Dr Robin Beck's Outputs (3)

Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy (2019)
Journal Article
Baillie, C., Welicky, R., Hadfield, K., Smit, N., Mariani, S., & Beck, R. (2019). Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, 207. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1533-x

Background
Parasite attachment structures are critical traits that influence effective host exploitation and survival. Morphology of attachment structures can reinforce host specificity and niche specialisation, or even enable host switching. Theref... Read More about Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy.

A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae) (2019)
Journal Article
Beck, R., & Taglioretti, M. (2020). A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27, 385-417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-019-09471-y

“Sparassocynids” are small, carnivorously-adapted marsupials known from the late
Miocene and Pliocene of South America, thought to be relatives of living didelphid
opossums but of otherwise uncertain phylogenetic relationships. Here, we describe a... Read More about A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae).

An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria) (2019)
Journal Article
Eldridge, M., Beck, R., Croft, D., Travouillon, K., & Fox, B. (2019). An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria). Journal of Mammalogy, 100(3), 802-837. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz018

Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject to intense research and debate. Here, we review progress over... Read More about An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria).