Dr Kenneth De Baets

Summary

Parasitic flatworms are a very diverse group of invertebrates which parasitize various vertebrate groups. Many of them are of biomedically or economically importance, but their deep evolutionary history is poorly understood. Most hypotheses rely on indirect evidences assuming coevolution/codivergence with their hosts as their fossil record is poorly understood, very incomplete and patchy. My recent project want to combine all possible information from the fossil record and genetic sequences to study their evolution in deep time and compare it with evolutionary timescale of their vertebrate hosts.

Keywords

• macroevolution
• coevolution
• molecular phylogenetics
• molecular clocks
• biogeography
• parasitic flatworms
• vertebrates

Memberships

Organisations

School of Earth Sciences

Academic staff

• Honorary staff and academic visitors

Research groups

• Palaeobiology and Biodiversity

Research themes

• Evolution of Biodiversity and Morphology

Links

• Google Scholar Citations
•   Personal website
•   Academia
•   ResearcherID

Recent publications

• Baets, KD, Klug, C & Monnet, C 2013, ‘Intraspecific variability through ontogeny in early ammonoids’. Paleobiology, vol 39., pp. 75-94
• Baets, KD, Klug, C, Korn, D & Landman, NH 2012, ‘EARLY EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN AMMONOID EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT’. Evolution, vol 66., pp. 1788-1806
• Mariotti, N, Weis, R, Cencio, AD, Clement, A & Baets, KD 2012, ‘New records of early Middle Jurassic belemnites in the French Subalpine Basin and their paleobiogeographic significance’. Geobios, vol 45., pp. 99-108
• Monnet, C, Baets, KD & Klug, C 2011, ‘Parallel evolution controlled by adaptation and covariation in ammonoid cephalopods’. BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol 11., pp. -
• Baets, KD, Klug, C & Korn, D 2011, ‘Devonian pearls and ammonoid-endoparasite co-evolution’. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol 56., pp. 159-180
• Monnet, C, Klug, C, Goudemand, N, Baets, KD & Bucher, H 2011, ‘Quantitative biochronology of Devonian ammonoids from Morocco and proposals for a refined unitary association method’. Lethaia, vol 44., pp. 469-489
• Baets, KD, Klug, C & Plusquellec, Y 2010, ‘Zlichovian faunas with early ammonoids from Morocco and their use for the correlation of the eastern Anti-Atlas and the western Dra Valley’. Bulletin of geosciences, vol 85., pp. 317-352
• Baets, KD, Klug, C & Korn, D 2009, ‘Anetoceratinae (Ammonoidea, Early Devonian) from the Eifel and Harz Mountains (Germany), with a revision of their genera’. Neues jahrbuch fur geologie und palaontologie-Abhandlungen, vol 252., pp. 361-376
• Klug, C, Schulz, H & Baets, KD 2009, ‘Red Devonian trilobites with green eyes from Morocco and the silicification of the trilobite exoskeleton’. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol 54., pp. 117-123
• Baets, KD, Cecca, F, Guiomar, M & Verniers, J 2008, ‘Ammonites from the latest Aalenian-earliest Bathonian of La Baume (Castellane area, SE France): palaeontology and biostratigraphy’. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, vol 101., pp. 563-578

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Courses

Dr De Baets currently teaches 1 courses: