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An Ordovician nectocaridid hints at an endocochleate origin of Cephalopoda (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, M. (2020). An Ordovician nectocaridid hints at an endocochleate origin of Cephalopoda. Journal of Paleontology, 94(1), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.57

Nectocaridids are soft-bodied Cambrian organisms that have been controversially interpreted as primitive cephalopods, contradicting the long-held belief that these molluscs evolved from a shell-bearing ancestor. Here I document a new nectocaridid fro... Read More about An Ordovician nectocaridid hints at an endocochleate origin of Cephalopoda.

Congruence, fossils, and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs (2019)
Journal Article
Asher, R., Smith, M., Rankin, A., & Emry, R. (2019). Congruence, fossils, and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs. Royal Society Open Science, 6(7), Article 190387. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190387

Given an evolutionary process, we expect distinct categories of heritable data, sampled in ever larger amounts, to converge on a single tree of historical relationships. We tested this assertion by undertaking phylogenetic analyses of a new morpholog... Read More about Congruence, fossils, and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs.

Bayesian and parsimony approaches reconstruct informative trees from simulated morphological datasets (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, M. (2019). Bayesian and parsimony approaches reconstruct informative trees from simulated morphological datasets. Biology Letters, 15(2), Article 20180632. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0632

Phylogenetic analysis aims to establish the true relationships between taxa. Different analytical methods, however, can reach different conclusions. In order to establish which approach best reconstructs true relationships, previous studies have simu... Read More about Bayesian and parsimony approaches reconstruct informative trees from simulated morphological datasets.