 10, 4, 10 p.

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2019

Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni

Dunn, F. S., Wilby, P. R., Kenchington, C. G., Grazhdankin, D. V., Donoghue, P. C. J. & Liu, A. G., 1 Feb 2019, In: Papers in Palaeontology. 5, 1, p. 157-176 20 p.

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Cellular preservation of excysting developmental stages of new eukaryotes from the early Ediacaran Weng'an Biota

Landon, E. N. U., Liu, P-J., Yin, Z-J., Sun, W-C., Shang, X-D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 1 Dec 2019, In: Palaeoworld. 28, 4, p. 461-468 8 p.

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Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model

Puttick, M. N., O'Reilly, J. E., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., Jan 2019, In: Palaeontology. 62, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.

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The apparatus composition and architecture of Erismodus quadridactylus and the implications for element homology in prioniodinin conodonts

Dhanda, R., Murdock, D. J. E., Repetski, J. E., Donoghue, P. C. J. & Smith, M. P., 1 Nov 2019, In: Papers in Palaeontology. 5, 4, p. 657-677 21 p.

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The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology

Yin, Z., Vargas, K., Cunningham, J., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M., Marone, F. & Donoghue, P., 16 Dec 2019, In: Current Biology. 29, 24, p. 4307-4314.e2 11 p.

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The effect of fossil sampling on the estimation of divergence times with the fossilised birth death process

O'Reilly, J. & Donoghue, P., 17 May 2019, (Accepted/In press) In: Systematic Biology. syz037.

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The impact of fossil stratigraphic ranges on tip-calibration, and the accuracy and precision of divergence time estimates

Püschel, H., O'Reilly, J., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P., 21 Aug 2019, In: Palaeontology. 17 p.

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Tubular microfossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) are not early animals

Wei-Chen, S., Yin, Z., Donoghue, P., Pengju, L., Xiao-Dong, S. & Zhu, M., 2 May 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Palaeoworld. 9 p.

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2018

Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it: a reply to Goloboff et al.

O'Reilly, J. E., Puttick, M. N., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 1 Jul 2018, In: Palaeontology. 61, 4, p. 631-635 5 p.

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Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity

Deline, B., Greenwood, J. M., Clark, J. W., Puttick, M. N., Peterson, K. J. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 18 Sept 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 38, p. E8909-E8918 10 p.

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Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization – opening the black box

Purnell, M. A., Donoghue, P., Gabbott, S. E., McNamara, M. E., Murdock, D. J. E. & Sansom, R., 20 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Palaeontology. 61, 3

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Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

Betts, H. C., Puttick, M. N., Clark, J. W., Williams, T. A., Donoghue, P. C. J. & Pisani, D., Oct 2018, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2, 10, p. 1556-1562 7 p.

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The Efficacy of Consensus Tree Methods for Summarizing Phylogenetic Relationships from a Posterior Sample of Trees Estimated from Morphological Data

O'Reilly, J. & Donoghue, P., 1 Mar 2018, In: Systematic Biology. 67, 2, p. 354-362 9 p., syz086.

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The nature of aspidin and the evolutionary origin of bone

Keating, J., Marone, F., Donoghue, P. & Marquart, C. L., 1 Sept 2018, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2, 9, p. 1501-1506 6 p.

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Unicellular Origin of the Animal MicroRNA Machinery

Bråte, J., Neumann, R., Fromm, B., Haraldsen, A., Tarver, J., Suga, H., Donoghue, P., Peterson, K. J., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Grini, P. & Shalchian-Tabrizi, K., 22 Oct 2018, In: Current Biology. 28, 20, p. 3288-3295.e5 14 p.

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Well-annotated microRNAomes do not evidence pervasive miRNA loss

Tarver, J., Taylor, R., Puttick, M., Lloyd, G., Pett, W., Fromm, B., Schirrmeister, B., Pisani, D., Peterson, K. J. & Donoghue, P., 18 May 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 10, 6, p. 1457-1470

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2017

Ediacaran developmental biology

Dunn, F., Liu, A. & Donoghue, P., 3 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Biological Reviews. 19 p.

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Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota

Yin, Z., Cunningham, J., Vargas, K., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M. & Donoghue, P., Oct 2017, In: Precambrian Research. 301, p. 145-151 7 p.

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Open data and digital morphology

Davies, T., Rahman, I., Lautenschlager, S., Cunningham, J. A., Asher, R. J., Barrett, P. M., Bates, K. T., Bengtson, S., Benson, R. B. J., Boyer, D. M., Braga, J., Bright, J. A., Claessens, L. P. A. M., Cox, P. G., Dong, X-P., Evans, A. R., Falkingham, P. L., Friedman, M., Garwood, R. J., Goswami, A., & 25 othersHutchinson, J. R., Jeffery, N. S., Johanson, Z., Lebrun, R., Martínez-Pérez, C., Marugán-Lobón, J., O'Higgins, P. M., Metscher, B., Orliac, M., Rowe, T. B., Rücklin, M., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Shubin, N. H., Smith, S. Y., Starck, J. M., Stringer, C., Summers, A. P., Sutton, M. D., Walsh, S. A., Weisbecker, V., Witmer, L. M., Wroe, S., Yin, Z., Rayfield, E. J. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 12 Apr 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1852, 10 p., 20170194.

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Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data

O'Reilly, J., Puttick, M., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P., 31 Oct 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Palaeontology. 14 p.

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RelTime rates collapse to a strict clock when estimating the timeline of animal diversification

Lozano-Fernandez, J., dos Reis, M., Donoghue, P. & Pisani, D., 1 May 2017, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 9, 5, p. 1320-1328 9 p., evx079.

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Testing the molecular clock using mechanistic models of fossil preservation and molecular evolution

Warnock, R. C. M., Yang, Z. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 28 Jun 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1857, 10 p., 20170227.

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The early Cambrian fossil embryo Pseudooides is a direct developing cnidarian, not an early ecdysozoan

Baichuan, D., Dong, X-P., Porras, L., Vargas, K., Cunningham, J. & Donoghue, P., 20 Dec 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1869, 10 p., 20172188.

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The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

Cunningham, J. A., Liu, A. G., Bengtson, S. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 1 Jan 2017, In: BioEssays. 39, 1, 12 p.

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The Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft bodied and multicellular microorganisms

Cunningham, J. A., Vargas, K., Yin, Z., Bengtson, S. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 1 Sept 2017, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 174, 5, p. 793-802 10 p.

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