Nicholas J. Matzke

University of Auckland — New Zealand

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

37h-index15.0kcitations125works1.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolution and Paleontology Studies(29), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(27), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(23), Species Distribution and Climate Change(19), Genetic diversity and population structure(17)

Publications123 total

Phylogenomics and Fossilized Birth-Death Dating Reveals Gondawanan Origin and Extensive Post-Cretaceous Diversification of Worldwide Cicadidae.
2025Open Access
Evolution and structural diversity of the MotAB stator: insights into the origins of bacterial flagellar motility
mBio·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Adding 3Di characters to amino acid datasets can improve resolution, but the effect is weaker in shorter and alpha-helical proteins
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
A Pipeline for Generating Datasets of 3-Dimensional Tertiary Interaction Characters for Model-Based Structural Phylogenetics
2025Open Access
Mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life
The ISME Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life
2024Open Access
Molecular and structural innovations of the stator motor complex at the dawn of flagellar motility
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Vitalism in New Zealand science education
Science·2024· 1 cited
On use of tertiary structure characters in hidden Markov models for protein fold prediction
2024· 5 citedOpen Access
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
Systematic Biology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Tertiary-interaction characters enable fast, model-based structural phylogenetics beyond the twilight zone
2023· 37 citedOpen Access
Cryoxcellia borchgrevinki gen. nov., sp. nov., a new parasitic X-cell species in an Antarctic nototheniid fish, the bald notothen Trematomus borchgrevinki
Polar Biology·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Ancestral reconstruction of the MotA stator subunit reveals that conserved residues far from the pore are required to drive flagellar motility
microLife·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Ancestral reconstruction of the MotA stator subunit reveals that conserved residues far from the pore are required to drive flagellar motility
2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Statistical comparison of <scp>DEC</scp> and <scp>DEC</scp>+J is identical to comparison of two <scp>ClaSSE</scp> submodels, and is therefore valid
Journal of Biogeography·2022· 123 cited
A new method for determining ribosomal DNA copy number shows differences between Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations
Genomics·2022· 35 citedOpen Access
A Unique Mitochondrial Gene Block Inversion in Antarctic Trematomin Fishes: A Cautionary Tale
Journal of Heredity·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Supplemental Data for Matzke (2022), Statistical comparison of DEC and DEC+J is identical to comparison of two ClaSSE submodels, and is therefore valid
Figshare·2022Open Access
Science Without Species: Doing Science with Tree-Thinking
2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Pioneering polyploids: the impact of whole-genome duplication on biome shifting in New Zealand <i>Coprosma</i> (Rubiaceae) and <i>Veronica</i> (Plantaginaceae)
Biology Letters·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Anthony D. Barnosky(3), Charles R. Marshall(3), John W. Williams(3), Susumu Tomiya(2), Brian Swartz(2), Tiago B. Quental(2), Jenny L. McGuire(2), Ben Mersey(2), Elizabeth A. Hadly(2), Jordi Bascompte(2), Eric L. Berlow(2), Mikael Fortelius(2), Wayne M. Getz(2), John Harte(2), Alan Hastings(2), Pablo A. Marquet(2), Arne Ø. Mooers(2), Peter D. Roopnarine(2), Rosemary G. Gillespie(2), Justin Kitzes(2)