Publications PhD Mary Schweitzer
Schweitzer MH, Cleland TP, Zheng W, Bern M. 2012. Molecular
Analyses of Dinosaur Osteocytes Supports the Presence of
Endogenous Molecules. Bone.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2012.10.010
Cleland TP*, Voegele K, Schweitzer MH. 2012. Empirical evaluation of
bone extraction protocols. PLoS ONE 7(2):
e31443. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031443.
Cadena E*, Schweitzer MH, 2012. Variation in osteocytes morphology vs
bone type in turtle shell and their exceptional preservation from the
Jurassic to the present. Bone 51: 614-620.
San Antonio JD, Schweitzer MH, Jensen ST, Kalluri R, Buckley M, Orgel
JPRO. Dinosaur peptides suggest mechanisms of protein
survival. PLOS One 6(6): e20381.
Cleland TP*, Stoskopf MK, Schweitzer MH. 2011. Histological, chemical,
and morphological reexamination of the ‘heart’ of a small late
Cretaceous Thescelosaurus. Naturwissenschaften 98 (3):203-211.
Schweitzer MH. 2011. Soft Tissue Preservation in Mesozoic
Vertebrates. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, 39:187-216, doi 10.1146
Zheng W, Schweitzer MH. Chemical analyses of fossil bone. In press.
(book chapter), Forensic Microscopy for Skeletal Tissues: Methods
and Protocols, Lynne S. Bell, Editor.
Green JL*, Schweitzer MH, Lamm E-T. Limb bone histology and growth
in Placerias hesternus (therapsida: anomodontia) from the Upper
Triassic of North America. 2010. Paleonotology 53(2):347-364.
Schweitzer MH, Zheng W, Organ CL, Avci R, Suo Z, Freimark
LM, Lebleu VS,. Duncan MB, Vander Heiden MG, Neveu JM, Lane
WS, Cottrell JS, Horner JR, Cantley LC, Kalluri R Asara JM.
2009. Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the
Campanian hadrosaur Brachylophosaurus
canadensis. Science. 324:626-629.
Asara, JM, Schweitzer MH, Cantley LC, Cottrell JS. 2008. Response to
comment on ‘Protein Sequences from Mastodon and
Tyrannosaurus rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry’. Science.
321: 1040c
Asara JM, Schweitzer MH. 2008. Response to comment on ‘Protein
Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex Revealed by
Mass Spectrometry’. Science 319:33d.
Schweitzer MH, Avci R., Collier T., Goodwin M. 2008. Microscopic,
chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil
specimens. Palevol 7:159-184.
Organ C.L., Schweitzer M.H., Zheng W., Freimark L.M., Cantley L.C.,
Asara, J.M. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of mastodon and
Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 320:499.
Asara JM, Schweitzer MH, Phillips MP, Freimark LM, Cantley
LC. 2007. Protein sequences from mastodon (Mammut
americanum) and dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus rex) revealed by mass
spectrometry. Science. 316:280-285.
Asara J.M., Garavelli J.S., Slatter D.A., Schweitzer M.H., Freimark, L.M.,
Phillips M., Cantley L.C. 2007b. Interpreting sequences from
mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 317:1324-1325.
Schweitzer MH, Suo, Z, Avci, R. Asara JM, Allen MA, Teran Arce
F. Horner JR. 2007. Analyses of soft tissue from Tyrannosaurus
rex suggest the presence of protein. Science 316:277-280.
Schweitzer MH, Elsey RM, Dacke CG, Horner JR, Lamm ET. Do
Egglaying Crocodilian (Alligator mississippiensis) Archosaurs Form
Medullary Bone? Bone 40: 1152–1158 (2007).
Suo Z., Avci R., Schweitzer M.H., Deliorman M. 2007. Porphyrin as an
ideal biomarker in the search for extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology
7(4): 605-615.
Schweitzer MH. The Sauropods. Copeia 2007 (1): 234-237. (book
review).
Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR. 2007. Soft tissue and cellular
preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to
the present. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 274, 183–197.
Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR. 2005. Gender-specific
reproductive tissue in ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex. Science
308:1456-1460.
Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR, Toporski JB. 2005. Soft
Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex.
Science 307: 1952-1955.
Avci, R., M. Schweitzer, R. D. Boyd, J. Wittmeyer, F. Teran Arce, J. O.
Calvo. 2005. Preservation of bone collagen from the late
Cretaceous period, studied by immunolocalization and atomic force
microscopy. Langmuir 21(8):3584 – 3590.
Schweitzer MH, LM Chiappe, AC Garrido, JM Lowenstein, SH Pincus.
2005. Molecular preservation in Late Cretaceous sauropod
dinosaur eggshells. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 272:775-784.
Channing, A, MH Schweitzer, JR Horner, T McEneaney. 2005. Novel
preservation of a Pleistocene bird. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 272:905911.
