Summary
My research concerns the evolution of modern vertebrate anatomy. I use the fossil record of early vertebrates from the Palaeozoic Era (approx. 540 to 250 million years ago) to reconstruct the evolutionary assembly of major features of vertebrate anatomy, such as the skull and jaws, paired appendages, and hard tissues.
Publications
Journals
Dearden R, Stockey C, Brazeau M, The pharynx of the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus and the early evolution of the gnathostome gill skeleton, Nature Communications, ISSN:2041-1723
Brazeau MD, Guillerme T, Smith MR, 2018, An algorithm for morphological phylogenetic analysis with inapplicable data., Syst Biol
Castiello M, Brazeau MD, 2018, Neurocranial anatomy of the petalichthyid placoderm Shearsbyaspis oepiki Young revealed by X-ray computed microtomography, Palaeontology, Vol:61, ISSN:0031-0239, Pages:369-389
Brazeau MD, Friedman M, Jerve A, et al., 2017, A three-dimensional placoderm (stem-group gnathostome) pharyngeal skeleton and its implications for primitive gnathostome pharyngeal architecture, Journal of Morphology, Vol:278, ISSN:0362-2525, Pages:1220-1228
Software
Brazeau M, Guillerme T, Smith MR, 2018, Inapp: Reconstruction of Inapplicable Discrete Characters on Phylogenetic Trees, v.0.4.1