Nigel C. Hughes
Professor
Ph.D., University of Bristol 1990
Specialty: Paleobiology
Email: nigel.hughes@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3098
Office: Geology 1220
Homepage: Paleobiology Home Page
Research Interests:
Field and specimen based approaches to questions of evolutionary mechanism in the early Phanerozoic. Trilobite paleobiology. Lower Paleozoic paleogeography and tectonics (particularly the early Paleozoic history of India and the peri-Gondwanan region).
Recent Projects:
Paleozoic paleogeography of the Himalayan region. Development of trilobite bodyplan.
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Selected Recent Publications:
Hughes N.C. 2003.Trilobite body patterning and the evolution of arthropod tagmosis. BioEssays 25:386-395
Myrow P.M., Hughes N.C., Paulsen T.S., Williams I.S., Parcha S.K., Thompson K.R., Bowring S.A., Peng S.-C., and Ahluwalia A.D. 2003. Integrated tectonostratigraphic reconstruction of the Himalaya and implications for its tectonic reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 212:433-441
Hughes N.C. 2003.Trilobite tagmosis and body patterning from morphological and developmental perspectives. Integrative and Comparative Biology (American Zoologist) 43:185-206.
Fusco, G. Hughes, N.C, Webster, M, and Minelli, A. 2004
Exploring developmental modes in a fossil arthropod: growth and trunk segmentation of the trilobite Aulacopleura konincki. American Naturalist 163:167-183.
Hughes, N.C. and Heim, N.A. 2005
Cambrian: chronology, environments, and evolution. in Selley, R.C, Cocks, L.R.M. and Plimer, I.R. Encyclopedia of Geology. Elsevier Press, Oxford, Vol. 4, pp. 163-174.
Hughes N.C., Peng Shanchi, Bhargava, O.N., Ahluwalia A.D., Walia S., Myrow P.M. and Parcha S.K. 2005.
Early Tsanglangpuan (late early Cambrian) trilobites from the Nigali Dhar syncline and the Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Tal Group, Lesser Himalaya, India. Geological Magazine 142: 57-80.
Simpson, A., Hughes, N.C., Kopaska-Merkel, D.C. and Ludvigsen, R. 2005
Development of the caudal exoskeleton of the pliomerid trilobite Hintzeia plicamarginis new species. Evolution and Development 7: 528-541
Jacobs, D.K., Hughes, N.C., Fitz-Gibbon, S.T, and Winchell, C.J. 2005
Terminal addition, the Cambrian Radiation and the Phanerozoic evolution of bilaterian form. Evolution and Development 7: 498-514.
Hughes, N.C. 2005
Trilobite construction: building a bridge across the micro- and macroevolutionary divide. p. 139-158. in Briggs, D.E.G. (ed.) Evolving Form and Function: Fossils and Development: Proceedings of a symposium honoring Adolph Seilacher for his contributions to paleontology, in celebration of his 80th birthday. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. New Haven. 288pp.
Myrow, P.M., Thompson, K.R., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Sell, B.K., and Parcha, S.K. 2006
Stratigraphy and depositional history. of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India. Geological Society of America Bulletin 118:491-510.
Myrow, P.M., Snell, K.E., Hughes, N.C., Paulsen, T.S., Heim, N.A., and Parcha, S.K. 2006
Cambrian depositional history of the Zanskar Valley region of Indian Himalaya: Tectonic implications. Journal of Sedimentary Research 76:364-381.
Hunda, B.R. Hughes, N.C. and Flessa, K. 2006
Trilobite taphonomy and temporal resolution in the Mt. Orab Shale (Upper Ordovician, Ohio, U.S.A.). Palaios 21:26-45
Hughes, N.C., Minelli, A., and Fusco, G. 2006
The Ontogeny of Trilobite Segmentation: A Comparative Approach. Paleobiology 34:602-627
Hughes, N.C. 2007
The Evolution of Trilobite Body Patterning. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences 35:401-434.
Hunda, B.R and Hughes, N.C. 2007
Evaluating paedomorphic heterochrony in trilobites: the case of the diminutive trilobite Flexicalymene retrorsa minuens from the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati region. Evolution and Development 9:483-496.
Hughes, N.C. 2007
Strength in numbers: high phenotypic variance in early Cambrian trilobites and its evolutionary implications. BioEssays 29:1081-1084.
Paulsen, T.S., Demosthenous, C.M., Myrow, P.M., Hughes, N.C., and Parcha, S.K. 2007
Paleostrain stratigraphic analysis of calcite twins across the Cambrian-Ordovician unconformity in the Tethyan Himalaya, Spiti and Zanskar valley regions, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 31:44-54
Zhu X.-J., Hughes N.C., and Peng S.-C. 2007 On a new species of Shergoldia Zhang & Jell 1987 (Trilobita), the family Tsinaniidae, and the Order Asaphida. Memoirs of the Australasian Association of Palaeontologists 34:243-253.
Hughes N.C., Haug J.T. and Waloszek D. 2008 Basal euarthropod development: a fossil-based perspective. p. 279-296. in Minelli A. and Fusco G. eds. Evolutionary Pathways - Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Cambridge University Press. 426pp.