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Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
10648
World Ranking
13324
National Ranking
237

Overview

Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields and topics primarily centered around evolutionary biology, paleontology, and ecology.

The main fields of study encompassed in their work are:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their contributions extend into several subfields including:

  • Paleontology
  • Ecology
  • Genetics
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics of Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra's research include:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Their publication record features recent papers such as:

  • "Host Diversity and Origin of Zoonoses: The Ancient and the New" (2020, Animals)
  • "The anatomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Panpipes as units of cultural analysis and dispersal" (2020, Evolutionary Human Sciences)
  • "Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America" (2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra include:

  • Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño
  • Madeleine Geiger
  • Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández
  • R.D. Sánchez
  • Ana Balcarcel

They often publish in journals such as:

  • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution
  • Journal of Mammalian Evolution
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Biology Letters

Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra has also contributed to book publications through Princeton University Press, including multiple editions of "The Process of Animal Domestication" published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

    Frank E. Zachos;Marco Apollonio;Eva V. Bärmann;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

    Johannes Müller;Torsten M. Scheyer;Jason J. Head;Paul M. Barrett

  • Bayesian Divergence-Time Estimation with Genome-Wide Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Data of Sea Catfishes (Ariidae) Supports Miocene Closure of the Panamanian Isthmus.

    Madlen Stange;Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra;Walter Salzburger;Michael Matschiner;Michael Matschiner

  • The taming of the neural crest: a developmental perspective on the origins of morphological covariation in domesticated mammals

    Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;Madeleine Geiger;Richard A. Schneider

  • Open data and digital morphology

    Thomas G. Davies;Imran A. Rahman;Stephan Lautenschlager;Stephan Lautenschlager;John A. Cunningham

  • Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

    T. M. Scheyer;O. A. Aguilera;M. Delfino;M. Delfino;D. C. Fortier

  • Mammalian skull heterochrony reveals modular evolution and a link between cranial development and brain size

    Daisuke Koyabu;Ingmar Werneburg;Naoki Morimoto;Christoph P. E. Zollikofer

  • OSSIFICATION HETEROCHRONY IN THE THERIAN POSTCRANIAL SKELETON AND THE MARSUPIAL–PLACENTAL DICHOTOMY

    Vera Weisbecker;Anjali Goswami;Stephen Wroe;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

  • A morphological analysis of marsupial mammal higher-level phylogenetic relationships

    Inés Horovitz;Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra

  • The Anatomy of the World's Largest Extinct Rodent

    Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra;Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra;Orangel A. Aguilera;Orangel A. Aguilera;Inés Horovitz;Inés Horovitz

  • Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning

    Lionel Hautier;Vera Weisbecker;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;Anjali Goswami

  • First combined cladistic analysis of marsupial mammal interrelationships.

    Robert J. Asher;Inés Horovitz;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

  • Timing of organogenesis support basal position of turtles in the amniote tree of life.

    Ingmar Werneburg;Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra

  • Forelimb-hindlimb developmental timing changes across tetrapod phylogeny

    Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds;Jonathan E. Jeffery;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;James Hanken

  • Neotropical mammal diversity and the Great American Biotic Interchange: spatial and temporal variation in South America's fossil record

    Juan David Carrillo;Analia Forasiepi;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra

  • Thoracolumbar vertebral number: the first skeletal synapomorphy for afrotherian mammals

    Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra;Yuichi Narita;Shigeru Kuratani

  • Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution

    Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;Anjali Goswami;Vera Weisbecker;Orin Mock

  • Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the ear ossicles in marsupial mammals.

    Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;Sven Gemballa;Sirpa Nummela;Kathleen K. Smith

  • Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums

    Inés Horovitz;Thomas Martin;Jonathan Bloch;Sandrine Ladevèze

  • Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy

    A. Goswami;V. Weisbecker;V. Weisbecker;M. R. Sánchez-Villagra

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Walter Salzburger
Walter Salzburger University of Basel
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard F. Kay
Richard F. Kay Duke University
Stephen Wroe
Stephen Wroe University of New England
Michael K. Richardson
Michael K. Richardson Leiden University
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Christian Klug
Christian Klug University of Zurich
John R. Hutchinson
John R. Hutchinson Royal Veterinary College

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