Karen E. Sears, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 1998-2003 | Committee on Evolutionary Biology | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 2007-2017 | Animal Biology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL | |
| 2017- | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
Area:
Vertebrate evolution, evolution of mammals, evolution and developmentWebsite:
https://searslab.eeb.ucla.edu/Google:
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| John J. Flynn | grad student | 2003 | Chicago | |
| (The role of constraints in the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles.) | ||||
| Lee Niswander | post-doc | 2003-2007 | University of Colorado, Denver | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Clive Long Fung Lau | grad student | UCLA | |
| Daniel J. Urban | grad student | UIUC | |
| Neal Anthwal | post-doc | UCLA | |
| Lisa Noelle Cooper | post-doc | UIUC (Anatomy Tree) | |
| Jennifer A. Maier | post-doc | UCLA (Microtree) | |
| Alexa Sadier | post-doc | UCLA |
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| Anthwal N, Hall RP, de la Rosa Hernandez FA, et al. (2023) Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution. Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) |
| Sadier A, Anthwal N, Krause AL, et al. (2023) Bat teeth illuminate the diversification of mammalian tooth classes. Nature Communications. 14: 4687 |
| Haghani A, Li CZ, Robeck TR, et al. (2023) DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits. Science (New York, N.Y.). 381: eabq5693 |
| Mutumi GL, Hall RP, Hedrick BP, et al. (2023) Disentangling Mechanical and Sensory Modules in the Radiation of Noctilionoid Bats. The American Naturalist. 202: 216-230 |
| Anthwal N, Urban DJ, Sadier A, et al. (2023) Insights into the formation and diversification of a novel chiropteran wing membrane from embryonic development. Bmc Biology. 21: 101 |
| White HE, Tucker AS, Fernandez V, et al. (2023) Pedomorphosis in the ancestry of marsupial mammals. Current Biology : Cb |
| Yohe LR, Fabbri M, Lee D, et al. (2022) Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution |
| Santana SE, Grossnickle DM, Sadier A, et al. (2022) Bat Dentitions: A Model System for Studies at The Interface of Development, Biomechanics, and Evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology |
| Horvath S, Haghani A, Zoller JA, et al. (2022) Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in marsupials: opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, and wallabies. Geroscience |
| Hall RP, Mutumi GL, Hedrick BP, et al. (2021) Find the Food First: An Omnivorous Sensory Morphotype Predates Biomechanical Specialization for Plant Based Diets in Phyllostomid Bats. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution |