Dr Jakob Vinther

Latest publications

• Vinther, J & Parry, L, 2019, ‘Bilateral Jaw Elements in Amiskwia sagittiformis Bridge the Morphological Gap between Gnathiferans and Chaetognaths’. Current Biology, vol 29., pp. 881-888.e1
• Saitta, E, Liang, R, Lau, M, Brown, C, Longrich, N, Kaye, T, Novak, B, Salzberg, S, Norell, M, Abbott, G, Dickson, M, Vinther, J, Bull, I, Brooker, R, Martin, P, Donohoe, P, Knowles, T, Penkman, K & Onstott, T, 2019, ‘Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities’. eLife, vol 8.
• Zhao, Y, Vinther, J, Parry, L, Wei, F, Green, E, Pisani, D, Hou, X, Edgecombe, GD & Cong, P, 2019, ‘Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan’. Current Biology, vol 29., pp. 1112-1125.e2
• Parry, L, Edgecombe, GD, Sykes, D & Vinther, J, 2019, ‘Jaw elements in Plumulites bengtsoni confirm that machaeridians are extinct armoured scaleworms’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 286.
• Lozano-Fernandez, J, Giacomelli, M, Fleming, JF, Chen, A, Vinther, J, Thomsen, PF, Glenner, H, Palero, F, Legg, DA, Iliffe, TM, Pisani, D & Olesen, J, 2019, ‘Pancrustacean Evolution Illuminated by Taxon-Rich Genomic-Scale Data Sets with an Expanded Remipede Sampling’. Genome Biology and Evolution, vol 11., pp. 2055-2070
• Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, AR, Giacomelli, M, Carton, R, Vinther, J, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2019, ‘Author Correction: Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (2295), 10.1038/s41467-019-10244-7)’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
• Saitta, ET, Kaye, TG & Vinther, J, 2019, ‘Sediment-encased maturation: a novel method for simulating diagenesis in organic fossil preservation’. Palaeontology, vol 62., pp. 135-150
• Babarović, F, Puttick, MN, Zaher, M, Learmonth, E, Gallimore, E-J, Smithwick, FM, Mayr, G & Vinther, J, 2019, ‘Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record’. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol 16.
• Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, A, Giacomelli, M, Carton, R, Vinther, J, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2019, ‘Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
• Nordén, K, Faber, J, Babarović, F, Stubbs, T, Selly, T, Schiffbauer, J, Štefanić, PP, Mayr, G, Smithwick, F & Vinther, J, 2019, ‘Melanosome diversity and convergence in the evolution of iridescent avian feathers— implications for paleocolor reconstruction’. Evolution, vol 73., pp. 15-27