Mary Higby Schweitzer

Independent Evidence for the Preservation of Endogenous Bone Biochemistry in a Specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex

BIOLOGY-BASEL, 12(2).

Paleontology in the 21st Century

Schweitzer, M. H. (2023, March). BIOLOGY-BASEL, Vol. 12.

An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1).

Environmental Factors Affecting Feather Taphonomy

BIOLOGY-BASEL, 11(5).

Soft-Tissue, Rare Earth Element, and Molecular Analyses of Dreadnoughtus schrani, an Exceptionally Complete Titanosaur from Argentina

BIOLOGY-BASEL, 11(8).

Deep Time Paleoproteomics: Looking Forward

Schroeter, E. R., Cleland, T. P., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2021, December 17). JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, Vol. 12.

Dinosaurs

Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage

NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 7(4), 815–822.

Identifying medullary bone in extinct avemetatarsalians: challenges, implications and perspectives

Molecular tests support the viability of rare earth elements as proxies for fossil biomolecule preservation

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1).

Dinosaur paleohistology: review, trends and new avenues of investigation

PeerJ, 7, e7764.

Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex

Scientific Reports, 9, 15678.

Paleoproteomics of Mesozoic Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Fossils

PROTEOMICS, 19(16), 1800251.

Proteomic method to extract, concentrate, digest and enrich peptides from fossils with coloured (humic) substances for mass spectrometry analyses

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 6(8).

Systemic distribution of medullary bone in the avian skeleton: ground truthing criteria for the identification of reproductive tissues in extinct Avemetatarsalia

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1).

The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(8), 3018–3023.

Preservation potential of keratin in deep time

PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0206569.

Resonance Raman Imagery of Semi-Fossilized Soft Tissues

ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY VI, Vol. 10753.

Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur

Nature, 564(7736), 359–365.

Biochemistry and adaptive colouration of an exceptionally preserved juvenile fossil sea turtle

Scientific Reports, 7(1).

Expansion for the Brachylophosaurus canadensis Collagen I Sequence and Additional Evidence of the Preservation of Cretaceous Protein

JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, 16(2), 920–932.

Bone protein “extractomics”: comparing the efficiency of bone protein extractions of Gallus gallus in tandem mass spectrometry, with an eye towards paleoproteomics

PeerJ, 4, e2603.

Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex

Scientific Reports, 6(1).

Keratin Durability Has Implications for the Fossil Record: Results from a 10 Year Feather Degradation Experiment

PLOS ONE, 11(7), e0157699.

Microscopic and immunohistochemical analyses of the claw of the nesting dinosaur, Citipati osmolskae

Molecular evidence of keratin and melanosomes in feathers of the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 113(49), E7900–E7907.

Testing the Hypothesis of Biofilm as a Source for Soft Tissue and Cell-Like Structures Preserved in Dinosaur Bone

PLOS ONE, 11(2), e0150238.

Alligator osteoderms as a source of labile calcium for eggshell formation

JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 297(4), 255–264.

Biologically and diagenetically derived peptide modifications in moa collagens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1808), 20150015.

Interpreting melanin-based coloration through deep time: A critical review

[Review of ]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 282(1813), 20150614.

Mass Spectrometry and Antibody-Based Characterization of Blood Vessels from Brachylophosaurus canadensis

JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, 14(12), 5252–5262.

Melanosomes and ancient coloration re-examined: A response to Vinther 2015

BioEssays, 37(11), 1174–1183.

A Pelomedusoid Turtle from the Paleocene-Eocene of Colombia Exhibiting Preservation of Blood Vessels and Osteocytes

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, 48(4), 461–465.

A role for iron and oxygen chemistry in preserving soft tissues, cells and molecules from deep time

Blood from Stone

Scientific American, 23(2s), 104–111.

Dinosaurs are important

Schweitzer, M. H. (2014, June). Scientific American, 310(6), 12.

Dinosaurs are important yesterday's big reptiles can help us figure out how the human era is shaping up

Scientific American, 310(6), 12–12.

Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers

Scientific Reports, 4(1).

Protein Molecular Data from Ancient (>1 million years old) Fossil Material: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Grand Challenges

Analytical Chemistry, 86(14), 6731–6740.

Synchrotron Chemical and Structural Analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex Blood Vessels: The Contribution of Collagen Hypercrosslinking to Tissue Longevity

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 20(S3), 1430–1431.

Molecular analyses of dinosaur osteocytes support the presence of endogenous molecules

BONE, 52(1), 414–423.

Willo’s change of heart

The Naturalist, 6–7.

Chemical Analyses of Fossil Bone

In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 153–172).

Claws, scales, beaks and feathers: Molecular traces in the fossil record

In M. K. Brett-Surman, T. R. Holtz, & J. O. Farlow (Eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (2nd ed., pp. 273–284). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Empirical Evaluation of Bone Extraction Protocols

PLoS ONE, 7(2), e31443.

Variation in osteocytes morphology vs bone type in turtle shell and their exceptional preservation from the Jurassic to the present

[Review of ]. BONE, 51(3), 614–620.

Dinosaur peptides suggest mechanisms of protein survival

PLoS One, 6(6).

Histological, chemical, and morphological reexamination of the "heart" of a small Late Cretaceous Thescelosaurus

NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, 98(3), 203–211.

Soft tissue preservation in terrestrial mesozoic vertebrates

[Review of ]. Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, vol 39, 39(1), 187–216.

BLOOD FROM STONE

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 303(6), 62–69.

