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Gregory D. Edgecombe

Gregory D. Edgecombe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
66
Citations
20367
World Ranking
1663
National Ranking
207

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Gregory D. Edgecombe is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have contributed extensively to paleontology, oceanography, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work focuses on various topics, including:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Selected recent papers by Gregory D. Edgecombe include:

  • "Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy," 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data," 2022, Journal of the Geological Society
  • "Arthropod Origins: Integrating Paleontological and Molecular Evidence," 2020, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "A Cambrian-Ordovician Terrestrialization of Arachnids," 2020, Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Arachnid monophyly: Morphological, palaeontological and molecular support for a single terrestrialization within Chelicerata," 2020, Arthropod Structure & Development

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Gonzalo Giribet, John R. Paterson, Russell D. C. Bicknell, Xiaoya Ma, and Yu Liu.

Publication venues where Gregory D. Edgecombe has appeared regularly include:

  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Gregory D. Edgecombe has authored books published by Princeton University Press, including "The Invertebrate Tree of Life" in 2020, which has received citations in the academic community.

In recognition of their contributions, Gregory D. Edgecombe was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

    Casey W. Dunn;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol;David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang

  • Histone H3 and U2 snRNA DNA sequences and arthropod molecular evolution

    D. J. Colgan;A. McLauchlan;G. D. F. Wilson;S. P. Livingston

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

    Casey W. Dunn;Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Andreas Hejnol

  • Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Gonzalo Giribet;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol

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

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler;Courtney Babbitt

  • Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies

    David A. Legg;David A. Legg;David A. Legg;Mark D. Sutton;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • The evolution of arthropod heads: reconciling morphological, developmental and palaeontological evidence.

    Gerhard Scholtz;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda)

    Lucio Bonato;Gregory D. Edgecombe;John G.E. Lewis;Alessandro Minelli

  • A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

    Paul Kenrick;Charles H. Wellman;Harald Schneider;Gregory D. Edgecombe

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

    Omar Rota-Stabelli;Omar Rota-Stabelli;Lahcen I Campbell;Henner Brinkmann;Gregory D Edgecombe

  • The Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Arthropods

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

    Lahcen I. Campbell;Omar Rota-Stabelli;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Trevor Marchioro

  • A possible early Cambrian chordate

    J.-Y. Chen;J. Dzik;G. D. Edgecombe;L. Ramsköld

  • Evolutionary biology of centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda).

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Reevaluating the arthropod tree of life.

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Extinction and phylogeny

    B. J. MacFadden;M. A. Norell;K. C. Nixon;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

    Joanna M. Wolfe;Allison C. Daley;David A. Legg;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

    Xiaoya Ma;Xianguang Hou;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny

    Conrad C. Labandiera;Gregory Edgecombe

Frequent Co-Authors

Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
John R. Paterson
John R. Paterson University of New England
Jakob Vinther
Jakob Vinther University of Bristol
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas J. Strausfeld University of Arizona
James G. Gehling
James G. Gehling South Australian Museum
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Derek J. Siveter
Derek J. Siveter University of Oxford
Davide Pisani
Davide Pisani University of Bristol
Bruce S. Lieberman
Bruce S. Lieberman University of Kansas
Andreas Hejnol
Andreas Hejnol Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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