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Manabu Sakamoto
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
185 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Reviewer 50

Contributions by subject area

Taxonomy
Zoology
Statistics
Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Conservation Biology
Marine Biology

Manabu Sakamoto

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am an evolutionary biologist, focusing on how biodiversity waxes and wanes through Earth history over millions of years, with special interest in various groups of vertebrates including dinosaurs. I use phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate patterns and processes of speciation, extinction and the evolution of form and function, across phylogeny and through time and space.

I also have industry experience as a data scientist, mainly working on multimedia (TV, online) advertisement exposure and product purchasing behaviour, as well as browser usage type categorisation.

Computational Biology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Bristol
University of Reading

Work details

Senior Lecturer in Zoology

University of Lincoln
January 2020
School of Life Sciences

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Reading
July 2014 - January 2020
School of Biological Sciences
Applying Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to answer key questions on the effects of mass extinctions on macroevolution Can we detect differences between the survivors and the extinct? Does mass extinction alter the course of macroevolution? Can we detect signatures of mass extinctions from phylogenetic trees?

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Reviewed 1
March 6, 2014
‘Mystery big cats’ in the Peruvian Amazon: morphometrics solve a cryptozoological mystery
Darren Naish, Manabu Sakamoto, Peter Hocking, Gustavo Sanchez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.291 PubMed 24688867

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April 13, 2017
Rates of morphological evolution in Captorhinidae: an adaptive radiation of Permian herbivores
Neil Brocklehurst
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3200 PubMed 28417061