Dr Mark Wilkinson

Grants

Developing DNA-barcodes for ecologically important eukaryotic microbes
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: BBSRC
Total value £30,489 (to Museum £30,489)
Dates: 2014 - 2017

The Arthropod Supertree of Life: An Online Interactive Resource for Testing Patterns in Arthropod Evolution and Biodiversity
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: BBSRC
Total value £123,424 (to Museum £123,424)
Dates: 2011 - 2015

History and Future of the Seychelles Herpetofauna
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: SYNTAX
Total value £17,925 (to Museum £17,925)
Dates: 2011 - 2014

EFFICIENT-C-TREE—Efficient Phylogenetics and the Caecilian Tree of Life
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £164,871.86 (to Museum £164,871.86)
Dates: 2010 - 2011

Systematics and evolution of the Caecilian Cutaneous Secretome
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Linnean Society
Total value £10,930 (to Museum £10,930)
Dates: 2009 - 2010

Fast Supertree Construction Using Quartet Joining
Role: Principal investigatorFoster P
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: BBSRC
Total value £121,618 (to Museum £121,618)
Dates: 2009 - 2010

Publications

Hartigan A, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ, Streicher JW, Holzer AS, Okamura B (2016) Myxozoan infections of caecilians demonstrate broad host specificity and indicate a link with human activity. International Journal for Parasitology, 46 (5-6) : 375 - 381. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.02.001

GOWER DJ, GIRI V, CAPTAIN A, WILKINSON M (null) <p><strong>A reassessment of <em>Melanophidium</em> Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Serpentes: </strong><br /><strong>Uropeltidae) from the Western Ghats of peninsular India, with the description of a new species</strong></p>. Zootaxa, 4085 (4) : 481 - 481. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.4.2

Budzik KA, Żuwała K, Kupfer A, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M (2015) Diverse anatomy of the tongue and taste organs in five species of caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 257 : 103 - 109. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2015.04.007

Kotharambath R, Wilkinson M, Oommen OV, Gower DJ (2015) A new species of Indian caecilian highlights challenges for species delimitation within Gegeneophis Peters, 1879 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). ZOOTAXA, 3948 (1) : 60 - 70. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.4

Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Waeschenbach A, San Mauro D, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (null) Next-Generation Mitogenomics: A Comparison of Approaches Applied to Caecilian Amphibian Phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 11 (6) : e0156757 - e0156757. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156757

Hetherington AJ, Sherratt E, Ruta M, Wilkinson M, Deline B, Donoghue PCJ (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity?. Palaeontology, 58 (3) : 393 - 399. doi: 10.1111/pala.12159

Akanni WA, Siu-Ting K, Creevey CJ, McInerney JO, Wilkinson M, Foster PG, Pisani D (2015) Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1678) : 20140337 - 20140337. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0337

Chambouvet A, Gower DJ, Jirků M, Yabsley MJ, Davis AK, Leonard G, Maguire F, Doherty-Bone TM, Bittencourt-Silva GB, Wilkinson M, Richards TA (2015) Cryptic infection of a broad taxonomic and geographic diversity of tadpoles by Perkinsea protists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (34) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1500163112

Akanni WA, Wilkinson M, Creevey CJ, Foster PG, Pisani D (2015) Implementing and testing Bayesian and maximum-likelihood supertree methods in phylogenetics. Royal Society Open Science, 2 (8) : 140436 - 140436. doi: 10.1098/rsos.140436

Mohun SM, Wilkinson M (2015) The eye of the caecilian Rhinatrema bivittatum (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Rhinatrematidae). ACTA ZOOLOGICA, 96 (2) : 147 - 153. doi: 10.1111/azo.12061

Gower DJ, Kouete MT, Doherty-Bone TM, Ndeme ES, Wilkinson M (2015) Rediscovery, natural history, and conservation status of Idiocranium russeli Parker, 1936 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, 49 (3-4) : 233 - 253. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2014.939733

de Bakker DM, Wilkinson M, Jensen B (2015) Extreme variation in the atrial septation of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Journal of Anatomy, 226 (1) : 1 - 12. doi: 10.1111/joa.12255

Wilkinson M, Antoniazzi MM, Jared C (2015) A new species of Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) from Amazonian Brazil. Zootaxa, 3905 : 425 - 431.

Sherratt E, Gower DJ, Klingenberg CP, Wilkinson M (2014) Evolution of Cranial Shape in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Evolutionary Biology, 41 (4) : 528 - 545. doi: 10.1007/s11692-014-9287-2

Siu-Ting K, Pisani D, Creevey CJ, Wilkinson M (2015) Concatabominations: Identifying Unstable Taxa in Morphological Phylogenetics using a Heuristic Extension to Safe Taxonomic Reduction. Systematic Biology, 64 (1) : 137 - 143. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu066

Loader SP, Sara Ceccarelli F, Menegon M, Howell KM, Kassahun R, Mengistu AA, Saber SA, Gebresenbet F, de Sá R, Davenport TRB, Larson JG, Müller H, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2014) Persistence and stability of Eastern Afromontane forests: evidence from brevicipitid frogs. Journal of Biogeography, 41 (9) : 1781 - 1792. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12331

Lewis CJ, Maddock ST, Day JJ, Nussbaum RA, Morel C, Wilkinson M, Foster PG, Gower DJ (2014) Development of anonymous nuclear markers from Illumina paired-end data for Seychelles caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). Conservation Genetics Resources, 6 (2) : 289 - 291. doi: 10.1007/s12686-013-0127-y

Maddock ST, Day JJ, Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2014) Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 75 : 194 - 201. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.004

Holton TA, Wilkinson M, Pisani D (2014) The Shape of Modern Tree Reconstruction Methods. Systematic Biology, 63 (3) : 436 - 441. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syt103

Akanni WA, Creevey CJ, Wilkinson M, Pisani D (2014) L.U.St: a tool for approximated maximum likelihood supertree reconstruction. BMC Bioinformatics, 15 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-183

Maddock ST, Lewis CJ, Wilkinson M, Day JJ, Morel C, Kouete MT, Gower DJ (2014) Non-lethal DNA sampling for caecilian amphibians. HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 24 (4) : 255 - 260.

Peart CR, Bills R, Wilkinson M, Day JJ (2014) Nocturnal claroteine catfishes reveal dual colonisation but a single radiation in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 73 : 119 - 128. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.013

Tapley B, Bryant Z, Grant S, Kother G, Feltret Y, Masters N, Strike T, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2014) Towards evidence-based husbandry for caecilian amphibians: Substrate preference in Geotrypetes seraphini (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Dermophiidae).. The Herpetological Bulletin, 129 : 15 - 18.

Wilkinson M, Kok PJR, Ahmed F, Gower DJ (2014) Caecilita Wake & Donnelly, 2010 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) is not lungless: implications for taxonomy and for understanding the evolution of lunglessness. ZOOTAXA, 3779 (3) : 383 - 388. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.3.6

Haggerty LS, Jachiet P-A, Hanage WP, Fitzpatrick DA, Lopez P, O’Connell MJ, Pisani D, Wilkinson M, Bapteste E, McInerney JO (2014) A Pluralistic Account of Homology: Adapting the Models to the Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31 (3) : 501 - 516. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst228

San Mauro D, Gower DJ, Müller H, Loader SP, Zardoya R, Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M (2014) Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 73 : 177 - 189. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.009

Siu-Ting K, Gower DJ, Pisani D, Kassahun R, Gebresenbet F, Menegon M, Mengistu AA, Saber SA, de Sá R, Wilkinson M, Loader SP (2014) Evolutionary relationships of the Critically Endangered frog Ericabatrachus baleensisLargen, 1991 with notes on incorporating previously unsampled taxa into large-scale phylogenetic analyses. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-44

WILKINSON M, PRESSWELL B, SHERRATT E, PAPADOPOULOU A, GOWER DJ (null) <p><strong>A new species of striped <em>Ichthyophis</em> Fitzinger, 1826 </strong><br /><strong>(Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar</strong></p>. Zootaxa, 3785 (1) : 45 - 45. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.4

