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Publications


2012


Carrete Vega, G., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Why are there so few fish in the sea? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 279:2323–2329. PDF.


Blankers, T., D. C. Adams, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Ecological radiation with limited morphological diversification in salamanders. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:634–646. PDF.


Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins of climate-richness relationships. Ecology 93:S167–S181. PDF.


Wiens, J.J., and J. Tiu. 2012. Highly incomplete taxa can rescue phylogenetic analyses from the negative impacts of limited taxon sampling. PLoS One 7:42925. PDF.


Gomez-Mestre, I., R. A. Pyron, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Phylogenetic analyses reveal unexpected patterns in the evolution of reproductive modes in frogs. Evolution (published online). PDF.


Fisher-Reid, M. C., K. H. Kozak, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. How is the rate of climatic-niche evolution related to climatic niche breadth? Evolution (published online). PDF.


Wiens, J. J., C. R. Hutter, D. G. Mulcahy, B. P. Noonan, T. M. Townsend, J. W. Sites, Jr., and T. W. Reeder. 2012. Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species. Biology Letters 8:1043–1046. PDF.


Mulcahy, D. G., B. P. Noonan, T. Moss, T. M. Townsend, T. W. Reeder, J. W. Sites, Jr., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Estimating divergence dates and evaluating dating methods using phylogenomic and mitochondrial data in squamate reptiles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65:974–991. PDF.


Wiens, J.J. 2012. Why biogeography matters: historical biogeography versus phylogeography and community phylogenetics for inferring evolutionary and ecological processes. Frontiers of Biogeography (published online). PDF.


Cahill, A.E., M. E. Aiello-Lammens, M. C. Fisher-Reid, X. Hua, C. J. Karanewsky, H. Y. Ryu, G. C. Sbeglia, F. Spagnolo, J. B. Waldron, O. Warsi, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. How does climate change cause extinction? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (published online). PDF.


Quintero, I., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. What determines the climatic niche width of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation in three vertebrate clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography (published online). PDF.


Blankers, T., T. M. Townsend, K. Pepe, T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Contrasting global-scale evolutionary radiations: phylogeny, diversification, and morphological evolution in the major clades of iguanian lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (published online). PDF.

 

2011


Pyron, R. A., F. T. Burbrink, G. R. Colli, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, L. J. Vitt, C. A. Kuczynski, and J. J. Wiens. 2011. The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58:329–342. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2011. Re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs after more than 200 million years, and re-evaluating Dollo's law. Evolution 65:1283–1296. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., R. A. Pyron, and D. C. Moen. 2011. Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and causes of Amazonian megadiversity. Ecology Letters 14:643–652. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2011. The causes of species richness patterns across space, time, and clades and the role of "ecological limits". Quarterly Review of Biology 86:75–96. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. and M. C. Morrill. 2011. Missing data in phylogenetic analysis: reconciling results from simulations and empirical data. Systematic Biology 60:719–731. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., M. Sparreboom, and J. W. Arntzen. 2011. Crest evolution in newts: implications for reconstruction methods, sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity, and the origin of novelties. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:2073–2086. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2011. The niche, large-scale biogeography, and species interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 366:2336–2350. PDF.


Townsend, T., D. G. Mulcahy, J. W. Sites Jr., C. A. Kuczynski, J. J. Wiens, T. W. Reeder. 2011. Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61:363–380. PDF.


Pyron, R. A., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61:543–583. PDF.


Fisher-Reid, M. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. What are the consequences of combining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis? Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:300. PDF.


Sites, J. W., Jr., T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2011. Phylogenetic insights on evolutionary novelties in lizards and snakes: sex, birth, bodies, niches, and venom. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 42:227–244. PDF.

 

2010


Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, S. Arif, and T. W. Reeder. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial data, and a revised phylogeny for Sceloporus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:150–161. PDF.


Hua, X., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Latitutudinal variation in speciation mechanisms in frogs. Evolution 64:429–443. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, and P. R. Stephens. 2010. Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99:445–461. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, X. Hua, and D. S. Moen. 2010. An expanded phylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:871–882. PDF.


Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Niche conservatism drives elevational diversity patterns in Appalachian salamanders. American Naturalist 176:40–54. PDF.


Buckley, L. B., T. J. Davies, D. D. Ackerly, N. J. B. Kraft, S. P. Harrison, B. L. Anacker, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damschen, J. A. Grytnes, B. A. Hawkins, C. M. McCain, P. R. Stephens, and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Phylogeny, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 277:2131–2138. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., D. D. Ackerly, A. P. Allen, B. L. Anacker, L. B. Buckley, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damschen, T. J. Davies, J. A. Grytnes, S. P. Harrison, B. A. Hawkins, R. D. Holt, C. M. McCain, and P. R. Stephens. 2010. Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. Ecology Letters 13:1310-1324. PDF.


Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378–1389. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski,T. Townsend, T. W. Reeder, D. G. Mulcahy, and J. W. Sites, Jr. 2010. Combining phylogenomics and fossils in higher level squamate reptile phylogeny: molecular data change the placement of fossil taxa. Systematic Biology 59:674–688. PDF.

 

2009


Moen, D. S., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Phylogenetic evidence for competitively-driven divergence: body-size evolution in Caribbean treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteopilus). Evolution 63:195–214. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2009. Estimating rates and patterns of morphological evolution from phylogenies: lessons in limb lability from Australian Lerista lizards. Journal of Biology 8:19. PDF.


Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Evolution of sexual size dimorphisms in emydid turtles: ecological dimorphism, Rensch's rule, and sympatric divergence. Evolution 63:910–925. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., J. Sukumaran, R. A. Pyron, and R. M. Brown. 2009. Evolutionary and biogeographic origins of high tropical diversity in Old World frogs (Ranidae). Evolution 63:1217–1231. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2009. Paleontology, phylogenomics, and combined-data phylogenetics: can molecular data improve phylogeny estimation for fossil taxa? Systematic Biology 58:87–99. PDF.


Adams, D. C., C. M. Berns, K.H. Kozak, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276:2729–2738. PDF.


Kozak, K. H., R. W. Mendyk, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Can parallel diversification occur in sympatry? Repeated patterns of body-size evolution in co-existing clades of North American salamanders. Evolution 63:1769–1784. PDF.


Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Bridging the gap between biogeography and community ecology: niche conservatism and community structure in emydid turtles. Molecular Ecology 18:4664–4679. PDF.


Moen, D. S., S. A. Smith, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Community assembly through evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle American treefrogs. Evolution 63:3228–3247. PDF.


Hua, X., C. Fu, J.., Li, A. Nieto-Montes de Oca, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. A revised phylogeny of Holarctic treefrogs (genus Hyla) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Herpetologica 65:246–259. PDF.


Wiens, J. J., and M. C. Brandley. 2009. The evolution of limblessness. The Grzimek Encyclopedia of Animal Evolution. PDF.

 

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: An example from squamate reptiles. 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 62:2042–2064. PDF.


Wiens, J. J. 2008. Commentary: Niche conservatism déjà vu. Ecology Letters 11:1004–1005. PDF.

 

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, Appendix.


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.


 

 

 

 

updated February 10th, 2011