Publications
Publications highlighting recent research on the focal areas of phylogenetics/omics, comparative methods, macroevolution, and echinoderms. Full list of publications can be found here
Mongiardino Koch, N. 2024. Embracing the taxonomic and topological stability of phylogenomics. Scientific Reports, 14: 4088. 10.1038/s41598-024-54208-4
Mongiardino Koch N, Garwood RJ, Parry LA. 2023. Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip-dated divergence times. Palaeontology, 66: e12680. 10.1111/pala.12680.
Briggs DEG, Mongiardino Koch N. 2023. A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch. Current Biology, 33: 1–8. 10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.024.
Mongiardino Koch N, Tilic E, Stiller J, Miller A, Rouse GW. 2023. Confusion will be my epitaph: Genome-scale discordance stifles phylogenetic resolution of Holothuroidea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290: 20230988. 10.1098/rspb.2023.0988. Cover image for Volume 290, Issue 2002.
Guensburg TE, Mooi R, Mongiardino Koch N. 2023. Crinoid calyx origin from stem radial echinoderms. Journal of Paleontology, 97: 1092–1115. 10.1017/jpa.2023.14.
Wilson JD, Mongiardino Koch N, Ramírez MJ. 2022. Chronogram or phylogram for ancestral state reconstruction? Model fit statistics can identify the branch lengths underlying a character’s evolution. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 13: 1679–1689. 10.1111/2041-210X.13872.
Mongiardino Koch N, Thompson JR, Hiley AS, McCowin MF, Armstrong AF, Coppard SE, Aguilera F, Bronstein O, Kroh A, Mooi R, Rouse GW. 2022. Phylogenomic analyses of echinoid diversification prompt a re-evaluation of their fossil record. eLife, 11: e72460. 10.7554/eLife.72460.
Mongiardino Koch N. 2021. Phylogenomic subsampling and the search for phylogenetically reliable loci. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38: 4025–4038. 10.1093/molbev/msab151.
Mongiardino Koch N, Parry LA, Garwood R. 2021. Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288: 20210044. 10.1098/rspb.2021.0044. Among the top 5 most-cited 2021 articles published in Proc B.
Mongiardino Koch N. 2021. Exploring adaptive landscapes across deep time: a case study using echinoid body size. Evolution, 75: 1567–1581. 10.1111/evo.14219.
Mongiardino Koch N, Thompson J. 2021. A total-evidence dated phylogeny of Echinoidea combining phylogenomic and paleontological data. Systematic Biology, 70: 421–439. 10.1093/sysbio/syaa069.
Fabbri M, Navalón G, Mongiardino Koch N, Hanson M, Petermann H, Bhullar BA. 2021. A shift in ontogenetic timing produced the unique sauropod skull. Evolution, 75: 819–831. 10.1111/evo.14190.
Mongiardino Koch N, Parry L. 2020. Death is on our side: Paleontological data drastically modify phylogenetic hypotheses. Systematic Biology, 69: 1052–1067. 10.1093/sysbio/syaa023. Awarded the 2020 Publisher’s Award for Excellence in Systematic Research (Society of Systematic Biologists).
Mongiardino Koch N. 2019. The phylogenomic revolution and its conceptual innovations. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19: 99–103. 10.1007/s13127-019-00397-0.
Ceccarelli F*, Mongiardino Koch N*, Soto E, Barone M, Arnedo M, Ramírez M. 2019. The grass was greener: Repeated evolution of specialized morphologies and habitat shifts in ghost spiders following grassland expansion in South America. Systematic Biology, 68: 63–77. 10.1093/sysbio/syy028. * = equally contributed.
Mongiardino Koch N, Coppard S, Lessios H, Briggs D, Mooi R, Rouse G. 2018. A phylogenomic resolution for the sea urchin tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18: 189. 10.1186/s12862-018-1300-4.
Clark EG, Hutchinson J, Darroch S, Mongiardino Koch N, Brady T, Smith S, Briggs D. 2018. Integrating morphology, skeletal mobility, and in vivo behavioral observations with digital models to infer function in brittle star arms. Journal of Anatomy, 223: 696–714. 10.1111/joa.12887.
Mongiardino Koch N, Gauthier J. 2018. Noise and biases in genomic data may underlie radically different hypotheses for the position of Iguania within Squamata. PLoS One, 13: e0202729. 10.1371/journal.pone.0202729.
Fabbri M, Mongiardino Koch N, Pritchard A, Hanson M, Hoffman E, Bever GS, Balanoff AM, Morris ZS, Field DJ, Camacho J, Rowe TB, Norell MA, Smith RM, Abzhanov A, Bhullar B-AS. 2017. The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1: 1543–1550. 10.1038/s41559-017-0288-2.
Mongiardino Koch N, Ceccarelli F, Ojanguren-Affilastro A, Ramírez M. 2017. Discrete and morphometric traits reveal contrasting patterns and processes in the macroevolutionary history of a clade of scorpions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30: 814–825. 10.1111/jeb.13050. Awarded the 2017 George Gaylord Simpson Prize (Yale University).
Cui H, Xu D, Chong S, Ramírez M, Rodenhausen T, Macklin J, Ludäscher B, Morris R, Soto E & Mongiardino Koch N. 2016. Introducing ‘Explorer of Taxon Concepts’ with a case study on spider measurement matrix building. BMC Bioinformatics, 17: 471. 10.1186/s12859-016-1352-7.
Mongiardino Koch N, Soto I, Ramírez M. 2015. Overcoming issues with the use of ratios as continuous characters in phylogenetic analyses. Zoologica Scripta, 44: 463–474. 10.1111/zsc.12120.
Mongiardino Koch N, Soto I, Ramírez M. 2015. First phylogenetic analysis of the family Neriidae (Diptera), with a study on the issue of scaling continuous characters. Cladistics, 31: 142–165. 10.1111/cla.12084.