Zivile Zigaite
Researcher at Institutionen för organismbiologi; Evolution och utvecklingsbiologi
- E-mail:
- zivile.zigaite@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum EBC Norbyv. 18A
- Postal address:
- Norbyv. 18A
752 36 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Swedish Research Council Fellow
My research aims to understand the relationship between physiological and environmental factors mirrored in the chemical composition and structure of teeth. Using stable isotope, trace and minor element compositions in dental biomineral I want to develop reliable proxies to living and extinct animal biology and environment. Currently I am also working on molecular recognition tools, and supervising a PhD project on geochemical archives in trace fossils.
Biography
2015-present Swedsih Research Council / VR Fellow, Department of Organism Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2013-2014 Researcher, Department of Organism Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2012-2013 Marie Curie Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
2011-2012 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Organism Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2009-2010 Lecturer, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Vilnius University, Lithuania
2009 Postdoctoral visiting researcher, Museum nationale d’Histoire Naturelle Paris, France
2005-2008 PhD in Biodiversity of Fossil and Modern Ecosystems, University of Lille-1, France
Publications
Selection of publications
- Palaeoenvironmental signatures revealed from rare earth element (REE) compositions of vertebrate microremains of the Vesiku Bone Bed (Homerian, Wenlock), Saaremaa Island, Estonia (2015)
- Rare earth elements (REEs) in vertebrate microremains from the upper Pridoli Ohesaare beds of Saaremaa Island, Estonia (2015)
- Evolutionary palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography (2015)
- Vertebrate microfossils as tool in stratigraphy (2014)
- Stable oxygen isotopes of dental biomineral (2014)
- Endemic thelodonts (Vertebrata: Thelodonti) from the Lower Silurian of central Asia and southern Siberia (2013)
- Palaeobiogeography of Early Palaeozoic vertebrates (2013)
- Thelodont scales from the Lower and Middle Devonian Andree Land Group, Spitsbergen (2013)
- Tissue diversity and evolutionary trends of the dermal skeleton of Silurian thelodonts (2013)
- New observations on the squamation patterns of articulated specimens of Loganellia scotica (Traquair, 1898) (Vertebrata (2012)
- Vertebrate microremains from the Lower Silurian of Siberia and Central Asia (2011)
- δ 18O composition of conodont apatite indicates climatic cooling during the middle Pridoli (2010)
Recent publications
- Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia. (2022)
- Dental microwear texture analysis on extant and extinct sharks (2021)
- Trace and rare earth element compositions of Silurian conodonts from the Vesiku Bone Bed (2020)
- Early vertebrate microremains as proxies to palaeornvironment : (2018)
- Andrée Land of Spitsbergen: (2018)
All publications
Articles
- Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia. (2022)
- Dental microwear texture analysis on extant and extinct sharks (2021)
- Trace and rare earth element compositions of Silurian conodonts from the Vesiku Bone Bed (2020)
- Vertebrate Microremains From The Pragian, Emsian And Eifelian Of The Prague Basin (Czech Republic) (2017)
- Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography of coprolites generates novel palaeobiological data (2017)
- Vertebrate coprolites (fossil faeces) (2016)
- Palaeoenvironments revealed by rare-earth element systematics in vertebrate bioapatite from the Lower Devonian of Svalbard (2016)
- Palaeoenvironmental signatures revealed from rare earth element (REE) compositions of vertebrate microremains of the Vesiku Bone Bed (Homerian, Wenlock), Saaremaa Island, Estonia (2015)
- Rare earth elements (REEs) in vertebrate microremains from the upper Pridoli Ohesaare beds of Saaremaa Island, Estonia (2015)
