Publications

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ORCID: 0000-0003-2446-4056

  1. Hopkins, M.J., Nikolic, M.C., Holmes, J.D., Monti, D.S., Vargas-Parra, E.E., Bicknell, R.D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Jordan-Burmeister, K., Paterson, J.R., Srivastava-Losey, S. 2026.

    Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice. Biological Reviews, 101, pp. 2379–2407.
  2. Nikolic, M.C., Warnock, R.C.M., Hopkins, M.J. 2025.

    Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses. Biology Letters, 21(8).
  3. Mulvey, L.P.A., Nikolic, M.C., Allen, B.J., Heath, T.A., Warnock, R.C.M., 2024.

    From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. Paleobiology, 51(1), 214-236.
  4. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J., Evans, A.R. 2023.

    Shared patterns of segment size development in trilobites and vertebrates. Evolution, 77(6), 1479-1487.
  5. Murray, A., Burghardt, I., Gunton, L.M., Nizar, N.M., Nikolic, M.C., Wilson, R.S. 2025

    Polynoidae (Annelida) from bathyal and abyssal depths in southern and eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 77 (4), 193-269.
  6. Gunton, L. M., E. K. Kupriyanova, T. Alvestad, L. Avery, J. A. Blake, O. Biriukova, M. Böggemann, P. Borisova, N. Budaeva, I. Burghardt, M. Capa, M. N. Georgieva, C. J. Glasby, P.-W. Hsueh, P. Hutchings, N. Jimi, J. A. Kongsrud, J. Langeneck, K. Meißner, A. Murray, M.C. Nikolic, H. Paxton, D. Ramos, A. Schulze, R. Sobczyk, C. Watson, H. Wiklund, R. S. Wilson, A. Zhadan, and J. Zhang. 2021.

    Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ‘Investigator’ voyage. ZooKeys 1020:1–198.

Conference abstracts

  1. Nikolic, M.C., Heim, N.A., Monarrez, P.M., Payne, J.L. 2026. Differential filling of body-size-space through the Paleozoic. Evolution Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, USA.
  2. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J., Holmes, J.D., Monti, D.S., Vargas-Parra, E.E., Bicknell, R.D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Jordan-Burmeister, K., Paterson, J.R., Srivastava-Losey, S. 2025. Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice. Geological Society of America Connects, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  3. Nikolic, M.C., Teamey, P., Payne, J. 2025. Equipping high school students with quantitative skills in paleobiology: insights from Stanford Young Investigators. Geological Society of America Connects, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  4. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. & Warnock, R.C.M. 2024. Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Erlangen, Germany.
  5. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. & Warnock, R.C.M. 2024. Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses. Geological Society of America Connects, Anaheim, CA, USA.
  6. Nikolic, M.C. & Hopkins, M.J. 2024. What’s in the trunk: evolution of trunk shape in trilobites. North American Paleontological Convention, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  7. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. & Warnock, R.C.M. 2023. Testing the limit: simulating trilobite evolutionary origins under the fossilized birth-death process. Geological Society of America Connects, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  8. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. & Evans, A.R. 2023. Let’s talk about segments: a shared rule of segment development in trilobites and vertebrates. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Ferrara, Italy.
  9. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. 2022. Troubling trilobites: Bayesian phylogenetic methods clarify evolutionary history of turbulent trilobite orders. 6th International Paleontological Congress, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
  10. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins, M.J. 2022. Those troubled trilobites: Clarifying evolutionary relationships and divergence times in turbulent trilobite orders. Geological Society of America Connects, Denver, CO, USA.
  11. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins M.J. 2022. Resolving a cryptogenesis problem in unsettled trilobite orders. Evolution Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, USA.
  12. Nikolic, M.C., Hopkins M. & Evans R. 2021. A developmental model of segment size patterning shared among trilobites and vertebrates. Geological Society of America Connects, Portland, OR, USA.
  13. Nikolic, M.C., Wilson, R., Murray, A. & Fauchald, K. 2019. Tipping the scales: Addressing identification and information access problems for scale worms (Aphroditiformia). 13th International Polychaete Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA.