Publications

2019

  • Puttick MN*, O’Reilly JE*, Pisani D, and Donoghue PCJ. 2018. Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model. Palaeontology (doi:10.1111/pala.12388)
  • Allen BJ, Stubbs TL, Benton MJ, Puttick, MN. Archosauromorph extinction selectivity during the Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction. 2, 211-224. Palaeontology. (doi:10.1111/pala.12399)

2018

  • Deline B, Greenwood JM, Clark JW, Puttick MN, Peterson KJ, Donoghue, PCJ . 2018. Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (doi:10.1073/pnas.1810575115)
  • Betts HC, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Williams TA, Donoghue PCJ & Pisani D. 2018. Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin. Nature Ecology and Evolution (doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0644-x)
  • Tarver JE, Taylor RS, Puttick MN, Lloyd GT, Pett W, Fromm B, Schirrmeister BE, Pisani D, Peterson KJ, and Donoghue PCJ. 2018. Well-annotated microRNAomes do not evidence pervasive miRNA loss. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10, 1457-1470.
  • Hill JJ, Puttick MN, Stubbs TL, Rayfield EJ, & Donoghue PCJ. 2018. Evolution of jaw disparity in fishes. Palaeontology. (doi:10.1111/pala.12371)
  • Puttick MN*, Morris JL*, et al. The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte. 2018. Current Biology. 28, 733-745. *joint first author
  • Morris JL*,  Puttick MN*, et al.  2018. The timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 115, E2274-E2283. 
  • Puttick MN. 2018. Mixed evidence for early bursts of morphological evolution in extant clades. Journal of evolutionary biology. (doi:10.1111/jeb.13236)

2017

  • O’Reilly JE*, Puttick MN*, Pisani D, and Donoghue PCJ. 2017. Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data. Palaeontology, 61, 105-118.
  • Puttick MN, Kriwet J, Wen W, Hu S, Thomas GH, and Benton MJ. 2017. Body length of bony fishes was not a selective factor during the biggest mass extinction of all time. Palaeontology. (doi:10.1111/pala.12309)
  • Puttick MN*, O’Reilly JE*, Tanner AR, Fleming JF, Clark J, Holloway L, Lozano-Fernandez J, Parry LA, Tarver JE, Pisani D, and Donoghue PCJ. 2017. Uncertain-tree: discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data. Proc. R. Soc. B 284:20162290 (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0081)

2016

  • Puttick MN. 2016. Partially incorrect fossil data augment analyses of discrete trait evolution in living species. Biol. Lett. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0392)
  • Lozano-Fernandez J, Carton R, Tanner AR, Puttick MN, Blaxter M, Vinther J,Olesen J, Giribet G, Edgecombe GD, and Pisani D. 2016. A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20150133. (dos:10.1098/rstb.2015.0133)
  • O’Reilly JE*, Puttick MN*,  Parry L, Tanner AR, Tarver JE, Fleming J, Pisano D, and Donoghue PCJ. 2016. Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data. Biol. Lett.  4: 20160081.  (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0081)
  • Puttick MN, Thomas GH, and Benton MJ. 2016. Dating Placentalia: Morphological clocks fail to close the molecular-fossil gap. Evolution. 70: 873-876. (doi:10.1111/evo.12907)

2015

  • Puttick MN and Thomas GH. 2015. Fossils and living taxa agree on patterns of morphological evolution: a case study with Afrotheria. Proc. R. Soc. B. 282: 20152023. (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2023)
  • Puttick MN, Clark J, and Donoghue PCJ. 2015. Size isn’t everything: rates of genome size evolution, not C value, drives speciation in angiosperms. Proc. R. Soc. B. 282: 20152289. (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2289)

2014

  • Puttick MN, Thomas GH, and Benton MJ. 2014. High rates of evolution preceded the origin of birds. Evolution 68: 1497-1510. (doi:10.1111/evo.12363)

*joint first author