Projects

There are 111 publicly accessible projects as of February 22, 2012 in MorphoBank. Publicly available projects contain 5,592 images and 81 matrices. MorphoBank also has an additional 397 projects that are in progress. These contain an additional 61,894 images and 380 matrices. These will become available as scientists complete their research and release these data. 857 scientists and students have joined MorphoBank.

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Project 407: Herrera, F., S. R. Manchester, S. B. Hoot, K. M. Wefferling, M. R. Carvalho, and C. Jaramillo, 2011

Phytogeographic implications of fossil endocarps of Menispermaceae from the Paleocene of Colombia

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Project 674: Zack, S. P., 2011

New Species of the Rare Early Eocene Creodont Galecyon and the Radiation of Early Hyaenodontidae

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Project 542: Lamsdell, J. C., 2011

The eurypterid Stoermeropterus conicus from the lower Silurian Pentland Hills, Scotland

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Project 631: Garwood, R. J., J. A. Dunlop, G. Giribet, and M. D. Sutton, 2011

Anatomically modern Carboniferous harvestmen demonstrate early cladogenesis and stasis in Opiliones

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Project 429: Butler A. D., G. D. Edgecombe, A. D. Ball, and G. Giribet, 2010

Resolving the phylogenetic position of enigmatic New Guinea and Seychelles Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda): a molecular and morphological assessment of Ballonemini

Project 532: Daza J.D, and A. M. Bauer , 2011

A new amber-embeded sphaerodactyl gecko from Hispaniola, with comments on morphological synapomorphies of the Sphaerodactylidae

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Project 420: O'Leary, M. A.; B. A. Patel; M. N. Coleman, 2012

New data on the petrosal of Bothriogenys (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae), and petrosal volume and density comparisons among aquatic and terrestrial artiodactyls and outgroups

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Project 635: Schutte-Vlok, A. L., and B.-E. van Wyk, 2011

A Taxonomic Revision of Podalyria (Fabaceae)

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Project 587: Rose, K. D., S. G. B. Chester, R. H. Dunn, D. M. Boyer, and J. I. Bloch, 2011

New fossils of the oldest North American euprimate Teilhardinabrandti(Omomyidae) from the paleocene–eocene thermal maximum

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Project 652: Rauhut, O. W. M., 2003

The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs

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Project 348: Vasconcelos, R., A. Perera, P. Geniez, D. J. Harris, and S. Carranza, 2012

An integrative taxonomic revision of the Tarentola geckos (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) of the Cape Verde Islands

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Project 443: Seiffert, E. R., 2010

The oldest and youngest records of afrosoricid placentals from the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt

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Project 175: Syme, A. E., and T. H. Oakley, 2011

Dispersal between Shallow and Abyssal Seas and Evolutionary Loss and Re-gain of Compound Eyes in Cylindroleberidid Ostracods: Conflicting Conclusions from Different Comparative Methods

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Project 332: Nesbitt, S. J., D. T. Ksepka, and J. A. Clarke, 2011

Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores (‘‘Caprimulgiformes’’ + Apodiformes)

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Project 224: Huelsken, T., H. Wägele, B. Peters, B. Mather, M. Hollmann, 2011

Molecular analysis of adults and egg masses reveals two independent lineages within the infaunal gastropod Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798) (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae)

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Project 628: Fischer, V., E. Masure, M. S. Arkhangelsky, and P. Godefroit, 2011

A New Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Ichthyosaur from Western Russia

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Project 622: Edgecombe, G. D., Koch, M., 2008

Phylogeny of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda): morphological analysis featuring characters from the peristomatic area

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Project 619: Koch, M., G. D. Edgecombe, R. M. Shelley, 2010

Anatomy of Ectonocryptoides (Scolopocryptopidae: Ectonocryptopinae) and the phylogeny of blind Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)

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Project 581: Turner, A. H., and J. J. W. Sertich, 2010

Phylogenetic History of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

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Project 625: Murienne, J., G. D. Edgecombe, G. Giribet, 2010

Including secondary structure, fossils and molecular dating in the centipede tree of life

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Project 624: Koch, M., S. Pärschke, G. D. Edgecombe, 2009

Phylogenetic implications of gizzard morphology in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda)

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Project 589: Capa, M., P. Hutchings, M. T. Aguado, N. J. Bott, 2011

Phylogeny of Sabellidae (Annelida) and relationships with other taxa inferred from morphology and multiple genes

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Project 246: Gunnell, G. F., and N. B. Simmons, 2005

Fossil Evidence and the Origin of Bats

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Project 623: Edgecombe, G. D., M. Koch, 2009

The contribution of preoral chamber and foregut morphology to the phylogenetics of Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda).

