Herpetology Publications

In Press or Revision

Brown, R. M. In press. Biogeography of Land Vertebrates. In: Kliman, R.,Gillespie, R. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK.

Carvajal-Endaea, L. A. Coloma, M. A. Morales-Mite, J. M. Guayasamin, and W. E. Duellman. In Press. Phylogenetic systematics, of marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractudae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador with descriptions of three new biphasic species. Zootaxa.

All Publications

2016

Ng, J., A. G. Ossip-Klein, R. E. Glor. 2016. Adaptive signal coloration maintained in the face of gene flow in a Hispaniolan Anolis Lizard. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:193. [DOI:10.1186/s12862-016-0763-4.]

Mahler, D. L., S. M. Lambert, A. J. Geneva, J. Ng, S. B. Hedges, J. B. Losos and R. E. Glor. 2016. Discovery of a giant chameleon-like lizard (Anolis) on Hispaniola and its significance to understanding replicated adaptive radiations. American Naturalist 188:357-364. [DOI:10.1086/687566.]

Siler, C. D., D. R. Davis, A. C. Diesmos, F. Guinto, C. Whitsett, and R. M. Brown. 2016. A new species of Pseudogekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Romblon Island Group, Central Philippines. Zootaxa 4139:248–260. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.8.]

Geheber, A. D., D. Davis, J. L. Watters, M. L. Penrod, K. D. Feller, C. S. Davey, E. D. Ellsworth, R. L. Flanagan, B. D. Heitz, T. Moore, M. D. C. Nguyen, A. Roberts, J. Sutton, M. B. Sanguilla, C. W. Linkem, R. M. Brown, and C. D. Siler. 2016 Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) I: a new species from Lubang Island. Zootaxa 4132:1–14. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4132.1.1.]

Siler, C. D., D. R. Davis, E. Freitas, N. A. Huron, A. D. Geheber, J. L. Watters, M. L. Penrod, M. Papes, A. Amrein, A. Anwar, D. Cooper, T, Hein, A. Manning, N. Patel, L. Pinaroc, A. C. Diesmos, M. L. Diesmos, C. H. Oliveros, and R. M. Brown. 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) II: a new species from the northern Philippines. Zootaxa 4132:15–29. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4132.1.2.]

Davis, D. R., A. D. Geheber, J. L. Watters, M. L. Penrod, E. Freitas, K. D. Feller, A. Ashford, J. Kouri, D. Nguyen, K. Shauberger, K. Sheatsley, C. Winfrey, R. Wong, Marites B. Sanguila, R. M. Brown, and C. D. Siler. 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) III: a new species from Tablas Island. Zootaxa 4132:30–43. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4132.1.3.]

Duellman, W. E. A. Marion, and S. B. Hedges. 2016. Systematics, Classification, and Biogeography of tree frogs (Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1.]

Wynn, A., A. C. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2016. Two new species of Malayotyphlops from the northern Philippines, with redescriptions of M. luzonensis (Taylor) and M. ruber (Boettger). Journal of Herpetology 50:157–168.[DOI:10.1670/14-104.]

Grismer J., J. Schulte, A. Alexander, P. Wagner, S. Travers, M. Buehler, L. Welton, and R. M. Brown. 2016. The Eurasian invasion: phylogenomic data reveal multiple Southeast Asian origins for Indian Dragon Lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology. [DOI:10.1186/s12862-016-0611-6.]

Hutter, C. R., J. A. Lyons, T. Kell, V. Liu, and J. M. Guayasamin. 2016. The natural history, distribution, and conservation of the Lonely Rainfrog, Pristimantis eremitus. Herpetologica. [DOI:10.1655/Herpetologica-D-14-00020.]

Su, Y.-C., R. M. Brown, C.-P. Lin, and I.-M. Tso. 2016. Did a Miocene-Pliocene island isolation sequence structured diversification of funnel web spiders of the Macrothele taiwanensis species group (Hexathelidae) in the Taiwan-Ryukyu Archipelago. Journal of Biogeography. [DOI:10.1111/jbi.12674.]