AGARWAL I, WILKINSON M, MOHAPATRA PP, DUTTA SK, GIRI VB, GOWER DJ (null) <p class="HeadingRunIn"><strong>The first teresomatan caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from the Eastern Ghats of India—a new species of <em>Gegeneophis</em> Peters, 1880</strong></p>. Zootaxa, 3693 (4) : 534 - 534. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.4.7

Kamei RG, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M, Biju SD (2013) Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India. ZOOTAXA, 3666 (4) : 401 - 435. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.1

Gower DJ, Doherty-Bone T, Loader SP, Wilkinson M, Kouete MT, Tapley B, Orton F, Daniel OZ, Wynne F, Flach E, Müller H, Menegon M, Stephen I, Browne RK, Fisher MC, Cunningham AA, Garner TWJ (2013) Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection and Lethal Chytridiomycosis in Caecilian Amphibians (Gymnophiona). EcoHealth, 10 (2) : 173 - 183. doi: 10.1007/s10393-013-0831-9

Loader SP, Ceccarelli FS, Wilkinson M, Menegon M, Mariaux J, de Sa RO, Howell KM, Gower DJ (2013) Species boundaries and biogeography of East African torrent frogs of the genus Petropedetes (Amphibia: Anura: Petropeditidae). AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 62 (1) : doi: 10.1080/21564574.2013.781549

Wilkinson M, Gower DJ, Loader SP, Mueller H (2013) A visceral synapomorphy of Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 62 (1) : 21 - 27. doi: 10.1080/21564574.2013.781548

Doherty-Bone TM, Gonwouo NL, Hirschfeld M, Ohst T, Weldon C, Perkins M, Kouete MT, Browne RK, Loader SP, Gower DJ, Wilkinson MW, Rödel MO, Penner J, Barej MF, Schmitz A, Plötner J, Cunningham AA (2013) Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians of Cameroon, including first records for caecilians. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 102 (3) : 187 - 194. doi: 10.3354/dao02557

Gower DJ, Giri V, Torsekar VR, Gaikwad K, Wilkinson M (2013) On the taxonomic status of Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta & Prashanth, 2004 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). ZOOTAXA, 3609 (2) : 204 - 212. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.2.6

Wilkinson M, O Connor A, Nussbaum RA (2013) Taxonomic status of the neotropical caecilian genera Brasilotyphlus Taylor, 1968, Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968 and Parvicaecilia Taylor, 1968 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae). Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan :

Wilkinson M, Sherratt E, Starace F, Gower DJ (null) A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae). PLoS ONE, 8 (3) : e57756 - e57756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057756

Wilkinson M (2012) Caecilians. Current Biology, 22 (17) : R668 - R669. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.019

San Mauro D, Gower DJ, Cotton JA, Zardoya R, Wilkinson M, Massingham T (2012) Experimental Design in Phylogenetics: Testing Predictions from Expected Information. Systematic Biology, 61 (4) : 661 - 674. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys028

Kamei RG, Mauro DS, Gower DJ, Van Bocxlaer I, Sherratt E, Thomas A, Babu S, Bossuyt F, Wilkinson M, Biju SD (2012) Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1737) : 2396 - 2401. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0150

Barratt CD, Horsburgh GJ, Dawson DA, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M, Loader SP, Jehle R (2012) Characterisation of nine microsatellite loci in the caecilian amphibian Boulengerula uluguruensis (Gymnophiona), and their cross-species utility in three congeneric species. Conservation Genetics Resources, 4 (2) : 225 - 229. doi: 10.1007/s12686-011-9512-6

KOTHARAMBATH R, GOWER DJ, OOMMEN OV, WILKINSON M (null) A third species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) lacking secondary annular grooves. Zootaxa, 3272 (1) : 26 - 26. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3272.1.2

Sherratt E, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ, Klingenberg CP (2012) Evolution of Cranial Modularity in Caecilians. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 52 : E159 - E159.

