NAI
Davide Pisani
National University of Ireland
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
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Genomic Relationships Among Basal Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2010 NAI
- Genomic Relationships Among Basal Metazoans — 2009 NAI
- Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere — 2004 NAI
- A Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth - Hedges — 2003 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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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., & 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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