2008
Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Testing for evolutionary
trade-offs in a phylogenetic context: ecological diversification and
locomotor performance in emydid turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:77–928.
PDF.
Kozak, K. H., C. H. Graham, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Integrating GIS data
into evolutionary studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:141–148.
PDF.
Townsend, T. M., E. R. Alegre, S. T. Kelley, J. J. Wiens, and T. W.
Reeder. 2008. Rapid development of multiple nuclear loci for
phylogenetic analysis using genomic resources. Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 47:129–142.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2008. Systematics and herpetology in the age of genomics.
Bioscience 58:297–307.
PDF.
Gomez-Mestre, I., J. J. Wiens, and K. M. Warkentin. 2008. Evolution of
adaptive plasticity: risk-sensitive hatching in Neotropical
leaf-breeding treefrogs (Agalychnis: Hylidae).
Ecological Monographs 78:205–224.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and D. S. Moen. 2008. Missing data and the accuracy of
Bayesian phylogenetics. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:307–314.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and J. T. Hoverman. 2008. Digit reduction, body size,
and paedomorphosis in salamanders. Evolution and Development 10:449–463.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, S. A. Smith, D. Mulcahy, J. W. Sites,
Jr., T. M. Townsend, and T. W. Reeder. 2008. Branch length, support, and
congruence: testing the phylogenomic approach with 20 nuclear loci in
snakes. Systematic Biology 57:420–431.
PDF.
Brandley, M. C., J. P. Huelsenbeck, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Rates and
patterns in the evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles:
evidence for repeated re-evolution of lost digits and long-term
persistence of intermediate body forms. Evolution (in press).
2007
Wiens, J. J. 2007. Review of "The amphibian tree of life" by Frost et
al. Quarterly Review of Biology 82:55–56.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., G. Parra-Olea, M. Garcia-Paris, and D. B. Wake. 2007. Phylogenetic history
underlies elevational patterns of biodiversity in tropical salamanders. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London 274:919–928.
PDF.
Smith, S. A., A. Nieto Montes de Oca, T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2007. A phylogenetic
perspective on elevational species richness patterns in Middle American treefrogs: why
so few species in lowland tropical rainforests? Evolution 61:1188–1207.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2007. Pissing away the eons. Review of "Phylogeny and conservation"
by Purvis et al. 2005. Evolution 61:1788–1790.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2007. Global patterns of species richness and diversification in amphibians.
American Naturalist 170:S86–S106.
PDF
Wiens, J. J., C. Kuczynski, W. E. Duellman, and T. W. Reeder. 2007.
Loss and re-evolution of complex life cycles in marsupial frogs: can
ancestral trait reconstruction mislead? Evolution 61:1886–1899.
PDF.
Smith, S. A., S. Arif, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, and J. J. Wiens. 2007.
A phylogenetic hotspot for evolutionary novelty in Middle American treefrogs.
Evolution 61:2075–2085.
PDF.
Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. Climatic zonation drives latitudinal
variation in speciation mechanisms.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 274:2995–3003.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2007. Species delimitation: new approaches for
discovering diversity. Systematic Biology 56:875–878.
PDF.
2006
Wiens, J. J., M. C. Brandley, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Why does a trait
evolve multiple times within a clade? Repeated evolution of snake-like
body form in squamate reptiles. Evolution 60:123–141.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2006. Missing data and the design of phylogenetic analyses.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39:34–42. (Invited review)
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder.
2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity
gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical
diversity. American Naturalist 168:579-596.
PDF,
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Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2006. Does niche conservatism drive speciation?
A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution 60:2604–2621.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., T. N. Engstrom, and P. T. Chippindale. 2006. Rapid diversification,
incomplete isolation, and the "speciation clock" in North American salamanders
(genus Plethodon): testing the hybrid swarm hypothesis of rapid radiation.
Evolution 60:2585–2603.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2006. Molecular evolution for the masses (review of "The making
of the fittest" by Sean Carroll). Bioscience 56:1014-1015.
PDF.
2005
Wiens, J. J., R. M. Bonett, and P. T. Chippindale. 2005. Ontogeny
discombobulates phylogeny: paedomorphosis and higher-level salamander phylogeny.
Systematic Biology 54:91–110.
PDF.
Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Re-evolution of the larval
stage in the plethodontid salamander genus Desmognathus. Herpetological
Review 36:113–117.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. and C. H. Graham. 2005. Niche conservatism: integrating
evolution, ecology, and conservation biology. Annual Review of Ecology,
Evolution, and Systematics 36:519–539.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2005. Can incomplete taxa rescue phylogenetic analyses
from long-branch attraction? Systematic Biology 54:731–742.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., J. W. Fetzner, C. L. Parkinson, and T. W. Reeder. 2005.
Hylid frog phylogeny and sampling strategies for
speciose clades. Systematic Biology 54:719-748.
PDF.
Smith, S. A., P. R. Stephens, and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Replicate patterns of
species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic
treefrogs. Evolution 59:2433-2450.
PDF.
2004
Wiens, J. J. 2004. Speciation and ecology revisited: phylogenetic niche
conservatism and the origin of species. Evolution 58:193–197.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2004. What is speciation and how should we study it?
American Naturalist 163:914–923.
PDF.
Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2004. Convergence, divergence, and
homogenization in the ecological structure of emydid turtle communities:
the effects of phylogeny and dispersal.
American Naturalist 164:244–254.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2004. The role of morphological data in phylogeny reconstruction.
Systematic Biology 53:653–661.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2004. Development and evolution of body form and limb reduction
in squamate reptiles: a response to Sanger and Gibson-Brown.
Evolution 58:2107–2108.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and M. J. Donoghue. Historical biogeography, ecology,
and species richness.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:639–644.
PDF.
Espinoza, R. E., J. J. Wiens, and C. R. Tracy. 2004. Recurrent
evolution of herbivory in small, cold climate lizards: breaking the
ecophysiological rules of reptilian herbivory.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 101:16819–16824.
PDF.
Chippindale, P. T., R. M. Bonett, A. S. Baldwin, and J. J. Wiens. 2004.
Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal in life history evolution in
plethodontid salamanders. Evolution 58:2809-2822.
PDF.
2003
Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2003. Explaining species richness from
continents to communities: the time-for-speciation effect in emydid turtles.
American Naturalist 161:112–128.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. and M. R. Morris. 2003. Review of "Sexual Selections"
by Marlene Zuk. Quarterly Review of Biology 78:127.
Wiens, J. J. 2003. Incomplete taxa, incomplete characters, and phylogenetic
accuracy: what is the missing data problem? Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 23:297–310. PDF.
Wiens, J. J., P. T. Chippindale, and D. M. Hillis. 2003. When are phylogenetic
analyses misled by convergence? A case study in Texas cave salamanders.
Systematic Biology 52:501–514. PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2003. Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogenetic accuracy.
Systematic Biology 52:528–538.
PDF.
Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2003. Ecological diversification and
phylogeny of emydid turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
79:577–610.PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and R. E. Etheridge. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of
hoplocercid lizards: coding and combining meristic, morphometriand polymorphic
data using step matrices. Herpetologica 59:375–398.
PDF.
2002
Wiens, J. J., and T. L. Penkrot. 2002. Delimiting species based on DNA
and morphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards
(Sceloporus). Systematic Biology 51:69–91.
PDF.
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Wiens, J. J. 2002. Review of "Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians"
edited by William E. Duellman. Systematic Biology 51:980–981.
2001
Wiens, J. J. 2001. Widespread loss of sexually-selected traits: how the
peacock lost its spots. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:517–523.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2001. Shape shifters. Time after time, lizards have dropped
their legs in favor of a snakelike body form. Natural History
110:70–75.
Wiens, J. J. 2001. Character analysis in morphological phylogenetics:
problems and solutions. Systematic Biology 50:689–699.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and J. L. Slingluff. 2001. How lizards turn into snakes:
a phylogenetic analysis of body-form evolution in anguid lizards. Evolution
55:2303–2318.PDF.
2000
Wiens, J. J., and B. D. Hollingsworth. 2000. War of the iguanas: conflicting
molecular and morphological phylogenies and long-branch attraction in
iguanid lizards. Systematic Biology 49:143–159.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 2000. Species delimitation in systematics:
inferring diagnostic differences between species. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London, Series B 267:631–636.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2000. Decoupled evolution of display morphology and display
behaviour in phrynosomatid lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society 70:597–612. PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 2000. Reconstructing phylogenies from allozyme data: testing
method performance with congruence. Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society 70:613–632. PDF.
Chippindale, P. T., A. H. Price, J. J. Wiens, and D. M. Hillis. 2000.
Phylogenetic relationships and systematic revision of central Texas hemidactyliine
plethodontid salamanders. Herpetological Monographs 14:1–80.
Wiens, J. J. (Editor). 2000. Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Comparative Evolutionary Biology Series.
