VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY: A Boy Named Sue?

Vertebrate Paleontology of Texas Caves

Vertebrate fossils from Texas caves have been studied for over 75 years. In that time few summary treatments of Texas caves and their fossil faunas have been published. The only reviews focusing specifically on Texas cave vertebrate paleontology sites were written over 20 years ago (Frank, 1964; Lundelius and Slaughter, 1971). Much work on cave sites in Texas has occurred since these reviews. S...

Prodromus of Vertebrate Paleontology of Bermuda

Bermuda is an isolated oceanic island situated 1000 km ESE of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (Fig. 1, inset). Its volcanic core, last active during the Oligocene (Reynolds & Aumento, 1974), was probably subaerial for some of its existence because rare basaltic pebbles and a small percentage of volcanic grains have been found in surface deposits. Apart from the initial volcanic origin of Bermuda,...

The BOY NAMED SUE quantitative trait locus confers increased meiotic stability to an adapted natural allopolyploid of Arabidopsis.

Whole-genome duplication resulting from polyploidy is ubiquitous in the evolutionary history of plant species. Yet, polyploids must overcome the meiotic challenge of pairing, recombining, and segregating more than two sets of chromosomes. Using genomic sequencing of synthetic and natural allopolyploids of Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa, we determined that dosage variation and chro...

Vertebrate Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), II: Paleoecology

Vertebrate microfossil assemblages in terrestrial formations are a promising source of data on the structure of fossil metacommunities. However, the degree to which these deposits capture true, metacommunity-level samples is unknown. Individual deposits may be biased in ways that limit their utility for intraand inter-formation comparisons. This study describes the composition of ten vertebrate...

Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Mesa Southwest Museum and Phoenix Marriott Mesa