Rachel Warnock

Prof. Dr. Rachel Warnock

Geozentrum Nordbayern
Professorship of Systems Paleobiology

Loewenichstraße 28
91054 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-23323
Fax number: +49 9131 85-22690
Email: rachel.warnock@fau.de
Website: https://www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/palaeontologie/team/professors/rachel-warnock/

We use data from living and earth systems to understand evolutionary processes at different scales. In particular, we develop and apply phylogenetic tools that model the relationship between the ancestor and descendant species. These tools enable us to combine molecular, morphological, stratigraphic and environmental data in a unified statistical framework. They can be used to recover species relationships and the timing of evolutionary events, as well as the underlying phylodynamic processes, such as speciation and extinction.

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Publications

Journal Articles

Pohle, A., Kroeger, B., Warnock, R., King, A.H., Evans, D.H., Aubrechtova, M.,... Klug, C. (2022). Early cephalopod evolution clarified through Bayesian phylogenetic inference. BMC Biology, 20(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01284-5
Giles, S., Feilich, K., Warnock, R., Pierce, S.E., & Friedman, M. (2022). A Late Devonian actinopterygian suggests high lineage survivorship across the end-Devonian mass extinction. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01919-4
Mulvey, L., Warnock, R., & De Baets, K. (2022). Where traditional extinction estimates fall flat: using novel cophylogenetic methods to estimate extinction risk in platyhelminths. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 289(1981), 20220432-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0432
Andreoletti, J., Zwaans, A., Warnock, R., Aguirre-Fernandez, G., Barido-Sottani, J., Gupta, A.,... Manceau, M. (2022). The Occurrence Birth-Death Process for Combined-Evidence Analysis in Macroevolution and Epidemiology. Systematic Biology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac037
Orr, R.J., Martino, E.D., Ramsfjell, M.H., Gordon, D.P., Berning, B., Chowdhury, I.,... Liow, L.H. (2022). Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8(13), eabm7452-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm7452
Wright, A.M., Bapst, D.W., Barido-Sottani, J., & Warnock, R. (2022). Integrating Fossil Observations Into Phylogenetics Using the Fossilized Birth-Death Model. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 53, 251-273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102220-030855
Barido-Sottani, J., Saupe, E.E., Smiley, T.M., Soul, L.C., Wright, A.M., & Warnock, R. (2020). Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology. Paleobiology, 46(4), 435-444. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.30
Barido-Sottani, J., Van Tiel, N.M.A., Hopkins, M.J., Wright, D.F., Stadler, T., & Warnock, R. (2020). Ignoring Fossil Age Uncertainty Leads to Inaccurate Topology and Divergence Time Estimates in Time Calibrated Tree Inference. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00183
Warnock, R.C.M., Heath, T.A., & Stadler, T. (2020). Assessing the impact of incomplete species sampling on estimates of speciation and extinction rates. Paleobiology, 46(2), 137-157. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.12
Barido-Sottani, J., Pett, W., O'Reilly, J.E., & Warnock, R.C.M. (2019). FossilSim: An r package for simulating fossil occurrence data under mechanistic models of preservation and recovery. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), 835-840. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13170
Barido-Sottani, J., Aguirre-Fernandez, G., Hopkins, M.J., Stadler, T., & Warnock, R.C.M. (2019). Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth-death process. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 286(1902). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0685
Eberle, J., Bazzato, E., Fabrizi, S., Rossini, M., Colomba, M., Cillo, D.,... Ahrens, D. (2019). Sex-biased dispersal obscures species boundaries in integrative species delimitation approaches. Systematic Biology, 68(3), 441-459. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy072
Silvestro, D., Warnock, R.C.M., Gavryushkina, A., & Stadler, T. (2018). Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07622-y
Hopkins, M.J., Bapst, D.W., Simpson, C., & Warnock, R.C.M. (2018). The inseparability of sampling and time and its influence on attempts to unify the molecular and fossil records. Paleobiology, 44(4), 561-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.27
Stadler, T., Gavryushkina, A., Warnock, R.C.M., Drummond, A.J., & Heath, T.A. (2018). The fossilized birth-death model for the analysis of stratigraphic range data under different speciation modes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 447, 41-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.03.005
Warnock, R.C.M., Yang, Z., & Donoghue, P.C.J. (2017). Testing the molecular clock using mechanistic models of fossil preservation and molecular evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 284(1857). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0227
Eberle, J., Warnock, R.C.M., & Ahrens, D. (2016). Bayesian species delimitation in Pleophylla chafers (Coleoptera) - The importance of prior choice and morphology. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0659-3
Eberle, J., Walbaum, W., Warnock, R.C.M., Fabrizi, S., & Ahrens, D. (2015). Asymmetry in genitalia does not increase the rate of their evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93, 180-187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.005
Warnock, R.C.M., Parham, J.F., Joyce, W.G., Lyson, T.R., & Donoghue, P.C.J. (2015). Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: There is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 282(1798). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1013
Ksepka, D.T., Parham, J.F., Allman, J.F., Benton, M.J., Carrano, M.T., Cranston, K.A.,... Warnock, R.C.M. (2015). The fossil calibration database-A new resource for divergence dating. Systematic Biology, 64(5), 853-859. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syv025
Joyce, W.G., Parham, J.F., Lyson, T.R., Warnock, R.C.M., & Donoghue, P.C.J. (2013). A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: An example of best practices. Journal of Paleontology, 87(4), 612-634. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/12-149
Warnock, R.C.M., Yang, Z., & Donoghue, P.C.J. (2012). Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock. Biology Letters, 8(1), 156-159. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0710
Parham, J.F., Donoghue, P.C.J., Bell, C.J., Calway, T.D., Head, J.J., Holroyd, P.A.,... Benton, M.J. (2012). Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. Systematic Biology, 61(2), 346-359. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr107
Ksepka, D.T., Benton, M.J., Carrano, M.T., Gandolfo, M.A., Head, J.J., Hermsen, E.J.,... Parham, J.F. (2011). Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: Divergence dating and beyond. Biology Letters, 7(6), 801-803. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0356
Clarke, J.T., Warnock, R.C.M., & Donoghue, P.C.J. (2011). Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution. New Phytologist, 192(1), 266-301. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03794.x

Book Contributions

Warnock, R.C.M. (2015). Molecular clock calibration. In Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. (pp. 576-582). Springer Netherlands.