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2013
Benoit J, Crumpton N,
Mérigeaud S, Tabuce R. 2013 In Press. A Memory Already like an
Elephant’s? The Advanced Brain Morphology of the Last Common Ancestor
of Afrotheria (Mammalia). Brain Behavior
and Evolution.
Hautier L, Bennet NC, Viljoen H, Howard L, Milinkovitch MC,
Tzika AC, Goswami A, Asher RJ.
2013 In Press. Patterns of ossification in southern versus northern
placental mammals. Evolution.
Bärmann EV, Rössner
GE, Wörheide G. 2013 In press. A revised phylogeny of Antilopini
(Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes.
Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Werneburg I, Tzika AC, Hautier
L, Asher RJ, Milinkovitch MC, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2013.
Development and embryonic staging in non-model organisms: the case of
an afrotherian mammal. Journal
of Anatomy 222(1):2-18.
2012
Crumpton
N, Thompson RS. 2012 In Press. The Holes of
Moles: Osteological Correlates of the Trigeminal Nerve in Talpidae. Journal of
Mammalian Evolution.
Thompson RS, Parish JC,
Maidment SCR, Barrett PM. 2012. Phylogeny of the ankylosaurian
dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
10: 301-312.
Thompson RS, Bärmann EV, Asher RJ. 2012. The
Interpretation of Hidden Support in Combined Data
Phylogenetics. Journal
of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary
Research 50(4):251–263.
Billet G, Hautier L, Asher
RJ, Schwarz C, Crumpton N,
Martin T, Ruf I. 2012. High morphological variation of vestibular system accompanies
slow and infrequent locomotion in three-toed sloths. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 279(1744):3932-3939. See also coverage in Science,
Nature,
Huffington Post, Why
Evolution Is True, and on our own Nick Crumpton's Tumblr
page.
Asher RJ, Müller J. 2012.
Molecular Tools in Paleobiology: Divergence and Mechanisms.
pp. 1-15 in Asher RJ,
Müller J (Eds). From
Clone to Bone: The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in
Palaeobiology. Cambridge University Press.
Asher RJ,
Müller J (Eds). 2012. From
Clone to Bone: The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in
Palaeobiology. Cambridge University Press.
Asher RJ. 2012.
Evolutionary Biology and Scepticism: the Reception of Darwinism in 19th
Century German Embryology. pp. 71-86 In Calne R, O'Reilly W. (Eds.) Scepticism: Hero and Villain.
NOVA
publishers.
Pointer MA, Kamilar JM, Warmuth V,
Chester SGB, Delsuc F, Mundy NI, Asher
RJ, Bradley BJ. 2012. RUNX2 tandem repeats and the
evolution of facial length in placental mammals. BMC
Evolutionary
Biology 12:103.
Hautier L, Sarr R, Tabuce R, Lihoreau F, Adnet S, Domning DP,
Samb M, Marwan Hameh P. 2012. First prorastomid sirenian from
Senegal (Western Africa) and the Old World origin of sea cows. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5): 1218-1222.
Fabre P-H, Hautier L, Dimitrov
D, Douzery EJP. 2012 A glimpse on the pattern of rodent
diversification: a phylogenetic approach. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 12:88.
Dos Reis M, Inoue J, Hasegawa M, Asher
RJ, Donoghue PCJ, Yang Z. 2012. Phylogenomic datasets provide
both precision and accuracy in
estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny. Proceedings
of the
Royal Society B 279(1742):3491-3500.
Asher RJ. 2012. Evolution
and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist.
Cambridge
University Press.
Bärmann EV, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2012. A
Phylogenetic Study of Late Growth Events in a Mammalian Evolutionary
Radiation - The Cranial Sutures of Terrestrial Artiodactyl Mammals. Journal
of Mammalian Evolution 19: 43-56.
Hautier L, Stansfield FJ, Allen WR, Asher RJ. 2012. Skeletal
development in the African elephant and ossification timing in
placental mammals. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 279(1736):2188-2195. See also coverage on wired
science.
Ciancio MR, Castro MC, Galliari FC, Carlini AA, Asher RJ. 2012.
Evolutionary Implications of Dental Eruption in Dasypus (Xenarthra). Journal
of
Mammalian Evolution 19:1-8.
Weisbecker V, Hautier L, Asher RJ.
2012. Faultiere, Seekühe und die Siebener-Regel der
Halswirbelsäule. Naturwissenschaftliche
Rundschau 65(1):38.
Asher RJ. 2012. Review of Darwin's Pious Idea by Conor
Cunningham. Theology
115(1): 70-72.
2011
Bärmann
EV, Rössner GE. 2011. Dental nomenclature in Ruminantia:
towards a
standard terminological framework. Mammalian
Biology 76(6):762-768.
Asher RJ, Helgen KM.
2011. High level Mammalian taxonomy: a
response to Hedges (2011). Zootaxa 3092:
63–64.
Hautier
LJ,
Weisbecker V, Goswami A, Knight F, Kardjilov N,
Asher RJ. 2011.