Limb bone histology and growth in Placerias hesternus (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the upper triassic of North America

Palaeontology, 53, 347–364.

Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the Campanian hadrosaur Brachylophosaurus canadensis

Science, 324(5927), 626–631.

Microscopic, chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil specimens

Comptes Rendus Palevol, 7(2-3), 159–184.

Molecular phylogenetics of mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex

SCIENCE, 320(5875), 499–499.

Response to comment on "protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

Response to comment on "protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

Analyses of soft tissue from Tyrannosaurus rex suggest the presence of protein

SCIENCE, 316(5822), 277–280.

Do egg-laying crocodilian (Alligator mississippiensis) archosaurs form medullary bone?

BONE, 40(4), 1152–1158.

Interpreting sequences from mastodon and T-rex

Asara, J. M., Garavelli, J. S., Slatter, D. A., Schweitzer, M. H., Freimark, L. M., Phillips, M., & Cantley, L. C. (2007, September 7).

New Avenues of Investigation for Old Bones

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13(S02).

Porphyrin as an ideal biomarker in the search for extraterrestrial life

ASTROBIOLOGY, 7(4), 605–615.

Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry

SCIENCE, 316(5822), 280–285.

Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 274(1607), 183–197.

The Sauropods

[Review of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, by K. A. C. Rogers & J. A. Wilson]. Copeia, 2007(1), 234–237.

Will current technologies enable dinosaur proteomics?

Expert Review of Proteomics, 4(6), 695–699.

Dinosaur eggshell study using scanning electron microscopy

Scanning, 24(5), 217–223.

A silicified bird from Quaternary hot spring deposits

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 272(1566), 905–911.

Experimental support for an immunological approach to the search for life on other planets

ASTROBIOLOGY, 5(1), 30–47.

Gender-specific reproductive tissue in ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex

SCIENCE, 308(5727), 1456–1460.

Molecular preservation in Late Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur eggshells

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 272(1565), 775–784.

One pretty amazing T.rex : A presentation for "100 years of tyrannosaurus rex

(K. Carpenter & P. Larson, Eds.).

Preservation of bone collagen from the late cretaceous period studied by immunological techniques and atomic force microscopy

LANGMUIR, 21(8), 3584–3590.

Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex

SCIENCE, 307(5717), 1952–1955.

Warm-blooded

Natural History Magazine, 114(4), 50–51.

Comparison of antibody-antigen interactions on collagen measured by conventional immunological techniques and atomic force microscopy

LANGMUIR, 20(25), 11053–11063.

Molecular paleontology: some current advances and problems

Annales De Paléontologie, 90(2), 81–102.

Remarkable Preservation of Undigested Muscle Tissue Within a Late Cretaceous Tyrannosaurid Coprolite from Alberta, Canada

PALAIOS, 18(3), 286–294.

The future of molecular paleontology

Paleontologica Electronica, 5(2), editorial 2.

Applying 21st century technology to very old animals

In J. G. Scotchmoor, D. A. Springer, B. H. Breithaupt, & T. Fiorillo (Eds.), Dinosaurs: The Science Behind the Stories (pp. 137–144). Alexandria, VA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Paleontological Society, American Geological Institute.

Identification of Immunoreactive Material in Mammoth Fossils

Journal of Molecular Evolution, 55(6), 696–705.

Late Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(1), 191–195.

A molecular model for the evolution of endothermy in the theropod-bird lineage

Journal of Experimental Zoology, 291(4), 317–338.

Evolutionary implications of possible protofeather structures associated with a specimen of Shuvuuia deserti

In J. Gauthier (Ed.), New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom (pp. 181–194). New Haven, Connecticut: Peabody Museum of Natural History Special Publication.

Mars immunoassay life detection instrument for astrobiology (MILDI)

Lunar and Planetary Science XXXII : papers presented at the thirty-second Lunar and Planetary Science Conference : March 12-16, 2001, Houston, Texas. Presented at the Thirty-second Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX.

Micro-array assay for solar system exploration

Exo-/astro-biology : proceedings of the first European workshop, 21-23 May 2001, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 91–97. Noordwijk: European Space Agency Publications Division.

Beta-keratin specific immunological reactivity in feather-like structures of the Cretaceous Alvarezsaurid,Shuvuuia deserti

Journal of Experimental Zoology, 285(2), 146–157.

Intravascular microstructures in trabecular bone tissues of Tyrannosaurus rex

Annales De Paléontologie, 85(3), 179–192.

Keratin immunoreactivity in the Late Cretaceous bird Rahonavis ostromi

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(4), 712–722.

Mammoth (Mammuthus) from the Doden Gravels, Eastern Montana: biometric and molecular analyses

Current Research in the Pleistocene, 16, 120–123.

Blood from a stone?

In D. Wolberg, E. Stump, & G. D. Rosenberg (Eds.), Dinofest International : proceedings of a symposium held at Arizona State University (pp. 101–104). Philadelphia, PA: Academy of Natural Sciences.

Heme compounds in dinosaur trabecular bone

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94(12), 6291–6296.

Jurassic Park

In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (pp. 385–387). Academic Press.

Molecular paleontology: rationale and techniques for the study of ancient molecules

In J. O. Farlow & M. K. Brett-Surman (Eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (pp. 137–149). Indiana University Press.

Preservation of biomolecules in cancellous bone of Tyrannosaurus rex

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(2), 349–359.

Detecting dinosaur DNA

Science, 268(5214), 1191–1192.