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
• Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, A, Giacomelli, M, Carton, R, Vinther, J, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2019, ‘Increasing species sampling in genomic-scale datasets provides molecular support for the monophyly of Acari and Arachnida’. Nature Communications.
• 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
• 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
• Parry, LA, Smithwick, F, Nordén, KK, Saitta, ET, Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, AR, Caron, JB, Edgecombe, GD, Briggs, DE & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses – Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Exceptional Fossil Preservation Is Complex and Involves the Interplay of Numerous Biological and Geological Processes’. BioEssays, vol 40.
• Park, TYS, Kihm, JH, Woo, J, Park, C, Lee, WY, Smith, MP, Harper, DA, Young, F, Nielsen, AT & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head’. Nature Communications, vol 9.
• Fleming, JF, Kristensen, RM, Sørensen, MV, Park, TYS, Arakawa, K, Blaxter, M, Rebecchi, L, Guidetti, R, Williams, TA, Roberts, NW, Vinther, J & Pisani, D, 2018, ‘Molecular palaeontology illuminates the evolution of ecdysozoan vision’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 285.
• Saitta, ET, Fletcher, I, Martin, PG, Pittman, M, Kaye, TG, True, LD, Norell, MA, Abbott, GD, Summons, RE, Penkman, K & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Preservation of feather fibers from the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti raises concern about immunohistochemical analyses on fossils’. Organic Geochemistry, vol 125., pp. 142-151
• Parry, LA, Baron, MG & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Correction to 'Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida'’. Royal Society Open Science, vol 5., pp. 180154
• Saitta, ET, Gelernter, R & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Additional information on the primitive contour and wing feathering of paravian dinosaurs’. Palaeontology, vol 61., pp. 273-288