Skeletal ossification and sequence
heterochrony in xenarthran evolution. Evolution
& Development 13(5):460–476.
Billet G, Hautier L, Muizon C
de, Valentin X. 2011. Oldest cingulate skulls provide
congruence between morphological and molecular scenarii on armadillo’s
evolution. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 278 : 2791-2797.
Marivaux L, Adaci M, Bensalah M, Gomes Rodrigues H, Hautier L, Mahboubi
M, Mebrouk F, Tabuce R, Vianey-Liaud M. 2011. Zegdoumyidae
(Rodentia, Mammalia), the stem anomaluroid rodents from the early to
middle Eocene of Algeria (Gour Lazib, Western Sahara): new dental
evidence. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9: 563-588.
Hautier L, Lebrun R, Saksiri S,
Michaux JJ, Vianey-Liaud M, Marivaux L. 2011. Hystricognathy vs
sciurognathy in the rodent jaw: a new morphometric assessment of
hystricognathy applied to living fossil Laonastes (Rodentia,
Diatomyidae). PLoS
ONE, 6(4): e18698.
Asher
RJ, Lin
KH, Kardjilov N,
Hautier LJ. 2011. Variability
and constraint in the mammalian
vertebral column. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 24(5): 1080-1090.
2010
Hautier
LJ, Weisbecker V, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goswami A, Asher RJ.
2010. Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian
vertebral patterning. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107(44):18903-18908. See
also coverage on the NY times,
Science
Daily, MSNBC,
and Berliner
Zeitung.
Asher
RJ, Helgen KM. 2010. Nomenclature and placental mammal
phylogeny. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 10:102.
Asher RJ, Maree
S, Bronner G,
Bennett NC, Bloomer P, Czechowski
P, Meyer M, Hofreiter M. 2010. A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles
(Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae). BMC Evolutionary
Biology 10:69.
Asher
RJ, Avery DM. 2010. New golden moles (Afrotheria,
Chrysochloridae)
from the Pliocene of South Africa. Paleontologica
Electronica 13(1):3A.
Asher
RJ,
Seiffert ER. 2010. Systematics of Endemic African Mammals, in Cenozoic Mammals of Africa,
Werdelin L and Sanders W (Eds.). University of California Press.
Asher RJ. 2010.
Tenrecoidea, in Cenozoic
Mammals of Africa, Werdelin L and Sanders W (Eds.).
University
of California Press.
Bover P, Alcover JA, Michaux JJ, Hautier
L, Hutterer R. 2010. Body Shape and Life Style of the Extinct
Balearic Dormouse Hypnomys (Rodentia, Gliridae): New Evidence from the
Study of Associated Skeletons. PLoS
ONE 5(12): e15817.
Hautier L. 2010. Masticatory
muscle architecture in the gundi Ctenodactylus vali (Mammalia,
Rodentia). Mammalia,
74: 153-152.
Hautier L, Clavel J, Lazzari V,
Gomes Rodrigues H, Vianey-Liaud M. 2010. Changes in the direction of
mastication during mammalian evolution, and relationships with the
remodeling of the masticatory apparatus: the case of the
Issiodoromyinae (Rodentia, Mammalia). Palaios,
25: 4-11.
2009
Wible
JR ,
Rougier GW, Novacek MJ, Asher
RJ. 2009. The
eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis
from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of
Cretaceous Eutheria. Bulletin
of the
American Museum of Natural History
327:1-123.
Asher
RJ, Bennett N, Lehmann T.
2009. The new framework for
understanding
placental mammal evolution. Bioessays
31(8): 853-864.
Asher
RJ, Olbricht G. 2009. Dental ontogeny in Macroscelides proboscideus (Afrotheria)
and Erinaceus europaeus (Lipotyphla).
J Mamm
Evol 16:99-115.
Benton
MJ, Donoghue PCJ, Asher
RJ. 2009. Calibrating and
constraining molecular clocks. pp. 35-86 in Hedges SB and Kumar S.
(Eds.) The
Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press.
2008
Ladevèze
S, Asher RJ,
Sanchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Petrosal anatomy in the fossil mammal Necrolestes: evidence for
metatherian affinities and comparisons with the extant marsupial mole.
J
Anatomy 213:686-697.
Asher
RJ, Lehmann T. 2008.
Dental eruption in afrotherian mammals. BMC Biology
6:14.
Asher
RJ, Geisler J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Morphology,
paleontology, and placental mammal phylogeny. Systematic
Biology 57(2):311–317.
Tabuce
R, Asher RJ,
Lehmann T. 2008. Afrotherian
mammals: a review
of current data. Mammalia
72: 2-14.
2007
Asher
RJ. 2007. A database of
morphological characters and a combined-data reanalysis of placental
mammal phylogeny. BMC
Evolutionary Biology
7:108.
Wible
JW, Rougier GW, Novacek MJ, Asher RJ.
