Highlights
Sadier, A., Anthwal, N., Krause, A.L., Dessalles, R., Lake, M., Bentolila, L., Haase, R., Nieves, N., Santana, S., and Sears, K.E. (2023). Bat teeth illuminate the diversification of mammalian tooth classes. Nature Communications 14: 4687. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40158-4.
Lu, A.T., Fei, Z., Haghani, A., Zoller, J.A., Li, C., Zhang, J., Ernst, J., Yang, X.W., Sears, K.E., Sinha, I., Wilkinson, G.S., Gorbunova, V., Robeck, T.R., Raj, K., Horvath, S., and the MAMMALIAN METHYLATION consortium. (2023). Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues. Nature Aging. DOI: 10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6.
Haghani, A., Lu, A.T., Li, C.Z., Robeck, T.R., Ernst, J., Belov, K., Breeze, C.E., Brooke, R.T., Clarke, S., Faulkes, C.G., Fei, Z., Ferguson, S.H., Finno, C.J., Gladyshev, V.N., Gorbunova, V., Goya, R.G., Hogan, A.N., Hogg, C.J., Hore, T.A., Kiaris, H., Kordowitzki, P., Koski, W.R., Mozhui, K., Naderi, A., Ostrander, E.A., Parsons, K.M., Plassais, J., Robbins, J., Schmitt, T., Sears, K.E., Seluanov, A., Steinman, K.J., Szladovits, B., Thompson, M.J., Villar, D., Wang, N., Wilkinson, G.S., Yao, M., Young, B.G., Zhang, J., Zoller, J.A., Yang, X.W., Raj, K., and Horvath, S. (2023). DNA methylation Networks Underlying Mammalian Traits. Science 381. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq5693.
White, H., Tucker, A., Fernandez, V., Miguez, R., Hautier, L., Herrel, A., Urban, D.J., Sears, K.E., and Goswami, A. (2023) Paedomorphosis at the origin of marsupial mammals. Current Biology 33: 2136-2150. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.009.
Anthwal, N., Urban, D.J., Sadier, A., Takenaka, R. Spiro, S., Simmons, N., Behringer, R.R., Cretekos, C.J., Rasweiler, J.J., and Sears, K.E. (2023). Insights into the Initiation and Diversification of a Novel Chiropteran Wing Membrane from Embryonic Development. BMC Biology 21: 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01598-y.
Horvath, S., Haghani, A., Zoller, J.A., Raj, K., Sinha, I., Talbot, A., Ruiz, Y.A., and Sears, K.E. (2022). Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in gray short-tailed opossums. Geroscience. DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00569-5.
Feng, S., Bai, M., Li, C., Liu, C., Yang, H., Chen, G., Xie, D., Sears, K.E., Franco, M., Gaitan-Espitia, J., Nespolo, R., Johnson, W., Yang, H., Boomsma, J., Schierup, M., and Zhang, G. (2022). Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials. Cell 185(10): 1646-1660.e18. DOI: 10/1016/j.cell.2022.03.034.
Couzens, A., Sears, K.E., and Rücklin, M. (2021). Developmental influence on evolutionary rates and the origin of placental mammal tooth complexity. PNAS 118(23) e2019294118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019294118.
Nojiri, T., Wilson, L.A.B., López-Aguirre, C., Vuong, T., Kuratani, S., Ito, K., Higashiyama, H., Son, N.T., Fukui, D., Sadier, A., Sears, K.E., Endo, H., Kamihori, S., and Koyabu, D. (2021). Embryonic evidence uncovers convergent origins of laryngeal echolocation in bats. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.043.
Kavanagh, K.D., Bailey, C.S., Sears K.E. 2020. Evidence of five digits in embryonic horses and developmental stabilization of tetrapod digit number. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287: 20192756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2756
Sadier, A., Davies, K.T., Yohe, L.R., Yun, K., Donat, P., Hedrick, B.P., Dumont, E.R., Dávalos, L.M., Rossiter, S.J., and Sears, K.E. 2018. Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats. Elife Dec 18;7. doi: 10.7554/elife.37412.
Anthwal, N., Urban, D.J., Luo, Z-X., Sears, K.E., and Tucker, A. (2017). Breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage provides clues to the evolution of mammals. Nature Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0093.
Petit, F., Sears, K.E., and Ahituv, N. (2017). Limb patterning: A paradigm of gene regulation. Nature Reviews Genetics 18(4):245-258.
Urban, D.J., Anthwal, N., Maier, J.A., Luo, Z-X., Sadier, A., Tucker, A., and Sears, K.E. (2017). A new developmental mechanism for the separation of the mammalian middle ear ossicles from the reptilian jaw joint. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 20162416.
Cooper, K.*, Sears, K.E.*, Uygur, A.*, Maier, J., Stephan-Backowski, K., Brosnahan, M., Antczak, D., Skidmore, J., and Tabin, C. (2014). Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals. Nature 511: 41-45. * = co-first authors.
Sears, K.E., Behringer, R.R., Rasweiler, J.J. and Niswander, L.A (2006). The development of bat flight: Morphologic and molecular evolution of bat forelimb digit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(17): 6581-6586.
Sears, K.E. (2004). Constraints on the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles. Evolution 58(10): 2353-2370.*