Barratt C, Horsburgh G, Dawson D, Gower D, Wilkinson M, Loader S, Jehle R (2012) Characterisation of nine microsatellite loci in the caecilian amphibian (Gymnophiona), and their cross-species utility in three congeneric species. Conservation Genetics Resources, 2 : 225 - 229.

Kamei RG, San Mauro D, Gower DJ, Van Bocxlaer I, Sherratt E, Thomas A, Babu S, Bossuyt F, Wilkinson M, Biju SD (2012) Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, rspb20120150 - rspb20120150.

Kotharambath R, Wilkinson M, Oommen OV, George S, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (2012) On the systematics, distribution and conservation status ofIchthyophis longicephalusPillai, 1986 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae). Journal of Natural History, 46 (47-48) : 2935 - 2959. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2012.717972

Kouete MT, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2012) First Reproductive Observations for Herpele Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Herpelidae): Evidence of Extended Parental Care and Maternal Dermatophagy in H. squalostoma (Stutchbury, 1836). ISRN Zoology, 2012 : 1 - 7. doi: 10.5402/2012/269690

Gower DJ, Mauro DS, Giri V, Bhatta G, Govindappa V, Kotharambath R, Oommen OV, Fatih FA, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Nussbaum RA, Biju SD, Shouche YS, Wilkinson M (2011) Molecular systematics of caeciliid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the Western Ghats, India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 59 (3) : 698 - 707. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.002

Wilkinson M, San Mauro D, Sherratt E, Gower DJ (2011) A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). ZOOTAXA, 41 - 64.

GIRI V, GOWER DJ, GAIKWAD K, WILKINSON M (null) A second species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) lacking secondary annular grooves. Zootaxa, 2815 (1) : 49 - 49. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2815.1.1.3

McMorris FR, Wilkinson M (2011) Conservative Supertrees. Systematic Biology, 60 (2) : 232 - 238. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq091

GOWER DJ, PAPADOPOULOU A, DOHERTY-BONE TM, PUPIN F, SAN MAURO D, LOADER SP, WILKINSON M (null) The systematics of Boulengerula fischeri (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa, 2767 (1) : 14 - 14. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2767.1.2

Doherty-Bone TM, Ndifon RK, San Mauro D, Wilkinson M, LeGrand GN, Gower DJ (2011) Systematics and ecology of the caecilianCrotaphatrema lamottei(Nussbaum) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). Journal of Natural History, 45 (13-14) : 827 - 841. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2010.535921

Loader SP, Wilkinson M, Cotton JA, Measey GJ, Menegon M, Howell KM, Mueller H, Gower DJ (2011) Molecular phylogenetics of Boulengerula (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) and implications for taxonomy, biogeography and conservation. HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 21 (1) : 5 - 16.

