Dr Zerina Johanson

Grants

ORPG-7500 How to tuna fish: Drivers of diversity in Pelagiaria (tunas, mackerels and kin)
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Giles S
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £284,912 (to Museum £284,912)
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Girdle Evo-Devo
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £174,240.80 (to Museum £174,240.80)
Dates: 2010 - 2012

Teeth and jaws: evolutionary emergence of a model organogenic system and the adaptive radiation of gnathostomes
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: NERC
Dates: 2009 - 2012

Gnathostome dental pattern and the evolution of chondrichthyan dentitions
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: NERC

Reconciling Icthyology and Palaeontology with Exceptionally Preserved Fossils
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £212,663 (to Museum £13,362)
Dates: 2012 - 2015

How do palaeontological data refine our understanding of adaptive radiation and the evolution of modern biodiversity?
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: NERC
Total value £21,776.81 (to Museum £21,776.81)
Dates: 2012 - 2015

Committees

Chair, Taylor & Francis Award for Best Student Article in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2010 - on going.

Member, Systematics Association,

Member, Linnean Society,

Editorships

Associate editor, Biology Letters, 2017 - on going.

Associate editor, Journal of Paleontology, The Paleontological Society, 2013 - 2015.

Associate editor, Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers, 2013 - on going.

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor and Francis, 2011 - on going.

Associate editor, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2005 - 2010.

Associate editor, Palaeontology, The Palaeontological Association,

Publications

Johanson Z (null) Vertebrate cranial evolution: Contributions and conflict from the fossil record. Evolution & Development, doi: 10.1111/ede.12422

Lebedev OA, Johanson Z, Kuznetsov AN, Tsessarsky A, Trinajstic K, Isakhodzayev FB (2022) Feeding in the Devonian antiarch placoderm fishes: a study based upon morphofunctional analysis of jaws. Journal of Paleontology, 96 (6) : 1413 - 1430. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.54

Charest F, Johanson Z, Cloutier R (2022) The preorbital depression and recess of antiarch placoderms (jawed stem-gnathostomes) revisited from an ontogenetic (saltatory) point of view. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42 (1) : doi: 10.1080/02724634.2022.2116335

Johanson Z, Liston J, Davesne D, Challands T, Meredith Smith M (2022) Mechanisms of dermal bone repair after predatory attack in the giant stem‐group teleost Leedsichthys problematicus Woodward, 1889a (Pachycormiformes). Journal of Anatomy, 241 (2) : 393 - 406. doi: 10.1111/joa.13689

Johanson Z (2021) Paleontology: There are more placoderms in the sea. Current Biology, 31 (16) : R1012 - R1014. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.073

Barrett P, Johanson Z, Greene S (2021) Editorial. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 19 (13) : 891 - 891. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2021.1981733

Barrett PM, Johanson Z, Long SL (null) Law, ethics, gems and fossils in Myanmar amber. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5 (6) : 708 - 708. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01478-0

Johanson Z, Manzanares E, Underwood C, Clark B, Fernandez V, Smith M (2021) Ontogenetic development of the holocephalan dentition: Morphological transitions of dentine in the absence of teeth. Journal of Anatomy, 239 (3) : 704 - 719. doi: 10.1111/joa.13445

Barrett PM, Johanson Z (2020) Myanmar amber fossils: a legal as well as ethical quagmire. Nature, 586 (7831) : 674 - 674. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-03006-9

Johanson Z, Jeffery J, Challands T, E. Pierce S, Clack JA (2020) A New Look at Carboniferous Rhizodontid Humeri (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 40 (3) : e1813150 - e1813150. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1813150

van Mesdag SNK, den Blaauwen J, Dean MN, Johanson Z (2020) Hyperossification in the vertebral column of Devonian placoderm fishes (Arthrodira). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 40 (1) : e1766477 - e1766477. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1766477

López-Romero FA, Stumpf S, Pfaff C, Marramà G, Johanson Z, Kriwet J (null) Evolutionary trends of the conserved neurocranium shape in angel sharks (Squatiniformes, Elasmobranchii). Scientific Reports, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69525-7

Vaškaninová V, Chen D, Tafforeau P, Johanson Z, Ekrt B, Blom H, Ahlberg PE (2020) Marginal dentition and multiple dermal jawbones as the ancestral condition of jawed vertebrates. Science, 369 (6500) : 211 - 216. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz9431

Johanson Z, Manzanares E, Underwood C, Clark B, Fernandez V, Smith M (2020) Evolution of the Dentition in Holocephalans (Chondrichthyes) Through Tissue Disparity. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60 (3) : 630 - 643. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaa093

Barrett PM, Johanson Z (2020) Editorial. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 18 (13) : 1059 - 1059. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2020.1764313

Smith M, Manzanares E, Underwood C, Healy C, Clark B, Johanson Z (2020) Holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) dental plates with hypermineralized dentine as a substitute for missing teeth through developmental plasticity. Journal of Fish Biology, 97 (1) : 16 - 27. doi: 10.1111/jfb.14302

Johanson Z, Underwood C, Twitchett R, Smith M (2020) Microstructure and Mineralogy in Dental Plates of Harriotta raleaghae (Holocephali): Novel Dentine and Conserved Patterning Combine to Create a Unique Chondrichthyan Dentition. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 60 : E351 - E351.

Schnetz L, Pfaff C, Libowitzky E, Johanson Z, Stepanek R, Kriwet J (2019) Morphology and evolutionary significance of phosphatic otoliths within the inner ears of cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1568-z

Dobson C, Giles S, Johanson Z, Liston J, Friedman M (2021) Cranial osteology of the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Martillichthys renwickae (Neopterygii, Pachycormiformes) with comments on the evolution and ecology of edentulous pachycormiforms. Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (1) : 111 - 136. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1276

Meredith Smith M, Underwood C, Goral T, Healy C, Johanson Z (2019) Growth and mineralogy in dental plates of the holocephalan Harriotta raleighana (Chondrichthyes): novel dentine and conserved patterning combine to create a unique chondrichthyan dentition. Zoological Letters, 5 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s40851-019-0125-3

PFAFF C, KRIWET J, MARTIN K, JOHANSON Z (2018) Ontogenetic development of the otic region in the new model organism, Leucoraja erinacea (Chondrichthyes; Rajidae). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2) : 105 - 114. doi: 10.1017/s1755691018000993

Johanson Z, Martin K, Fraser G, James K (null) The Synarcual of the Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea: Novel Development Among the Vertebrates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7 : doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00012

Johanson Z, Trinajstic K, Cumbaa S, Ryan M (null) Fusion in the vertebral column of the pachyosteomorph arthrodire Dunkleosteus terrelli (‘Placodermi’). Palaeontologia Electronica, doi: 10.26879/872

Beckett HT, Giles S, Johanson Z, Friedman M (2018) Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of fossil snake mackerels and cutlassfishes (Trichiuroidea) from the Eocene (Ypresian) London Clay Formation. Papers in Palaeontology, 4 (4) : 577 - 603. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1221

Chevrinais M, Johanson Z, Trinajstic K, Long J, Morel C, Renaud CB, Cloutier R (2018) Evolution of vertebrate postcranial complexity: axial skeleton regionalization and paired appendages in a Devonian jawless fish. Palaeontology, 61 (6) : 949 - 961. doi: 10.1111/pala.12379

Charest F, Johanson Z, Cloutier R (2018) Loss in the making: absence of pelvic fins and presence of paedomorphic pelvic girdles in a Late Devonian antiarch placoderm (jawed stem-gnathostome). Biology Letters, 14 (6) : 20180199 - 20180199. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0199

Meredith Smith M, Underwood C, Clark B, Kriwet J, Johanson Z (2018) Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachian sharks as a model for transformation in chondrichthyan dentitions. Journal of Anatomy, 232 (6) : 891 - 907. doi: 10.1111/joa.12796

Meredith Smith M, Clark B, Goujet D, Johanson Z (2017) Evolutionary origins of teeth in jawed vertebrates: conflicting data from acanthothoracid dental plates (‘Placodermi’). Palaeontology, 60 (6) : 829 - 836. doi: 10.1111/pala.12318

Dean MN, Bizzarro JJ, Clark B, Underwood CJ, Johanson Z (2017) Large batoid fishes frequently consume stingrays despite skeletal damage. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (9) : 170674 - 170674. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170674

Johanson Z, Smith M, Sanchez S, Senden T, Trinajstic K, Pfaff C (2017) Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebratePalaeospondylus. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (7) : 170214 - 170214. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170214

Thiery AP, Shono T, Kurokawa D, Britz R, Johanson Z, Fraser GJ (2017) Spatially restricted dental regeneration drives pufferfish beak development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (22) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702909114

Davies TG, Rahman IA, Lautenschlager S, Cunningham JA, Asher RJ, Barrett PM, Bates KT, Bengtson S, Benson RBJ, Boyer DM, Braga J, Bright JA, Claessens LPAM, Cox PG, Dong X-P, Evans AR, Falkingham PL, Friedman M, Garwood RJ, Goswami A, Hutchinson JR, Jeffery NS, Johanson Z, Lebrun R, Martínez-Pérez C, Marugán-Lobón J, O'Higgins PM, Metscher B, Orliac M, Rowe TB, Rücklin M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Shubin NH, Smith SY, Starck JM, Stringer C, Summers AP, Sutton MD, Walsh SA, Weisbecker V, Witmer LM, Wroe S, Yin Z, Rayfield EJ, Donoghue PCJ (2017) Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1852) : 20170194 - 20170194. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0194