Fang Y, K. Jiang, K. Wang, J.-Q. Jin, C. Suwannapoom, C. Li, J. V. Vindum, R. M. Brown, and J. Che. 2016. The Australasian frog family Ceratobatrachidae in China, Myanmar and Thailand: discovery of a new Himalayan forest frog clade. Zoological Research 37:7–14. [DOI:10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.1.7.]

Brown, R. M., Y.- C. Su., B. Barger, C. D. Siler, M. B. Sanguila, A. C. Diesmos, and D. C. Blackburn. 2016. Phylogeny of the island archipelago frog genus Sanguirana: another endemic Philippine radiation that diversified ‘Out-of-Palawan.’ Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 94:531–536. [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.010.]

Chan, K. O., L. L. Grismer, A. Zachariah, R. M. Brown, & R. K. Abraham 2016. Polyphyly of Asian tree toads, genus Pedostibes Günther, 1876 (Anura: Bufonidae), and the description of a new genus from Southeast Asia. PLoS ONE, 11(1): e0145903. [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145903.]

2015

Carvalho, Thiago R. de, Bernanrdo F, V, Teixeira. W. E. Duellman, and A. A. Giaretta. 2015. Scinax cruentommus (Anura: Hylidae) in the upper Rio Negro drainage, Amazonas state, Brazil, with the redescription of its advertisement call. Phyllomedusa 14(2): 139–146.

Brown, R. M., L. A. de Layola, A. Lorenzo II, M. L. L. Diesmos, and A. C. Diesmos. 2015. A new species of limestone karst inhabiting forest frog, genus Platymantis (Amphibia: Anura: Ceratobatrachidae: subgenus Lupacolus) from southern Luzon Island, Philippines. Zootaxa 4048: 191–210. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.3.]

Bursey, C. R., S. R. Goldberg, C. D. Siler and R. M. Brown. 2015. A new species of Cosmocerca (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae) and other helminths in Cyrtodactylus gubaot (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Philippines. Acta Parasitologica 60:675–681. [DOI:10.1515/ap-2015-0096.]

Davis, D. R., J. L. Watters, G. Köhler, C. Whitsett, N. A. Huron, R. M. Brown, A. C. Diesmos, and C. D. Siler. 2015. Redescription of the rare Philippine false gecko Pseudogekko brevipes (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4020: 357–374. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.2.7.]

Brown, R. M. 2015. A new species of stream frog (genus Hylarana) from the mountains of southern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Herpetologica 71:223–233. [DOI:10.1655/Herpetologica-D-14-00075.]

Barley, A. J., P. J. Monnahan, R. Thomson, L. L Grismer, and R. M. Brown. 2015. Sun skink landscape genomics across Southeast Asia: the evolution of genetic and morphological diversity across a heterogeneous and fragmented landscape. Molecular Ecology 24:1696–1712 [DOI:10.1111/mec.13151.].

Geneva, A. J., J. Hilton, S. Noll, R. E. Glor. 2015. Multilocus phylogenetic analyses of Hispaniolan and Bahamian trunk anoles (distichus species group). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 87:105-117.

Falk, B. G., R. E. Glor, S. L. Perkins. 2015. Clonal reproduction shapes evolution in the lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium floridense. Evolution 69:158401596.

Abraham, R. K., J. K. Mathew, V. P. Cyriac, A. Zachariah, D. V. Raju & A. Zachariah. 2015. A novel third species of the Western Ghats endemic genus Ghatixalus (Anura - Rhacophoridae), with description of its tadpole. Zootaxa, 4048(1), 101-113.

Abraham, R. K., A. Zachariah, & V.P. Cyriac. 2015. A reappraisal of the rhacophorid bush frog Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882), with an evaluation of the taxonomic status of R. emeraldi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shankar, 2014. Zootaxa, 4048(1), 090-100.

de Mello, P. L. H., R. B. Machado, C. C. Nogueira. 2015. Conserving biogeography: habitat loss and vicariant patterns in endemic squamates of the Cerrado hotspot. PLoS ONE 10(8):e0133995.

Hutter C.R. and J. M. Guayasamin. 2015. Cryptic diversity concealed in the Andean cloud forests: two new species of rainfrogs (Pristimantis) by molecular and bioacoustic data. Neotropical Biodiversity 1: 36–59.

Hutter C.R., S. M. Lambert, K. A. Cobb, Z. F. Andriampenomanana, and M. Vences. 2015. A new species of bright-eyed treefrog (Mantellidae) from Madagascar, with comments on call evolution and patterns of syntopy in the Boophis ankaratra complex. Zootaxa 4034(3): 531–555.

Guayasamin J. M., M. Rivera-Correa, A. Arteaga, J. Culebras, L. Bustamante, A. Pyron, N. Peñafiel, C. Morochz, and C. R. Hutter. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of stream treefrogs (Hylidae: Hyloscirtus bogotensis Group), with a new species from the Andes of Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity 1: 2–21.

Guayasamin J. M., T. Krynak, K. Krynak, J. Garcia, and C. R. Hutter. 2015. Phenotypic plasticity raises questions for taxonomically important traits: a remarkable new Andean rainfrog (Pristimantis) with the ability to change skin texture. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 173: 913-928.

Grismer, L.L., P.L.Jr. Wood, S. Anuar, E.S.H. Quah, M.A. Muin, K.O. Chan, A.X. Sumarli and A.I. Loredo 2015. Repeated evolution of sympatric, palaeoendemic species in closely related, co-distributed lineages of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) across a sky-island archipelago in Peninsular Malaysia. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 174:859–876.

Peterson, A. T., and T. Anamza. 2015. Ecological niches and present and historical geographic distributions of species: A 15-year review of frameworks, results, pitfalls, and promises. Folia Zoologica 64(3): 207-217

Diesmos, A. C., J. L. Watters, N. A. Huron, D. R. Davis, A. C. Alcala, R. I. Crombie, L. E. Afuang, G. Gee-Das, R. V. Sison, M. B. Sanguila, M. L. Penrod, M. J. Labonte, C. S. Davey, E. A. Leone, M. L. Diesmos, E. Y. Sy, L. J. Welton, R. M. Brown, and C. D. Siler. 2015. Amphibians of the Philippines, part I: checklist of the species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62:451–531.

Huron N. A., Realubit, N. D. C., Cobb, K. A., Brown, J. C., Bergmann, P., Morinaga, G., Diesmos, A. C., Diesmos, M. L., Brown, R. M., Siler C. D. 2015. Discovery of new island populations of the recently described False Geckos (Pseudogekko pungkaypinit and Pseudogekko ditoy): Conservation implications for the eastern Philippines. Herpetological Review 46:634–635.

Realubit, N. D. C., Diesmos, M. L. Lorenzo, A. II, De Layola, L. A., Diesmos, A. C., Brown, J. C., Brown, R. M. Cobb, K. A., Bergman, P., Morinag, G., Siler, C. D, Huron, N. A., Siler J. A. 2015. Draco mindanensis (Mindanao flying lizard): Geographical distribution. Herpetological Review 46: 216.

Duellman, W. E. 2015. Herpetology at Kansas: A Centennial History. SSAR. Ithaca, USA. 346 pages.

Duellman, W. E. 2015. Marsupial Frogs: Gastrotheca & Allied Genera. Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore, USA. 407 pages.

Brown, R. M., C. D. Siler, S. Richards, A. C. Diesmos, and D. C. Cannatella. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 174:130–168 [DOI:10.1111/zoj.12232.]

Bursey, C. R., S. R. Goldberg, C. D. Siler and R. M. Brown. 2015. A new species of Cosmocerca (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae) and other helminths in Cyrtodactylus gubaot (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Philippines. Acta Parasitologica 60:675–681 [DOI:10.1515/ap-2015-0096.].

