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Published Phylogenetic Analyses of Cetacea by Contributors to this Website, with Links to Download the Data Matrices Used in These Studies.
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Montgomery, S.H., J.H. Geisler, M.R. McGowen, C. Fox, L. Marino, and J. Gatesy. 2013 (online early). The evolutionary history of cetacean brain and body size. Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12197.
Meredith, R.W., J. Gatesy, C.A. Emerling, V.M. York, and M.S. Springer. 2013. Rod monochromacy and the coevolution of cetacean retinal opsin. PLOS Genetics 9(4): e1003432. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003432
A pdf of the paper and datafiles can be downloaded at the PLOS GeneticsĀ Ā and the pdfĀ Ā as well.
Gatesy, J., J. H. Geisler, J. Chang, C. Buell, A. Berta, R. W. Meredith, M.S. Springer, and M.R. McGowen. 2013. A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(2): 479-506
Four data files associated with this paper are available for download: a revised supermatrix for the dataset published by Demere et al. (2008) inĀ Ā format, supermatrix of Geisler et al. (2011) but with character names inĀ , data file for relationships of extant and extinct artiodactyls inĀ , and the latter file inĀ Ā format. You can view the abstract for this paper and purchase a PDF of the entire paperĀ .
Geisler, J.H., Godfrey, S.J., and O. Lambert. 2012. A new genus and species of late Miocene inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Meherrin River, North Carolina, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):198-211.
Data matrix inĀ Ā is available for download.Ā
A pdf of the paper can be purchased here on the webpage of theĀ
Meredith, R.W., J. Gatesy, J. Cheng, and M.S. Springer. 2011. Pseudogenization of the tooth gene enamelysin (MMP20) in the common ancestor of extant baleen whales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:993-1002.
Two datasets in nexus format are available here:
- exon 2 MMP20Ā
- MMP20 CHR-2 SINEĀ
A PDF of this paper can be downloaded or from the Proceedings of the
Geisler, J.H., M. McGowen, G. Yang, and J. Gatesy.2011.A supermatrix analysis of genomic, morphological, and paleontological data from crown Cetacea.BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:112.
Data matrix in and formats are available here for download.
A pdf of this paper can be downloadedĀ Ā or from theĀ
McGowen, M.R., S.H. Montgomery, C. Clark, and J. Gatesy. 2011 Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:98.
A pdf of this paper can be downloaded from theĀ
McGowen, M. 2011. Towards the resolution of an explosive radiationāA multilocus phylogeny of oceanic dolphins (Delphinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60(3):345-357.
Data matrix inĀ Ā format (modified nexus format) is available here for download. You can view the abstract for this paper and purchase a pdf of the entire paperĀ
McGowen, M., M. Spaulding, and J. Gatesy.2009.pergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53:891-906.
Data matrix inĀ Ā format is available here for download.
You can view the abstract for this paper and purchase a pdf of the entire paper at the following linkĀ
Spaulding, M., M. O’Leary, and J. Gatesy.2009.Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: Increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character transformations. PLoS One 4(9): e7062.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062.
Data matrix inĀ Ā format is available here for download.
A pdf of this paper can be downloadedĀ Ā or from theĀ
Geisler, J.H., and J.M. Theodor. 2009. Brief Communications Arising: Hippo and Whale Phylogeny. Nature 458: E1-E4. doi:10.1038/nature07776.
Data file inĀ Ā format is available here for download. Also available is a separateĀ with all most parsimonious trees, aĀ with the optimum trees for implied weighting with k = 3, and aĀ Ā of the published appendix. Full text of the paper can be viewedĀ
McGowen, M.R., C. Clark, and J. Gatesy. 2008 The vestigial olfactory receptor subgenome of odontocete whales: phylogenetic congruence between gene-tree reconciliation and supermatrix methods. Systematic Biology 57(4):574-590.
Data file inĀ Ā format with the alignment of olfactory receptor sequences is available here for download, as is the same data concatenated with mtdna and nuclear loci, also inĀ Ā format . You can view the abstract for this paper and purchase a PDF of the entire paperĀ .
DemƩrƩ, T., M. McGowen, A. Berta, and J. Gatesy.2008.Morphological and molecular evidence for a stepwise evolutionary transition from teeth to baleen in mysticete whales.Systematic Biology 57:15-37.
¶Ł²¹³Ł²¹Ģż of the dental genes sequenced for this study is available here for download as well as a nexus version of theĀ Ā , which includes morphological and molecular data. A pdf of the paper is available at no chargeĀ
Geisler, J.H., and M.C. McKenna. 2007. A new species of mesonychian mammal from the early Eocene of Mongolia and its phylogenetic relationships. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1): 189-212.
Morphological dataĀ Ā associated with this study is available here for download. A pdf of the paper is available at no chargeĀ
Geisler, J.H., Sanders, A.E., and Z.-X. Luo. 2005. A new protocetid whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the late middle Eocene of North America. American Museum Novitates 3480: 1-65.
Morphological dataĀ associated with this study is available for here download. A pdf of the paper can be downloadedĀ and is available at no charge fromĀ
Geisler, J.H., and A.E. Sanders. 2003. Morphological evidence for the phylogeny of Cetacea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 10: 23-129.
Morphological dataĀ associated with this study is available here for download. You can view the abstract for this paper and purchase a pdf of the entire paperĀ
Geisler, J.H., and M.D. Uhen. 2003. Morphological support for a close relationship between hippo and whales. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(4): 991-996.
Morphological dataĀ associated with this study is available here for download. You can purchase a pdf of the entire paperĀ