Phillip Q Spinks
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Thomson R, Spinks P, Shaffer H
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2021 Feb;
118(7).
PMID: 33558231
Living turtles are characterized by extraordinarily low species diversity given their age. The clade's extensive fossil record indicates that climate and biogeography may have played important roles in determining their...
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Thomson R, Spinks P, Shaffer H
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2017 Dec;
121:61-70.
PMID: 29242165
The map turtles (genus Graptemys) comprise a morphologically diverse clade that forms a major component of the southeastern US hotspot of chelonian diversity. Map turtles have experienced both recent and...
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Shaffer H, McCartney-Melstad E, Near T, Mount G, Spinks P
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2017 Jul;
115:7-15.
PMID: 28711671
Accurate time-calibrated phylogenies are the centerpiece of many macroevolutionary studies, and the relationship between the size and scale of molecular data sets and the density and accuracy of fossil calibrations...
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Spinks P, Thomson R, McCartney-Melstad E, Shaffer H
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2016 Jul;
103:85-97.
PMID: 27400630
We present a comprehensive multigene phylogeny and time tree for the turtle family Emydidae. Our phylogenetic analysis, based on 30 nuclear and four mitochondrial genes (23,330 total base pairs) sequenced...
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Spinks P, Thomson R, Gidis M, Shaffer H
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2014 Apr;
76:254-60.
PMID: 24704303
A goal of modern taxonomy is to develop classifications that reflect current phylogenetic relationships and are as stable as possible given the inherent uncertainties in much of the tree of...
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Spinks P, Thomson R, Shaffer H
Mol Ecol
. 2014 Mar;
23(9):2228-41.
PMID: 24673803
As the field of phylogeography has matured, it has become clear that analyses of one or a few genes may reveal more about the history of those genes than the...
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Spinks P, Thomson R, Pauly G, Newman C, Mount G, Shaffer H
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2013 Apr;
68(2):269-81.
PMID: 23583419
Reconstructing species trees for clades containing weakly delimited or incorrectly identified taxa is one of the most serious challenges facing systematists because building phylogenetic trees is generally predicated on correctly...
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Shaffer H, Minx P, Warren D, Shedlock A, Thomson R, Valenzuela N, et al.
Genome Biol
. 2013 Mar;
14(3):R28.
PMID: 23537068
Background: We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the most widespread, abundant, and well-studied turtles. We place the genome into a comparative evolutionary...
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Spinks P, Thomson R, Zhang Y, Che J, Wu Y, Shaffer H
Mol Phylogenet Evol
. 2012 Jun;
63(3):656-67.
PMID: 22649793
Turtles are currently the most endangered major clade of vertebrates on earth, and Asian box turtles (Cuora) are in catastrophic decline. Effective management of this diverse turtle clade has been...
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Spinks P, Shaffer H
Syst Biol
. 2010 Jun;
58(1):1-20.
PMID: 20525565
Understanding the mechanisms by which widely disjunct members of a clade came to occupy their current distribution is one of the fundamental challenges of biogeography. Here, we used data from...