kevin j. peterson

Recent Publications

Jackson, D.J., Meyer, N.P., Seaver, E., Pang, K., McDougall, C., Moy, V.N., Gordon, K., Degnan, B.M., Martindale, M.Q., Burke, R.D., and Peterson, K.J.( 2010) Developmental expression of COE across the Metazoa supports a conserved role in neuronal cell-type specification and mesodermal development. Dev. Genes Evol. Dec;220(7-8):221-34.

Rota-Stabelli., O, Campbell, L., Brinkmann, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Longhorn, S.J., Peterson, K.J., Pisani, D., Philippe, H., and Telford, M.J. (2010) A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata. Proc Biol Sci. Aug 11.

Heimberg, A.M., Cowper-Sal Lari, R., Sémon, M., Donoghue, P.C., and Peterson, K.J.(2010) microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 2010 Nov 9;107(45):19379-83.

Sperling, E.A., Robinson, J.M., Pisani, D., and Peterson, K.J. (2010) Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules. Geobiology. Jan;8(1):24-36.

Sperling, E.A., Vinther, J., Moy, V.N., Wheeler, B.M., Sémon, M., Briggs, D.E., and Peterson, K.J. (2009) MicroRNAs resolve an apparent conflict between annelid systematics and their fossil record. Proc. Biol. Sci. Dec 22;276(1677):4315-22.

Sperling, E.A. and Peterson, K.J. (2009) MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes. Book chapter.

Sperling, E.A., Peterson, K.J. and Pisani, D. (2009) Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa. Mol. Biol. Evol. Oct 26(10):2261-2274.

Peterson, K.J., Dietrich, M.R. and McPeek, M.A. (2009) MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution:
insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion. BioEssays 31:736–747.

Wheeler, B.M., Heimberg, A. M., Moy, V.N., Sperling, E.A. Holstein, T. W., Heber, S. and Peterson, K.J. (2009) The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs. Evolution and Development 11:1, 50-68

Heimberg, A.M, Sempere, L.F., Moy, V.N., Donoghue, P.C.J. and Peterson, K.J. (2008) MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 2946-2750.

Peterson, K.J., Cotton, J.A., Gehling, J.G. and Pisani, D. (2007)The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2233

Peterson, K.J. and Sperling, E.A. (2007). Poriferan ANTP genes - primitively simple or secondarily reduced? Evolution & Development 9:405-408.

Sempere, L.F., Martinez, P., Cole, C., Baguna, J., & Peterson, K.J. (2007). Phylogenetic distribution of microRNAs supports the basal position of acoels and the polyphyly of Platyhelminthes. Evolution & Development 9:409-415.

Peterson, K.J., Summons, R. S., and Donoghue, P. C. J. (2007) Molecular Palaeobiology. Palaeontology, 50:775-809.

Dunn, E.F, Moy, V.N., Angerer, L.M., Angerer, R.C., Morris,R.L.
and K. J. Peterson (2007). Molecular paleoecology: using gene regulatory analysis to address the origins of complex life cycles in the late Precambrian. Evolution & Development 9:1, 10–24

Bottjer, D.J., Davidson, E.H., Peterson, K. J. and Cameron, R. A. (2006). Paleogenomics of Echinoderms. Science, 314: 956-959

Sperling, E.A., Pisani, D. and Peterson, K.J. Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian paleobiology. Journal of Geological Society of London Special Publications 286:355-368.

Sempere, L.F., Cole, C.N., McPeek, M.A., and Peterson, K.J. (2006). The Phylogenetic Distribution of Metazoan microRNAs: Insights into Evolutionary Complexity and Constraint. Journal of Experimental Zoology (MOL DEV EVOL) 306B

Peterson, K.J. and Butterfield, N.J. (2005). Origin of the Eumetazoa: testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against he Proterozoic fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 9547-9552.

Peterson, K.J. (2005). Macroevolutionary interplay between planktic larvae and benthic predators. Geology, 33(12): 929-932

Peterson, K.J., McPeek, M.A., and Evan, D.A.D. (2005). Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks. Paleobiology, 31 (2, supp.): 36-55.

Peterson, K.J. (2004). Isolation of Hox and Parahox genes in the hemichordate Ptychodera flava: Insights into the Evolution of Deuterostome Hox genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31: 1208-1215.

Takacs, C.M., Amore, G., Oliveri, P., Poustka, A.J., Wang, D., Burke, R.B., and Peterson, K.J. (2004). Expression of an NK2 homeodomain gene in the apical ectoderm defines a new territory in the early sea urchin embryo. Developmental Biology, 269: 152-164.

Peterson, K.J., Lyons, J.B., Nowak, K.S., Takacs, C.M., Wargo, M.T., and McPeek, M.A. (2004). Estimating metazoan divergence times with a molecular clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101: 6536-6541.

Peterson, K.J., Waggoner, B., and Hagadorn, J.W. (2003). A Fungal Analog for Newfoundland Ediacaran Fossils? Intreg. Comp. Biol. 43: 127-136.