Publications

Pietsch, C., Ritterbush K., Thompson, J.R., Petsios, E., Bottjer, D.J. Evolutionary models in the Early Triassic marine realm. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In Press

Thompson, J.R., Hu, S.X., Zhang, Q.Y., Petsios, E., Cotton, L.J., Huang, J.Y., Zhou, C.Y., Wen, W., Bottjer, D.J. A new stem group echinoid from the Triassic of China leads to a revised macroevolutionary history of echinoids during the end-Permian mass extinction. Royal Society Open Science. 5(1): 171548

Petsios, E., Thompson, J.R., Pietsch, C., Bottjer, D. J. 2017. Biotic impact of temperature before, during, and after the end-Permian extinction: a multi-metric and multi-scale approach to modeling extinction and recovery dynamics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In Press

Thompson, J. R., Erkenbrack, E., Hinman, V., Zheng, M., Petsios, E. and Bottjer, D. J. 2017. Paleogenomics of echinoids reveals an ancient origin for the double-negative specification of micromeres in sea urchins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114(23): 5870-5877.

Erkenbrack, E., Petsios, E. 2017 A conserved role for VEGF signaling in specification of homologous mesenchymal cell types positioned at spatially distinct developmental addresses in early development of sea urchins. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22743

Thompson, J. R., Petsios, E., Bottjer, D. J. 2017. A diverse assemblage of Permian echinoids (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) and implications for character evolution in early crown group echinoids. Journal of Paleontology. 4: 1-14.

Petsios, E., and Bottjer, D. J. 2016. Quantitative analysis of the ecological dominance of benthic disaster taxa in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology. 42(3): 380-393.

Pietsch, C., Petsios, E., and Bottjer, D.J. 2016. Sudden and extreme hyperthermals, low-oxygen, and sediment influx impact benthic alternative ecological states following the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 451:183-196.

Thompson, J. R., Petsios, E., Davidson, E. H., Erkenbrack, E., Gao, F., Bottjer, D. J. 2015. Reorganization of sea urchin gene regulatory networks at least 268 million years ago as revealed by oldest fossil cidaroid echinoid. Scientific Reports. 5 Article number: 15541

Corsetti, F. A., Ritterbush K., Bottjer, D.J., Greene, S.E., Ibarra, Y., Yager, J., Berelson, W., West, J., Rosas, S., Becker, T., Levine, N., Martindale, R., Petryshyn, V., Carroll, N., Petsios, E., Piazza, O., Pietsch, C., Stellmann, J., Thompson, J.R., Washington, K., and Wilmeth, D. 2015. Investigating the Paleoecological Consequences of Supercontinent Breakup: Sponges Clean Up in the Early Jurassic. The Sedimentary Record. 13(2):4-10.

Gao, F., Thompson, J. R., Petsios, E., Erkenbrack, E., Moats, R. A., Bottjer, D. J., and Davidson, E. H. 2015. Juvenile skeletogenesis in anciently diverged sea urchin clades. Developmental Biology. 400(1):148-158.