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Project 618: Daley, A. C., G. E. Budd, J.-B. Caron, G. D. Edgecombe, and D. Collins, 2009

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

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Project 441: Kuntner, M., J. A. Coddington, and G. Hormiga, 2008

Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies

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Project 489: Ksepka, D.T., and M.A. Norell, 2010

The Illusory Evidence for Asian Brachiosauridae: New Material of Erketu ellisoni and a Phylogenetic Reappraisal of Basal Titanosauriformes

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Project 574: Konishi, T., and M. W. Caldwell, 2011

Two New Plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) Genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a Global Phylogenetic Analysis of Plioplatecarpines

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Project 181: Churchill, M., A. Berta, and T. Deméré, 2011

Systematics of Right Whales (Mysticeti: Balaenidae)

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Project 599: Velazco P.M., 2005

Morphological Phylogeny of the Bat Genus Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with the Description of Four New Species

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Project 536: Krysko, K. L., J. P. Burgess, M. R. Rochford, C. R. Gillette, D. Cueva, K. M. Enge, L. A. Somma, J. L. Stabile, D. C. Smith, J. A. Wasilewski, G. N. Kieckhefer III, M. C. Granatosky, and S. V. Nielsen, 2011

Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages

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Project 512: Huttenlocker, A. K., C. A. Sidor, and R. M. H. Smith, 2011

A New Specimen of Promoschorhynchus (Therapsida: Therocephalia: Akidnognathidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa and its Implications for Theriodont Survivorship Across the Permo-Triassic Boundary

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Project 571: Holbrook, L. T., and J. Lapergola, 2011

A New Genus of Perissodactyl (Mammalia) from the Bridgerian of Wyoming, with Comments on Basal Perissodactyl Phylogeny

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Project 570: Martin, R. A., P. Peláez-Campomanes, J. G. Honey, F. Marcolini, and W. A. Akersten, 2011

Five Million Years of Pocket Gopher History in the Meade Basin of Southwestern Kansas and Northwestern Oklahoma

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Project 541: Lamsdell, J. C., S. J. Braddy, E. J. Loeffler,and D. L. Dineley, 2010

Early Devonian stylonurine eurypterids from Arctic Canada

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Project 563: Huang, D., K. Fitzhugh, G. W. Rouse, 2011

Inference of phylogenetic relationships within Fabriciidae (Sabellida, Annelida) using molecular and morphological data

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Project 567: Kondrashov, P. E., and S. G. Lucas, 2012

Nearly Complete Skeleton of Tetraclaenodon (Mammalia, Phenacodontidae) from the Early Paleocene of New Mexico: Morpho-Functional Analysis

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Project 552: Brusatte, S. L., M. J. Benton, J. B. Desojo, and M. C. Langer, 2010

The higher-level phylogeny of Archosauria (Tetrapoda: Diapsida)

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Project 495: Bourget, H., and J. S. Anderson , 2011

A New Amphibamid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of Texas

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Project 550: Edgecombe, G. D., 2010

Palaeomorphology: fossils and the inference of cladistic relationships

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Project 549: Rota-Stabelli, O., L. Campbell, H. Brinkmann, G. D. Edgecombe, S. J. Longhorn, K. J. Peterson, D. Pisani, H. Philippe, and M. J. Telford, 2011

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

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Project 522: Meng, J., Y. Wang, and C. Li, 2011

Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont

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Project 488: Angielczyk, K. D., and B. S. Rubidge, 2010

A New Pylaecephalid Dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa

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Project 539: Travouillon, K. J., Y. Gurovich, R. M. D. Beck, and J. Muirhead, 2010

