Michael R. McGowen

Michael R. McGowen, U.S. zoologist.

• Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Michael R. McGowen

Publications

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2011

• Geisler, J.H., McGowen, M.R., Yang, G. & Gatesy, J. 2011. A supermatrix analysis of genomic, morphological, and paleontological data from crown Cetacea. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 112. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-112 Reference page. 

2021

• Nesi, N., Tsagkogeorga, G., Tsang, S.M., Nicolas, V., Lalis, A., Scanlon, A.T., Riesle-Sbarbaro, S.A., Wiantoro, S., Hitch, A.T., Juste, J., Pinzari, C.A., Bonaccorso, F.J., Todd, C.M., Lim, B.K., Simmons, N.B., McGowen, M.R. & Rossiter, S.J. 2021. Interrogating phylogenetic discordance resolves deep splits in the rapid radiation of Old World Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Systematic Biology 70(6): 1077–1089. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab013 Reference page. 
• Carroll, E.L., McGowen, M.R., McCarthy, M.L., Marx, F.G., Aguilar, N., Dalebout, M.L., Dreyer, S., Gaggiotti, O.E., Hansen, S.S., van Helden, A., Onoufriou, A.B., Baird, R.W., Baker, C.S., Berrow, S., Cholewiak, D., Claridge, D., Constantine, R., Davison, N.J., Eira, C., Fordyce, R.E., Gatesy, J., Hofmeyr, G.J.G., Martín, V., Mead, J.G., Mignucci-Giannoni, A.A., Morin, P.A., Reyes, C., Rogan, E., Rosso, M., Silva, M.A., Spinger, M.S., Steel, D. & Olsen, M.T. 2021. Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1961): 20211213. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1213 Reference page. 

2025

• Galatius, A., Kinze, C.C., Olsen, M.T., Tougaard, J., Gotzek, D. & McGowen, M.R. 2025. Phylogenomic, morphological and acoustic data support a revised taxonomy of the lissodelphinine dolphin subfamily. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 205: 108299. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108299 Reference page.