- Vertebrate Microfossils as Tools in Stratigraphy: A Study of the LowerDevonian Andrée Land Group Spitsbergen (2014)
- Stable oxygen isotopes of dental biomineral (2014)
- Endemic thelodonts (Vertebrata: Thelodonti) from the Lower Silurian of central Asia and southern Siberia (2013)
- Palaeobiogeography of Early Palaeozoic vertebrates (2013)
- Thelodont scales from the Lower and Middle Devonian Andree Land Group, Spitsbergen (2013)
- Geochemistry of fossilised dental remains - key to palaeobiology and palaeoenvironment. (2013)
- Tissue diversity and evolutionary trends of the dermal skeleton of Silurian thelodonts (2013)
- New observations on the squamation patterns of articulated specimens of Loganellia scotica (Traquair, 1898) (Vertebrata (2012)
- Vertebrate microremains from the Lower Silurian of Siberia and Central Asia (2011)
- δ 18O composition of conodont apatite indicates climatic cooling during the middle Pridoli (2010)
- Silurian (2008)
- New genus of Chondrichthyans from the Silurian-Devonian boundary deposits of Tuva (Russia) (2008)
- Palaeobiogeographical significance of Early Silurian thelodonts from central Asia and southern Siberia (2006)
Books
Conferences
- Early vertebrate microremains as proxies to palaeornvironment : (2018)
- Andrée Land of Spitsbergen: (2018)
- 3D – visualization of vertebrate coprolites through phase contrast synchrotron imaging unravel new aspects of paleoecological relations (2017)
- δ18O as Seawater and Palaeoclimate Proxy (2017)
- Les isotopes stables de l’oxygene dans des biominéraux dentaires des vertébrés actuels (2016)
- Rare earth elelments (REE) in Palaeozoic palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (2016)
- Early vertebrate microremains as proxies to palaeoenvironment: rare earth elements in dermal scale biominerals from the Silurian and Lower Devonian (2016)
- Distribution histologique des terres rares (REE) dans des microrestes de vertébrés du Paléozoique Inférieur (2016)
- Oxygen isotopes in modern and fossil ecosystems (2016)
- Palaeoenvironmental signatures revealed from the Silurian dental apatite : (2015)
- Stable oxygen isotopes of dental biomineral : differentiation at the intra- and inter-tissue level of modern shark teeth (2015)
- Vertebrate microfossils as tool in stratigraphy (2014)
- Rare earth and trace elements in fossil vertebrate biomineral as indicators of palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment (2014)
- Rare earth and trace elements of fossil bioapatite as palaeoenvironmental proxies (2014)
- Silurian vertebrates from northern Mongolia: (2014)
- Oxygen isotope records in fossil bioapatite reveal sothern high-latitude low-temperature environment during the Early Cretaceous (2014)
- Palaeobiogeography of Early Palaeozoic vertebrates (2013)
- Geochemistry of dental bioapatite, the key to palaeoclimate (2013)
- Stable oxygen isotope compositions in shark enameloid as a proxy to seawater chemistry (2013)
- Stable isotope compositions in shark dental tissues as a proxy to seawater chemistry (2013)
- New thelodont findings from the Lower Devonian Andrée Land Group, Spitsbergen, and their implications for biostratigraphy (2012)
- Thelodont biostratigraphy indicates the extension of the Lower-Middle Devonian palaeobasin in Svalbard, Norvegian Arctics (2012)
- REE compositions in fossil vertebrate dental tissues indicate biomineral preservation (2012)
- Do fossil vertebrate biominerals hold the key to Palaeozoic climate? (2012)
- Early and Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Palaeobiogeography (2011)
- Paléobiogéographie des vertébrés du Paléozoïque inférieur et moyen (2011)
- Aspidin or galeaspidin (2011)
- REE compositions in fossil vertebrate dental tissues – key to biomineral preservation (2011)
- Geochemistry of fossilised dental remains (2011)
- The 18O/16O ratio in vertebrate biogenic apatite as a proxy to Palaeozoic seawater temperatures (2011)
- New vertebrate assemblages from the Andrée Land Group, Spitsbergen, and their biostratigraphic significance (2010)