An Exceptionally Well-Preserved Short-Snouted Bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene Deposits, Northwestern Queensland, Australia

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Project 510: Livezey, B.C., R.L. Zusi, 2006

Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy: I. – Methods and characters

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Project 657: Weksler, M., 2006

Phylogenetic relationships of oryzomine rodents (Muroidea, Sigmodontinae) : separate and combined analyses of morphological and molecular data

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Project 525: Pérez-García, A., F. Ortega, 2011

Selenemys lusitanica, gen. et sp. nov., A New Pleurosternid Turtle (Testudines: Paracryptodira) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal

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Project 537: Lamsdell, J. C., S. J. Braddy, and O. E. Tetlie, 2010

The systematics and phylogeny of the Stylonurina (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Eurypterida)

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Project 472: Langer, M. C., F. C. Montefeltro, D. E. Hone, R. Whatley, and C. L. Schultz, 2010

On Fodonyx spenceri and a New Rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of Devon

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Project 538: Turner, S., C. J. Burrow, 2011

A Lower Carboniferous Xenacanthiform Shark from Australia

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Project 506: Liu, J., O. Rieppel, D.-Y. Jiang, J. C. Aitchison, R. Motani, Q.-Y. Zhang, C.-Y. Zhou, and Y.-Y. Sun , 2011

A New Pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Middle Triassic of Southwestern China and the Phylogenetic Relationships of Chinese Pachypleurosaurs

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Project 470: Ekdale, E. G., A. Berta, and T. A. Deméré, 2011

The Comparative Osteology of the Petrotympanic Complex (Ear Region) of Extant Baleen Whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti)

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Project 466: Gilbert, C. C., S. R. Frost, and D. S. Strait, 2009

Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and phylogeny: A cladistic analysis of extant African papionins using craniodental data

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Project 528: Spaulding, M, J. J. Flynn, R. K. Stucky, 2010

A New Basal Carnivoramorphan (Mammalia) from the ‘Bridger B’ (Black's Fork Member, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian Nalma, Middle Eocene) of Wyoming, USA

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Project 497: Carballido, J. L., D. Pol, I. Cerda, and L. Salgado, 2011

The Osteology of Chubutisaurus insignis Del Corro, 1975 (Dinosauria: Neosauropoda) from the ‘Middle’ Cretaceous of Central Patagonia, Argentina

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Project 458: Geisler, J. H., McGowen, M. R., Yang, G., and J. Gatesy, 2011

A supermatrix analysis of genomic, morphological, and paleontological data from crown Cetacea

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Project 198: Nesbitt, S.J., 2011

The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades

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Project 482: Grande, L., W. E. Bemis, 1998

A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy. An empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history

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Project 216: Voss, R. S., and S. A. Jansa, 2009

Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of Didelphid Marsupials, an Extant Radiation of New World Metatherian Mammals

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Project 496: Williamson, T. E., A. Weil, and B. Standhardt, 2011

Cimolestids (Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene (Puercan) of New Mexico

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Project 473: Cerdeño, E., and B. Vera, 2010

Mendozahippus fierensis, gen. et sp. nov., New Notohippidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene of Mendoza (Argentina)

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Project 459: Tauber, C. A., and M. J. Tauber, 2011

A new neuropteran record for the Hawaiian Islands (Chrysopidae)

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Project 45: Claeson, K. M., M. A. O’Leary, E. M. Roberts, F. Sissoko, M. Bouaré, L. Tapanila, D. Goodwin, and M. D. Gottfried, 2010

First Mesozoic record of the stingray Myliobatis wurnoensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mali and a phylogenetic analysis of Myliobatidae (Batoidea) incorporating dental characters

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Project 425: Brusatte, S. L., M. A. Norell, T. D. Carr, G. M. Erickson, J. R. Hutchinson, A. M. Balanoff, G. S. Bever, J. N. Choiniere, P. J. Makovicky, X. Xu, 2010

Tyrannosaur Paleobiology: New Research on Ancient Exemplar Organisms

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Project 423: Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, W. C. Wheeler, and C. Babbitt, 2002

Phylogeny and Systematic Position of Opiliones: A Combined Analysis of Chelicerate Relationships Using Morphological and Molecular Data