Hoffmann M, Hilton-Taylor C, Angulo A, Böhm M, Brooks TM, Butchart SHM, Carpenter KE, Chanson J, Collen B, Cox NA, Darwall WRT, Dulvy NK, Harrison LR, Katariya V, Pollock CM, Quader S, Richman NI, Rodrigues ASL, Tognelli MF, Vié J-C, Aguiar JM, Allen DJ, Allen GR, Amori G, Ananjeva NB, Andreone F, Andrew P, Ortiz ALA, Baillie JEM, Baldi R, Bell BD, Biju SD, Bird JP, Black-Decima P, Blanc JJ, Bolaños F, Bolivar-G. W, Burfield IJ, Burton JA, Capper DR, Castro F, Catullo G, Cavanagh RD, Channing A, Chao NL, Chenery AM, Chiozza F, Clausnitzer V, Collar NJ, Collett LC, Collette BB, Fernandez CFC, Craig MT, Crosby MJ, Cumberlidge N, Cuttelod A, Derocher AE, Diesmos AC, Donaldson JS, Duckworth JW, Dutson G, Dutta SK, Emslie RH, Farjon A, Fowler S, Freyhof J, Garshelis DL, Gerlach J, Gower DJ, Grant TD, Hammerson GA, Harris RB, Heaney LR, Hedges SB, Hero J-M, Hughes B, Hussain SA, Icochea M. J, Inger RF, Ishii N, Iskandar DT, Jenkins RKB, Kaneko Y, Kottelat M, Kovacs KM, Kuzmin SL, La Marca E, Lamoreux JF, Lau MWN, Lavilla EO, Leus K, Lewison RL, Lichtenstein G, Livingstone SR, Lukoschek V, Mallon DP, McGowan PJK, McIvor A, Moehlman PD, Molur S, Alonso AM, Musick JA, Nowell K, Nussbaum RA, Olech W, Orlov NL, Papenfuss TJ, Parra-Olea G, Perrin WF, Polidoro BA, Pourkazemi M, Racey PA, Ragle JS, Ram M, Rathbun G, Reynolds RP, Rhodin AGJ, Richards SJ, Rodríguez LO, Ron SR, Rondinini C, Rylands AB, Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Sanciangco JC, Sanders KL, Santos-Barrera G, Schipper J, Self-Sullivan C, Shi Y, Shoemaker A, Short FT, Sillero-Zubiri C, Silvano DL, Smith KG, Smith AT, Snoeks J, Stattersfield AJ, Symes AJ, Taber AB, Talukdar BK, Temple HJ, Timmins R, Tobias JA, Tsytsulina K, Tweddle D, Ubeda C, Valenti SV, Paul van Dijk P, Veiga LM, Veloso A, Wege DC, Wilkinson M, Williamson EA, Xie F, Young BE, Akçakaya HR, Bennun L, Blackburn TM, Boitani L, Dublin HT, da Fonseca GAB, Gascon C, Lacher TE, Mace GM, Mainka SA, McNeely JA, Mittermeier RA, Reid GM, Rodriguez JP, Rosenberg AA, Samways MJ, Smart J, Stein BA, Stuart SN (2010) The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates. Science, 330 (6010) : 1503 - 1509. doi: 10.1126/science.1194442

Wilkinson M, Kok PJR (2010) A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Guyana. ZOOTAXA, 35 - 40.

Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2010) A new species of Rhinatrema Dumeril & Bibron (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Rhinatrematidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. ZOOTAXA, 63 - 68.

Mohun SM, Davies WL, Bowmaker JK, Pisani D, Himstedt W, Gower DJ, Hunt DM, Wilkinson M (2010) Identification and characterization of visual pigments in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), an order of limbless vertebrates with rudimentary eyes. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213 (20) : 3586 - 3592. doi: 10.1242/jeb.045914

GOWER DJ, WILKINSON M, SHERRATT E, KOK PJR (null) A new species of Rhinatrema Duméril &amp; Bibron (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Rhinatrematidae) from Guyana. Zootaxa, 2391 (1) : 47 - 47. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2391.1.3

Houston AI, Wood J, Wilkinson M (2010) How did the Great Auk raise its young?. Journal of evolutionary biology, 23 : 1899 - 1906.

Wilkinson M, Nussbaum R, Hoogmoed M (2009) A New species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophona: Caeciliidae) from Suriname. Herpetologica, 65 (4) : 413 - 418. doi: 10.1655/08-030.1

KAMEI RG, WILKINSON M, GOWER DJ, BIJU SD (null) Three new species of striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland. Zootaxa, 2267 (1) : 26 - 42. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2267.1.2

San Mauro D, Gower DJ, Massingham T, Wilkinson M, Zardoya R, Cotton JA (2009) Experimental Design in Caecilian Systematics: Phylogenetic Information of Mitochondrial Genomes and Nuclear rag1. Systematic Biology, 58 (4) : 425 - 438. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syp043

Baker WJ, Savolainen V, Asmussen-Lange CB, Chase MW, Dransfield J, Forest F, Harley MM, Uhl NW, Wilkinson M (2009) Complete Generic-Level Phylogenetic Analyses of Palms (Arecaceae) with Comparisons of Supertree and Supermatrix Approaches. Systematic Biology, 58 (2) : 240 - 256. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syp021

MÜLLER H, WILKINSON M, LOADER SP, WIRKNER CS, GOWER DJ (null) Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphus kirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 96 (3) : 491 - 504. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01152.x

Cotton JA, Wilkinson M (2009) Supertrees join the mainstream of phylogenetics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24 (1) : 1 - 3. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.08.006

Gower D, Butler R, Hill T, Brusatte S, Wilkinson M (2009) EARLY MESOZOIC ARCHOSAUR PHYLOGENETICS-PROGRESS AND CONSENSUS?. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 29 : 108A - 108A.

