Zhe Xi Luo

Summary

Affiliation: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 450:1011-9. 2007
  2. ncbi A new mammaliaform from the early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics
    Z X Luo
    Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 292:1535-40. 2001
  3. ncbi An Early Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metatherian evolution
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 302:1934-40. 2003
  4. ncbi Convergent dental adaptations in pseudo-tribosphenic and tribosphenic mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 450:93-7. 2007
  5. ncbi A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 308:103-7. 2005
  6. ncbi A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 476:442-5. 2011
  7. ncbi A new eutriconodont mammal and evolutionary development in early mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 446:288-93. 2007
  8. ncbi Fossil evidence on evolution of inner ear cochlea in Jurassic mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 278:28-34. 2011
  9. ncbi A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features
    Gang Li
    Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
    Nature 439:195-200. 2006
  10. ncbi Paleontology. Homoplasy in the mammalian ear
    Thomas Martin
    Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Science 307:861-2. 2005

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Publications12

  1. ncbi Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 450:1011-9. 2007
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  2. ncbi A new mammaliaform from the early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics
    Z X Luo
    Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 292:1535-40. 2001
    ....
  3. ncbi An Early Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metatherian evolution
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 302:1934-40. 2003
    ..New data from this fossil support the view that Asia was likely the center for the diversification of the earliest metatherians and eutherians during the Early Cretaceous...
  4. ncbi Convergent dental adaptations in pseudo-tribosphenic and tribosphenic mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 450:93-7. 2007
    ..The find reveals a much greater range of dental evolution in Mesozoic mammals than in their extant descendants, and strengthens the hypothesis of homoplasy of 'tribosphenic-like' molars among mammals...
  5. ncbi A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Science 308:103-7. 2005
    ..Parsimony analysis suggests that this fossil represents a separate basal mammalian lineage with some dental and vertebral convergences to those of modern xenarthran placentals, and reveals a previously unknown ecomorph of early mammals...
  6. ncbi A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 476:442-5. 2011
    ..This mammal has scansorial forelimb features, and provides the ancestral condition for dental and other anatomical features of eutherians...
  7. ncbi A new eutriconodont mammal and evolutionary development in early mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 446:288-93. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi Fossil evidence on evolution of inner ear cochlea in Jurassic mammals
    Zhe Xi Luo
    Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 278:28-34. 2011
    ..This provides the timing of the evolution, and where along the phylogeny the morphogenetic genes were co-opted into patterning the cochlear innervation, and the full coiling of the cochlea in modern therians...
  9. ncbi A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features
    Gang Li
    Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
    Nature 439:195-200. 2006
    ....
  10. ncbi Paleontology. Homoplasy in the mammalian ear
    Thomas Martin
    Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Science 307:861-2. 2005
  11. ncbi The earliest known eutherian mammal
    Qiang Ji
    Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    Nature 416:816-22. 2002
    ..This suggests that the earliest eutherian lineages developed different locomotory adaptations, facilitating their spread to diverse niches in the Cretaceous...
  12. ncbi A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals
    Qiang Ji
    Department of Earth Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 200017, China
    Science 311:1123-7. 2006
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