Select Publications
2011
Downs, J.P., E.B. Daeschler, F.A. Jenkins, Jr., & N.H. Shubin. A new species of (Sarcopterygii, Porolepiformes) from the Late Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5), 981-996 (2011).
Schneider, I., I. Aneas, A.R. Gehrke, R.D. Dahn, M.A. Nobrega, and N.H. Shubin. Appendage expression driven by the Hoxd Global Control Region is an ancient gnathostome feature. PNAS 108(31), 12782-12786 (2011). (PubMed)
Fröbisch, N.B. and N.H. Shubin. Salamander limb development: Integrating genes, morphology, and fossils. Developmental Dynamics 240(5), 1087-1099 (2011).
Daeschler, T. and N.H. Shubin. Fossil Discovery and the Origin of Tetrapods. In Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and the Field. Jonathan B. Losos, ed. Roberts & Company Publishers (2011).
Gillis, J.A., K.A. Rawlinson, J. Bell, W.S. Lyon, C.V. Baker, and N.H. Shubin. Holocephalan embryos provide evidence for gill arch appendage reduction and opercular evolution in cartilaginous fishes. PNAS 108(4), 1507-1512 (2011). (PubMed)
Gillis, J.A., and N.H. Shubin. The evolution of gnathostome development: Insight from chondrichthyan embryology. Genesis 47(12), 825-841 (2009). (PubMed)
Gillis, J.A., R.D. Dahn, and N.H. Shubin. Shared developmental mechanisms pattern the vertebrate gill arch and paired fin skeletons. PNAS 106(14), 5720-5724 (2009). (PubMed)
Shubin, N.H., C. Tabin, and S. Carroll. Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty. Nature 457, 818-823 (2009).
Gillis, J.A., R.D. Dahn, and N.H. Shubin. Chondrogenesis and homology of the visceral skeleton in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea). Journal of Morphology 270(5), 628-643 (2009).
Jenkins, F,A, Jr., N.H. Shubin, S.M. Gatesy, and A. Warren. Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fiord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of the contribution of head lifting to feeding in temnospondyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 223-247 (2009).
Downs, J.P., E.B. Daeschler, F.A. Jenkins, and N.H. Shubin. The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae. Nature 455, 925-929 (2008).
Shubin, N. H., Your Inner Fish; A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body. Pantheon Press, 2008.
Shapiro, M.D., N.H. Shubin, and J.P. Downs. Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution. (In Fins into Limbs; B.K. Hall, ed., University of Chicago Press Chicago) 2007, 225-244.
Davis, M.C., R.D. Dahn, N.H. Shubin. An autopodial-like pattern of Hox expression in the fins of a basal actinopterygian fish. Nature 447, 473-476 (2007). (PubMed)
Dahn, R.D., M.C. Davis, W.N. Pappano, N.H. Shubin. Sonic hedgehog function in chondrichthyan fins and the evolution of appendage patterning. Nature 445, 311-314 (2007). (PubMed)
Shubin, N.H., E.B. Daeschler, F.A. Jenkins, Jr. The Pectoral Fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the Origin of the Tetrapod Limb. Nature 440, 764-771 (2006). (PubMed)
Daeschler, E.B., N.H. Shubin, F.A. Jenkins, Jr. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440, 757-763 (2006). (PubMed)
Shearman, Rebecca M. Growth of the pectoral girdle of the Leopard frog, Rana pipiens (Anura: Ranidae). Journal of Morphology 264, 94-104 (2005). (PubMed)
Franssen, R.A., S. Marks, D.B. Wake, N.H. Shubin. Limb chondrogenesis of the seepage salamander, Desmognathus aeneus (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Journal of Morphology 265, 87-100 (2005).(PubMed)
Shubin, N.H., E.B. Daeschler, and M.I. Coates. The early evolution of the tretrapod humerus. Science 304, 90-93 (2004). (PubMed)
Davis, M.C., N.H. Shubin, and E.B. Daeschler. A new specimen of Sauripterus taylori (Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Fammenian Catskill Formation of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24, 26-40 (2004).
Gao, K. and N.H. Shubin. Earliest known crown group salamanders. Nature 422, 424-429 (2003). (PubMed)
Shubin, N.H. and D.B. Wake. Morphological variation, development, and evolution of the limb skeleton of salamanders. Biology of the Amphibia, H. Heatwole, ed. Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1782-1808 (2003).
Davis, M.C., N.H. Shubin, and E.B. Daeschler. Immature rhizodontids from the Devonian of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 156(1), 171-187 (2001).
Gao, K. and N.H. Shubin. Late Jurassic salamanders from Northern China. Nature 410, 574-577 (2001). (PubMed)
Shubin, N. and C. Marshall. Fossils, genes and the origin of novelty. Paleobiology 26(4), 324-340. Supplement (2000).