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William J. Murphy
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 320
Citations - 27304
William J. Murphy is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Immune system. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 293 publications receiving 25360 citations. Previous affiliations of William J. Murphy include Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul & Texas College.
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Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals
William J. Murphy,Eduardo Eizirik,Eduardo Eizirik,Warren E. Johnson,Ya-Ping Zhang,Oliver A. Ryder,Stephen J. O'Brien +6 more
TL;DR: The potential weaknesses of limited character and taxon sampling are addressed in a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of 64 species sampled across all extant orders of placental mammals, providing new insight into the pattern of the early placental mammal radiation.
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Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification
Robert W. Meredith,Jan E. Janecka,John Gatesy,Oliver A. Ryder,Colleen A. Fisher,Emma C. Teeling,Alisha Goodbla,Eduardo Eizirik,Taiz L. L. Simão,Tanja Stadler,Daniel L. Rabosky,Rodney L. Honeycutt,John J. Flynn,Colleen M. Ingram,Cynthia C. Steiner,Tiffani L. Williams,Terence J. Robinson,Angela Burk-Herrick,Angela Burk-Herrick,Michael Westerman,Nadia A. Ayoub,Nadia A. Ayoub,Mark S. Springer,William J. Murphy +23 more
TL;DR: Molecular phylogenetic analysis, calibrated with fossils, resolves the time frame of the mammalian radiation and diversification analyses suggest important roles for the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg mass extinction in opening up ecospace that promoted interordinal and intraordinal diversification, respectively.
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Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics
William J. Murphy,Eduardo Eizirik,Eduardo Eizirik,Stephen J. O'Brien,Ole Madsen,Mark Scally,Mark Scally,Christophe J. Douady,Christophe J. Douady,Emma C. Teeling,Emma C. Teeling,Oliver A. Ryder,Michael J. Stanhope,Michael J. Stanhope,Wilfried W. de Jong,Mark S. Springer +15 more
TL;DR: Crown-group Eutheria may have their most recent common ancestry in the Southern Hemisphere (Gondwana), and placental phylogeny is investigated using Bayesian and maximum-likelihood methods and a 16.4-kilobase molecular data set.
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A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record.
Emma C. Teeling,Emma C. Teeling,Mark S. Springer,Ole Madsen,Paul J. J. Bates,Stephen J. O'Brien,William J. Murphy,William J. Murphy +7 more
TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that megabats are nested among four major microbat lineages, which originated in the early Eocene, coincident with a significant global rise in temperature, increase in plant diversity and abundance, and the zenith of Tertiary insect diversity.
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Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary
TL;DR: The largest available molecular data set for placental mammals is investigated, which includes segments of 19 nuclear and three mitochondrial genes for representatives of all extant placental orders and permits simultaneous constraints from the fossil record and allows rates of molecular evolution to vary on different branches of a phylogenetic tree.