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Overview

John A. Long is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Nutrition and Dietetics, Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's key topics of work cover a range of subjects including Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology, Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for John A. Long include Gastroenterology, Nature, PLoS ONE, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Science. The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with most frequent coauthors being Alice M. Clement, Richard Cloutier, Kate Trinajstic, Per Ahlberg, and Michael S. Y. Lee.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Elpistostege and the origin of the vertebrate hand (2020, Nature)
  • Exceptional preservation of organs in Devonian placoderms from the Gogo lagerstätte (2022, Science)
  • Brain Reconstruction Across the Fish-Tetrapod Transition; Insights From Modern Amphibians (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Establishment of a Patient-Derived Xenograft Tumor From Hepatitis C-Associated Liver Cancer and Evaluation of Imatinib Treatment Efficacy (2020, Hepatology)
  • The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef (2021, Journal of the Geological Society)

Best Publications

  • Trace element content of sedimentary pyrite as a new proxy for deep-time ocean-atmosphere evolution

    Ross R. Large;Jacqueline A. Halpin;Leonid V. Danyushevsky;Valeriy V. Maslennikov

  • Early-Middle Palaeozoic biogeography of Asian terranes derived from Gondwana

    Clive Burrett;John A. Long;Brian Stait

  • The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution

    John A. Long

  • The greatest step in vertebrate history: a paleobiological review of the fish-tetrapod transition.

    John A. Long;Malcolm S. Gordon

  • An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia

    Gavin J. Prideaux;John A. Long;John A. Long;Linda K. Ayliffe;Linda K. Ayliffe;John C. Hellstrom

  • Live birth in the Devonian period

    John Albert Long;John Albert Long;John Albert Long;Kate Trinajstic;Gavin C Young;Tim John Senden

  • An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins

    John A. Long;John A. Long;John A. Long;Gavin C. Young;Tim Holland;Tim Holland;Tim J. Senden

  • Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography

    John A. Long

  • Bayesian Morphological Clock Methods Resurrect Placoderm Monophyly and Reveal Rapid Early Evolution in Jawed Vertebrates.

    Benedict King;Tuo Qiao;Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee;Min Zhu

  • The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lägerstatte of Western Australia: Exceptional Early Vertebrate Preservation and Diversity

    John A. Long;Kate Trinajstic

  • Cycles of nutrient trace elements in the Phanerozoic ocean

    Ross R. Large;Jacqueline A. Halpin;Elena Lounejeva;Leonid V. Danyushevsky

  • A new rhizodontiform fish from the Early Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia, with remarks on the phylogenetic position of the group

    John A Long

  • Crossopterygian fishes from the Devonian of Antarctica: systematics, relationships and biogeographic significance

    Gavin C. Young;John A. Long;A. Ritchie

  • The structure of the sarcopterygian Onychodus jandemarrai n. sp. from Gogo, Western Australia: with a functional interpretation of the skeleton

    Mahala Andrews;John Long;Per Ahlberg;Richard Barwick

  • The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China

    Jing Lu;Min Zhu;John A Long;Wenjin Zhao

  • Exceptional preservation of nerve and muscle tissues in Late Devonian placoderm fish and their evolutionary implications

    Kate Trinajstic;Carina Marshall;John Long;Kat Bifield

  • Fossil Musculature of the Most Primitive Jawed Vertebrates

    Kate Trinajstic;Kate Trinajstic;Sophie Sanchez;Sophie Sanchez;Vincent Dupret;Paul Tafforeau

  • A new osteolepiform fish from the Lower Carboniferous Raymond Formation, Drummond Basin, Queensland

    R. C. Fox;K. S.W. Campbell;R. E. Barwick;J. A. Long

  • The structure and relationships of a new osteolepiform fish from the Late Devonian of Victoria, Australia

    John A. Long

  • New ischnacanthid acanthodians from the Early Devonian of Australia, with comments on acanthodian interrelationships

    J. A. Long

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross R. Large
Ross R. Large University of Tasmania
Leonid V. Danyushevsky
Leonid V. Danyushevsky University of Tasmania
Jacqueline A. Halpin
Jacqueline A. Halpin University of Tasmania
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Linda K. Ayliffe
Linda K. Ayliffe Australian National University
Lars Werdelin
Lars Werdelin Swedish Museum of Natural History
Brian K. Hall
Brian K. Hall Dalhousie University
Paul Palmqvist
Paul Palmqvist University of Malaga
Shaun P. Collin
Shaun P. Collin La Trobe University

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