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Project 422: Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, J. M. Carpenter, C. A. D'Haise, and W. C. Wheeler, 2004

Is Ellipura monophyletic? A combined analysis of basal hexapod relationships with emphasis on the origin of insects

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Project 383: Orliac, M., J.-R. Boisserie, L. MacLatchy, and F. Lihoreau, 2010

Early Miocene hippopotamids (Cetartiodactyla) constrain the phylogenetic and spatiotemporal settings of hippopotamid origin

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Project 431: Billet, G., 2010

New Observations on the Skull of Pyrotherium (Pyrotheria, Mammalia) and New Phylogenetic Hypotheses on South American Ungulates

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Project 379: Boyer, S. L., A. A. Howe, N. W. Juergens and M. C. Hove, 2011

A DNA barcoding approach to identification of freshwater mussel larvae encysted on wild fishes

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Project 376: Boyer, S. L., A. A. Howe, N. W. Juergens, and M. C. Hove, 2011

A DNA barcoding approach to identifying juvenile freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) recovered from naturally-infested fishes

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Project 427: Conrad, J., 2008

Phylogeny And Systematics Of Squamata (Reptilia) Based On Morphology

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Project 419: Prevosti, F. J., 2010

Phylogeny of the large extinct South American Canids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) using a ‘‘total evidence’’ approach

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Project 343: Malchus, N., 2010

Shell tubules in Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea)

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Project 415: Petersen, G., Knudsen, H., and Seberg, O., 2010

Alignment, clade robustness and fungal phylogenetics—Crepidotaceae and sister families revisited

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Project 414: Catlett, K. K., G. T. Schwartz, L. R. Godfrey, and W. L. Jungers, 2010

"Life History Space": A Multivariate Analysis of Life History Variation in Extant and Extinct Malagasy Lemurs

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Project 409: Wolsan, M., and J. J. Sato, 2010

Effects of data incompleteness on the relative performance of parsimony and Bayesian approaches in a supermatrix phylogenetic reconstruction of Mustelidae and Procyonidae (Carnivora)

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Project 386: Croft, D. A., F. Anaya, 2006

A new middle Miocene hegetotheriid (Notoungulata: Typotheria) and a phylogeny of the Hegetotheriidae

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Project 380: Kimura, T., and Y. Hasegawa, 2010

A new baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae) from the earliest late Miocene of Japan and a reconsideration of the phylogeny of cetotheres

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Project 374: Marx, F. G., 2010

The more the merrier? A large cladistic analysis of mysticetes, and comments on the transition from teeth to baleen

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Project 346: Miralles, A., R. Vasconcelos, D. J. Harris, A. Perera and S. Carranza, 2011

An integrative taxonomic revision of the Cape Verdean skinks (Squamata, Scincidae)

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Project 321: Spaulding, M., M. A. O'Leary, J. Gatesy, 2009

Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolutio

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Project 316: Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek, and R. J. Asher, 2009

The eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of Cretaceous Eutheria

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Project 299: Asher, R. J., S. Maree, G. Bronner, N. C. Bennett, P. Bloomer, P. Czechowski, M. Meyer, M. Hofreiter, 2010

A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae)

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Project 291: Gaudin, T. J., R. J. Emry, and J. R. Wible, 2009

The phylogeny of living and extinct pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and associated taxa: a morphology based analysis

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Project 277: Herrera F., S. R. Manchester, C. Jaramillo, B. MacFadden, and S.A. da Silva-Caminha, 2010

Phytogeographic History and Phylogeny of the Humiriaceae

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Project 268: Fowler, D. W., E. A. Freedman, and J. B. Scannella, 2009

Predatory functional morphology in raptors: Interdigital variation in talon size is related to prey restraint and immobilisation technique

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Project 266: Simmons, N. B., and T. M. Conway, 2001

Phylogenetic relationships of mormoopid bats (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) based on morphological data

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Project 265: Simmons, N. B., and J. H.Geisler, 1998

Phylogenetic relationships of Icaronycteris, Archaeonycteris, Hassianycteris, and Palaeochiropteryx to extant bat lineages, with comments on the evolution of echolocation and foraging strategies in Microchiroptera

