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Karen E. Sears, Ph.D. - Publications

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 development
Website:
https://searslab.eeb.ucla.edu/

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2023 Anthwal N, Hall RP, de la Rosa Hernandez FA, Koger M, Yohe LR, Hedrick BP, Davies KTJ, Mutumi GL, Roseman CC, Dumont ER, Dávalos LM, Rossiter SJ, Sadier A, Sears KE. Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution. Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007). PMID 37994725 DOI: 10.1002/ar.25353  0.783
2023 Sadier A, Anthwal N, Krause AL, Dessalles R, Lake M, Bentolila LA, Haase R, Nieves NA, Santana SE, Sears KE. Bat teeth illuminate the diversification of mammalian tooth classes. Nature Communications. 14: 4687. PMID 37607943 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40158-4  0.788
2023 Haghani A, Li CZ, Robeck TR, Zhang J, Lu AT, Ablaeva J, Acosta-Rodríguez VA, Adams DM, Alagaili AN, Almunia J, Aloysius A, Amor NMS, Ardehali R, Arneson A, Baker CS, ... ... Sears KE, et al. DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits. Science (New York, N.Y.). 381: eabq5693. PMID 37561875 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq5693  0.591
2023 Mutumi GL, Hall RP, Hedrick BP, Yohe LR, Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE, Dávalos LM, Dumont ER. Disentangling Mechanical and Sensory Modules in the Radiation of Noctilionoid Bats. The American Naturalist. 202: 216-230. PMID 37531274 DOI: 10.1086/725368  0.738
2023 Anthwal N, Urban DJ, Sadier A, Takenaka R, Spiro S, Simmons N, Behringer RR, Cretekos CJ, Rasweiler JJ, Sears KE. Insights into the formation and diversification of a novel chiropteran wing membrane from embryonic development. Bmc Biology. 21: 101. PMID 37143038 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01598-y  0.789
2023 White HE, Tucker AS, Fernandez V, Portela Miguez R, Hautier L, Herrel A, Urban DJ, Sears KE, Goswami A. Pedomorphosis in the ancestry of marsupial mammals. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 37119816 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.009  0.743
2022 Yohe LR, Fabbri M, Lee D, Davies KTJ, Yohe TP, Sánchez MKR, Rengifo EM, Hall R, Mutumi G, Hedrick BP, Sadier A, Simmons NB, Sears KE, Dumont E, Rossiter SJ, et al. Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 35904467 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14591  0.731
2022 Santana SE, Grossnickle DM, Sadier A, Patterson E, Sears KE. Bat Dentitions: A Model System for Studies at The Interface of Development, Biomechanics, and Evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. PMID 35575617 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icac042  0.734
2022 Horvath S, Haghani A, Zoller JA, Raj K, Sinha I, Robeck TR, Black P, Couzens A, Lau C, Manoyan M, Ruiz YA, Talbott A, Belov K, Hogg CJ, Sears KE. Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in marsupials: opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, and wallabies. Geroscience. PMID 35449380 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00569-5  0.756
2021 Hall RP, Mutumi GL, Hedrick BP, Yohe LR, Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ, Sears K, Dávalos LM, Dumont ER. Find the Food First: An Omnivorous Sensory Morphotype Predates Biomechanical Specialization for Plant Based Diets in Phyllostomid Bats. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 34021589 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14270  0.723
2021 Todorov OS, Blomberg SP, Goswami A, Sears K, Drhlík P, Peters J, Weisbecker V. Testing hypotheses of marsupial brain size variation using phylogenetic multiple imputations and a Bayesian comparative framework. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 288: 20210394. PMID 33784860 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0394  0.47
2021 Howenstine AO, Sadier A, Anthwal N, Lau CL, Sears KE. Non-model systems in mammalian forelimb evo-devo. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 69: 65-71. PMID 33684847 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2021.01.012  0.756
2021 Nojiri T, Wilson LAB, López-Aguirre C, Tu VT, Kuratani S, Ito K, Higashiyama H, Son NT, Fukui D, Sadier A, Sears KE, Endo H, Kamihori S, Koyabu D. Embryonic evidence uncovers convergent origins of laryngeal echolocation in bats. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 33675700 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.043  0.762
