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Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA by Murchie, Tyler J., Monteath, Alistair J., Mahony, Matthew E., Long, George S., Cocker, Scott, Sadoway, Tara, Karpinski, Emil, Zazula, Grant, MacPhee, Ross D. E., Froese, Duane, Poinar, Hendrik N.

“…The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem…”
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The delayed rise of present-day mammals by BININDA-EMONDS, Olaf R. P, CARDILLO, Marcel, JONES, Kate E, MACPHEE, Ross D. E, BECK, Robin M. D, GRENYER, Richard, PRICE, Samantha A, VOS, Rutger A, GITTLEMAN, John L, PURVIS, Andy

“…Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of…”
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A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America by Heintzman, Peter D, Zazula, Grant D, MacPhee, Ross DE, Scott, Eric, Cahill, James A, McHorse, Brianna K, Kapp, Joshua D, Stiller, Mathias, Wooller, Matthew J, Orlando, Ludovic, Southon, John, Froese, Duane G, Shapiro, Beth

“…The extinct 'New World stilt-legged', or NWSL, equids constitute a perplexing group of Pleistocene horses endemic to North America. Their slender distal limb…”
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Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA by Poinar, Hendrik N, Schwarz, Carsten, Qi, Ji, Shapiro, Beth, MacPhee, Ross D. E, Buigues, Bernard, Tikhonov, Alexei, Huson, Daniel H, Tomsho, Lynn P, Auch, Alexander, Rampp, Markus, Miller, Webb, Schuster, Stephan C

“…We sequenced 28 million base pairs of DNA in a metagenomics approach, using a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) sample from Siberia. As a result of…”
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Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease by Wyatt, Kelly B, Campos, Paula F, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Hynes, Wayne H, DeSalle, Rob, Ball, Stanley J, Daszak, Peter, MacPhee, Ross D E, Greenwood, Alex D

“…It is now widely accepted that novel infectious disease can be a leading cause of serious population decline and even outright extinction in some invertebrate…”
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American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggest multiple dispersal events in response to Pleistocene climate oscillations by Karpinski, Emil, Hackenberger, Dirk, Zazula, Grant, Widga, Chris, Duggan, Ana T., Golding, G. Brian, Kuch, Melanie, Klunk, Jennifer, Jass, Christopher N., Groves, Pam, Druckenmiller, Patrick, Schubert, Blaine W., Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin, Simpson, William F., Hoganson, John W., Fisher, Daniel C., Ho, Simon Y. W., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Poinar, Hendrik N.

“…Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles are correlated with dramatic temperature oscillations. Examining how species responded to these natural fluctuations…”
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Seeing through the eyes of the sabertooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) by Gaillard, Charlène, MacPhee, Ross D. E., Forasiepi, Analía M.

“…The evolution of mammalian vision is difficult to study because the actual receptor organs—the eyes—are not preserved in the fossil record. Orbital orientation…”
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Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina by Gaillard, Charlène, Forasiepi, Analía M., Tarquini, Sergio D., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Ladevèze, Sandrine

“…In this contribution, we investigate two sparassodonts from the Sarmiento Formation (Colhuehuapian Age; Early Miocene) recovered at the Patagonian locality of…”
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Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska by Haile, James, Froese, Duane G, MacPhee, Ross D.E, Roberts, Richard G, Arnold, Lee J, Reyes, Alberto V, Rasmussen, Morten, Nielsen, Rasmus, Brook, Barry W, Robinson, Simon, Demuro, Martina, Gilbert, M. Thomas P, Munch, Kasper, Austin, Jeremy J, Cooper, Alan, Barnes, Ian, Möller, Per, Willerslev, Eske

“…Causes of late Quaternary extinctions of large mammals ("megafauna") continue to be debated, especially for continental losses, because spatial and temporal…”
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American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change by Zazula, Grant D., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Metcalfe, Jessica Z., Reyes, Alberto V., Brock, Fiona, Druckenmiller, Patrick S., Groves, Pamela, Harington, Richard, Hodgins, Gregory W. L, Kunz, Michael L., Longstaffe, Fred J., Mann, Daniel H., McDonald, H. Gregory, Nalawade-Chavan, Shweta, Southon, John R.

