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, 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.