The evolution of extant South American tropical biomes

C Jaramillo - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review explores the evolution of extant South American tropical biomes, focusing on
when and why they developed. Tropical vegetation experienced a radical transformation …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

JP Rio, PD Mannion - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
First appearing in the latest Cretaceous, Crocodylia is a clade of semi-aquatic, predatory
reptiles, defined by the last common ancestor of extant alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and …

A new time tree reveals Earth history's imprint on the evolution of modern birds

S Claramunt, J Cracraft - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate …

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

F Welker, MJ Collins, JA Thomas, M Wadsley, S Brace… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as 'South American native ungulates'. To Charles …

New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

[图书][B] A brief history of South American metatherians: evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals

F Goin, M Woodburne, AN Zimicz, GM Martin… - 2015 - books.google.com
This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians,
including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic …

New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous …

WC Clyde, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

Eocene lantern fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae

P Wilf, MR Carvalho, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo - Science, 2017 - science.org
The nightshade family Solanaceae holds exceptional economic and cultural importance.
The early diversification of Solanaceae is thought to have occurred in South America during …

Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs

AA Chiarenza, PD Mannion, A Farnsworth, MT Carrano… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-
pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and theropods, sauropods were …

The Trypanosoma cruzi Antigen and Epitope Atlas: antibody specificities in Chagas disease patients across the Americas

AD Ricci, L Bracco, E Salas-Sarduy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
During an infection the immune system produces pathogen-specific antibodies. These
antibody repertoires become specific to the history of infections and represent a rich source …