Wenxia Zheng

Garza, R. G., Madsen, H., Sjoevall, P., Osbaeck, F., Zheng, W., Jarenmark, M., … Lindgren, J. (2022). An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26941-1

Schweitzer, M. H., Zheng, W., & Equall, N. (2022). Environmental Factors Affecting Feather Taphonomy. BIOLOGY-BASEL, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11050703

Voegele, K. K., Boles, Z. M., Ullmann, P. V., Schroeter, E. R., Zheng, W., & Lacovara, K. J. (2022). Soft Tissue and Biomolecular Preservation in Vertebrate Fossils from Glauconitic, Shallow Marine Sediments of the Hornerstown Formation, Edelman Fossil Park, New Jersey. BIOLOGY-BASEL, 11(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11081161

Schroeter, E. R., Ullmann, P. V., Macauley, K., Ash, R. D., Zheng, W., Schweitzer, M. H., & Lacovara, K. J. (2022). Soft-Tissue, Rare Earth Element, and Molecular Analyses of Dreadnoughtus schrani, an Exceptionally Complete Titanosaur from Argentina. BIOLOGY-BASEL, 11(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11081158

Bailleul, A. M., Zheng, W., Horner, J. R., Hall, B. K., Holliday, C. M., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2020). Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage. NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 7(4), 815–822. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz206

Ullmann, P. V., Voegele, K. K., Grandstaff, D. E., Ash, R. D., Zheng, W., Schroeter, E. R., … Lacovara, K. J. (2020). Molecular tests support the viability of rare earth elements as proxies for fossil biomolecule preservation. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72648-6

Boatman, E. M., Goodwin, M. B., Holman, H.-Y. N., Fakra, S., Zheng, W., Gronsky, R., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2019). Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientific Reports, 9, 15678. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51680-1

Schweitzer, M. H., Schroeter, E. R., Cleland, T. P., & Zheng, W. (2019). Paleoproteomics of Mesozoic Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Fossils. PROTEOMICS, 19(16), 1800251. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201800251

Pan, Y., Zheng, W., Sawyer, R. H., Pennington, M. W., Zheng, X., Wang, X., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2019). The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(8), 3018–3023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815703116

Schweitzer, M. H., Zheng, W., Moyer, A. E., Sjövall, P., & Lindgren, J. (2018). Preservation potential of keratin in deep time. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0206569. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206569

Long, B., Zheng, W., Schweitzer, M., & Hallen, H. (2018). Resonance Raman Imagery of Semi-Fossilized Soft Tissues. ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY VI, Vol. 10753. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2321298

Lindgren, J., Sjövall, P., Thiel, V., Zheng, W., Ito, S., Wakamatsu, K., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2018). Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur. Nature, 564(7736), 359–365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0775-x

Lindgren, J., Kuriyama, T., Madsen, H., Sjovall, P., Zheng, W. X., Uvdal, P., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2017). Biochemistry and adaptive colouration of an exceptionally preserved juvenile fossil sea turtle. Scientific Reports, 7.

Schroeter, E. R., DeHart, C. J., Cleland, T. P., Zheng, W., Thomas, P. M., Kelleher, N. L., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2017). 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00873

Schweitzer, M. H., Zheng, W. X., Zanno, L., Werning, S., & Sugiyama, T. (2016). Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientific Reports, 6.

Moyer, A. E., Zheng, W. X., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2016). Keratin durability has implications for the fossil record: Results from a 10 year feather degradation experiment. PLoS One, 11(7).

Moyer, A. E., Zheng, W. X., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2016). Microscopic and immunohistochemical analyses of the claw of the nesting dinosaur, Citipati osmolskae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 283(1842).

Pan, Y., Zheng, W., Moyer, A. E., Jingmai K. O'Connor, Wang, M., Zheng, X., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617168113

Schweitzer, M. H., Moyer, A. E., & Zheng, W. X. (2016). Testing the hypothesis of biofilm as a source for soft tissue and cell-like structures preserved in dinosaur bone. PLoS One, 11(2).

Cleland, T. P., Schroeter, E. R., Zamdborg, L., Zheng, W., Lee, J. E., Tran, J. C., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2015). Mass Spectrometry and Antibody-Based Characterization of Blood Vessels from Brachylophosaurus canadensis. JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, 14(12), 5252–5262. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00675

Moyer, A. E., Zheng, W. X., Johnson, E. A., Lamanna, M. C., Li, D. Q., Lacovara, K. J., & Schweitzer, M. H. (2014). Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers. Scientific Reports, 4.

Schweitzer, M. H., Zheng, W., Cleland, T. P., & Bern, M. (2013). Molecular analyses of dinosaur osteocytes support the presence of endogenous molecules. BONE, 52(1), 414–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2012.10.010

Weaver, P. G., Doguzhaeva, L. A., Lawver, D. R., Tacker, R. C., Ciampaglio, C. N., Crate, J. M., & Zheng, W. (2011). Characterization of Organics Consistent with beta-Chitin Preserved in the Late Eocene Cuttlefish Mississaepia mississippiensis. PLOS ONE, 6(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028195

Schweitzer, M. H., Zheng, W., Organ, C. L., Avci, R., Suo, Z., Freimark, L. M., … Asara, J. M. (2009). Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the Campanian hadrosaur Brachylophosaurus canadensis. Science, 324(5927), 626–631. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1165069