Brown, R. M. 2015. A new species of stream frog (genus Hylarana) from the mountains of southern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Herpetologica 71:223233 [DOI:10.1655/Herpetologica-D-14-00075.].

Hutter, C. R. and J. M. Guayasamin. 2015. Cryptic diversity concealed in the Andean cloud forests: two new species of rainfrogs (Pristimantis) uncovered through integrative taxonomy. Neotropical Biodiversity. [DOI:10.1080/23766808.2015.1100376.]

Guayasamin, J. M., M. Rivera-Correa, A. Arteaga, J. Culebras, L. Bustamante, A. Pyron, N. Peñafiel, C. Morochz, and C. R. Hutter. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of stream treefrogs (Hylidae: Hyloscirtus bogotensis Group), with a new species from the Andes of Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity 1: 2–21. [DOI:10.1080/23766808.2015.1074407.]

Guayasamin, J. M., T. Krynak, K. Krynak, J. Garcia, and C. R. Hutter. 2015. Phenotypic plasticity raises questions for taxonomically important traits: a remarkable new Andean rainfrog (Pristimantis) with the ability to change skin texture. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 173: 913-928. [DOI:10.1111/zoj.12222.]

2014

Chan, K. O., L. L. Grismer, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Reappraisal of the Javanese bullfrog complex, Kaloula baleata (Müller, 1836) (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae), reveals a new species from northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3900:569–580. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.7.]

Barley, A. J., A. Datta-Roy, K. P. Karanth, and R. M. Brown. 2015. Sun skink diversification across the Indian-Southeast Asian biogeographical interface. Journal of Biogeography [DOI:10.1111/jbi.12397.]

Siler, C. D. , L. J. Welton, D. R. Davis, J. L. Watters, C. S. Davey, A. C. Diesmos, M. L. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Taxonomic revision of the Pseudogekko compresicorpus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae), with descriptions of three new species. Herpetological Monographs 28:110–139.[DOI:10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-14-00005.]

Welton, L. J., C. D. Siler, S. N. Travers, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Integrative taxonomy and phylogeny-based species delimitation of Philippine water monitor lizards (Varanus salvator Complex) with descriptions of two new cryptic species. Zootaxa 3881:201–227.[DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3881.3.1.]

Diesmos, A. C., A. C. Alcala, C. D. Siler, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Status and Conservation of Philippine Amphibians. Pp. 310–336 In: Heatwole, H., and I. Das (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Amphibians of Asia. Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Duellman, W. E., A. J. Barley, and P. J. Venegas. 2014. Cryptic species diversity in marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractide: Gastrotheca) in the Andes of northern Peru. Zootaxa 3768:159–177. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3768.2.4.]

Folly, M., F. Hepp, S. P. Carvalho-e-Silva, and W. E. Duellman. 2014. Taxonomic status and redescription of Flectonotus ulei Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (Anura: Hemiphractidae), with a key to species of Fritziana. Zoologia 31:393–399. [DOI:10.1590/S1984-46702014000400011.]

Kin Onn, C., R. M. Brown, N. Ahmad and L. Lee. Grismer. 2014. A new species of frog (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae) of the Hylarana signata Complex from Peninsular Malaysia. Herpetologica 70:228–240. [DOI:10.1655/herpetologica-D-13-00057.].

Richards, S. J., P. Oliver, and R. M. Brown. 2014. A new scansorial species of Platymantis Günther 1858 (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) from Manus Island, Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Pp. 123–134 In: Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea Monograph Series Vol. 2, The Entomological Society of Latvia, Lettland, Latvia. Leviton, A. E., R. M. Brown, and C. D. Siler. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine archipelago, with identification keys and species accounts. Pp. 473–530 In: G. C. Williams and G. C. Gosliner (eds.), The Coral Triangle: the 2011 Hearts Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA.

Welton, L. J., P. L. Wood Jr., J. R. Oaks, C. D. Siler, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Fossil-calibrated phylogeny and historical biogeography of Southeast Asian water monitors (Varanus salvator Complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 74:29–37. [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.016.]

