PUBLICATIONS:
-Aguirre, W.E., and M.A. Bell. In prep. Adapting to a new environment: contemporary body shape evolution of a recently established threespine stickleback lake population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
-Aguirre, W.E., and O. Akinpelu. In review. Sexual dimorphism of head morphology in threespine stickleback. Journal of Fish Biology.
-Bell, M.A., A.K. Gangavalli, A. Bewick, and W.E. Aguirre. In review. Frequency of Ectodysplasin alleles and evidence for limited introgression between sympatric anadromous and lake resident threespine stickleback. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
-Aguirre, W.E.. 2009. Microgeographic diversification of threespine stickleback: body shape-habitat correlations in a small, ecologically diverse Alaskan drainage. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98:139-151. PDF
-Vergara-Chen, C., W.E. Aguirre, M. Gonzalez-Wanguemert, E. Bermingham. 2009. A mitocondrial DNA-based phylogeny of weakfish species of the Cynoscion-group (Pisces: Sciaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53:602-607. PDF
-Arif, S., Aguirre, W.E., and M.A. Bell. 2009. Evolutionary diversification of operculum shape in Cook Inlet threespine stickleback. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 97:832-844. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E., K.E. Ellis, M. Kusenda, and M.A. Bell. 2008. Phenotypic variation and sexual dimorphism in anadromous threespine stickleback: implications for postglacial adaptive radiation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95:465-478. PDF
-Kimmel, C.B., W.E. Aguirre, B. Ullmann, M. Currey, W.A. Cresko. 2008. Allometric change accompanies opercular shape evolution in Alaskan threespine sticklebacks. Behaviour 145:669-691. PDF
-Shervette, V.R., W.E. Aguirre, R. Cevallos, M. Gonzalez, F. Pozo, E. Blacio, and F. Gelwick. 2007. Fish communities of a disturbed mangrove wetland and an adjacent tidal river in Palmar, Ecuador. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 72:115-128. PDF
-Felix, F., B. Haase, and W.E. Aguirre. 2007. A case of spondylitis in a humpback whale (Megaptera novaengliae) in the southeast Pacific. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 75:259-264. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E., V.R. Shervette, R. Cevallos, M. Gonzalez, and F. Pozo. 2006. Occurrence of Sphoeroides rosenblatti Bussing, 1996 (Teleostei: Tetraodontidae) along the coast of Guayas Province, Ecuador, and a comparison with sympatric Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns, 1842). Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia 41:231-238. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E., and V.R. Shervette. 2005. Morphological diversity of the Cynoscion group (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), a comparative approach. Environmental Biology of Fishes 73:403-413. PDF
-Alava, J.J., and W.E. Aguirre. 2005. Scanning electron microscopy of Neoechinorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae), a possible new species of intestinal parasite of the tallfin croaker Micropogonias alpinnis (Gunther, 1864). Parasitologia Latinoamericana 60:48-53. PDF
-Alava, J.J., P. Jimenez, M. Penafiel, W. Aguirre, and P. Amador. 2005. Sea turtle strandings and mortality in Ecuador: 1994-1999. Marine Turtle Newsletter 108:4-7.
-Aguirre, W.E., P. Doherty, and M.A. Bell. 2004. Genetics of lateral plate and gill raker phenotypes in a rapidly evolving population of threespine stickleback. Behaviour 141:1465-1483. PDF
-Bell, M.A., W.E. Aguirre, and N. Buck. 2004. Twelve years of contemporary armor evolution in a threespine stickleback population. Evolution 58:814-824. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E. 2003. Allometric growth of the sulcus in Cynoscion (Sciaenidae). Journal of Fish Biology 63:1341-1346. PDF
-Chiluiza, D., W. Aguirre, F. Felix, y B. Haase. 1998. Varamientos de mamiferos marinos en la costa continental Ecuatoriana periodo 1987-1995 (Marine mammal strandings along the continental coast of Ecuador period 1987-1995). Acta Oceanografica del Pacifico 9(1):209-217. PDF
BOOK REVIEWS:
-Aguirre, W.E. 2008. Review of Red Snapper Ecology and Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (edited by W.F. Patterson III, J.H. Cowan Jr., G.R. Fitzhugh, and D.L. Nieland). Quarterly Review of Biology 83:416. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E. 2008. Review of Genetic Diversity, A Lab Manual (edited by M.P. Weiner, S.B. Gabriel, and J.C. Stephens). Quarterly Review of Biology 83:313-314. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E. 2006. Review of Frozen earth : the once and future story of ice ages (by Doug Macdougall). Quarterly Review of Biology 81:193-194. PDF
-Aguirre, W.E. 2003. Review of Ecology of the marine fishes of Cuba (edited by R. Claro, K.C. Lindeman, and L.R. Parenti). Quarterly Review of Biology 78(1):110. PDF