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Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction? A View from the World of Amphibians by Wake, David B., Vredenburg, Vance T.

“…Many scientists argue that we are either entering or in the midst of the sixth great mass extinction. Intense human pressure, both direct and indirect, is…”
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A surprising fossil vertebrate by Wake, David B.

“…An ancient amphibian converged on a chameleon-like way of feeding The invasion of land by vertebrates initiated an explosion of new kinds of…”
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Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary by Feng, Yan-Jie, Blackburn, David C., Liang, Dan, Hillis, David M., Wake, David B., Cannatella, David C., Zhang, Peng

“…Frogs (Anura) are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates and comprise nearly 90% of living amphibian species. Their worldwide distribution and diverse…”
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Homoplasy: From Detecting Pattern to Determining Process and Mechanism of Evolution by Wake, David B, Wake, Marvalee H, Specht, Chelsea D

“…Understanding the diversification of phenotypes through time--"descent with modification"--has been the focus of evolutionary biology for 150 years. If,…”
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Amphibians by Wake, David B., Koo, Michelle S.

“…Since the dawn of history, amphibians have been a part of human culture. Western Europeans built fires for cooking and warmth, adding large logs as needed…”
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Facing Extinction in Real Time by Wake, David B.

“…Amphibian populations worldwide are under threat as a result of additive effects of multiple stressors. A sense of impending doom has enveloped the community…”
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What Salamanders Have Taught Us About Evolution by Wake, David B.

“…Taxon-based research in evolution permits the development of a multidimensional approach, illustrated here with lessons learned from research on salamanders…”
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar angular momentum of about 2300 galaxies: unveiling the bimodality of massive galaxy properties by Graham, Mark T, Cappellari, Michele, Li, Hongyu, Mao, Shude, Bershady, Matthew A, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R, Bundy, Kevin, Drory, Niv, Law, David R, Pan, Kaike, Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David A, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Westfall, Kyle B, Yan, Renbin

“…Abstract We measure $\lambda _{R_{\rm e}}$, a proxy for galaxy specific stellar angular momentum within one effective radius, and the ellipticity, ε, for about…”
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The differing relationships between size, mass, metallicity and core velocity dispersion of central and satellite galaxies by Spindler, Ashley, Wake, David

“…Abstract We study the role of environment in the evolution of central and satellite galaxies with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We begin by studying the…”
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The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples by Sánchez, Ariel G., Montesano, Francesco, Kazin, Eyal A., Aubourg, Eric, Beutler, Florian, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., Cuesta, Antonio J., Dawson, Kyle S., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Ho, Shirley, Honscheid, Klaus, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Percival, Will J., Ross, Ashley J., Samushia, Lado, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Skibba, Ramin, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, Zehavi, Idit

“…We explore the cosmological implications of the angle-averaged correlation function, ...(s), and the clustering wedges, ...(s) and ...(s), of the LOWZ and…”
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Higher-level salamander relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes by Zhang, Peng, Wake, David B.

“…Phylogenetic relationships among the salamander families have been difficult to resolve, largely because the window of time in which major lineages diverged…”
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The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Project. III. A Lack of Growth among Massive Galaxies by Bundy, Kevin, Leauthaud, Alexie, Saito, Shun, Maraston, Claudia, Wake, David A., Thomas, Daniel

“…The average stellar mass (M*) of high-mass galaxies ( ) is expected to grow by ∼30% since , largely through ongoing mergers that are also invoked to explain…”
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Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis by Cheng, Tina L, Rovito, Sean M, Wake, David B, Vredenburg, Vance T

“…Amphibians highlight the global biodiversity crisis because…”
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The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering by Samushia, Lado, Reid, Beth A., White, Martin, Percival, Will J., Cuesta, Antonio J., Zhao, Gong-Bo, Ross, Ashley J., Manera, Marc, Aubourg, Éric, Beutler, Florian, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., Dawson, Kyle S., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Ho, Shirley, Honscheid, Klaus, Maraston, Claudia, Montesano, Francesco, Nichol, Robert C., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Nicholas P., Sánchez, Ariel G., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Streblyanska, Alina, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Zehavi, Idit

“…We use the observed anisotropic clustering of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11 CMASS sample to measure the linear growth…”
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Forever young: Linking regeneration and genome size in salamanders by Sessions, Stanley K., Wake, David B.

“…Background Salamanders stand out among vertebrate animals in two key characteristics: their ability to regenerate body parts, and their large and variable…”
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Efficient sequencing of Anuran mtDNAs and a mitogenomic exploration of the phylogeny and evolution of frogs by Zhang, Peng, Liang, Dan, Mao, Rong-Li, Hillis, David M, Wake, David B, Cannatella, David C

“…Anura (frogs and toads) constitute over 88% of living amphibian diversity but many important questions about their phylogeny and evolution remain unresolved…”
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Suppressing star formation in quiescent galaxies with supermassive black hole winds by Cheung, Edmond, Bundy, Kevin, Cappellari, Michele, Peirani, Sébastien, Rujopakarn, Wiphu, Westfall, Kyle, Yan, Renbin, Bershady, Matthew, Greene, Jenny E., Heckman, Timothy M., Drory, Niv, Law, David R., Masters, Karen L., Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David A., Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Rubin, Kate, Belfiore, Francesco, Vulcani, Benedetta, Chen, Yan-mei, Zhang, Kai, Gelfand, Joseph D., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Roman-Lopes, A., Schneider, Donald P.

“…In order for quiescent galaxies to maintain their low-to-non-existent star formation, there must be a mechanism to remove or heat gas that would otherwise cool…”
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Persistent Plethodontid Themes: Species, Phylogenies, and Biogeography by Wake, David B.

“…From the time of Cope's first analysis of plethodontid systematics through Dunn's era of consolidation and integration to the present time, there have been…”
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Averting a North American biodiversity crisis by Yap, Tiffany A, Koo, Michelle S, Ambrose, Richard F, Wake, David B, Vredenburg, Vance T

“…A newly described pathogen poses a major threat to salamanders via trade In the midst of an ongoing sixth mass extinction ( 1 ), more than 40% of all…”
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: the spatially resolved stellar initial mass function in ∼400 early-type galaxies by Parikh, Taniya, Thomas, Daniel, Maraston, Claudia, Westfall, Kyle B, Goddard, Daniel, Lian, Jianhui, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Jones, Amy, Vaughan, Sam, Andrews, Brett H, Bershady, Matthew, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R, Bundy, Kevin, Drory, Niv, Emsellem, Eric, Law, David R, Newman, Jeffrey A, Roman-Lopes, Alexandre, Wake, David, Yan, Renbin, Zheng, Zheng

“…Abstract Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory provides the opportunity to make precise spatially resolved measurements of the IMF slope in…”
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