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5592
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1913

Overview

Michael I. Coates is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Coates's work integrates aspects of paleontology, molecular biology, plant science, and ecological systematics.

The scientist's publication record highlights a focus on topics such as ichthyology and marine biology, paleontology and evolutionary biology, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior. Other notable research interests include marine animal studies, developmental biology and gene regulation, as well as congenital heart defects research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Coates include Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa, Abigail M. Caron, Matt Friedman, Sam Giles, and Kristen Tietjen. This network reflects an interdisciplinary approach, often appearing in diverse scientific venues.

Michael I. Coates has contributed to several scientific journals, with multiple publications in Nature and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Additional publications can be found in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Agronomy, and Communications Biology.

Recent papers highlight their research breadth and include:

  • Artificial Pollination Technologies: A Review, 2023, Agronomy
  • Non-ammocoete larvae of Palaeozoic stem lampreys, 2021, Nature
  • A symmoriiform from the Late Devonian of Morocco demonstrates a derived jaw function in ancient chondrichthyans, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain, 2023, Nature
  • The postcranial anatomy of Whatcheeria deltae and its implications for the family Whatcheeriidae, 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Best Publications

  • A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution

    Imogen A Hurley;Rachel Lockridge Mueller;Katherine A Dunn;Eric J Schmidt

  • Polydactyly in the earliest known tetrapod limbs

    M. I. Coates;J. A. Clack

  • The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution

    M. I. Coates

  • Early tetrapod relationships revisited.

    Marcello Ruta;Michael I. Coates;Donald L. J. Quicke

  • End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates

    Lauren Cole Sallan;Michael I. Coates

  • The origin of vertebrate limbs

    Michael I. Coates

  • Dates, nodes and character conflict: addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem

    Marcello Ruta;Michael I. Coates

  • Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes

    Samuel P. Davis;John A. Finarelli;Michael I. Coates

  • The postcranial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Tulerpeton curtum Lebedev

    Oleg A. Lebedev;Michael I. Coates

  • Fish-like gills and breathing in the earliest known tetrapod

    M. I. Coates;J. A. Clack

  • Fins to limbs: what the fossils say1

    Michael I. Coates;Jonathan E. Jeffery;Marcello Ruta

  • Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I. Rapid initial diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change

    Marcello Ruta;Peter J Wagner;Michael I Coates

  • A new stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the lower Carboniferous of Bearsden, Scotland

    M. I. Coates;S. E. K. Sequeira

  • Endocranial preservation of a Carboniferous actinopterygian from Lancashire, UK, and the interrelationships of primitive actinopterygians

    Michael I. Coates

  • Evolutionary origins of the vertebrate dentition: phylogenetic patterns and developmental evolution

    Moya M. Smith;Michael I. Coates;Michael I. Coates

  • Fins, limbs, and tails: outgrowths and axial patterning in vertebrate evolution

    Michael I. Coates;Martin J. Cohn

  • A new technique for identifying sequence heterochrony.

    Jonathan E. Jeffery;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Michael I. Coates;Michael K. Richardson

  • Behavioral evidence for the evolution of walking and bounding before terrestriality in sarcopterygian fishes

    Heather M. King;Neil H. Shubin;Michael I. Coates;Melina E. Hale

  • ROMER's gap: tetrapod origins and terrestriality

    Michael I. Coates;Jennifer A. Clack

  • Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny

    Tetsuto Miyashita;Tetsuto Miyashita;Michael I. Coates;Robert Farrar;Peter Larson

  • Analyzing developmental sequences within a phylogenetic framework.

    Jonathan E. Jeffery;Michael K. Richardson;Michael I. Coates;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds

  • The Early Evolution of the Tetrapod Humerus

    Neil H. Shubin;Edward B. Daeschler;Michael I. Coates

  • Analyzing evolutionary patterns in amniote embryonic development.

    Jonathan E. Jeffery;Jonathan E. Jeffery;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Michael I. Coates;Michael K. Richardson;Michael K. Richardson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Richardson
Michael K. Richardson Leiden University
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jennifer A. Clack
Jennifer A. Clack University of Cambridge
Peter J. Wagner
Peter J. Wagner University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Christian Klug
Christian Klug University of Zurich
Paul R. Cooper
Paul R. Cooper University of Otago
Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Kenneth D. Angielczyk Field Museum of Natural History
Rudolf A. Raff
Rudolf A. Raff Indiana University
Sean B. Carroll
Sean B. Carroll University of Maryland, College Park
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London

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