2021 Sadier A, Urban DJ, Anthwal N, Howenstine AO, Sinha I, Sears KE. Making a bat: The developmental basis of bat evolution. Genetics and Molecular Biology. 43: e20190146. PMID 33576369 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2019-0146  0.8
2021 Sadier A, Sears KE, Womack M. Unraveling the heritage of lost traits. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. PMID 33528870 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23030  0.732
2020 Sadier A, Santana SE, Sears KE. The role of core and variable Gene Regulatory Network modules in tooth development and evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. PMID 32761089 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icaa116  0.763
2020 Davies KTJ, Yohe LR, Almonte J, Sánchez MKR, Rengifo EM, Dumont ER, Sears KE, Dávalos LM, Rossiter SJ. Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats. Molecular Ecology. PMID 32293071 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15445  0.373
2020 Kavanagh KD, Bailey CS, Sears KE. Evidence of five digits in embryonic horses and developmental stabilization of tetrapod digit number. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 287: 20192756. PMID 32019446 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.2756  0.304
2020 Sears K, Sadier A, Urban D. Developmental origins and evolution of bats The Faseb Journal. 34: 1-1. DOI: 10.1096/Fasebj.2020.34.S1.00358  0.77
2019 Kelly EM, Marcot JD, Selwood L, Sears KE. The Development of Integration in Marsupial and Placental Limbs Integrative Organismal Biology. 1. DOI: 10.1093/iob/oby013  0.736
2019 Hedrick BP, Mutumi GL, Munteanu VD, Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE, Dávalos LM, Dumont E. Morphological Diversification under High Integration in a Hyper Diverse Mammal Clade Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 27: 563-575. DOI: 10.1007/S10914-019-09472-X  0.751
2018 Sadier A, Davies KT, Yohe LR, Yun K, Donat P, Hedrick BP, Dumont ER, Dávalos LM, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE. Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats. Elife. 7. PMID 30560780 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.37412  0.733
2018 Hedrick BP, Yohe L, Vander Linden A, Dávalos LM, Sears K, Sadier A, Rossiter SJ, Davies KTJ, Dumont E. Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT). Microscopy and Microanalysis : the Official Journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada. 24: 284-291. PMID 29916341 DOI: 10.1017/S1431927618000399  0.706
2018 Sadier A, Davies KT, Yohe LR, Yun K, Donat P, Hedrick BP, Dumont ER, Dávalos LM, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE. Author response: Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.37412.023  0.7
2017 Sears K, Maier JA, Sadier A, Sorensen D, Urban DJ. Timing the developmental origins of mammalian limb diversity. Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000). PMID 29095555 DOI: 10.1002/Dvg.23079  0.807
2017 Cooper LN, Sears KE, Armfield BA, Kala B, Hubler M, Thewissen JGM. Review and experimental evaluation of the embryonic development and evolutionary history of flipper development and hyperphalangy in dolphins (Cetacea: Mammalia). Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000). PMID 29068152 DOI: 10.1002/Dvg.23076  0.661
2017 Anthwal N, Urban DJ, Luo ZX, Sears KE, Tucker AS. Meckel's cartilage breakdown offers clues to mammalian middle ear evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 93. PMID 28812679 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0093  0.806
2017 Anthwal N, Urban DJ, Luo ZX, Sears KE, Tucker AS. Meckel's cartilage breakdown offers clues to mammalian middle ear evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1. PMID 28459103 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-017-0093  0.804
2017 Maier JA, Rivas-Astroza M, Deng J, Dowling A, Oboikovitz P, Cao X, Behringer RR, Cretekos CJ, Rasweiler JJ, Zhong S, Sears KE. Transcriptomic insights into the genetic basis of mammalian limb diversity. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 17: 86. PMID 28335721 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-017-0902-6  0.776
2017 Urban DJ, Anthwal N, Luo ZX, Maier JA, Sadier A, Tucker AS, Sears KE. A new developmental mechanism for the separation of the mammalian middle ear ossicles from the jaw. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 28179517 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2016.2416  0.761
2017 Petit F, Sears KE, Ahituv N. Limb development: a paradigm of gene regulation. Nature Reviews. Genetics. PMID 28163321 DOI: 10.1038/Nrg.2016.167  0.436
