Injuries on large Silurian trilobite reflect failed eurypterid predation. Find the paper here.
Learn more about evidence of biotic interactions recorded in the fossil record and a vision for standardizing nomenclature and data collection moving forward.
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Sophisticated morphometric techniques developed by co-author Dr. Alexis Rojas show that trematode-induced pits on Chamelea gallina are non-randomly distributed on host valves, forming aggregated patterns.
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Paleoecological analyses of nearly 300,000 concretions from the Mazon Creek lagerstaette support a more nuanced view of the Essex and Braidwood assemblages and informs an updated taphonomic model for their formation.
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Recent work from lab alumnae Erin Fitzgerald and Delaney Ryan with Daniele Scarponi at the University of Bologna demonstrates an ongoing collapse of trematode parasitism of the economically-important bivalve Chamelea gallina over the last 2,500 years.
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Seaside by Stacy Turpin Cheavens
Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2024.45
Read more here: https://peerj.com/articles/16767/
Dr. Ranjeev Epa (Ph.D. '22), Delaney Ryan (M.S. '22), and Dr. Gabriel Jacobs (Ph.D. '22) succesfully defended their graduate work this summer and we couldn't be prouder!
New Phanerozoic analysis of parasitism among marine invertebrates published (Open Access) in special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B on the macroecology of infectious diseases!