“…Significance New radiocarbon ( ¹⁴C) dates on American mastodon ( Mammut americanum ) fossils in Alaska and Yukon suggest this species suffered local…”
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Asynchronous Extinction of Late Quaternary Sloths on Continents and Islands by Steadman, David W., Martin, Paul S., Ross D. E. Mac Phee, Jull, A. J. T., McDonald, H. Gregory, Woods, Charles A., Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Dickinson, William R.

“…Whatever the cause, it is extraordinary that dozens of genera of large mammals became extinct during the late Quaternary throughout the Western Hemisphere,…”
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Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears by Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, De Sanctis, Bianca, Saremi, Nedda F., Sikora, Martin, Puckett, Emily E., Gu, Zhenquan, Moon, Katherine L., Kapp, Joshua D., Vinner, Lasse, Vardanyan, Zaruhi, Ardelean, Ciprian F., Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin, Cahill, James A., Heintzman, Peter D., Zazula, Grant, MacPhee, Ross D.E., Shapiro, Beth, Durbin, Richard, Willerslev, Eske

“…Analysis of ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized our ability to describe biological communities in space and time,1–3 by allowing for parallel…”
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Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America by Froese, Duane, Stiller, Mathias, Heintzman, Peter D., Reyes, Alberto V., Zazula, Grant D., Soares, André E. R., Meyer, Matthias, Hall, Elizabeth, Jensen, Britta J. L., Arnold, Lee J., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Shapiro, Beth

“…The arrival of bison in North America marks one of the most successful large-mammal dispersals from Asia within the last million years, yet the timing and…”
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New radiometric 40Ar–39Ar dates and faunistic analyses refine evolutionary dynamics of Neogene vertebrate assemblages in southern South America by Prevosti, Francisco J., Romano, Cristo O., Forasiepi, Analía M., Hemming, Sidney, Bonini, Ricardo, Candela, Adriana M., Cerdeño, Esperanza, Madozzo Jaén, M. Carolina, Ortiz, Pablo E., Pujos, François, Rasia, Luciano, Schmidt, Gabriela I., Taglioretti, Matias, MacPhee, Ross D. E., Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.

“…The vertebrate fossil record of the Pampean Region of Argentina occupies an important place in South American vertebrate paleontology. An abundance of…”
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Evolutionary History of the Nesophontidae, the Last Unplaced Recent Mammal Family by Brace, Selina, Thomas, Jessica A, Dalén, Love, Burger, Joachim, MacPhee, Ross D E, Barnes, Ian, Turvey, Samuel T

“…The mammalian evolutionary tree has lost several major clades through recent human-caused extinctions. This process of historical biodiversity loss has…”
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The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: Phylogenetic implications and application to extinct West Indian taxa by Da Cunha, Léa, Viñola-López, Lázaro W., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Kerber, Leonardo, Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge, Antoine, Pierre-Olivier, Boivin, Myriam, Hautier, Lionel, Lebrun, Renaud, Marivaux, Laurent, Fabre, Pierre-Henri

“…With their past and current diversities, West Indian caviomorph rodents dominate the terrestrial mammalian fauna of the Caribbean archipelago. Many of these…”
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Genomic Data from Extinct North American Camelops Revise Camel Evolutionary History by Heintzman, Peter D, Zazula, Grant D, Cahill, James A, Reyes, Alberto V, MacPhee, Ross D E, Shapiro, Beth

“…Recent advances in paleogenomic technologies have enabled an increasingly detailed understanding of the evolutionary relationships of now-extinct mammalian…”
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The extinction of Xenothrix mcgregori, Jamaica's last monkey by Cooke, Siobhán B., Mychajliw, Alexis M., Southon, John, MacPhee, Ross D. E.

“…The Jamaican primate, Xenothrix mcgregori, regarded variously as either a pitheciid or a stem platyrrhine, was the terminal branch of a clade that likely…”
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From Jumbo to Dumbo: Cranial Shape Changes in Elephants and Hippos During Phyletic Dwarfing by van der Geer, Alexandra A. E., Lyras, George A., Mitteroecker, Philipp, MacPhee, Ross D. E.

“…Members of the mammalian families Elephantidae and Hippopotamidae (extant and extinct elephants and hippos) include extinct dwarf species that display up to…”
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Late Quaternary loss of genetic diversity in muskox (Ovibos) by MacPhee, Ross D E, Tikhonov, Alexei N, Mol, Dick, Greenwood, Alex D

“…The modern wildherd of the tundra muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is native only to the New World (northern North America and Greenland), and its genetic diversity…”
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