selected publications
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academic article
- Mating behavior and reproductive morphology predict macroevolution of sex allocation in hermaphroditic flatworms. BMC Biology. 20. 2022
- Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology. Evolution Letters. 6:63-82. 2022
- Estimation of the strength of mate preference from mated pairs observed in the wild. Evolution. 76:29-41. 2022
- Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution*. American Naturalist. 2022
- When adaptive radiations collide: Different evolutionary trajectories between and within island and mainland lizard clades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. 2021
- A White Noise Approach to Evolutionary Ecology. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 521:110660. 2021
- Reconstructing Squamate Biogeography in Afro-Arabia Reveals the Influence of a Complex and Dynamic Geologic Past. Systematic Biology. 2021
- Insights From Experiments With Rigor in an EvoBio Design Study. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 27:1106-1116. 2021
- A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2021
- Causes and Consequences of Apparent Timescaling Across All Estimated Evolutionary Rates. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 52.0. 2021
- Hybridizing Salamanders Experience Accelerated Diversification. Scientific Reports. 10:6566. 2020
- Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa. Journal of Heredity. 111:1-20. 2020
- Detecting the Macroevolutionary Signal of Species Interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32. 2019
- Macroevolutionary diversification rates show time dependency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116:7403-7408. 2019
- Reply to Wiens and Scholl: The time dependency of diversification rates is a widely observed phenomenon.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116:24401. 2019
- The choice of tree prior and molecular clock does not substantially affect phylogenetic inferences of diversification rates. PeerJ. 7:e6334. 2019
- Estimating correlated rates of trait evolution with uncertainty.. Systematic Biology. 2018
- A General Model for Estimating Macroevolutionary Landscapes. Systematic Biology. 67:304-319. 2018
- Deciphering the Interdependence between Ecological and Evolutionary Networks. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 33:504-512. 2018
- ratematrix: An R package for studying evolutionary integration among several traits on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8:1920-1927. 2017
- Fighting over food unites the birds of North America in a continental dominance hierarchy. Behavioral Ecology. 28.0:1454.0-1463.0. 2017
- Inference of Evolutionary Jumps in Large Phylogenies using Levy Processes.. Systematic Biology. 66. 2017
- There's more than one way to climb a tree: Limb length and microhabitat use in lizards with toe pads. PLOS One. 12. 2017
- Evolution in a Community Context: On Integrating Ecological Interactions and Macroevolution.. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32:291-304. 2017
- Evolution: Contingent Predictability in Mammalian Evolution.. Current Biology. 27:R425-R428. 2017
- Radiating despite a Lack of Character: Ecological Divergence among Closely Related, Morphologically Similar Honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) Co-occurring in Arid Australian Environments. American Naturalist. 189:E14-E30. 2017
- Tempo and mode of performance evolution across multiple independent origins of adhesive toe pads in lizards.. Evolution. 71:2344-2358. 2017
- A Comprehensive Study of Cyanobacterial Morphological and Ecological Evolutionary Dynamics through Deep Geologic Time. PLOS One. 11. 2016
- Modeling observed animal performance using the Weibull distribution. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219:1603-1607. 2016
- Colonization of a novel depauperate habitat leads to trophic niche shifts in three desert lizard species. Oikos. 125:343-353. 2016
- Temporal Variation in Structural Microhabitat Use of Phelsuma Geckos in Mauritius. Journal of Herpetology. 50:102-107. 2016
- Nested radiations and the pulse of angiosperm diversification: increased diversification rates often follow whole genome duplications. New Phytologist. 207:454-467. 2015
