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J.g.m. Thewissen
PeerJ Editor & Author
2,400 Points

Contributions by role

Author 200
Editor 2,200

Contributions by subject area

Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Anatomy and Physiology
Neuroscience
Zoology
Histology
Taxonomy
Marine Biology
Veterinary Medicine
Anthropology
Kinesiology
Orthopedics
Statistics
Biogeography
Ecology

J.g.m. Thewissen

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Ingalls-Brown endowed Professor of Anatomy at Northeast Ohio Medical University. Author of 'The Walking Whales.' Associate Editor of PeerJ, the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society and the Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. Co-Editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals,' and 'The Bowhead Whale, Balaena mysticetus, Biology and Human Interactions.'

Anatomy & Physiology Paleontology Taxonomy

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Professor

Northeast Ohio Medical University
Anatomy and Neurobiology

Research Associate

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Professor

Kent State University

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Edited 19
April 28, 2015
Organization and distribution of glomeruli in the bowhead whale olfactory bulb
Takushi Kishida, JGM Thewissen, Sharon Usip, Robert S. Suydam, John C. George
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.897 PubMed 25945304
February 19, 2013
Development and evolution of the unique cetacean dentition
Brooke A. Armfield, Zhengui Zheng, Sunil Bajpai, Christopher J. Vinyard, JGM Thewissen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.24 PubMed 23638359

Academic Editor on

February 5, 2021
What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla
Sabrina L. Groves, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10882 PubMed 33604200
October 2, 2020
A basilosaurid archaeocete (Cetacea, Pelagiceti) from the Late Eocene of Oregon, USA
Mark D. Uhen, David Taylor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9809 PubMed 33062412
August 27, 2020
The oldest record of the Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) from the early Pleistocene of the North Pacific
Nahoko Tsuzuku, Naoki Kohno
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9709 PubMed 32913674
July 8, 2020
?Amphictis (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Belgrade Formation of North Carolina, USA
Jon Baskin, Edwin Dickinson, John DuBois, Henry Galiano, Adam Hartstone-Rose
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9284 PubMed 32714653
November 6, 2019
Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates
Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7658 PubMed 31720095
October 8, 2019
Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California
Matthew S. Leslie, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7629 PubMed 31608165
May 17, 2019
A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti)
Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, Klaas Post
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6915 PubMed 31149399
October 15, 2018
New Paratethyan dwarf baleen whales mark the origin of cetotheres
Pavel Gol'din
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5800 PubMed 30356949
September 28, 2018
New records of the archaic dolphin Agorophius (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the upper Oligocene Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina, USA
Robert W. Boessenecker, Jonathan H. Geisler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5290 PubMed 30280011
June 26, 2018
A new species of Middle Miocene baleen whale from the Nupinai Group, Hikatagawa Formation of Hokkaido, Japan
Yoshihiro Tanaka, Tatsuro Ando, Hiroshi Sawamura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4934 PubMed 29967715
June 14, 2018
Histology of 24 organs from Asian elephant calves (Elephas maximus)
Chatchote Thitaram, Pitchaya Matchimakul, Wanpitak Pongkan, Wasan Tangphokhanon, Raktham Maktrirat, Jaruwan Khonmee, Anucha Sathanawongs, Piyamat Kongtueng, Korakot Nganvongpanit
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4947 PubMed 29915694
June 6, 2018
Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs
Corinna V. Fleischle, Tanja Wintrich, P. Martin Sander
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4955 PubMed 29892509
December 22, 2017
The early Miocene balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales
Mónica R. Buono, Marta S. Fernández, Mario A. Cozzuol, José I. Cuitiño, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4148 PubMed 29302389
June 27, 2017
Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species
Michelangelo Bisconti, Olivier Lambert, Mark Bosselaers
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3464 PubMed 28663936
February 23, 2017
Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California
Jorge Velez-Juarbe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3022 PubMed 28243536
August 16, 2016
Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea
Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2321 PubMed 27602287
March 5, 2015
Wing bone laminarity is not an adaptation for torsional resistance in bats
Andrew H. Lee, Erin L.R. Simons
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.823 PubMed 25780775
May 29, 2014
New information on the anatomy of the Chinese Early Cretaceous Bohaiornithidae (Aves: Enantiornithes) from a subadult specimen of Zhouornis hani
Yuguang Zhang, Jingmai O’Connor, Liu Di, Meng Qingjin, Trond Sigurdsen, Luis M. Chiappe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.407 PubMed 24918031
January 2, 2014
A new specimen of the Early Cretaceous bird Hongshanornis longicresta: insights into the aerodynamics and diet of a basal ornithuromorph
Luis M. Chiappe, Bo Zhao, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Gao Chunling, Xuri Wang, Michael Habib, Jesus Marugan-Lobon, Qingjin Meng, Xiaodong Cheng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.234 PubMed 24482756