Graham J Slater

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 610 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095 1606, USA
    Evolution 66:3931-44. 2012
  2. ncbi Fitting models of continuous trait evolution to incompletely sampled comparative data using approximate Bayesian computation
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1606, USA
    Evolution 66:752-62. 2012
  3. ncbi Allometry and performance: the evolution of skull form and function in felids
    G J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA90095 1606, USA
    J Evol Biol 22:2278-87. 2009
  4. ncbi Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3097-104. 2010
  5. ncbi Biomechanical consequences of rapid evolution in the polar bear lineage
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e13870. 2010
  6. ncbi Clade age and species richness are decoupled across the eukaryotic tree of life
    Daniel L Rabosky
    Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    PLoS Biol 10:e1001381. 2012
  7. ncbi Aquatic adaptations in the nose of carnivorans: evidence from the turbinates
    Blaire Van Valkenburgh
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 0095 1606, USA
    J Anat 218:298-310. 2011
  8. ncbi Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation
    Klaus Peter Koepfli
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095 1606, USA
    BMC Biol 6:10. 2008

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 610 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095 1606, USA
    Evolution 66:3931-44. 2012
    ..Our approach highlights the importance of considering fossil information when making macroevolutionary inference, and provides a way to integrate the kind of sparse fossil information that is available to most evolutionary biologists...
  2. ncbi Fitting models of continuous trait evolution to incompletely sampled comparative data using approximate Bayesian computation
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1606, USA
    Evolution 66:752-62. 2012
    ..ABC approaches can provide a useful alternative set of tools for future macroevolutionary studies where likelihood-dependent approaches are lacking...
  3. ncbi Allometry and performance: the evolution of skull form and function in felids
    G J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA90095 1606, USA
    J Evol Biol 22:2278-87. 2009
    ..Allometry of skull geometry in large felids reflects a trade-off between the need to increase gape to access larger prey while maintaining the ability to resist unpredictable loading when taking large, struggling prey...
  4. ncbi Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3097-104. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Biomechanical consequences of rapid evolution in the polar bear lineage
    Graham J Slater
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e13870. 2010
    ....
  6. ncbi Clade age and species richness are decoupled across the eukaryotic tree of life
    Daniel L Rabosky
    Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    PLoS Biol 10:e1001381. 2012
    ..These results imply that a fundamentally different interpretative paradigm may be needed in the study of phylogenetic diversity patterns in many groups of organisms...
  7. ncbi Aquatic adaptations in the nose of carnivorans: evidence from the turbinates
    Blaire Van Valkenburgh
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 0095 1606, USA
    J Anat 218:298-310. 2011
    ..Constraints on turbinate surface area in the nasal chamber may result in a trade-off between respiratory and olfactory function in aquatic mammals...
  8. ncbi Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation
    Klaus Peter Koepfli
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095 1606, USA
    BMC Biol 6:10. 2008
    ....