2017 Sorensen D, Sackett A, Urban DJ, Maier J, Vargesson N, Sears KE. A new mammalian model system for thalidomide teratogenesis: Monodelphis domestica. Reproductive Toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.). PMID 28130151 DOI: 10.1016/J.Reprotox.2017.01.010  0.775
2017 Yohe LR, Abubakar R, Giordano C, Dumont E, Sears KE, Rossiter SJ, Dávalos LM. Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 28128447 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13187  0.326
2016 Dowling A, Doroba C, Maier JA, Cohen L, VandeBerg J, Sears KE. Cellular and molecular drivers of differential organ growth: insights from the limbs of Monodelphis domestica. Development Genes and Evolution. PMID 27194412 DOI: 10.1007/S00427-016-0549-0  0.73
2015 Sears KE, Capellini TD, Diogo R. On the serial homology of the pectoral and pelvic girdles of tetrapods. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 69: 2543-55. PMID 26374500 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.12773  0.351
2015 Sears KE, Maier JA, Rivas-Astroza M, Poe R, Zhong S, Kosog K, Marcot JD, Behringer RR, Cretekos CJ, Rasweiler JJ, Rapti Z. The Relationship between Gene Network Structure and Expression Variation among Individuals and Species. Plos Genetics. 11: e1005398. PMID 26317994 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1005398  0.79
2015 Moczek AP, Sears KE, Stollewerk A, Wittkopp PJ, Diggle P, Dworkin I, Ledon-Rettig C, Matus DQ, Roth S, Abouheif E, Brown FD, Chiu CH, Cohen CS, Tomaso AW, Gilbert SF, et al. The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology: a vision for the 21st century. Evolution & Development. 17: 198-219. PMID 25963198 DOI: 10.1111/Ede.12125  0.376
2015 Molineaux AC, Maier JA, Schecker T, Sears KE. Exogenous retinoic acid induces digit reduction in opossums (Monodelphis domestica) by disrupting cell death and proliferation, and apical ectodermal ridge and zone of polarizing activity function. Birth Defects Research. Part a, Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 103: 225-34. PMID 25656823 DOI: 10.1002/Bdra.23347  0.713
2015 Abouheif E, Sears K. It's time to get together: announcing the new society for evolutionary developmental biology in the Americas. Evolution & Development. 17: 1. PMID 25627709 DOI: 10.1111/Ede.12114  0.346
2015 Urban DJ, Sorensen DW, Maier JA, Fenton MB, Simmons NB, Cooper LN, Sears KE. Conjoined twins in a wild bat: A case report Acta Chiropterologica. 17: 189-192. DOI: 10.3161/15081109Acc2015.17.1.016  0.764
2014 Sears KE. Quantifying the impact of development on phenotypic variation and evolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 322: 643-53. PMID 25393554 DOI: 10.1002/Jez.B.22592  0.392
2014 Cooper KL, Sears KE, Uygur A, Maier J, Baczkowski KS, Brosnahan M, Antczak D, Skidmore JA, Tabin CJ. Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals. Nature. 511: 41-5. PMID 24990742 DOI: 10.1038/Nature13496  0.754
2014 Beiriger A, Sears KE. Cellular basis of differential limb growth in postnatal gray short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica). Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 322: 221-9. PMID 24500902 DOI: 10.1002/Jez.B.22556  0.345
2014 Sorensen DW, Butkus C, Cooper LN, Cretekos CJ, Rasweiler JJ, Sears KE. Palate Variation and Evolution in New World Leaf-Nosed and Old World Fruit Bats (Order Chiroptera) Evolutionary Biology. 41: 595-605. DOI: 10.1007/S11692-014-9291-6  0.661
2014 Sears KE. Differences in Growth Generate the Diverse Palate Shapes of New World Leaf-Nosed Bats (Order Chiroptera, Family Phyllostomidae) Evolutionary Biology. 41: 12-21. DOI: 10.1007/S11692-013-9241-8  0.434
2013 Ross D, Marcot JD, Betteridge KJ, Nascone-Yoder N, Bailey CS, Sears KE. Constraints on Mammalian forelimb development: insights from developmental disparity. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 67: 3645-52. PMID 24299415 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.12204  0.8
2013 Sears KE, Bianchi C, Powers L, Beck AL. Integration of the mammalian shoulder girdle within populations and over evolutionary time. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 1536-48. PMID 23675971 DOI: 10.1111/Jeb.12160  0.366
2013 Hübler M, Molineaux AC, Keyte A, Schecker T, Sears KE. Development of the marsupial shoulder girdle complex: a case study in Monodelphis domestica. Evolution & Development. 15: 18-27. PMID 23331914 DOI: 10.1111/Ede.12011  0.416
2012 Cooper LN, Cretekos CJ, Sears KE. The evolution and development of mammalian flight. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Developmental Biology. 1: 773-9. PMID 23799572 DOI: 10.1002/Wdev.50  0.701
