SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (2000-2007) AND MANUSCRIPTS IN PRESS:
  • Asara JM, Garavelli JS, Slatter DA, Schweitzer MH, Freimark LM, Phillips M, Cantley LC   2007.  Interpreting sequences from mastodon and T. rex.  Science 317:325.

  • Suo Z, Avci R, Schweitzer MH, Deliorman M.  2007.  Porphyrin as an ideal biomarker in the search for extraterrestrial life.  ASTROBIOLOGY J. 7(4):605-615.

  • Schweitzer MH, Suo Z, Avci R, Asara JM, Allen MA, Teran Arce F, Horner JR.  2007.  Analyses of soft tissue from Tyrannosaurus rex suggest the presence of protein.  Science 316: 277-280.

  • Asara JM, Schweitzer MH, Phillips MP, Freimark LM, Cantley LC. 2007.   Protein sequences from mastodon (Mammut americanum) and dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus rex) revealed by mass spectrometry.  SCIENCE 316:280-284.

  • Schweitzer MH, Elsey RM, Dacke CG, Horner JR, Lamm ET. 2007. Do Egglaying Crocodilian  (Alligator mississippiensis) Archosaurs Form Medullary Bone?  Bone, 40:1152-1158.

  • Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR.  2007.  Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present.  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 274:183-187.

  • Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR.  2005.  Gender-specific reproductive tissue in ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex.  Science 308:1456-1460.

  • Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR, Toporski JB.  2005.  Soft Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 307: 1952-1955.

  • Avci, R., M. Schweitzer, R. D. Boyd, J. Wittmeyer, F. Teran Arce, J. O. Calvo. 2005. Preservation of bone collagen from the late Cretaceous period, studied by immunolocalization and atomic force microscopy.   Langmuir 21(8):3584 – 3590.

  • Schweitzer MH,  LM Chiappe,  AC Garrido, JM Lowenstein, SH Pincus. 2005.  Molecular preservation in Late Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur eggshells.  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 272:775-784.

  • Channing, A, MH Schweitzer, JR Horner, T McEneaney. 2005. Novel preservation of a Pleistocene bird. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 272:905-911.

  • Schweitzer, MH, J Wittmeyer, R Avci, A Steele. 2005.  Rationale for an immunological approach to the search for life on other planets.   Astrobiology  5(1):30-47.

  • Schweitzer MH, 2004.  Molecular paleontology : Some current advances and problems. Annales de Palaeontologie,  90: 81-102.

  • Avci R, MH Schweitzer, RD Boyd, JL Wittmeyer, A Steele, JB Toporski, I Beech, F Teran-Arce, B Spangler, KM Cole, DS McKay.  2004.  A comparison of Antibody-antigen interactions on collagen measured by conventional immunological techniques and liquid atomic force microscopy. Langmuir 20:11053-11063.

  • Schweitzer MH.  2003.  The future of molecular paleontology.  Paleontologica Electronica 5(2).

  • Schweitzer MH, CL Hill, JM Asara, WS Lane, SH PIncus, 2002.  Identification of immunoreactive material in mammoth fossils. J. Molecular Evolution, 55:696-705.

  • Chin K, DA Eberth, MH Schweitzer, TA Rando, WJ Sloboda, JR Horner.  2003.  Remarkable preservation of muscle tissue within a tyrannosaurid coprolite.   Palaios, 18: 287-293.

  • Schweitzer MH, and CL Marshall. 2001.  A molecular model for the evolution of endothermy in the theropod-bird lineage.   J. Experimental Zoology (Mol. Devel. Evol.) 291:317-338.

  • Schweitzer MH, FD Jackson, LM Chiappe, JO Calvo, DE Rubilar. 2001. Late Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina.  J.  Vertebrate Paleontology. 22(1):191-195.

  • Schweitzer, MH. 2001. Evolutionary implications of possible protofeather structures associated with a specimen of Shuvuuia deserti. IN:  Jacques A. Gauthier, editor. New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom. Peabody Museum of Natural History Special Publication, New Haven, CT. 181-194.