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Project 264: Wetterer, A. L., M. V. Rockman, and N. B. Simmons, 2000

Phylogeny of phyllostomid bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera): data from diverse morphological systems, sex chromosomes, and restriction sites

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Project 262: Andres, B., and Q. Ji , 2008

A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and Convergence in their cervical vertebrae

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Project 241: Gentile, G., and H. Snell, 2009

Conolophus marthae sp.nov. (Squamata, Iguanidae), a new species of land iguana from the Galápagos archipelago

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Project 232: Puillandre, N., E. E. Strong, P. Bouchet, M.-C. Boisselier, A. Couloux, S. Samadi, 2009

Identifying gastropod spawn from DNA barcodes: possible but not yet practicable

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Project 223: Williams, S. T., K. M. Donald, H. G. Spencer, and T. Nakano, 2010

Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea)

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Project 205: Nesbitt, S. J., N. D. Smith, R. B. Irmis, A. H. Turner, A. Downs, and M. A. Norell , 2009

A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian and the Early Evolution of Dinosaurs

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Project 189: Huelsken, T., C. Marek, S. Schreiber, I. Schmidt, and M. Hollmann, 2008

The Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Giglio Island (Tuscany, Italy): Shell characters, live animals, and a molecular analysis of egg masses

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Project 182: Demere, T. A., M. R. McGowen, A. Berta, and J. G. Gatesy, 2008

Morphological and molecular evidence for a stepwise transition from teeth to baleen in mysticete whales

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Project 168: Tauber, C. A., G. S. Albuquerque, and M. J. Tauber, 2008

A new species of Leucochrysa and a redescription of Leucochrysa (Nodita) clepsydra Banks (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

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Project 161: Bloch, J. I., M. T. Silcox, D. M. Boyer, and E. J. Sargis, 2007

New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates

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Project 157: Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek, and R. J. Asher, 2007

Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary

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Project 146: Tauber, C. A., M. J. Tauber, and G. S. Albuquerque, 2008

A new genus and species of green lacewings from Brazil (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Leucochrysini)

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Project 112: Cárdenas, P., J. Xavier, O. S. Tendal, C. Schander and H. T. Rapp, 2007

Redescription and resurrection of Pachymatisma normani (Demospongiae: Geodiidae), with remarks on the genus Pachymatisma

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Project 108: O'Leary, M. A., and J. Gatesy, 2007

Impact of increased character sampling on the phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia): combined analysis including fossils

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Project 105: Tauber, C. A., G. S. Albuquerque, and M. J. Tauber, 2008

Gonzaga nigriceps (McLachlan) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): Descriptions of larvae and adults, biological notes, and generic affiliation

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Project 104: Simmons, N. B., K. L. Seymour, J. Habersetzer, and G. F. Gunnell, 2008

Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation

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Project 44: De Bivort, B. L., and G. Giribet, 2004

A new genus of cyphophthalmid from the Iberian Peninsula with a phylogenetic analysis of the Sironidae (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) and a SEM database of external morphology

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Project 46: Hill, R. V., 2005

Integration of Morphological Data Sets for Phylogenetic Analysis of Amniota: The Importance of Integumentary Characters and Increased Taxonomic Sampling

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Project 52: Clouse, R. M., D. A. Janies, and A. M. Kerr, 2005

Resurrection of Bohadschia bivittata from B. marmorata (Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae) based on behavioral, morphological, and mitochondrial DNA evidence

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Project 55

Catfish Swim-Bladders: A Research Experience for Undergraduates

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Project 62: Brown, B. V., 2007

The problematic Neotropical genus Cyrtophorina Borgmeier & Prado (Diptera: Phoridae)

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Project 67: Liu, X. Y., and D. Yang, 2006

Revision of the fishfly genus Ctenochauliodes van der Weele (Megaloptera, Corydalidae)

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Project 84: Hill, R. V., J. A. McCartney, E. Roberts, M. Bouare, F. Sissoko, and M. A. O’Leary, 2008

Dyrosaurid (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) fossils from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene of Mali: implications for phylogeny and survivorship across the K/T boundary