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Philip C. J. Donoghue

Philip C. J. Donoghue

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
26043
World Ranking
2716
National Ranking
195

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Philip C. J. Donoghue is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key areas of focus include paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

Their work covers various topics, with notable concentration on paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, evolution and paleontology studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and evolutionary biology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant diversity and evolution, and marine biology and ecology research.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Edmund R. R. Moody, and James Clark. The scientist has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, Royal Society Open Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Science Advances.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Philip C. J. Donoghue include:

  • Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles (2022, Royal Society Open Science)
  • A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data (2021, Nature)
  • The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system (2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • The evolutionary emergence of land plants (2021, Current Biology)
  • Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

The scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Paleontological Evidence to Date the Tree of Life

    Michael J Benton;Philip C J Donoghue

  • The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Jennifer L. Morris;Mark N. Puttick;James W. Clark;Dianne Edwards

  • Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

    James F. Parham;James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Christopher J. Bell;Tyler D. Calway

  • Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

    Mario dos Reis;Jun Inoue;Jun Inoue;Masami Hasegawa;Robert J. Asher

  • The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

    Mark N. Puttick;Mark N. Puttick;Jennifer L. Morris;Jennifer L. Morris;Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox

  • Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life's early evolution and eukaryote origin.

    Holly C. Betts;Mark N. Puttick;Mark N. Puttick;James W. Clark;Tom A. Williams

  • Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales.

    Mario dos Reis;Mario dos Reis;Yuttapong Thawornwattana;Konstantinos Angelis;Maximilian J. Telford

  • Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules

    Philip C.J. Donoghue;Michael J. Benton

  • MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity

    Alysha M. Heimberg;Lorenzo F. Sempere;Vanessa N. Moy;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny

    Philip C. J. Donoghue;Peter L. Forey;Richard J. Aldridge

  • Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

    John T. Clarke;John T. Clarke;Rachel C. M. Warnock;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

    Bettina E. Schirrmeister;Muriel Gugger;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos.

    Philip C. J. Donoghue;Stefan Bengtson;Xi Ping Dong;Neil J. Gostling

  • Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

    Michael J. Benton;Philip C.J. Donoghue;Robert J. Asher;Matt Friedman

  • microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate

    Alysha M Heimberg;Richard Cowper-Sal{middle dot}lari;Marie Semon;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution

    Philip C.J. Donoghue;Mark A. Purnell

  • Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era

    Mario dos Reis;Mario dos Reis;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Ziheng Yang

  • Calibrating and constraining molecular clocks

    Michael J. Benton;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Robert J. Asher

  • Whole-Genome Duplication and Plant Macroevolution

    James W. Clark;Philip C.J. Donoghue

  • A virtual world of paleontology

    John A Cunningham;Imran A Rahman;Stephan Lautenschlager;Emily J Rayfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Bengtson
Stefan Bengtson Swedish Museum of Natural History
Davide Pisani
Davide Pisani University of Bristol
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Kevin J. Peterson
Kevin J. Peterson Dartmouth College
Richard J. Aldridge
Richard J. Aldridge University of Leicester
Maoyan Zhu
Maoyan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
James F. Parham
James F. Parham California State University, Fullerton
Walter G. Joyce
Walter G. Joyce University of Fribourg

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