IN THE MEDIA

  • “One more thing we have in common with cats” July 28, 2021. The Atlantic
  • “The underappreciated importance of cats (to medical science)” July 28, 2021. The New York Times
  • Copy Cats: Improved Cat Genomes Highlight Remarkable Similarities Within the Feline Family. January 11, 2021. Pac Bio Blog.
  • Why cats have 9 lives: high quality genome helps identify novel cause of dwarfism. October 22, 2020 EurekAlert/AAAS, Science Daily
  • Cats in trees – Editors Choice | Science
  • Bull Y Science Daily
  • A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids – Phys Org
  • Spatiotemporal Genetic Diversity of Lions Reveals the Influence of Habitat Fragmentation Across Africa – Science Daily
  • A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation – Science Daily Zoonomia Website – the paper
  • The palaeontology of rocks and clocks and zombie lineages. April 11, 2018. The Guardian
  • Scientific advisor for the article “Out of the Shadows, the Wildcats You’ve Never Seen”, in National Geographic Magazine, February 2017 issue.
  • Ligers and Tigons, oh my! Cat lineage littered with interbreeding. January 15, 2016. LiveScience
  • “Puzzle of Darwin’s ‘strangest animals’ finally solved”. March 18, 2015. Science
  • “‘I can haz genomes’: cats claw their way into genetics”. January 14, 2015. Nature news
  • “The genes that turned wildcats into kitty cats”. November 10, 2014. Science
  • “Cat genome reveals clues to domestication”. November 10, 2014. ScienceDaily
  • Article cited as one of “Three Revolutions in Tree building”, pp 186-187 in Aristotle’s Ladder, Darwin’s Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order (J.D. Archibald, 2014).
  • Article cited in Extinction and Radiation: How the Fall of Dinosaurs Led to the Rise of Mammals (J.D. Archibald, 2011, Johns Hopkins University Press).
  • “How dataset creates the mammal tree of life”. September 29, 2011. com
  • “Researchers develop first ever evolutionary ‘Tree of Life’ for mammals”. September 23, 2011. Sify News
  • “Tigers evolved with snow leopards, gene study reveals”. February 12, 2010. BBC
  • “No genome left behind”. November 6, 2009. Science News Focus
  • “Cousin who? Gliding mammals may be primates’ nearest kin”. October 31, 2007. Science News
  • “Flying lemurs are primates’ closest kin”. November 1, 2007. National Geographic News
  • “Gliding mammal linked to humans”. November 2, 2007. BBC news
  • “Gliders in the family”. November 2, 2007. Student Science
  • Flying mammal is closest primate relative”. November 7, 2007. New Scientist
  • “Few new species emerged after dinosaur’s demise”. March 28, 2007. New York Times
  • “The History of Chromosomes May Shape the Future of Diseases”. August 30, 2005. The New York Times.
  • “Modern phylogeneticists branch out”. June 2, 2003. The Scientist
  • “Cats and humans share similar X chromosomes”. April 21, 2000. Genome News Network
  • “Why cats are seXY”. December 27, 1999. EurekAlert!