- When Field Experiments Yield Unexpected Results: Lessons Learned from Measuring Selection in White Sands Lizards. PLOS One. 10. 2015
- Ecological release and directional change in White Sands lizard trophic ecomorphology. Evolutionary Ecology. 29:1-16. 2015
- Finding Our Way through Phenotypes. PLOS Biology. 13. 2015
- Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits. American Naturalist. 186:E33-E50. 2015
- Predicting rates of interspecific interaction from phylogenetic trees. Ecology Letters. 18:17-27. 2015
- Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales. American Naturalist. 185:584-593. 2015
- A Novel Bayesian Method for Inferring and Interpreting the Dynamics of Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Comparative Data. Systematic Biology. 63:902-918. 2014
- Beyond Black and White: Comparative Ecomorphology in Three Rapidly Evolving Lizard Species at White Sands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 111:169-182. 2014
- Arbor: Comparative Analysis Workflows for the Tree of Life. PLOS Currents. 2013
- Phylotastic! Making Tree-of-Life Knowledge Accessible, Reusable and Convenient. BMC Bioinformatics. 14. 2013
- Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Stickleback on Community Structure. PLOS One. 8:e59644. 2013
- The evolution of antibiotic susceptibility and resistance during the formation of Escherichia coli biofilms in the absence of antibiotics. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 13. 2013
- A Unified Model of Species Immigration, Extinction and Abundance on Islands. Journal of Biogeography. 40:1107-1118. 2013
- Congruification: support for time scaling large phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4:688-691. 2013
- Integrating Fossils with Molecular Phylogenies Improves Inference of Trait Evolution. Evolution. 66:3931-3944. 2012
- Trees of Unusual Size: Biased Inference of Early Bursts from Large Molecular Phylogenies. PLOS One. 7:e43348. 2012
- When should we expect early bursts of trait evolution in comparative data? Predictions from an evolutionary food web model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25:1902-1910. 2012
- The Case for Ecological Neutral Theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 27:203-208. 2012
- Fitting Models of Continuous Trait Evolution to incompletely Sampled Comparative Data Using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Evolution. 66:752-762. 2012
- An Inordinate Fondness for Eukaryotic Diversity. PLOS Biology. 10. 2012
- Ecological Opportunity and Sexual Selection together Predict Adaptive Radiation. Nature. 487:366-U124. 2012
- Fossils, Molecular Phylogenies, and Models of Trait Evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 52:E161-E161. 2012
- Goldilocks Meets Santa Rosalia: an Ephemeral Speciation Model Explains Patterns of Diversification Across Time Scales. Evolutionary Biology. 39:255-261. 2012
- How Do Species Interactions Affect Species Distribution Models?. Ecography. 35:811-820. 2012
- OneZoom: a Fractal Explorer for the Tree of Life. PLOS Biology. 10. 2012
- A Novel Comparative Method for Identifying Shifts in the Rate of Character Evolution on Trees. Evolution. 65:3578-3589. 2011
- Ecological Release in White Sands Lizards. Ecology and Evolution. 1:571-578. 2011
- RBrownie: an R Package for Testing Hypotheses About Rates of Evolutionary Change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2:660-662. 2011
- Extinction Risk and Diversification are Linked in a Plant Biodiversity Hotspot. PLOS Biology. 9. 2011
- Brain Evolution Triggers Increased Diversification of Electric Fishes. Science (New York, N.Y). 332:583-586. 2011
- Integrating Ecology into Macroevolutionary Research. Biology Letters. 7:644-646. 2011
- Evidence of Constrained Phenotypic Evolution in a Cryptic Species Complex of Agamid Lizards. Evolution. 65:976-992. 2011
- Estimating Evolutionary Rates from Incomplete Phylogenies and Data Using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51:E128-E128. 2011
- Same Same but Different: Replicated Ecological Speciation at White Sands. Evolution. 65:946-960. 2011
- Testing for Temporal Variation in Diversification Rates when Sampling is Incomplete and Nonrandom. Systematic Biology. 60:410-419. 2011
- The Onion Model, a Simple Neutral Model for the Evolution of Diversity in Bacterial Biofilms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24:2496-2504. 2011