Hillis, D. M., and J. J. Wiens. 2000. Molecular versus morphological systematics:
Conflicts, artifacts, and misconceptions. Pages 1–19 in Phylogenetic
analysis of morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.). Smithsonian Institution
Press, Washington, D.C.
Poe, S., and J. J. Wiens. 2000. Character selection and the methodology
of morphological phylogenetics. Pages 20–36 in Phylogenetic analysis
of morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press,
Washington, D.C.
Wiens, J. J. 2000. Coding morphological variation for phylogenetic analysis:
polymorphism and interspecific variation in higher taxa.Pages 115–145
in Phylogenetic analysis of morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.). Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1999
Wiens, J. J. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for multiple losses of a sexually
selected character in phrynosomatid lizards. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London, Series B 266:1529–1535.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1999. Polymorphism in systematics and comparative biology.
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:327–362.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., T. W. Reeder, and A. Nieto Montes de Oca. 1999. Molecular
phylogenetics and evolution of sexual dichromatism among populations of
the Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii). Evolution
53:1884–1897. PDF.
1998
Pianka, E. R., D. M. Hillis, M. R. Ryan, D. C. Cannatella, and J. J. Wiens.
1998. Teaching herpetology. Herpetologica 54:S3–S5.
Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 1998. Phylogenetic analysis and intraspecific
variation: Performance of parsimony, likelihood, and distance methods.
Systematic Biology 47:228–253.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1998. The accuracy of methods for coding and sampling higher-level
taxa for phylogenetic analysis: A simulation study. Systematic Biology
47:381–397. PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1998. Testing phylogenetic methods with tree-congruence:
Phylogenetic analysis of polymorphic morphological characters in phrynosomatid
lizards. Systematic Biology 47:411–428.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1998. Combining data sets with different phylogenetic histories.
Systematic Biology 47:568–581.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1998. Does adding characters with missing data increase or
decrease phylogenetic accuracy? Systematic Biology 47:625–640.
PDF.
1997
Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 1997. Accuracy of phylogenetic analysis
including and excluding polymorphic characters. Systematic Biology
46:332–345. PDF.
Wiens, J. J. 1997. Review of "Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity
in Evolution." Copeia 1997:472–474.
Wiens, J. J., and T. W. Reeder. 1997. Phylogeny of the spiny lizards (Sceloporus)
based on molecular and morphological evidence. Herpetological Monographs
11:1–101.
PDF.
1996
Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Morris. 1996. Character definitions, sexual selection,
and the evolution of swordtails. American Naturalist 147:866–869.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and D. M. Hillis. 1996. Accuracy of parsimony analysis using
morphological data: A reappraisal. Systematic Botany 21:237–243.
PDF.
Reeder, T. W., and J. J. Wiens. 1996. Evolution of the lizard family Phrynosomatidae
as inferred from diverse types of data. Herpetological Monographs
10:43–84.
PDF.
1995
Wiens, J. J. 1995. Polymorphic characters in phylogenetic systematics.
Systematic Biology 44:482–500.
PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and T. W. Reeder. 1995. Combining data sets with different
numbers of taxa for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology
44:548–558. PDF.
1994
Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 1994. Weighting, partitioning, and
combining characters in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology
43:278–287. PDF.
Wiens, J. J., and P. T. Chippindale. 1994. Combining and weighting characters
and the prior agreement approach revisited. Systematic Biology 43:564–566.
PDF.
1993
Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1993. Hylid frogs of the genus Scinax
Wagler 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Occasional Papers of the
Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 153:1–57.
Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards
and monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993:287–299.
Wiens, J. J. 1993. Systematics of the leptodactylid frog genus Telmatobius
in the Andes of northern Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural
History University of Kansas 161:1–76.
Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic systematics of the tree lizards (genus
Urosaurus). Herpetologica 49:399–420.
Wiens, J. J. 1993. Review of "Herpetology" by George Zug. Systematic
Biology 42:592–596.
1992
Wiens, J. J., and L. A. Coloma. 1992. A new species of the Eleutherodactylus
myersi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) assembly from Ecuador. Journal
of Herpetology 26:196–207.
Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1992. The status of the hylid frog genus
Ololygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830. Occasional
Papers of the Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 151:1–23.
1991
Wiens, J. J., and T. A. Titus. 1991. A phylogenetic analysis of Spea
(Anura: Pelobatidae). Herpetologica 47:21–28.
1989
Wiens, J. J. 1989. Ontogeny of the skeleton of Spea bombifrons
(Anura: Pelobatidae). Journal of Morphology 202:29–51.