2012 Sears KE, Patel A, Hübler M, Cao X, Vandeberg JL, Zhong S. Disparate Igf1 expression and growth in the fore- and hind limbs of a marsupial mammal (Monodelphis domestica). Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 318: 279-93. PMID 22821864 DOI: 10.1002/Jez.B.22444  0.336
2011 Sears KE, Bormet AK, Rockwell A, Powers LE, Noelle Cooper L, Wheeler MB. Developmental basis of mammalian digit reduction: a case study in pigs. Evolution & Development. 13: 533-41. PMID 23016937 DOI: 10.1111/J.1525-142X.2011.00509.X  0.432
2011 Sears KE. Novel insights into the regulation of limb development from 'natural' mammalian mutants. Studies in 'non-traditional' mammalian models with very different limb morphologies and sizes can contribute to resolving general developmental mechanisms. Bioessays : News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. 33: 327-31. PMID 21425304 DOI: 10.1002/Bies.201100005  0.426
2011 Kelly EM, Sears KE. Limb specialization in living marsupial and eutherian mammals: Constraints on mammalian limb evolution Journal of Mammalogy. 92: 1038-1049. DOI: 10.1644/10-Mamm-A-425.1  0.407
2011 Kelly EM, Sears KE. Reduced phenotypic covariation in marsupial limbs and the implications for mammalian evolution Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 102: 22-36. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2010.01561.X  0.401
2011 Sears KE, Bormet A, Cooper L, Powers L, Wheeler M, Marcot J. Developmental mechanisms underlying mammalian digit reduction: A case study in the pig, Sus scrofa Developmental Biology. 356: 249. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ydbio.2011.05.554  0.749
2010 Doroba CK, Sears KE. The divergent development of the apical ectodermal ridge in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica. Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007). 293: 1325-32. PMID 20665811 DOI: 10.1002/Ar.21183  0.382
2010 Hubler M, Niswander LA, Peters J, Sears KE. The developmental reduction of the marsupial coracoid: a case study in Monodelphis domestica. Journal of Morphology. 271: 769-76. PMID 20151407 DOI: 10.1002/Jmor.10832  0.623
2010 de Guzman Strong C, Conlan S, Deming CB, Cheng J, Sears KE, Segre JA. A milieu of regulatory elements in the epidermal differentiation complex syntenic block: implications for atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Human Molecular Genetics. 19: 1453-60. PMID 20089530 DOI: 10.1093/Hmg/Ddq019  0.35
2010 Cooper LN, Sears KE. Integrative imaging of the developing opossum cochlea Developmental Biology. 344: 532. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ydbio.2010.05.398  0.567
2009 Sears KE. Differences in the timing of prechondrogenic limb development in mammals: the marsupial-placental dichotomy resolved. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 63: 2193-200. PMID 19453378 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2009.00690.X  0.455
2008 Sears KE. Molecular determinants of bat wing development. Cells, Tissues, Organs. 187: 6-12. PMID 18160799 DOI: 10.1159/000109959  0.421
2008 Sears KE, Finarelli JA, Flynn JJ, Wyss Ar. Estimating body mass in New World “monkeys” (Platyrrhini, Primates), with a consideration of the Miocene platyrrhine, Chilecebus carrascoensis American Museum Novitates. 3617: 1-29. DOI: 10.1206/627.1  0.564
2007 Sears KE, Goswami A, Flynn JJ, Niswander LA. The correlated evolution of Runx2 tandem repeats, transcriptional activity, and facial length in carnivora. Evolution & Development. 9: 555-65. PMID 17976052 DOI: 10.1111/J.1525-142X.2007.00196.X  0.761
2007 Sears KE, Behringer RR, Rasweiler JJ, Niswander LA. The evolutionary and developmental basis of parallel reduction in mammalian zeugopod elements. The American Naturalist. 169: 105-17. PMID 17206589 DOI: 10.1086/510259  0.639
2006 Sears KE, Behringer RR, Rasweiler JJ, Niswander LA. Development of bat flight: morphologic and molecular evolution of bat wing digits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 6581-6. PMID 16618938 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0509716103  0.639
2004 Sears KE. Constraints on the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 58: 2353-70. PMID 15562696 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2004.Tb01609.X  0.416
2002 Flynn JJ, Novacek MJ, Dodson HE, Frassinetti D, McKenna MC, Norell MA, Sears KE, Swisher CC, Wyss AR. A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: Implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 15: 285-302. DOI: 10.1016/S0895-9811(02)00043-3  0.687
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