Gower DJ, Wilkinson M (2009) Caecilians (Gymnophiona), In: null, null : 369 - 372.

Hollingsworth P, Forrest L, Spouge J, Hajibabaei M, Ratnasingham S, Van der Bank M, Chase M, Cowan R, Erickson D, Fazekas A, Graham S, JAMES KE, Kim KJ, John W, SCHNEIDER H, Van Alphen Stahl J, Barrett S, Van den Berg C, Bogarin D, Burgess K, Cameron K, CARINE M, Chacón J, Clark A, Clarkson J, Conrad F, Devey D, Ford C, Hedderson T, Hollingsworth M, Husband B, Kelly L, Kesanakurti P, Kim J, Kim Y, Lahaye R, Lee HL, Long D, Madriñán S, Maurin O, Meusnier I, Newmaster S, Park CW, Percy D, Petersen G, Richardson J, Salazar G, Savolainen V, Seberg O, WILKINSON M, Yi DK, Little D (2009) A DNA Barcode for Land Plants. CBOL Plant Working Group. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106 : 12794 - 12797.

Loader SP, Menegon M, Müller H, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M, Howell KM, Orton F (2009) Remarkable amphibian diversity in the South Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. Froglog, 8 - 10.

San Mauro D, Gower DJ, Massingham T, Wilkinson M, Zardoya R, Cotton JA (2009) Experimental design in caecilian systematics: Phylogenetic information of mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rag1. Systematic biology, syp043 - syp043.

Kupfer A, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ, Müller H, Jehle R (2008) Care and parentage in a skin-feeding caecilian amphibian. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 309A (8) : 460 - 467. doi: 10.1002/jez.475

Wilkinson M, Kupfer A, Marques-Porto R, Jeffkins H, Antoniazzi MM, Jared C (2008) One hundred million years of skin feeding? Extended parental care in a Neotropical caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Biology Letters, 4 (4) : 358 - 361. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0217

Day WHE, McMorris FR, Wilkinson M (2008) Explosions and hot spots in supertree methods. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 253 (2) : 345 - 348. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.03.024

Frost DR, Grant T, Faivovich J, Bain RH, Haas A, Haddad CFB, de Sa RO, Channing A, Wilkinson M, Donnellan SC, Raxworthy CJ, Campbell JA, Blotto BL, Moler P, Drewes RC, Nussbaum RA, Lynch JD, Green DM, Wheeler WC (2008) Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed?. Cladistics, 24 (3) : 385 - 395. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00181.x

Gower DJ, Rajendran A, Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M (2008) A New Species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the Malabaricus Group. Herpetologica, 64 (2) : 235 - 245. doi: 10.1655/07-075r1.1

Du Preez LH, Wilkinson M, Huyse T (2008) The first record of polystomes (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from caecilian hosts (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), with the description of a new genus and two new species. Systematic Parasitology, 69 (3) : 201 - 209. doi: 10.1007/s11230-007-9120-8

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Gower DJ, Rasmussen JB, Loader SP, Wilkinson M (2004) The caecilian amphibian Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger as prey of the burrowing asp Atractaspis aterrima Gunther: trophic relationships of fossorial vertebrates. African Journal of Ecology, 42 (2) : 83 - 87. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2004.00495.x

Gower DJ, Loader SP, Moncrieff CB, Wilkinson M (2004) Niche separation and comparative abundance ofBoulengerula boulengeriandScolecomorphus vittatus(Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in an East Usambara forest, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology, 53 (2) : 183 - 190. doi: 10.1080/21564574.2004.9635510

