Kevin Peterson
Dartmouth College
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Early Animals: The Genomic Origins of Morphological Complexity — 2015 NAI
- Early Animals: The Genomic Origins of Morphological Complexity — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: The Genomic Origins of Morphological Complexity — 2013 NAI
- Micro-RNAs as Phylogenetic Markers — 2012 NAI
- The Development of Sensory and Nervous Systems in the Basal Branches of the Animal Tree — 2012 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2012 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Evolution and Development of Sensory and Nervous Systems in the Basal Branches of the Animal Tree — 2011 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2010 NAI
- Evolution and Development of Sensory and Nervous Systems in the Basal Branches of the Animal Tree — 2010 NAI
- Genomic Relationships Among Basal Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Paleoecology of the Mistaken Point Biota — 2010 NAI
- Paleoecology of the Mistaken Point Biota — 2009 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2009 NAI
- Genomic Relationships Among Basal Metazoans — 2009 NAI
- Evolution and Development of Sensory and Nervous Systems in the Basal Branches of the Animal Tree — 2009 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Anderson, B. M., Pisani, D., Miller, A. I., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). The environmental affinities of marine higher taxa and possible biases in their first appearances in the fossil record. Geology, 39(10), 971–974. doi:10.1130/g32413.1
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Campbell, L. I., Rota-Stabelli, O., Edgecombe, G. D., Marchioro, T., Longhorn, S. J., Telford, M. J., … Pisani, D. (2011). MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(38), 15920–15924. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105499108
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Erwin, D. H., Laflamme, M., Tweedt, S. M., Sperling, E. A., Pisani, D., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals. Science, 334(6059), 1091–1097. doi:10.1126/science.1206375
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Heimberg, A. M., Cowper-Sal{middle Dot}lari, R., Semon, M., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Peterson, K. J. (2010). microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(45), 19379–19383. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010350107
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Lyson, T. R., Sperling, E. A., Heimberg, A. M., Gauthier, J. A., King, B. L., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade. Biology Letters, 8(1), 104–107. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0477
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Philippe, H., Brinkmann, H., Copley, R. R., Moroz, L. L., Nakano, H., Poustka, A. J., … Telford, M. J. (2011). Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella. Nature, 470(7333), 255–258. doi:10.1038/nature09676
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Pisani, D., Feuda, R., Peterson, K. J., & Smith, A. B. (2012). Resolving phylogenetic signal from noise when divergence is rapid: A new look at the old problem of echinoderm class relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62(1), 27–34. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.028
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Sperling, E. A., Peterson, K. J., & Laflamme, M. (2010). Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans. Geobiology, 9(1), 24–33. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00259.x
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Sperling, E. A., Peterson, K. J., & Pisani, D. (2009). Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26(10), 2261–2274. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp148
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Sperling, E. A., Pisani, D., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda. Evolution & Development, 13(3), 290–303. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142×.2011.00480.x
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Sperling, E. A., Robinson, J. M., Pisani, D., & Peterson, K. J. (2010). Where’s the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules. Geobiology, 8(1), 24–36. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00225.x
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Tarver, J. E., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Peterson, K. J. (2012). Do miRNAs have a deep evolutionary history?. BioEssays, 34(10), 857–866. doi:10.1002/bies.201200055
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Vinther, J., Sperling, E. A., Briggs, D. E. G., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1732), 1259–1268. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1773
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Wiegmann, B. M., Trautwein, M. D., Winkler, I. S., Barr, N. B., Kim, J-W., Lambkin, C., … Yeates, D. K. (2011). Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(14), 5690–5695. doi:10.1073/pnas.1012675108
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kevin.j.peterson@dartmouth.edu