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Overview

John Gatesy is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research portfolio spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Their publications highlight contributions across various subfields including molecular biology, ecology, paleontology, genetics, and plant science. The main topics addressed in Gatesy's work involve:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Gatesy has coauthored extensively with several researchers, often collaborating with Mark S. Springer, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Elinor K. Karlsson, Nicole M. Foley, and Joana Damas.

The primary publication venues featuring Gatesy's work include:

  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Communications Biology

Selected recent papers published by Gatesy and colleagues are:

  • Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals, 2023, Science
  • Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale, 2023, Science
  • A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution, 2023, Science
  • Insights into mammalian TE diversity through the curation of 248 genome assemblies, 2023, Science
  • Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease, 2023, Science

Best Publications

  • Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

    Robert W. Meredith;Jan E. Janečka;John Gatesy;Oliver A. Ryder

  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

    Guojie Zhang;Guojie Zhang;Cai Li;Qiye Li;Bo Li

  • Extreme Diversity, Conservation, and Convergence of Spider Silk Fibroin Sequences

    John Gatesy;Cheryl Hayashi;Dagmara Motriuk;Justin Woods

  • The supermatrix approach to systematics

    Alan de Queiroz;John Gatesy

  • Macroevolutionary dynamics and historical biogeography of primate diversification inferred from a species supermatrix

    Mark S. Springer;Robert W Meredith;Robert W Meredith;John Gatesy;Christopher A Emerling

  • DNA sequences from a fossil termite in Oligo-Miocene amber and their phylogenetic implications

    Rob DeSalle;John Gatesy;Ward Wheeler;David Grimaldi

  • Alignment-ambiguous nucleotide sites and the exclusion of systematic data.

    John Gatesy;Rob DeSalle;Ward Wheeler

  • Divergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans.

    Michael R. McGowen;Michelle Spaulding;John Gatesy

  • Corroboration among Data Sets in Simultaneous Analysis: Hidden Support for Phylogenetic Relationships among Higher Level Artiodactyl Taxa

    John Gatesy;Patrick O'Grady;Richard H. Baker

  • Phylogenetic analysis at deep timescales: Unreliable gene trees, bypassed hidden support, and the coalescence/concatalescence conundrum

    John Gatesy;Mark S. Springer

  • Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales

    Thomas A. Deméré;Michael R. McGowen;Michael R. McGowen;Annalisa Berta;John Gatesy

  • The gene tree delusion

    Mark S. Springer;John Gatesy

  • Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

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  • A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale.

    John Gatesy;Jonathan H. Geisler;Joseph Chang;Carl Buell

  • Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid artiodactyls.

    J Gatesy;C Hayashi;M A Cronin;P Arctander

  • Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution.

    Michelle Spaulding;Michelle Spaulding;Maureen A. O'Leary;John Gatesy

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

    Jonathan H. Geisler;Michael R McGowen;Michael R McGowen;Guang-ran Yang;John Gatesy

  • Stability of Cladistic Relationships between Cetacea and Higher-Level Artiodactyl Taxa

    John Gatesy;Michel Milinkovitch;Victor Waddell;Michael Stanhope

  • Resolution of a supertree/supermatrix paradox.

    John Gatesy;Conrad Matthee;Rob DeSalle;Cheryl Hayashi

  • Combined support for wholesale taxic atavism in gavialine crocodylians.

    John Gatesy;George Amato;Mark Norell;Rob DeSalle

  • A Cladistic Analysis of Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae

    John Gatesy;John Gatesy;George Amato;Elisabeth Vrba;George Schaller

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Springer
Mark S. Springer University of California, Riverside
Robert W. Meredith
Robert W. Meredith Montclair State University
Cheryl Y. Hayashi
Cheryl Y. Hayashi American Museum of Natural History
Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History
William J. Murphy
William J. Murphy Texas A&M University
Mark P. Simmons
Mark P. Simmons Colorado State University
George Amato
George Amato American Museum of Natural History
Richard Baker
Richard Baker University of Leicester
Daniel B. Sloan
Daniel B. Sloan Colorado State University
Oliver A. Ryder
Oliver A. Ryder University of California, San Diego

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