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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
13379
World Ranking
13695
National Ranking
5805

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • The delayed rise of present-day mammals

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Marcel Cardillo;Kate E. Jones;Ross D. E. MacPhee

  • Metagenomics to paleogenomics: large-scale sequencing of mammoth DNA.

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Carsten Schwarz;Ji Qi;Beth Shapiro

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

    Frido Welker;Matthew J. Collins;Jessica A. Thomas;Marc Wadsley

  • Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

    James Haile;Duane G. Froese;Ross D. E. MacPhee;Richard G. Roberts

  • Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease.

    Kelly B. Wyatt;Paula F. Campos;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

  • Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time.

    Beatrice Demarchi;Shaun Hall;Teresa Roncal-Herrero;Colin Freeman

  • Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) population dynamics.

    Paula F. Campos;Eske Willerslev;Andrei Sher;Ludovic Orlando

  • A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants

    Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Mark Lipson;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Svend Nielsen

  • Out of America: Ancient DNA Evidence for a New World Origin of Late Quaternary Woolly Mammoths

    Regis Debruyne;Genevieve Chu;Christine E. King;Kirsti Bos

  • Morphology, adaptations, and relationships of Plesiorycteropus : and a diagnosis of a new order of eutherian mammals. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 220

    R. D. E. MacPhee

  • The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts

    Frédéric Delsuc;Gillian C. Gibb;Gillian C. Gibb;Melanie Kuch;Guillaume Billet

  • Erratum: The delayed rise of present-day mammals

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Marcel Cardillo;Kate E. Jones;Ross D. E. MacPhee

  • Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths

    Frédéric Delsuc;Melanie Kuch;Gillian C. Gibb;Gillian C. Gibb;Emil Karpinski

  • Primates and their relatives in phylogenetic perspective

    Ross D. E. MacPhee

  • Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.

    Samantha Presslee;Samantha Presslee;Samantha Presslee;Graham J. Slater;François Roger Francis Pujos;Analia Marta Forasiepi

  • Regional differences in bone collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe

    Paul Szpak;Darren R. Gröcke;Regis Debruyne;Ross D.E. MacPhee

  • Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America.

    Duane Froese;Mathias Stiller;Mathias Stiller;Peter D. Heintzman;Alberto V. Reyes

  • A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

    Michael Westbury;Sina Baleka;Axel Barlow;Stefanie Hartmann

  • Infectious Disease, Endangerment, and Extinction

    Ross D. E. MacPhee;Alex D. Greenwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant D. Zazula
Grant D. Zazula Simon Fraser University
Hendrik N. Poinar
Hendrik N. Poinar McMaster University
Duane G. Froese
Duane G. Froese University of Alberta
John Southon
John Southon University of California, Irvine
Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University
Ian Barnes
Ian Barnes Natural History Museum
Samuel T. Turvey
Samuel T. Turvey Zoological Society of London

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