Gower DJ, Loader SP, Wilkinson M (2004) Assessing the conservation status of soil‐dwelling vertebrates: Insights from the rediscovery ofTyphlops uluguruensis(Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 2 (1) : 79 - 82. doi: 10.1017/s1477200004001343

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Measey GJ, Gower DJ, Oommen OV, Wilkinson M (2003) Quantitative surveying of endogeic limbless vertebrates—a case study of Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) in southern India. Applied Soil Ecology, 23 (1) : 43 - 53. doi: 10.1016/s0929-1393(02)00175-0

Harris SR, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M (2003) Intraorganismal Homology, Character Construction, and the Phylogeny of Aetosaurian Archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida). Systematic Biology, 52 (2) : 239 - 252. doi: 10.1080/10635150309341

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Wilkinson M, Upchurch P, Barrett PM, Gower DJ, Benton MJ (1998) Robust dinosaur phylogeny?. Nature, 396 (6710) : 423 - 424. doi: 10.1038/24763

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Sheps JA, Wilkinson M, Orr K (1997) Novel cranial muscles and actions in a caecilian. Journal of Morphology, 232 : 322 - 322.

Thorson Т, Brooks DR, Mayes MA, Wotton RM, Georgi TA (1997) Limitations on the Use of Compatibility Methods for Polarizing and Ordering Characters. Systematic Biology, 46 : 230 - 231.

Wilkinson M (1997) Characters, congruence and quality: a study of neuroanatomical and traditional data in caecilian phylogeny. Biological Reviews, 72 : 423 - 470.

Wilkinson M (1997) Burning straw men sheds little light: A reply to Whiting and Kelly. Acta Biotheoretica, 45 : 17 - 27.

Wilkinson M (1997) On phylogenetic relationships within Dendrotriton (Amphibia: Caudata: Plethodontidae): Is there sufficient evidence?. Herpetological Journal, 7 : 55 - 65.

Wilkinson M, Thorley J, Benton MJ (1997) Uncertain turtle relationships. Nature, 387 : 466 - 466.

(1996) Is there any consensus on basal archosaur phylogeny?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 263 (1375) : 1399 - 1406. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1996.0205

Wilkinson M (1996) Resolution of the taxonomic status of Nectocaecilia haydee (Roze) and a revised key to the genera of the Typhlonectidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Journal of Herpetology, 30 : 413 - 415.

Wilkinson M (1996) Majority-rule reduced consensus trees and their use in bootstrapping.. Molecular Biology and evolution, 13 : 437 - 444.

Wilkinson M (1996) On the distribution of homoplasy and choosing among trees. Taxon, 263 - 266.

Wilkinson M (1996) The taxonomic status of Typhlonectes venezuelense Fuhrmann (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae). Herpetological journal, 6 : 30 - 31.

Wilkinson M, Benton MJ (1996) Sphenodontid phylogeny and the problems of multiple trees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 351 : 1 - 16.

Wilkinson M, Nussbaum RA (1996) On the phylogenetic position of the Uraeotyphlidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Copeia, 550 - 562.

Wilkinson M, Suter SJ, Shires VL (1996) The reduced cladistic consensus method and cassiduloid echinoid phylogeny. Historical Biology, 12 : 63 - 73.

WILKINSON M (1996) The heart and aortic arches of rhinatrematid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118 : 135 - 150.

(1995) Multiple origins of anaerobic ciliates with hydrogenosomes within the radiation of aerobic ciliates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 262 (1363) : 87 - 93. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1995.0180

McInerney JO, Wilkinson M, Patching JW, Embley TM, Powell R (1995) Recovery and phylogenetic analysis of novel archaeal rRNA sequences from a deep-sea deposit feeder. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 61 (4) : 1646 - 1648. doi: 10.1128/aem.61.4.1646-1648.1995

Hirt RP, Dyal PL, Wilkinson M, Finlay BJ, Roberts DM, Embley TM (1995) Phylogenetic Relationships among Karyorelictids and Heterotrichs Inferred from Small Subunit rRNA Sequences: Resolution at the Base of the Ciliate Tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 4 (1) : 77 - 87. doi: 10.1006/mpev.1995.1008

Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M (1995) A new genus of lungless tetrapod: a radically divergent caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 261 : 331 - 335.