Gonzales, P., Y.-C. Su, C. D. Siler, A. Barley, M. B. Sanguila, A. C. Diesmos and, R. M. Brown. 2014. Archipelago colonization by ecologically dissimilar amphibians: evaluating the expectation of common evolutionary history of geographical diffusion in co-distributed rainforest tree frogs in islands of Southeast Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 72: 35–41. [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.12.006.]

Siler, C. D., A. Lira-Noriega, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Conservation genetics of Australasian sailfin lizards: flagship species threatened by coastal development and insufficient protected area coverage. Biological Conservation 169:100–108. [DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.10.014.]

Siler, C, D., A. A. Dececchi, C. L. Merkord, D. R. Davis, T. J. Christiani, and R. M. Brown. 2014. Cryptic diversity and population genetic structure in the rare, endemic, forest-obligate, geckos of the Philippines. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70:204–209. [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.014.]

Brown, R. M., Jennifer A. Weghorst, Karen V. Olson, Mariano R. M. Duya, Anthony J. Barley, Liza V. Duya, Myron Shekelle, Irene Neri-Arboleda, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Perry S. Ong, Gillian L. Moritz, Adrian Luczon, Mae L. D. Diesmos, Arvin C. Diesmos and Cameron D. Siler. 2014. Conservation genetics of the Philippine tarsier: cryptic genetic variation restructures conservation priorities for an island archipelago primate. PLoS ONE 9:e104340. [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0104340.]

Rocha, L. A., A. Aleixo, G. Allen, F. Almeda, C. Baldwin, M. Barclay, J. Bates, A. Bauer, F. Benzoni, C. Berns, M. Berumen, D. C. Blackburn, S. Blum, F. Bolaños, R. Bowie, R. Brit, R. M. Brown, et. al. 2014. Specimen collection: an essential tool. Science 344:814–815. [DOI:10.1126/science.344.6186.814.]

Siler, C. D., Linkem, C. W., Cobb, K., Watters, J. L., Cummings, S. T., Diesmos, A. C., & Brown, R. M. (2014). Taxonomic revision of the semi-aquatic skink Parvoscincus leucospilos (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with description of three new species. Zootaxa 3847:388-412. [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.4.]

Siler, C. D., Oaks, J. R., Cobb, K., Ota, H., Brown, R. M. (2014), Critically endangered island endemic or peripheral population of a widespread species? Conservation genetics of Kikuchi's gecko and the global challenge of protecting peripheral oceanic island endemic vertebrates. Diversity and Distributions, 20:756–772. [DOI:10.1111/ddi.12169].

2013

Hutter C.R., J. M. Guayasamin, and J. J. Wiens. 2013. Explaining Andean megadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrog elevational richness patterns. Ecology Letters 16: 1135–1144. [DOI:10.1111/ele.12148.]

Gamble, T., A. J. Geneva, R. E. Glor, and D. Zarkower. In Press. Anolis sex chromosomes are derived from a single ancestral pair. Evolution. [DOI:10.1111/evo.12328.]

Schmid, M., C. Steinlein, J. P. Bogart, T. Haaf, L. Nanda, E. del Pino, W. E. Duellman, and S. B. Hedges. 2013. The hemiphractid frogs: phylogeny, embryology, life history, and cytogenetics. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 138:69–384.

Siler, C. D., A. Lira-Noriega, and R. M. Brown. 2013. Conservation genetics of Australasian Sailfin Lizards: flagship species threatened by coastal development and insufficient protected area coverage. Biological Conservation 169:100–108 [DOI:0.1016/j.biocon.2013.10.014.]

Ng, J., A. L. Kelly, D. J. MacGuigan, and R. E. Glor. 2013. The role of heritable and dietary factors in the sexual signal of a Hispaniolan Anolis lizard, Anolis distichus. Journal of Heredity 104:862-873. [DOI:10.1093/jhered/est060.]