2007. Cretaceous Eutherians and Laurasian Origin for Placental
Mammals near K/T Boundary. Nature
447:1003-1006. See also coverage from a nature
podcast and the Pittsburgh
Post Gazette .
Sánchez-Villagra
MR, Ladevèze S, Horovitz I, Argot C, Hooker JJ, Macrini TE,
Martin T, Moore-Fay S, deMuizon C, Schmelzle T, Asher RJ.
2007. Exceptionally preserved North American Paleogene metatherians:
adaptations and discovery of a major gap in the opossum fossil
record. Biology
Letters
3(3):318-322.
Turni
H, Hutterer R, Asher RJ.
2007. Type specimens of "insectivoran" mammals at the Museum
für
Naturkunde, Berlin. Zootaxa
1470: 1-33.
Asher
RJ, Horovitz I, Martin T, and
Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2007. Neither a rodent nor a platypus: a
reexamination of Necrolestes
patagonensis Ameghino. American
Museum Novitates
3546:1-40.
2006
Masters
JC, de Wit MJ, and Asher RJ.
2006. Reconciling the Births of Africa, India and Madagascar with
Vertebrate Dispersal Scenarios. Folia
Primatologica 77:399-418.
Asher
RJ, Hofreiter M. 2006. Tenrecid
phylogeny and the noninvasive extraction of nuclear DNA. Systematic
Biology (cover
article) 55(2):181-194.
2005
Asher
RJ, Emry RJ, McKenna MC. 2005.
New material of Centetodon
(Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the
importance of (missing) DNA sequences in systematic paleontology.
Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology
25(4):911–923.
Asher
RJ, Meng J, Wible JR, McKenna
MC, Rougier GW, Dashzeveg D, Novacek MJ. 2005. Stem Lagomorpha and
the Antiquity of Glires. Science
307 (5712): 1091-1094. See also coverage from the BBC, NY
Times, Berliner
Zeitung and Geo Magazin,
Asher
RJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR.
2005. Locking yourself out: zalambdodonty as a key adaptation. In
Polly D and Luo Z-X (Eds.) Festschrift in honor of Dr. W. Clemens,
Journal
of Mammalian Evolution 12
(1/2): 265-282.
Asher
RJ. 2005. Insectivoran grade
placental mammals: character evolution and fossil history. pp. 50-70
in Rose KD and Archibald D (Eds.) The
Rise of Placental Mammals: Origin and Relationships of the Major
Clades,
Johns Hopkins University Press.
2004
Asher
RJ, Horovitz I,
Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2004. First Combined Cladistic Analysis
of Marsupial Mammal Interrelationships. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 33:
240-250.
Sánchez-Villagra
MR, Asher RJ, Rincón
AD, Carlini AA, Meylan P, Purdy R. 2004. Description of a novel
vertebrate assemblage from the Cerro la Cruz locality (lower
Miocene), northwestern Venezuela. In Sánchez-Villagra
MR and Clack JA (eds). Fossils of the Castillo Formation, Venezuela:
Contributions in Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in
Palaeontology 71:105-112.
2003
Asher
RJ, Novacek MJ, Geisler JG.
2003. Relationships of Endemic African Mammals and their Fossil
Relatives based on Morphological and Molecular Evidence. Journal
of Mammalian Evolution 10:
131-194.
Asher
RJ. 2003. Tenrecid phylogeny: a
response to Douady et al. (2002). Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 26: 328-330.
2002
Asher
RJ, McKenna MC, Emry RJ, Tabrum
AR, Kron DG. 2002. Morphology and Relationships of Apternodus
and Other Extinct, Zalambdodont,
Placental Mammals. Bulletin
of the American Museum of Natural History
243: 117 pp.
Sánchez-Villagra
MR, Asher RJ. 2002.
Cranio-sensory adaptations in small, faunivorous mammals, with
special reference to olfaction and the trigeminal system. Mammalia
66(1): 93-109.
2001
Asher
RJ. 2001. Cranial anatomy in
tenrecid insectivorans: character evolution across competing
phylogenies. American
Museum Novitates 3352: 54 pp.
Whidden
HP, Asher RJ. 2001.
Origin of the Greater Antillean insectivorans. pp. 237-252 in Woods
CA, Sergile FE (eds). West Indian Biogeography. CRC Press, Boca
Raton, FL.
2000
Asher
RJ. 2000. Phylogenetic History
of Tenrecs and Other Insectivoran Mammals. Ph.D. Dissertation, State
University of New York, Stony Brook. Advised by Drs. Callum Ross,
Ross MacPhee, David Krause, Malcolm McKenna, and Marc Allard.
1999
Asher
RJ. 1999. A morphological basis
for assessing the phylogeny of the "Tenrecoidea" (Mammalia,
Lipotyphla). Cladistics
15(3): 231-252.
1998
Asher
RJ, Krause DW. 1998. The first
pre-Holocene record of Anura from Madagascar. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology
18(4): 696-699.
Asher
RJ. 1998. Morphological
diversity of anatomical strepsirrhinism and the evolution of the
lemuriform toothcomb. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 105:
355-367.