Wilkinson M (1995) More on reduced consensus methods. Systematic Biology, 44 : 435 - 439.

Wilkinson M (1995) Arbitrary resolutions, missing entries, and the problem of zero-length branches in parsimony analysis. Systematic Biology, 44 : 108 - 111.

Wilkinson M (1995) A comparison of two methods of character construction. Cladistics, 11 : 297 - 308.

Wilkinson M (1995) Coping with abundant missing entries in phylogenetic inference using parsimony. Systematic Biology, 44 : 501 - 514.

Wilkinson M, Benton MJ (1995) Missing data and rhynchosaur phylogeny. Historical Biology, 10 : 137 - 150.

Wills MA, Briggs DEG, Fortey RA, Wilkinson M (1995) The significance of fossils in understanding arthropod evolution. VERHANDLUNGEN-DEUTSCHEN ZOOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT, 88 : 203 - 216.

Wilkinson M (1994) Three-taxon statements: when is a parsimony analysis also a clique analysis?. Cladistics, 10 : 221 - 223.

Wilkinson M (1994) Common cladistic information and its consensus representation: reduced Adams and reduced cladistic consensus trees and profiles. Systematic Biology, 43 : 343 - 368.

Wilkinson M (1994) The permutation method and character compatibility. Systematic biology, 43 : 274 - 277.

Wilkinson M (1994) Weights and ranks in numerical phylogenetics. Cladistics, 10 : 321 - 329.

Wilkinson M (1992) Novel modification of the tetrapod cardiovascular system in the West African caecilian Herpele squalostoma (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliaidae). Journal of Zoology, 228 : 277 - 286.

Wilkinson M (1992) On the life history of the caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus (Amphybia: Gymnophiona). Herpetological journal, 2 : 121 - 124.

Wilkinson M (1992) Ordered versus unordered characters. Cladistics, 8 : 375 - 385.

Wilkinson M, Nussbaum RA (1992) Taxonomic status of Pseudosiphonops ptychodermis Taylor and Mimosiphonops vermiculatus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliaidae) with description of a new species. Journal of natural history, 26 : 675 - 688.

Wilkinson M (1991) Homoplasy and parsimony analysis. Systematic zoology, 40 : 105 - 109.

Wilkinson M (1991) Adult tooth crown morphology in the Typhlonectidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 29 : 304 - 311.

Wilkinson M (1991) The use of primitive character state distributions in the assessment of holophyly. Acta biotheoretica, 39 : 37 - 46.

Wilkinson M (1990) A commentary on Ridley’s cladistic solution to the species problem. Biology and Philosophy, 5 : 433 - 446.

Wilkinson M (1990) The presence of a Musculus Retractor Cloacae in female caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Amphibia-Reptilia, 11 : 300 - 304.

Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M (1989) On the classification and phylogeny of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), a critical review. Herpetological Monographs, 3 : 1 - 42.

Wilkinson M (1989) On the status of Nectocaecilia fasciata Taylor, with a discussion of the phylogeny of the Typhlonectidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Herpetologica, 23 - 36.

Wilkinson M (1988) Evolutionary and classical concepts of homology: A reply to Aboitiz. Acta biotheoretica, 37 : 315 - 319.

Wilkinson M (1988) The status of Nectocaecilia cooperi Taylor, with comments on the genus Nectocaecilia Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Journal of herpetology, 22 : 119 - 121.

Wilkinson M, NUSSBAUM R (1988) On the type locality of Chthonerpeton corrugatum Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Herpetological journal, 1 : 245 - 246.

Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M (1987) Two new species of Chthonerpeton (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae) from Brazil. null,

Wilkinson M (1981) Notes on a caecilian, Nectocaecilia sp.. The Herptile :

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Supervision

Master's Co-supervisor to Brewer R
Co supervisor(s): Wilkinson M
Phylogeny of the Caeciliidae based on fresh and vintage DNA
University College London, London, United Kingdom