Marcel van Tuinen
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
41 Papers
444 Citations
Marcel van Tuinen is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 40 publications. Previous affiliations of Marcel van Tuinen include Pennsylvania State University & California Academy of Sciences.
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Papers
Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations
James F. Parham,James F. Parham,James F. Parham,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Christopher J. Bell,Tyler Calway,Jason J. Head,Patricia A. Holroyd,Jun G. Inoue,Randall B. Irmis,Walter G. Joyce,Daniel T. Ksepka,Daniel T. Ksepka,José S. L. Patané,Nathan D. Smith,Nathan D. Smith,James E. Tarver,James E. Tarver,Marcel van Tuinen,Ziheng Yang,Kenneth D. Angielczyk,Jenny M. Greenwood,Christy A. Hipsley,Christy A. Hipsley,Louis L. Jacobs,Peter J. Makovicky,Johannes Müller,Krister T. Smith,Jessica M. Theodor,Rachel C. M. Warnock,Michael J. Benton +30 more
TL;DR: A specimen-based protocol for selecting and documenting relevant fossils is presented and future directions for evaluating and utilizing phylogenetic and temporal data from the fossil record are discussed, to establish the best practices for justifying fossils used for the temporal calibration of molecular phylogenies.
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The Early History of Modern Birds Inferred from DNA Sequences of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Ribosomal Genes
TL;DR: Phylogenetic results suggest that the earliest neornithines were heavy-bodied, ground-dwelling, nonmarine birds, and this inference provides a possible explanation for the large gap in the early fossil record of birds.
Genetic Response to Climatic Change: Insights from Ancient DNA and Phylochronology
Elizabeth A. Hadly,Uma Ramakrishnan,Yvonne L. Chan,Marcel van Tuinen,Kim O’Keefe,Paula A. Spaeth,Chris J. Conroy +6 more
TL;DR: A study of population variation by directly tracking genetic change and population size in two geographically widespread mammal species during late-Holocene climatic change, which indicates that some species will exhibit declining gene diversity as expected from simple population genetic models, whereas others will not.
The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record
Gareth J. Dyke,Marcel van Tuinen +1 more
TL;DR: Current understanding of the early fossil history of Neornithes is highlighted in conjunction with available phylogenetic resolution for the major extant clades, as well as recent advancements in genetic methods that have constrained time estimates for major evolutionary divergences.
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The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean
Seth D. Newsome,Michael A. Etnier,Diane Gifford-Gonzalez,Donald L. Phillips,Marcel van Tuinen,Elizabeth A. Hadly,Daniel P. Costa,Douglas J. Kennett,Thomas P. Guilderson,Paul L. Koch +9 more
TL;DR: Isotopic results suggest that prehistoric NFS fed offshore across their entire range, that California populations were distinct from populations to the north, and that populations breeding at temperate latitudes in the past used a different reproductive strategy than modern populations.