Hutter C. R., S. Escobar-Lasso, J. A. Rojas-Morales., P. A. Gutièrrez-Càrdenas, H. Imba, and J. M. Guayasamin. 2013. High site fidelity, aggressive interactions and vocalisations of the Red-spotted Glassfrog, Nymphargus grandisonae, Cochran & Goin 1970 (Anura: Centrolenidae). The Journal of Natural History 47: 3011-3032 [DOI:10.1080/00222933.2013.792961.]

Blackburn, David C., and W. E. Duellman. 2013. Brazilian marsupial frogs are diphyletic (Anura: Hemiphractidae: Gastrotheca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68:709–714. [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.04.021.]

Grismer, L. L., P. L. Wood Jr., S. Anuar, M. A. Muin, E. S. H. Quah, J. A. McGuire, R. M. Brown, and N. V. Tri. 2013. Integrative taxonomy uncovers high levels of cryptic species diversity in Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the description of a new species from Peninsular Malaysia. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 169:849–880 [DOI:10.1111/zoj.12064.]

Wollenberg, K. C., I. J. Wang, R. E. Glor, and J. B. Losos (2013) Determinism in the diversification of Hispaniolan trunk-ground anols(Anolis cybotes species complex). Evolution. [DOI:10.1111/evo.12184.]

Duellman, William E. 2013. An elusive new species of marsupial frog (Anura: Hemiphractidae: Gastrotheca) from the Andes of northern Peru. Phyllomedusa, 12, 3–11.

Scantlebury, D. P. 2013. Diversification rates have declined in the Malagasy herpetofauna. Proc. Royal Soc. B. [DOI:10.1098/rspb.2013.1109.]

Brown, R. M., C D. Siler, C. H. Oliveros, J. A. Esselstyn, A. C. Diesmos, P. A. Hosner, C. W. Linkem, A. J. Barley, J. R. Oaks, M. B. Sanguila, L. J. Welton, D. S. Blackburn, R. G. Moyle, A. T. Peterson, and A. C. Alcala. 2013. Evolutionary processes of diversification in a model island archipelago. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 44:411–435 [DOI:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160323.]

Ascher, J. M., A. J. Geneva, J. Ng, J. D. Wyatt, and R. E. Glor. 2013. Phylogenetic analyses of novel squamate adenovirus sequences in wild-caught Anolis lizards. PLOS ONE. [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0060977.]

Siler, C, D., A. A. Dececchi, C. L. Merkord, D. R. Davis, T. J. Christiani, and R. M. Brown. 2013. Cryptic diversity and population genetic structure in the rare, endemic, forest-obligate, geckos of the Philippines. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70:204–209 [DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.014.]

Lambert, S. M., A. J. Geneva, D. L. Mahler, and R. E. Glor. 2013. Using genomic data to revisit a classic example of reproductive character displacement in Haitian Anolis lizards. Molecular Ecology 22:3981-3995. [DOI:10.1111/mec.12292] [see also Losos and Leal's perspective on this article].

Brown, R. M., S, J. Richards, and T. S. Broadhead. 2013. A new shrubfrog in the genus Platymantis (Ceratobatrachidae) from the Nakanai Mountains of eastern New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago. Zootaxa 3710: 31–45 [DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3710.1.2.]

Chan, K. O., D. C. Blackburn, R. W. Murphy, B. L. Stuart, D. A. Emmett, Cuc Thu Ho, and R. M. Brown. 2013. New species of narrow-mouthed frog of the genus Kaloula from eastern Indochina. Herpetologica 69:329–341 [DOI:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-12-00094.]

Algar, A. C., D. L. Mahler, R. E. Glor, and J. B. Losos (2013) Niche incumbency, dispersal limitation and climate change shpe geographical distributions in a species-rich island adaptive radiation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:391-402. [DOI:10.1111/geb.12003.]

Barley, A., J. White, A. C. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2013. The challenge of species delimitation at the extremes: diversification without morphological change in Philippine sun skinks. Evolution 67:3556-3572 [DOI:10.1111/evo.12219.]

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