Phillips, Matthew - Queensland University of Technology

研究领域

Much of my earlier research focused on developing phylogenetic methods to resolve evolutionary relationships, usually among mammals or birds. Although I continue this work, my research now primarily involves using molecular and morphological phylogeny to infer macroevolutionary patterns and processes. I am particularly interested in integrating data from DNA sequences, ecology and fossils to better understand the origins and maintenance of mammalian biodiversity. Other long-term interests include inferring how dinosaurs and their extinction influenced the evolution of birds and mammals and understanding evolutionarily stable niche discontinuities between species and their impact on evolvability. Research Interests Phylogenetic methods Ancient DNA Understanding the origins and maintenance of biodiversity among Australian mammals Extinction and survival around the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (aka K/T boundary) Modelling ecological niche evolution

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Phillips M, Bennett T, Lee MS, (2010) Reply to Camens: How recently did modern monotremes diversify?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America pE13 Phillips M, Gibb GC, Crimp EA, Penny D, (2010) Tinamous and moa flock together: Mitochondrial genome sequence analysis reveals independent losses of flight among ratites, Systematic Biology p90-107 Phillips M, (2009) Branch-length estimation bias misleads molecular dating for a vertebrate mitochondrial phylogeny, Gene p132-140 Phillips M, Bennett T, Lee MS, (2009) Molecules, morphology, and ecology indicate a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America p17089-17094 Phillips M, Pratt RC, (2008) Family-level relationships among the Australasian marsupial 'herbivores' (Diprotodontia: Koala, wombats, kangaroos and possums), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution p594-605 Penny D, Phillips M, (2007) Evolutionary biology: Mass survivals, Nature: international weekly journal of science p501-502 Phillips M, McLenachan PA, Down C, Gibb GC, Penny D, (2006) Combined mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences resolve the interrelations of the major Australasian marsupial radiations, Systematic Biology p122-137 Drummond A, Ho SY, Phillips M, Rambaut A, (2006) Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence, PLoS Biology p0699-0710 Barnett R, Barnes I, Phillips M, Martin LD, Harington C, Leonard JA, Cooper A, (2005) Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American cheetah-like cat, Current Biology p589-590 Ho SY, Phillips M, Cooper A, Drummond A, (2005) Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systematic overestimation of recent divergence times, Molecular Biology and Evolution p1561-1568