NAI
Erik Sperling
Stanford University
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Early Animals: Evolution of Complex Multicellularity — 2015 NAI
- Paleontological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Investigations of the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transition — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: Predation, Oxygen and Preservation in Early Animal Evolution — 2014 NAI
- Life and Environments: Fossils of the Late Meso- and Early Neoproterozoic — 2013 NAI
- Life and Environments: Proterozoic Geology, Geochemistry and Paleontology — 2013 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Genomic Relationships Among Basal Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Paleoecology of the Mistaken Point Biota — 2010 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 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
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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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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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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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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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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