Sallan L, Giles S, Sansom RS, Clarke JT, Johanson Z, Sansom IJ, Janvier P (2017) The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals. Palaeontology, 60 (2) : 149 - 157. doi: 10.1111/pala.12282

Johanson Z (2017) Paleobiology: A Tooth for a Tooth. Current Biology, 27 (3) : R117 - R119. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.011

Belben RA, Underwood CJ, Johanson Z, Twitchett RJ (null) Ecological impact of the end-Cretaceous extinction on lamniform sharks. PLOS ONE, 12 (6) : e0178294 - e0178294. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178294

Martin KJ, Rasch LJ, Cooper RL, Metscher BD, Johanson Z, Fraser GJ (2016) Sox2+ progenitors in sharks link taste development with the evolution of regenerative teeth from denticles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (51) : 14769 - 14774. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1612354113

Underwood C, Johanson Z, Smith MM (2016) Cutting blade dentitions in squaliform sharks form by modification of inherited alternate tooth ordering patterns. Royal Society Open Science, 3 (11) : 160385 - 160385. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160385

Close RA, Johanson Z, Tyler JC, Harrington RC, Friedman M (2016) Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms. Palaeontology, 59 (4) : 499 - 514. doi: 10.1111/pala.12245

Smith MM, Riley A, Fraser GJ, Underwood C, Welten M, Kriwet J, Pfaff C, Johanson Z (2015) Early development of rostrum saw-teeth in a fossil ray tests classical theories of the evolution of vertebrate dentitions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 (1816) : 20151628 - 20151628. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1628

Underwood C, Smith MM, Johanson Z (2016) Sclerorhynchus atavus and the convergent evolution of rostrum-bearing chondrichthyans. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430 (1) : 129 - 136. doi: 10.1144/sp430.7

Johanson Z, Boisvert C, Maksimenko A, Currie P, Trinajstic K (null) Development of the Synarcual in the Elephant Sharks (Holocephali; Chondrichthyes): Implications for Vertebral Formation and Fusion. PLOS ONE, 10 (9) : e0135138 - e0135138. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135138

Welten M, Smith MM, Underwood C, Johanson Z (2015) Evolutionary origins and development of saw-teeth on the sawfish and sawshark rostrum (Elasmobranchii; Chondrichthyes). Royal Society Open Science, 2 (9) : 150189 - 150189. doi: 10.1098/rsos.150189

Giles S, Coates MI, Garwood RJ, Brazeau MD, Atwood R, Johanson Z, Friedman M (2015) Endoskeletal structure inCheirolepis(Osteichthyes,Actinopterygii), An early ray‐finned fish. Palaeontology, 58 (5) : 849 - 870. doi: 10.1111/pala.12182

Smith MM, Johanson Z, Butts T, Ericsson R, Modrell M, Tulenko FJ, Davis MC, Fraser GJ (2015) Making teeth to order: conserved genes reveal an ancient molecular pattern in paddlefish (Actinopterygii). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 (1805) : 20142700 - 20142700. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2700

Meredith Smith M, Johanson Z (2015) Origin of the Vertebrate Dentition: Teeth Transform Jaws into a Biting Force, In: Great Transformations: Major Events in the History of Vertebrate Life - Festschrift in Honor of Professor Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Dial KP, Brainerd EL, Shubin NH (Eds). The University of Chicago Press : Chicago. 9 - 29.

Underwood CJ, Johanson Z, Welten M, Metscher B, Rasch LJ, Fraser GJ, Smith MM (null) Development and Evolution of Dentition Pattern and Tooth Order in the Skates And Rays (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes). PLOS ONE, 10 (4) : e0122553 - e0122553. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122553

Close RA, Johanson Z, Tyler J, Friedman M (null) A remarkable new beaked tetradontiform fish from the Early Eocene London Clay Formation.. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 74th Meeting, Berlin, 411 11 - 4 11 11Program & Abstracts 110 - 110.

Keating J, Johanson Z, Donoghue P (null) Aspidin: a bone of contention.. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 74th Meeting, 411 11 - 4 11 11Programs and Abstracts

Trinajstic K, Johanson Z, Mark-Kurik E, Zhu M, Lee M, Young G, Boisvert C, Long J (null) The diversity of copulatory structures and reproductive strategies in stem gnathostomes... Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 74th Meeting, 411 11 - 4 11 11Programs and Abstracts

Underwood C, Johanson Z, Welten M, Fraser C, Meredith Smith M (null) Development and evolution of dentition pattern for spatial order of tooth replacement in the Batoidea (Chondrichthyes). Euro Evo Devo, 227 7 - 22 7 7

Underwood C, Welten M, Johanson Z, Meredith Smith M, Fraser G (null) Teeth inside and outside the mouth: a micro-CT analysis of topographic relationships in sawfish and sawshark dentitions.. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 74th Meeting, 411 11 - 4 11 11Programs and Abstracts

Welten M, Meredith Smith M, Underwood C, Fraser G, Johanson Z (null) Teeth inside and outside the mouth: topographic relationships in sawshark and sawfish dentitions (Elasmobranchii; Chondrichthyes). Euro Evo Devo, 227 7 - 22 7 7

Jerve A, Johanson Z, Ahlberg P, Boisvert C (2014) Embryonic development of fin spines inCallorhinchus milii(Holocephali); implications for chondrichthyan fin spine evolution. Evolution & Development, 16 (6) : 339 - 353. doi: 10.1111/ede.12104

Long JA, Mark-Kurik E, Johanson Z, Lee MSY, Young GC, Min Z, Ahlberg PE, Newman M, Jones R, Blaauwen JD, Choo B, Trinajstic K (2015) Copulation in antiarch placoderms and the origin of gnathostome internal fertilization. Nature, 517 (7533) : 196 - 199. doi: 10.1038/nature13825

Jude E, Johanson Z, Kearsley A, Friedman M (2014) Early evolution of the lungfish pectoral-fin endoskeleton: evidence from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Pentlandia macroptera. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2 : doi: 10.3389/feart.2014.00018

Trinajstic K, Boisvert C, Long J, Maksimenko A, Johanson Z (2014) Pelvic and reproductive structures in placoderms (stem gnathostomes). Biological Reviews, n/a - n/a. doi: 10.1111/brv.12118

Friedman M, Johanson Z, Harrington RC, Near TJ, Graham MR (2014) On fossils, phylogenies and sequences of evolutionary change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281 (1784) : 20140115 - 20140115. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0115

Johanson Z, Trinajstic K (2014) Fossilized ontogenies: the contribution of placoderm ontogeny to our understanding of the evolution of early gnathostomes.. PALAEONTOLOGY, 57 (3) : 505 - 516. doi: 10.1111/pala.12093

Parfitt M, Johanson Z, Giles S, Friedman M (2014) A large, anatomically primitive tristichopterid (Sarcopterygii: Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Alves Beds, Upper Old Red Sandstone, Moray, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50 (1) : 79 - 85. doi: 10.1144/sjg2013-013

Johanson Z (2013) Gnathostome dental pattern and the evolution of chondrichthyan dentitions .

Johanson Z, Smith M, Kearsley A, Pilecki P, Mark-Kurik E, Howard C (2013) Origins of bone repair in the armour of fossil fish: response to a deep wound by cells depositing dentine instead of dermal bone. Biology Letters, 9 (5) : 20130144 - 20130144. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0144

Friedman M, Johanson Z, Harrington RC, Near TJ, Graham MR (2013) An early fossil remora (Echeneoidea) reveals the evolutionary assembly of the adhesion disc. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1766) : 20131200 - 20131200. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1200

Smith MM, Johanson Z, Underwood C, Diekwisch TGH (2013) Pattern formation in development of chondrichthyan dentitions: a review of an evolutionary model. Historical Biology, 25 (2) : 127 - 142. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2012.662228

Johanson Z, Ahlberg PE, Ritchie A (2013) First record of Porolepis (Sarcopterygii; Porolepiformes) from eastern Gondwana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50 (3) : 249 - 253. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2012-0063

Johanson Z, Trinajstic K, Carr R, Ritchie A (2013) Evolution and development of the synarcual in early vertebrates. Zoomorphology, 132 (1) : 95 - 110. doi: 10.1007/s00435-012-0169-9

Ericsson R, Knight R, Johanson Z (2013) Evolution and development of the vertebrate neck. Journal of Anatomy, 222 (1) : 67 - 78. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01530.x

Graham A, Johanson Z (2013) Journal of Anatomy Special Issue on ‘Vertebrate Evolutionary Development Biology’. Journal of Anatomy, 222 (1) : 1 - 1. doi: 10.1111/joa.12017

Rücklin M, Donoghue PCJ, Johanson Z, Trinajstic K, Marone F, Stampanoni M (2012) Development of teeth and jaws in the earliest jawed vertebrates. Nature, 491 (7426) : 748 - 751. doi: 10.1038/nature11555

Fraser GJ, Britz R, Hall A, Johanson Z, Smith MM (2012) Replacing the first-generation dentition in pufferfish with a unique beak. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (21) : 8179 - 8184. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1119635109

Johanson Z, Kearsley A, den Blaauwen J, Newman M, Smith MM (2012) Ontogenetic development of an exceptionally preserved Devonian cartilaginous skeleton. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 318B (1) : 50 - 58. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21441

Friedman M, Johanson Z (2012) †Opisthomyzon glaronensis(Wettstein, 1886) (Acanthomorpha, †Opisthomyzonidae), a junior synonym of †Uropteryx elongatusAgassiz, 1844. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32 (5) : 1202 - 1206. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.684817

Smith MM, JOHANSON Z (2012) A molecular guide to evolution in the regulation of morphological pattern in development of the vertebrate dentition, In: From Clone to Bone: The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Paleobiology, Asher R, Mueller J (Eds). Cambridge University Press : Cambridge. 166 - 206.

Trinajstic K, Long JA, Johanson Z, Young G, Senden T (2012) New morphological information on the ptyctodontid fishes (Placodermi, Ptyctodontida) from Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32 (4) : 757 - 780. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.661379

Johanson Z (2011) EVOLUTION OF PAIRED FINS AND THE LATERAL SOMITIC FRONTIER. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 31 : 132 - 132.

JOHANSON Z (2011) How Vertebrates Left the Water. Acta Zoologica, 92 : 303 - 304.

Johanson Z (null) Evolution of paired fins and the lateral somitic frontier. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 314B (5) : 347 - 352. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21343

Johanson Z, Kearsley A, den Blaauwen J, Newman M, Smith MM (2010) No bones about it: An enigmatic Devonian fossil reveals a new skeletal framework—A potential role of loss of gene regulation. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 21 (4) : 414 - 423. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.10.011

Daeschler T, RICHTER M, JOHANSON Z (2010) The first fish with a neck. Set in Stone, The NHM Palaeontology Department Newsletter. 7 : : 20 - 21.

Johanson Z, Carr R, Ritchie A (2010) Fusion, gene misexpression and homeotic transformations in vertebral development of the gnathostome stem group (Placodermi). The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 54 (1) : 71 - 80. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.072508zj

JOHANSON Z, Ahlberg PE (2010) Phylogeny of Lungfishes, In: The Biology of Lungfishes, Jorgensen JM, Joss JMP (Eds). Science Publishers, Inc. : Enfield, New Hampshire. 43 - 60.

JOHANSON Z, Kearsley A, Den Blaauwen J, Newman M, Smith MM (2010) No bones about it: the enigmatic Devonian fossil, Palaeospondylus gunni reveals a novel vertebrate skeletal histology. Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge. Abstracts, 23 - 24.

Long JA, Trinajstic K, Young GC, JOHANSON Z (2010) Placoderm copulation and viviparity: implications for pelvic girdle development. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 :

Rucklin M, Donoghue PCJ, Rayfield EJ, JOHANSON Z, Trinajstic K, Federica M, Stamponi M (2010) The evolution and development of teeth and jaws before gnathostomes. Euro Evo Devo Conference, Euro Evo Devo : Paris LB -?F.

Smith MM, JOHANSON Z (2010) The Dipnoan Dentition: A Unique Adaptation with a Longstanding Evolutionary Record, In: The Biology of Lungfishes, Jorgensen JM, Joss J (Eds). Science Publishers, Inc. : Enfield, New Hampshire. 219 - 242.

Smith MM, Trinajstic K, JOHANSON Z (2010) Origin of teeth in placoderms, co-option of genetic regulation in a developmental model. Third International Palaeontological Congress, London. Programme & Abstracts,

Trinajstic K, JOHANSON Z, Long JA (2010) Origin of teeth in placoderms, co-option of genetic regulation in a developmental model. Third International Palaeontological Congress, London. Programme & Abstracts,

Ahlberg P, Trinajstic K, Johanson Z, Long J (2009) Pelvic claspers confirm chondrichthyan-like internal fertilization in arthrodires. Nature, 460 (7257) : 888 - 889. doi: 10.1038/nature08176

Carr RK, Johanson Z, Ritchie A (2009) The phyllolepid placodermCowralepis mclachlani: Insights into the evolution of feeding mechanisms in jawed vertebrates. Journal of Morphology, 270 (7) : 775 - 804. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10719

Hodgkinson VS, Ericsson R, Johanson Z, Joss JMP (2009) The apical ectodermal ridge in the pectoral fin of the Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri): keeping the fin to limb transition in the fold. ACTA ZOOLOGICA, 90 : 253 - 263. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00349.x

Long JA, Trinajstic K, Johanson Z (2009) Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates. Nature, 457 (7233) : 1124 - 1127. doi: 10.1038/nature07732

Hodgkinson VS, Ericsson R, Johanson Z, Joss JMP (2009) The apical ectodermal ridge in the pectoral fin of the Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri): keeping the fin to limb transition in the fold. Acta Zoologica, 90 : 253 - 263. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00349.x

JOHANSON Z, Carr R, Ritchie A (2009) Vertebral development in the gnathostome stem group (Placodermi): Fusion, gene misexpression, and homeotic transformations. International Journal of Developmental Biology, 54 : 71 - 80.

JOHANSON Z, ERICSSON R, Long JA, Evans F, JOSS JMP (2009) Development of the axial skeleton and median fins in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. Open Zoology Journal, 2 : 99 - 101.

JOHANSON Z, Kearsley A, Den Blaauwen J, Newman M, Smith MM (2009) No bones about it: skeletal histology suggests Palaeospondylus gunni (Devonian) is an osteichthyan vertebrate. 23 - 24.

Long JA, Trinajstic K, JOHANSON Z (2009) Embryos in Devonian arthrodiran fishes inform the origins of internal fertilization in vertebrates. Nature, 457 : 1124 - 1127.

Meredith Smith M, JOHANSON Z (2009) Evolution of jaws and teeth. Invited presentation in the symposium “Molecular Tools in Paleobiology: Trees, Clocks and linking Geno- with Phenotype”. Abstracts of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bristol, September 23-26 2009. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 :

Smith MM, Johanson Z (2009) EVOLUTION OF JAWS AND TEETH. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 29 : 148A - 148A.

Johanson Z, Trinajstic K, Brazeau M, Smith M (2008) PLACODERMS WITH TEETH THAT BITE BACK. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 28 (3) : 97A - 97A.

Johanson Z, Tanaka M, Chaplin N, Smith M (2008) Early Palaeozoic dentine and patterned scales in the embryonic catshark tail. Biology Letters, 4 (1) : 87 - 90. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0502

JOHANSON Z, Carr R, Ritchie A (2008) The contribution of placoderms to our understanding of the ontogeny and evolution of early gnathostomes. Euro Evo Devo 2 (2nd Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology). Abstracts 109 - 110.

JOHANSON Z, Den Blauuwen J, Newman M, Smith M (2008) Palaeospondylus, a jawless vertebrate from the Devonian of Scotland. 56th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Dublin. Abstracts 30 - 31.

Johanson Z, Joss J, Boisvert CA, Ericsson R, Sutija M, Ahlberg PE (2007) Fish fingers: digit homologues in sarcopterygian fish fins. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 308B (6) : 757 - 768. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21197

Boisvert CA, Ericsson R, Sutija M, Ahlberg PE, Johanson Z, Joss J (2007) Are digits neomorphic structures? Some palaeontological and genetic arguments. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 268 (12) : 1051 - 1051.

Carr RK, Johanson Z, Ritchie A (2007) Fossil evidence (pisces; placodermi) for the paired origin of basibranchials and their derivation from neural crest. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 268 (12) : 1056 - 1056.

Johanson Z, Carr R, Ritchie A (2007) Segmental identity within the vertebral column: What can fossils tell us?. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 268 (12) : 1090 - 1090.

Smith MM, Johanson Z, Kabe M, Joss J (2007) Building the marginal dentition of lungfish in a stereotypic osteichthyan pattern. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 268 (12) : 1135 - 1135.

JOHANSON Z, LONG JA, TALENT JA, JANVIER P, WARREN JW (2007) NEW ONYCHODONTIFORM (OSTEICHTHYES; SARCOPTERYGII) FROM THE LOWER DEVONIAN OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. Journal of Paleontology, 81 (5) : 1031 - 1043. doi: 10.1666/pleo05-023.1

Johanson Z, Smith MM, Joss JMP (null) Early scale development in Heterodontus (Heterodontiformes; Chondrichthyes): a novel chondrichthyan scale pattern. Acta Zoologica, 88 (3) : 249 - 256. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2007.00276.x

Joss J, Johanson Z (2007) Is Palaeospondylus gunni a fossil larval lungfish? Insights from Neoceratodus forsteri development. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 308B (2) : 163 - 171. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21125

Ahlberg PE, Smith MM, Johanson Z (2007) Developmental plasticity and disparity in early dipnoan (lungfish) dentitions (vol 8, pg 331, 2006). EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT, 9 (3) : 306 - 306.

Carr RK, JOHANSON Z, Ricthie A, Lelievre H, Goujet D (2007) The contributions of placoderms to our understanding of the ontogeny and evolution of early gnathostomes. Liston J (Eds). University of Glasgow Press : Glasgow. 57 pp. http://www.svpca.org/years/2007_glasgow/abstracts.pdf.

Carr RK, JOHANSON Z, Ritchie AP (2007) Ontogeny and phylogeny of the gnathostome branchial skeleton. In Blom, H. and Brazeau, M. (eds). 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates, Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 10 : 24 - 25.

Carr RK, JOHANSON Z, Ritchie AP (2007) Fossil evidence (Pisces; Placodermi) for the paired origin of basibranchials and their derivation from neural crest.

Ericsson R, JOHANSON Z, Stopper G, Joss J (2007) The function of sonic hedgehog in the development of the pectoral fin of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.

Holland T, Warren A, Johanson Z, Long J, Parker K, Garvey J (2007) A new species ofBarameda(Rhizodontida) and heterochrony in the rhizodontid pectoral fin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 (2) : 295 - 315. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[295:ansobr]2.0.co;2

JOHANSON Z, Carr R, Ritchie AP (2007) Segmental identity within the vertebral column: what can fossils tell us?.

JOHANSON Z, Joss J, Boisvert C, Ericsson R, Sutija M, Ahlberg PE (2007) Fish fingers: digit homologues in sarcopterygian fish fins. In Blom, H. and Brazeau, M. (eds). 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates, Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 10 : 49 - 50.

Joss J, JOHANSON Z, Hodgkinson V, Ericsson R, Sutija M, Stopper G, Cole N, Sordino P (2007) Development of paired fins of a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri informs the fin-to-limb transition in the evolution of tetrapods. In Blom, H. and Brazeau, M. (eds). 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates, Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 10 : 51 - 52.

Smith MM, JOHANSON Z, Joss J (2007) Filling a phylogenetic gap in teeth at the margins of lungfish dentitions. In Blom, H. and Brazeau, M. (eds). 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates, Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 10 : 82 - 83.

Smith MM, JOHANSON Z, Okaba M, Joss JMP (2007) Building the marginal dentition of lungfish in a stereotypic osteichthyan pattern.

Johanson Z, Long JA, Talent JA, Janvier P, Warren JW (2006) Oldest coelacanth, from the Early Devonian of Australia. Biology Letters, 2 (3) : 443 - 446. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0470

Ahlberg PE, Smith MM, Johanson Z (2006) Developmental plasticity and disparity in early dipnoan (lungfish) dentitions. Evolution Development, 8 (4) : 331 - 349. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00106.x

Greene S, Barrett P, Johanson Z (2022, 31 12) Editorial. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20 (1) : Informa UK Limited : doi: 10.1080/14772019.2022.2098615

Johanson Z, Sutija M, Joss J (2005) Regionalization of axial skeleton in the lungfishNeoceratodus forsteri (Dipnoi). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 304B (3) : 229 - 237. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21048

Johanson Z, Smith MM (2005) Origin and evolution of gnathostome dentitions: a question of teeth and pharyngeal denticles in placoderms. Biological Reviews, 80 (2) : 303 - 345. doi: 10.1017/s1464793104006682

Garvey JM, Johanson Z, Warren A (2005) Redescription of the pectoral fin and vertebral column of the rhizodontid fishBarameda decipiensfrom the lower carboniferous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25 (1) : 8 - 18. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0008:rotpfa]2.0.co;2

Parker K, Warren A, Johanson Z (2005) (Rhizodontida, Sarcopterygii) pectoral elements from the Lower Carboniferous Ducabrook Formation, Queensland, Australia.. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25 (1) : 46 - 62. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0046:SRSPEF]2.0.CO;2

JOHANSON Z, BURROW C, WARREN A, GARVEY J (2005) Homology of fin lepidotrichia in osteichthyan fishes. Lethaia, 38 (1) : 27 - 36. doi: 10.1080/00241160510013141

Johanson Z (2004) Late Devonian sarcopterygian fishes from eastern Gondwana (Australia and Antarctica) and their importance in phylogeny and biogeography., In: Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates, Arratia G, Cloutier, R. , Wilson, M. V. H. (Eds). Verlag Dr. F. Pfeil : München. 285 - 306.

Johanson Z, Joss JMP, Wood D (2004) The scapulocoracoid of the Queensland lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri (Dipnoi: Sarcopterygii): morphology, development and evolutionary implications for bony fishes (Osteichthyes). Zoology, 107 (2) : 93 - 109. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2004.01.001

Johanson Z (2003) Placoderm branchial and hypobranchial muscles and origins in jawed vertebrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23 (4) : 735 - 749. doi: 10.1671/2

Johanson Z, Smith MM (2003) Placoderm fishes, pharyngeal denticles, and the vertebrate dentition. Journal of Morphology, 257 (3) : 289 - 307. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10124

Johanson Z, Ahlberg P, Ritchie A (2003) The braincase and palate of the tetrapodomorph sarcopterygian mandageria fairfaxi: morphological variability near the fish-tetrapod transition. Palaeontology, 46 (2) : 271 - 293. doi: 10.1111/1475-4983.00298

Smith MM, Johanson Z (2003) Separate Evolutionary Origins of Teeth from Evidence in Fossil Jawed Vertebrates. Science, 299 (5610) : 1235 - 1236. doi: 10.1126/science.1079623

