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24. Lloyd, J.T., Davis, K.E., Pisani, D., Tarver, J.A., Ruta, M., Sakamoto, M. Hone, D., Jennings, R., Benton, M.J. (submitted) Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

23. Pisani D. (In Press) Arthropoda. In: The Timetree of Life (S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar eds). Oxford University Press.

22. McInerney, J.O., Cotton, J.A. and Pisani, D. (2008) The prokaryotic tree of life: past, present... and future? Trends Ecol. Evol. Published on line. pdf

21. McInerney, J.O. and Pisani D. (2007) Genetics: Paradigm for life. Science 318:1390-1391. pdf

20. Peterson, K.J. Cotton, J.A., Gehling J.G. and Pisani D. (2008) The Timing of the Metazoan Radiation: Congruence between the Genetic and Geological Fossil Records. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 363:1435-1443. pdf

19. Ruta M., Pisani D., Lloyd G.T., and Benton M.J. (2007) A supertree of Temnospondyli (Amphibia): analysis of diversification rates in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:3087-3095 pdf

18. Loader S., Pisani D., Cotton, J.A., Gower D., Day. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Relative timescales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians. Biology Letters 3(5):505-508. pdf

17. Pisani, D., Benton, M.J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Congruence of molecular and morphological phylogenies. Acta Biotheoretica 55:269-281. pdf

16. Sperling, E.A., Pisani D. and Peterson, K.J. (2007) Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology. In: The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. (Vickers-Rich P. and Komarower P. eds) Geological Society of London Special Publications 286:355-367. pdf

15. Pisani, D., Cotton, J.A. & McInerney, J.O. (2007) Supertrees disentangle the mosaic nature of eukaryotic genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(8):1752Ð1760. pdf Supplementary Information (pdf) Faculty of 1000 Evaluation

14. Wilkinson, M., Cotton, J.A., Lapointe, F.J. and Pisani, D. (2007) On some consensus properties of some supertree methods. Systematic Biology 56:330-337. pdf

13. Harris, S.R., Pisani D., Gower, D., & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Investigating stagnation in morphological phylogenetics: An approach using consensus data. Systematic Biology 56:125-129. pdf

12. McInerney J.O., Pisani D., O'Connell M.J., Fitzpatrick D.A. & Creevey C.J. (2007). The evolutionary history of the prokaryotes, or a prokaryotic phylogenetic tree: yes or no? In Towards the tree of life: taxonomy and systematics of large and species rich clades (T. Hodkinson, J. Parnell, and S. Waldren, eds.). CRC Press, UK. pdf

11. Smith, A.B., Pisani, D., MacKenzie Dodds, J.A., Stockley, B., Webster, B., & Littlewood, (2006) T. Testing the molecular clock: molecular and paleontological estimates of rates and patterns of evolution in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata). Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(10):1832-1851. pdf Faculty of 1000 Evaluation

10. Pisani, D., Samantha, M. Mohun, Simon, R. Harris, James, O. McInerney and Mark Wilkinson (2006). Molecular evidence for dim-light vision in the last common ancestor of the vertebrates. Current Biology 16(9):R318. pdf Supplementary Information (pdf)

9. Wilkinson, M., Pisani, D., Cotton, J. & Corfe, I. (2005). Measuring Support and Finding Unsupported Relationships in Supertrees. Systematic Biology 54:823-831. pdf

8. Wilkinson, M., Cotton, J.A., Creevey, C., Eulenstein, O., Harris, S.R., Lapointe, F.-J., Levasseur, C., McInerney, J.O., Pisani, D., Thorley, J.L. (2005). The shape of supertrees to come: tree shape related properties of fourteen supertree methods. Systematic Biology 54:419-31. pdf

7. Hone, D., Keesey, T.M., Pisani, D. & Purvis, A. (2005). Macroevolutionay Trends within Dinosauria: Cope's Rule. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:587-595. pdf

6. Pisani D. (2004) Removing Fast Evolving Sites Using Compatibility Methods: An Example from the Arthropoda. Systematic Biology 53(6):983-994.pdf

5. Pisani, D., Poling, L. & Hedges, S.B. (2004). A Molecular Clock Analysis of Arthropod Evolution and the Colonization of Land by Animals. BMC Biology 2:1. pdf

4. Wilkinson, M., Thorley, J.L, Pisani, D., Lapointe F.-J. & McInerney, J.O. (2004). Some Desiderata of Liberal Supertrees. In Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life (O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds, Ed). Kluwer series in Computational Biology, Volume 4. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. pdf

3. Pisani, D., Yates, A.M., Langer, M.C. & Benton, M. J. (2002). A Phylogenetic Supertree of the Dinosauria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 269:915-921. pdf

2. Pisani, D. & Wilkinson, M. (2002). MRP, Total Evidence, and Taxonomic Congruence. Systematic Biology 51:151-155. pdf

1. Pisani, D. & Bulla S. (1998). Andamento dell'attivita' diurna in funzione della strategia predatoria in Podarcis sicula (Reptilia, Squamata, Lacertidae). Rivista di Idrobiologia 38:409-415. [In Italian with English Summary].