Welcome to the Coates Lab!
We sit at the crossroads of evolutionary developmental biology, paleobiology, and anatomy. Our research interests are wide-ranging, and broadly fall under the evolution and diversity of early vertebrates, as well as adding paleontological and comparative anatomy perspectives to evo-devo. We are also very interested in the use of new imaging and visualization technologies in our work, such as CT scanning and 3D printing.
NEWS
Baby lampreys had teeth (ok not really!) – Paper out in Nature!
Our new paper "Non-ammocoete larvae of Palaeozoic stem lampreys" is now out! Contributions were made from lead author/former postdoc/hagfish-in-training Tetsuto Miyashita, the dearly departed (to Kansas) Kristen Tietjen, and Mike Coates, the usual suspect involved....
What Cheer!!! Ben’s Whatcheeria paper is out!
Congratulations to Ben Otoo for publishing his first thesis chapter, "The postcranial anatomy of Whatcheeria deltae and its implications for the family Whatcheeriidae" in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society! In Ben's words... Whatcheeria is a stem tetrapod...
Burns Night 2021
The Coates Lab celebrated a virtual Burns Night, with guest appearances by Possum the Cat, and other assorted acts. With graveness, we read this year's poem that was specifically written to reflect the times that we live in now. I have a meeting too With Mike and Ben....
Recent Publications
The postcranial anatomy of Whatcheeria deltae and its implications for the family Whatcheeriidae
Benjamin K A Otoo, John R Bolt, R Eric Lombard, Kenneth D Angielczyk, Michael I Coates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa182