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Professional Publications - 43 additional publications, non peer-reviewed, not listed.

Sigwart, J.D. and B.I. Sirenko. (2011). Deep-sea chitons from sunken wood in the West Pacific (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida): taxonomy, distribution, and seven new species.  Zootaxa.  In press.

Sigwart, J.D., E. Schwabe, H. Saito, S. Samadi, and G. Giribet. (2011). Evolution in the deep sea: combined analysis of the earliest-derived living chitons using molecules and morphology (Mollusca, Polyplacophora, Lepidopleurida).  Invertebrate Systematics, In press.

Donovan, S.K., M.D. Sutton and J.D. Sigwart. (2010). The last meal of the Late Ordovician mollusc 'Helminthochiton' thraivensis Reed, 1911, from the Lady Burn Starfish Beds, southwest Scotland.  Geological Journal, 45: In press. DOI: 10.1002/gj.1286.

Donovan, S.K., M.D. Sutton and J.D. Sigwart (2010). Crinoids for lunch? An unexpected biotic interaction from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland.  Geology, 38(10): 935-938.

Viscardi, P., M. Sakumoto, and J.D. Sigwart (2010). How long is a piece of Strix? Methods in measuring and measuring the measurers.  Zoomorphology, 129: 185-194.

Sigwart, J.D. and L.M. Leonard (2009). Coming out of its shell: Molluscan collections in the National Museum of Ireland.  Irish Naturalists' Journal, 30(2): 90-104.

Sigwart, J.D. (2009). The deep-sea chiton Nierstraszella (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida) in the West Pacific: taxonomy, morphology, and a bizarre ectosymbiont.  Journal of Natural History, 43(7-8): 447-468.

Sigwart, J.D. (2009). Coalescent Theory: An introduction [invited book review].  Systematic Biology, 58: 58(1): 162-165.

Sigwart, J.D. (2009). Primitive living chitons: Morphological cladistic analysis as a model for character evaluation.  American Malacological Bulletin (Proceedings of the symposium 'Molluscs as Models for Evolution' Antwerp, 2007), 27: 95-104.

Sigwart, J.D. (2009). Parasitic foraminifers on a deep-sea chiton (Mollusca, Polyplacophora, Leptochitonidae) from Iceland.  Marine Biology Research, 52(2): 193-199.

Chritz, K.L., G.J. Dyke, A. Zazzo, A. Lister, N. Monaghan and Sigwart, J.D.. (2009). Palaeobiology of an extinct Ice Age mammal: stable isotope and cementum analysis of giant deer teeth.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 282: 133-144.

Sigwart, J.D. (2009). On the permanence of natural history museums: taxonomy as living history. In: M. Cabal and C. Cullen, ed.  Communities of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Science, Culture and Society, Four Courts Press, Dublin. In press.

Sigwart, J.D. (2008). Gross anatomy and positional homology of gills, gonopores, and nephridiopores in "basal" living chitons (Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurina).  American Malacological Bulletin, 25(1/2): 43-49.

Sigwart, J.D. (2008). Crystal Creatures: Context for the Dublin Blaschka Congress.  Historical Biology, 20(1): 1-10.

Sigwart, J.D. and M.D. (2007). Sutton. Deep molluscan phylogeny: Synthesis of palaeontological and neontological data.  Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B., 274: 2413-2419.

Voight, J.R. and Sigwart, J.D. (2007). Scarred limpets at hydrothermal vents: Evidence of predation by deep-sea whelks.  Marine Biology, 152(1): 129-133.

J.D. Sigwart, K.I. Schnetler, and S.B. Andersen. (2007). First record of a chiton from the Palaeocene of Denmark (Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae) and its phylogenetic affinities.  Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 5(2): 123-132.

Sigwart, J.D. (2007). The Irish fossil Polyplacophora.  Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 25: 27-38.

Viscardi, P., Sigwart, J.D. and Monaghan, N.T. (2006). Climate control in an uncontrollable building.  Collections Forum, 21(1-2): 85-95.

Sigwart, J.D. (2006). Hidden biodiversity: Chitons in Ireland. pp. 18-20 In R. Moles, ed.  Proceedings of ESAI/ENVIRON 2005, University of Limerick.

Sigwart, J.D. (2005). Gene Genealogies, Variation and Evolution: A Primer in Coalescent Theory [invited book review].  Systematic Biology, 54(6): 986-987.

J.D. Sigwart, E. Callaghan, A. Colla, G.J. Dyke, S.L. McCaffrey and N.T. Monaghan (2005). Belatedly hatching ornithology collections at the National Museum of Ireland.  Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden), 79(3): 19-28.

Dyke, G.J. and Sigwart, J.D. (2005). A search for a 'smoking gun': No need for an alternative to the Linnaean System of classification. pp. 49-65 In A. Minelli, G. Ortalli and G. Sanga, eds.  Animal Names.