Johanson Z (2003) The clavobranchialis musculature in sarcopterygian fishes, and contribution to osteichthyan feeding and respiration. Contributions to Zoology, 72 (1) : 17 - 37. doi: 10.1163/18759866-07201002

JOHANSON Z (null) Vascularization of the osteostracan and antiarch (Placodermi) pectoral fin: similarities, and implications for placoderm relationships. Lethaia, 35 (2) : 169 - 186. doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2002.tb00077.x

Ahlberg PE, Johanson Z, Daeschler EB (2001) The late Devonian lungfishSoederberghia(Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from Australia and North America, and its biogeographical implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21 (1) : 1 - 12. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0001:tldlss]2.0.co;2

Johanson Z, Ahlberg PE (2001) Devonian rhizodontids and tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha) from East Gondwana. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (1) : 43 - 74. doi: 10.1017/s0263593300000043

Johanson Z, Turner S, Warren, A. (null) First East Gondwana record of Strepsodus, from the Early Carboniferous Ducabrook Formation, Central Queensland.. Geodiversitas, 22 : 161 - 169..

Johanson Z, Ritchie A (2000) A new Late Famennian lungfish from New South Wales, Australia, and its bearing on Australian-Asian terrane relations. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 24 (2) : 99 - 118. doi: 10.1080/03115510008619527

Johanson , Young GC (1999) New Bothriolepis (Antiarchi; Placodermi) from the Braidwood region, New South Wales, Australia (Middle-Late Devonian).. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, 57 : 55 - 76.

Johanson Z (1998) The Upper Devonian fish Bothriolepis (Placodermi: Antiarchi) from near Canowindra, New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 50 (3) : 315 - 348. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1289

Johanson Z, Ahlberg PE (1998) A complete primitive rhizodont from Australia. Nature, 394 (6693) : 569 - 573. doi: 10.1038/29058

Ahlberg PE, Johanson Z (1998) Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods. Nature, 395 (6704) : 792 - 794. doi: 10.1038/27421

Ahlberg PE, Johanson Z (1997) Second tristichopterid (Sarcopterygii, Osteolepiformes) from the Upper Devonian of Canowindra, New South Wales, Australia, and phylogeny of the Tristichopteridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17 (4) : 653 - 673. doi: 10.1080/02724634.1997.10011015

JOHANSON Z (1997) New Remigolepis (Placodermi; Antiarchi) from Canowindra, New South Wales, Australia. Geological Magazine, 134 (6) : 813 - 846. doi: 10.1017/s0016756897007838

Johanson Z (1997) New antiarchs (Placodermi) from the Hunter Siltstone (Famennian) near Grenfell, N.S.W.. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 21 (3) : 191 - 217. doi: 10.1080/03115519708619173

Johanson Z, Ahlberg PE (1997) A new tristichopterid (Osteolepiformes: Sarcopterygii) from the Mandagery Sandstone (Late Devonian, Famennian) near Canowindra, NSW, Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 88 (01) : 39 - 68. doi: 10.1017/S0263593300002303

Johanson Z (1996) New marsupial from the Fort Union Formation, Swain Quarry, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology, 70 (6) : 1023 - 1031. doi: 10.1017/s0022336000038725

JOHANSON Z (1994) NEW INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LATE CRETACEOUS MARSUPIAL ALBERTATHERIUM FOX, 1971. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 14 (4) : 595 - 602.

Cifelli RL, Johanson Z (1994) New marsupial from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 14 (2) : 292 - 295. doi: 10.1080/02724634.1994.10011558

Chatterton BDE, Johanson Z, Sutherland G (1994) Form of the trilobite digestive system: alimentary structures in Pterocephalia. Journal of Paleontology, 68 (2) : 294 - 305. doi: 10.1017/s0022336000022897

Maidment SCR, Strachan SJ, Ouarhache D, Scheyer TM, Brown EE, Fernandez V, Johanson Z, Raven TJ, Barrett PM (null) Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5 (12) : 1576 - 1581. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6

Courses taught

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2018.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2016.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Thiery A
Co supervisor(s): Fraser G
Functional evolution and development of novel feeding apparatus in parrotfish, pufferfish and other fishes
University of Sheffield, Sheffield
Funding: NERC CASE

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Keating J
Co supervisor(s): Donoghue P
The origin and early evolution of the vertebrate skeleton
University of Bristol, Bristol

Examiner

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)
31/3/2017

External examiner, Doctoral degree
12/9/2014

External examiner
2013

External examiner
2013

External examiner
2012

External examiner
University of Bristol
2011

External examiner
2011

External examiner
2011

Examination committee member
2010

External examiner
2008

Public Engagement

Internal activities

Science Uncovered, 22/9/2014