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  1. MOTMOT: Models of trait macroevolution on trees (an update)

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  2. Origin of horsetails and the role of whole-genome duplication in plant macroevolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  3. Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, June 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  4. Archosauromorph extinction selectivity during the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction

    Article • Palaeontology, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

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

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

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

    Article • Palaeontology, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  7. Evolution of jaw disparity in fishes

    Article • Palaeontology, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  8. Well-Annotated microRNAomes Do Not Evidence Pervasive miRNA Loss

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, May 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

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

    Article • Palaeontology, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  10. The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

    Article • Current Biology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Harald Schneider, Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  11. The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Harald Schneider, Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  12. Mixed evidence for early bursts of morphological evolution in extant clades

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

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

    Article • Palaeontology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  14. Parsimony and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analyses of morphology do not generally integrate uncertainty in inferring evolutionary history: a response to Brown et al.

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  15. Body length of bony fishes was not a selective factor during the biggest mass extinction of all time

    Article • Palaeontology, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick, Michael Benton

  16. Uncertain-tree: discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  17. Partially incorrect fossil data augment analyses of discrete trait evolution in living species

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  18. A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  19. Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Philip C Donoghue, Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  20. Dating placentalia: Morphological clocks fail to close the molecular fossil gap

    Article • Evolution, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  21. Fossils and living taxa agree on patterns of body mass evolution: a case study with Afrotheria

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  22. Size is not everything: rates of genome size evolution, notC-value, correlate with speciation in angiosperms

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick

  23. HIGH RATES OF EVOLUTION PRECEDED THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS

    Article • Evolution, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mark Nigel Puttick