Schweitzer, MH, J Wittmeyer, R Avci, A Steele. 2005. Rationale for an
immunological approach to the search for life on other
planets. Astrobiology 5(1):30-47.
Schweitzer MH, 2004. Molecular paleontology : some current advances
and problems. Annales de Palaeontologie, 90: 81-102.
Avci R, MH Schweitzer, RD Boyd, JL Wittmeyer, A Steele, JB Toporski, I
Beech, F Teran-Arce, B Spangler, KM Cole, DS McKay. 2004. A
comparison of Antibody-antigen interactions on collagen measured
by conventional immunological techniques and liquid atomic force
microscopy. Langmuir 20:11053-11063.
Schweitzer MH. 2003. The future of molecular paleontology.
Paleontologica Electronica 5(2).
Schweitzer MH, CL Hill, JM Asara, WS Lane, SH PIncus,
2002. Identification of immuno-reactive material in mammoth
fossils. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 55:696-705.
Chin K, DA Eberth, MH Schweitzer, TA Rando, WJ Sloboda, JR
Horner. 2003. Remarkable preservation of muscle tissue within a
tyrannosaurid coprolite. Palaios, 18: 287-293.
Jackson, FD, MH Schweitzer, JG Schmitt. 2002. Dinosaur eggshell
study using Scanning Electron Microscopy. Scanning, 24:217-223.
Schweitzer MH, and CL Marshall. 2001. A molecular model for the
evolution of endothermy in the theropod-bird lineage. Journal of
Experimental Zoology (Mol. Devel. Evol.) 291:317-338.
Schweitzer MH, FD Jackson, LM Chiappe, JO Calvo, DE Rubilar. 2001.
Late Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22(1):191-195.
Schweitzer, MH. 2001. Evolutionary implications of possible protofeather
structures associated with a specimen of Shuvuuia deserti.
IN: Jacques A. Gauthier, editor. New Perspectives on the Origin
and Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium
in Honor of John H. Ostrom. Peabody Museum of Natural History
Special Publication, New Haven, CT. 181-194.
Schweitzer, MH, JA Watt, R Avci, L Knapp, L Chiappe, M Norell, M
Marshall. 1999. Beta-keratin specific immunological reactivity in
feather-like structures of the Cretaceous Alvarezsaurid, Shuvuuia
deserti. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.)
285:146-157.
Schweitzer, MH, JA Watt, R Avci, CA Forster, DW Krause, L Knapp, R
Rogers, I Beech, M Marshall. 1999. Keratin-specific
immunoreactivity in claw sheath material from a late Cretaceous
bird from Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 19(4):712-722
Schweitzer, MH, JR Horner. 1999. Intravascular microstructures in
trabecular bone tissues of Tyrannosaurus rex. Annals de
Paleontologie. 85(3):179-192
Hill, CL and M Schweitzer. 1999. Mammoth (Mammuthus) from the
Doden Gravels, Eastern Montana: biometric and molecular
analyses. Current Research in the Pleistocene 16:120-123.
Schweitzer MH, M Marshall, K Carron, DS Bohle, S Busse, E Arnold, C
Johnson, and JR Starkey. 1997. Heme compounds in dinosaur
trabecular tissues. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science 94:6291-6296.
Schweitzer MH, C Johnson, TG Zocco, JR Horner, and JR
Starkey. 1997. Preservation of biomolecules in cancellous bone of
Tyrannosaurus rex. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology. 17(2):349-359
non peer reviewed, for public, etc:
Schweitzer MH. Blood from Stone. 2010. Scientific American, 303(6):6269
Chapman RE, Matthews NA, Schweitzer MH, Horner
CC. 2002. Technology and Dinosaurs: Applying 21st Century
Technology to Very Old Animals. Pp. 137-144. In Scotchmoor,
J.G., D.A. Springer, B.H. Breithaupt and T. Fiorillo, eds. Dinosaurs:
The Science Behind the Stories. Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology, The Paleontological Society, American Geological
Institute, Alexandria, VA.
Schweitzer MH. 1997. Molecular paleontology: rationale and techniques
for the study of ancient molecules. In Farlow, JO and MK BrettSurman, Eds. The Complete Dinosaur. Indiana University Press,
137-149.
Schweitzer MH. and D Lessom. 1997. Jurassic Park. In Currie, PJ and K
Padian, Eds. The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press. P.
385-387.
Schweitzer MH, M Marshall, D Barnard, S Bohle, K Carron E Arnold, JR
Starkey. 1997. Blood from a stone? In Wolberg, D, E Stump, GD
Rosenberg. Dinofest International. The Academy of Natural
Sciences. Pp. 101-104.
Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR. In press. One pretty amazing
T.rex. In 100 years of Tyrannosaurus rex symposium volume,
Carpenter K, Larson P. (eds)Ksepka, D.T. and D.B. Thomas. 2012.
Multiple Cenozoic invasions of Africa by penguins (Aves,
Sphenisciformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological
Sciences 279: 1027-1032.