MorphoBank in the News

Scientific Journals

July 17, 2020
Leonardo M. Borges Victor Candido Reis Rafael Izbicki
Schrödinger’s phenotypes: herbarium specimens show two‐dimensional images are both good and (not so) bad sources of morphological data
10.1111/2041-210X.13450
Includes a small note on data sharing that advocates using MorphoBank.
September 19, 2019
Melanie J. Hopkins
Using the Paleobiology Database and MorphoBank to facilitate collaborative research and data archival
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27971v1
December 19, 2014
Samuel Moore
Issues in Open Research Data
London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org//10.5334/ban
January 1, 2011
R. Alexander Pyron
Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia
Highlights MorphoBank as "detailed resource for gathering morphological data for phylogenetic analysis"
January 1, 2015
Mark Miller and colleagues
A RESTful API for Access to Phylogenetic Tools via the CIPRES Science Gateway
Evolutionary Bioinformatics 2015:11
APIs linking CIPRES and MorphoBank
March 25, 2017
Laing, A. M., Doyle, S., Gold, M. E. L., Nesbitt, S. J., O'Leary, M. A., Turner, A. H., and Poole, K. E.
Giant taxon-character matrices: the future of morphological systematics
Cladistics
Data sharing is key as phylogenetic matrices increase in size
January 1, 2018
Borges, L. M.. B. Marazzi, and G. P. Lewis
Shaping knowledge on legume morphology
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
How new digital tools are impacting the study of plant evolution
February 28, 2017
Lyubomir Penev and colleagues
Strategies and guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data
Research Ideas and Outcomes 3:e12431
June 19, 2014
Karen Cranston, Luke J. Harmon, Maureen A. O'Leary, Curtis Lisle
Best Practices for Data Sharing in Phylogenetic Research
Currents
November 10, 2001
Maureen O'Leary, Janine Caira, Michael Novacek
Evolutionary Biology Research in Fundamental Space Biology and the NASA Mission, MorphoBank Workshop, November 10-11, 2001
April 28, 2011
Maureen O'Leary and Seth Kaufman
MorphoBank: phylophenomics in the "cloud".
Cladistics, doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00355.x.
March 17, 2014
Sarah Werning
Sharing Paleodata (Part 3): MorphoBank
PLOS Blog
October 22, 2012
Arlin Stoltzfus
Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis.
BMC Research Notes, 2012 5:574
February 12, 2012
Ross Mounce
Life as a Palaeontologist: Academia, the Internet and Creative Commons.
Paleontology Online
June 1, 2003
Paul D. Thacker
Morphology: The Shape of Things to Come
BioScience, Vol. 53, No. 6, 545-549
February 1, 2003
E. O. Wilson
The Encyclopedia of Life
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol.18, No.2, 77-80
January 1, 2006
Alan de Queiroz and John Gatesy
The supermatrix approach to systematics
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 21, Issue 12, 34-41
The supermatrix approach to systematics

Popular Scientific Press

October 26, 2012
John Schwartz
Exhibits That Only Researchers Usually See
The New York Times
January 15, 2015
Maureen O'Leary
Los primeros mamíferos placentarios
Investigación y Ciencia
March 11, 2020
Daniel Dunaief
Power of 3: SBU’s Maureen O’Leary makes MorphoBank funding plans
Highlights MorphoBank's move to membership support
February 7, 2013
NSF
Placental Mammal Diversity Blossomed After Age of Dinosaurs: Scientists build new 'tree of life' for placentals, visualize common ancestor
February 7, 2013
John Noble Wilford
Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast
The New York Times
February 7, 2013
American Museum of Natural History video discusses MorphoBank Project 773, The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the post K-Pg Radiation of Placentals.
February 14, 2013
Man's oldest ancestor identified by scientists
CBS News
February 7, 2013
Jason Palmer
Earliest placental mammal ancestor pinpointed
BBC News
February 7, 2013
Marcelo Garcia
Uma outra história dos mamíferos
Ciencia Hoje
February 19, 2013
Josh Mandell
Scientists reconstruct mammalian ancestor
Yale Daily News
February 7, 2014
Le premier mammifère est apparu après la fin des dinosaures
rtbf.be
July 2, 2013
L'apparition de l'ancêtre commun aux mammifères postérieure aux dinosaures
7Sur7
July 2, 2013
Jennifer Viegas - Discovery News
New study of mammalian evolution reveals one of our earliest ancestors
io9
February 7, 2013
Monte Morin
A scampering, hypothetical ancestor causes an evolutionary stir
The Los Angeles Times
February 7, 2013
Karl Tate
Mother of Mammals: Meet the Earliest Placental Mammal Ancestor (Infographic)
Live Science
February 18, 2013
Rebecca J. Rosen
Humanity Could Give a Name to Its Common Ancestor via Hashtag
The Atlantic
February 7, 2013
Ed Young
Face-to-face with the earliest ancestor of all placental mammals
Nature
February 7, 2013
Jennifer Viegas
Furry Insect-Eater Tops Our Family Tree
Discovery News
February 7, 2013
Emily Chung
Hamster-sized mammal topped our family tree
CBC
February 8, 2013
Michael D. Lemonick
Found: Humanity’s Great-Grand-Rat
Time
February 7, 2013
Derek Mead
The Oldest Known Common Ancestor of Humans Looked Like a Chill Rat-Possum Thing
Motherboard
February 7, 2013
Ivan Semeniuk
Software helped discover missing evolutionary link
The Globe and Mail
April 11, 2011
E. Callaway
Fossil data enter the web period
Nature, 472, 150
June 13, 2003
Elizabeth Pennisi
Modernizing the Tree of Life
Science, Vol. 300, 1692-1697
February 7, 2013
American Museum of Natural History's video, available above, nominated for a Webby