- Sexual Signal Evolution Outpaces Ecological Divergence during Electric Fish Species Radiation. American Naturalist. 176:335-356. 2010
- Ecological Opportunity and the Origin of Adaptive Radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23:1581-1596. 2010
- Sympatric and Allopatric Divergence of MHC Genes in Threespine Stickleback. PLOS One. 5. 2010
- A Semiparametric Method to Test for Correlated Evolution in a Phylogenetic Context. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50:E68-E68. 2010
- Early Bursts of Body Size and Shape Evolution are Rare in Comparative Data. Evolution. 64:2385-2396. 2010
- Poor Statistical Performance of the Mantel Test in Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses. Evolution. 64:2173-2178. 2010
- From Genes to Ecosystems: an Emerging Synthesis of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics. New Phytologist. 184:746-749. 2009
- Nine Exceptional Radiations Plus High Turnover Explain Species Diversity in Jawed Vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106:13410-13414. 2009
- Evolutionary Diversification in Stickleback Affects Ecosystem Functioning. Nature. 458:1167-1170. 2009
- Ecological Explanations for (incomplete) Speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 24:145-156. 2009
- Did Genome Duplication Drive the Origin of Teleosts? A Comparative Study of Diversification in Ray-Finned Fishes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 9. 2009
- Did the Fish-Specific Genome Duplication (fsgd) Event Spawn the Teleost Radiation? Evidence from the Analysis of Actinopterygian Diversification Rates. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49:E2-E2. 2009
- Explaining Patterns of Diversity Within Ray-Finned Fish. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49:E150-E150. 2009
- Niche Evolution, Trophic Structure, and Species Turnover in Model Food Webs. American Naturalist. 174:56-67. 2009
- The Measurement and Interpretation of Phylogenetic Signal. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49:E142-E142. 2009
- Testing the Island Effect in Adaptive Radiation: Rates and Patterns of Morphological Diversification in Caribbean and Mainland Anolis Lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275:2749-2757. 2008
- Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate. Systematic Biology. 57:591-601. 2008
- The Role of Geography and Ecological Opportunity in the Diversification of Day Geckos (phelsuma). Systematic Biology. 57:562-573. 2008
- GEIGER: Investigating Evolutionary Radiations. Bioinformatics. 24:129-131. 2008
- Testing Quantitative Genetic Hypotheses About the Evolutionary Rate Matrix for Continuous Characters. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 10:311-331. 2008
- Competition and Community Structure in Diurnal Arboreal Geckos (genus Phelsuma) in the Indian Ocean. Oikos. 116:1863-1878. 2007
- Multivariate Phenotypic Evolution Among Island and Mainland Populations of the Ornate Day Gecko, Phelsuma Ornata. Evolution. 60:2622-2632. 2007
- Intercontinental Community Convergence of Ecology and Morphology in Desert Lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273:557-563. 2005
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Ecomorphological Divergence, Community Structure, and Diversification Rates in Dusky Salamanders (plethodontidae : Desmognathus). Evolution. 59:2000-2016. 2005
- What Free-Ranging Animals do at the Zoo: a Study of the Behavior and Habitat Use of Opossums (didelphis Virginiana) on the Grounds of the St. Louis Zoo. Zoo Biology. 24:197-213. 2005
- Convergence and the Multidimensional Niche. Evolution. 59:409-421. 2005
- Resolving Deep Phylogenetic Relationships in Salamanders: Analyses of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genomic Data. Systematic Biology. 54:758-777. 2005
- The Effect of Intraspecific Sample Size on Type 1 and Type 11 Error Rates in Comparative Studies. Evolution. 59:2705-2710. 2005
- Underparameterized Model of Sequence Evolution Leads to Bias in the Estimation of Diversification Rates from Molecular Phylogenies. Systematic Biology. 54:973-983. 2005
- Tempo and Mode of Evolutionary Radiation in Iguanian Lizards. Science (New York, N.Y). 301:961-964. 2003
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