Publications from Laboratory (1987 - present)

• Larson, A. 1987. The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin (book review). Isis 78:614-615.

  

• Sessions, S. K. and A. Larson. 1987. Developmental correlates of genome size in plethodontid salamanders and their implications for genome evolution. Evolution 41:1239-1251.

• Wake, D. B. and A. Larson. 1987. Multidimensional analysis of an evolving lineage. Science 238:42-48.

• Larson, A. 1988. Issues in evolution: Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution by Jeffrey Levinton (book review) Science 241:476.

• Larson, A. 1989. The relationship between speciation and morphological evolution. Pp. 579-598 in D. Otte and J. A. (eds.) Speciation and its Consequences. Sinauer Assoc. Sunderland, Massachusetts.

• Larson, A. and A. C. Wilson. 1989. Patterns of ribosomal RNA evolution in salamanders. Molecular Biology and Evolution 6:131-154.

• Larson, A. 1990. Biochemical Evolution in the Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus Complex in the Eastern United States by Richard Highton, George C. Maha and Linda R. Maxson (book review). Copeia 1990:284-286.

• Larson, A. 1990. Combating the cosmic process: Evolution and Ethics/T. H. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics with New Essays on Its Victorian and Sociobiological Context by J. Paradis and G. C. Williams (book review). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5:202.

• Hillis, D. M., A. Larson, S. K. Davis and E. A. Zimmer. 1990. Nucleic acids III: Sequencing. Pp. 318-370 in D. Hillis and C. Moritz (eds.) Molecular Systematics. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

• Larson, A. 1991. A molecular perspective on the evolutionary relationships of the salamander families. Evolutionary Biology 25:211-277.

• Larson, A. 1991. Evolutionary analysis of length-variable sequences: Divergent domains of ribosomal RNA. Pp. 221-248 in M. M. Miyamoto and J. Cracraft (eds.) Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Sequences. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

• Larson, A. 1991. Time scale and evolution: Causes of Evolution/A Paleontological Perspective by R. M. Ross and W. D. Allmon (book review). Science 252:1186-1187.

• Baum, D. A. and A. Larson. 1991. Adaptation reviewed: A phylogenetic methodology for studying character macroevolution. Systematic Zoology 40:1-18.

• Kirk, D. L., M. M. Kirk, K. A. Stamer and A. Larson. 1991. The genetic basis for the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine green algae. Pp. 568-581 in E. C. Dudley (ed.) The Unity of Evolutionary Biology. Dioscorides Press. Portland, Oregon.

• Larson, A., M. M. Kirk and D. L. Kirk. 1992. Molecular phylogeny of the volvocine flagellates. Molecular Biology and Evolution 9:85-105.

• Larson, A. 1993. The Dynamics of Evolution by Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson (book review). Quarterly Review of Biology 68:246-247.

• Larson, A. and P. Chippindale. 1993. Molecular approaches to the evolutionary biology of plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49:204-215.

• Larson, A. and W. W. Dimmick. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of the salamander families: An analysis of congruence among morphological and molecular characters. Herpetological Monographs 7:77-93.

• Aspinwall, N., J. D. McPhail and A. Larson. 1993. A long-term study of hybridization between the peamouth, Mylocheilus caurinus, and the redside shiner, Richardsonius baleatus, at Stave Lake, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71:550-560.

• Larson, A. 1994. The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics. Pp. 371-390 in B. Schierwater, B. Streit, G. P. Wagner and R. DeSalle (eds.) Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

• Larson, A. 1994. Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data by Elizabeth A. Zimmer, Thomas J. White, Rebecca L. Cann and Allan C. Wilson (book review) Systematic Biology 43:460-461.

• Larson, A. 1995. Evolutionary revelations: Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution by John C. Avise (book review). Science 267:115-116.

• Jacobs, S. C., A. Larson, and J. M. Cheverud. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships and orthogenetic evolution of coat color among tamarins (genus Saguinus). Systematic Biology 44:515-532.

• Titus, T. A. and A. Larson. 1995. A Molecular phylogenetic perspective on the evolutionary radiation of the salamander family Salamandridae. Systematic Biology 44:125-151.

• Larson, A. 1996. Evolutionary Transitions: Tempo and Mode in Evolution by Walter M. Fitch and Francisco J. Ayala (book review). Science 271:1075.

• Larson, A. and J. B. Losos. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of adaptation. Pp. 187-220 in M. R. Rose and G. V. Lauder (eds.) Adaptation. Academic Press, San Diego.

• Dimmick, W. W. and A. Larson. 1996. A molecular and morphological perspective on the phylogenetic relationships of the otophysan fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 6:120-133.

• Hillis, D. M., B. K. Mable, A. Larson, S. K. Davis and E. A. Zimmer. 1996. Nucleic acids IV: Sequencing and cloning. Pp. 321-381 in D. M. Hillis, C. Moritz and B. K. Mable (eds.) Molecular Systematics Second Edition. Sinauer Assoc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.

• Titus, T. A. and A. Larson. 1996. Molecular phylogenetics of desmognathine salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae): A reevaluation of evolution in ecology, life history, and morphology. Systematic Biology 45:451-472.

• Larson, A. 1997. Macroevolution. Pp. 286-289 in S. P. Parker (ed.) McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Volume 10, 8th Edition. McGraw-Hill Publ. Co.

• Jackman, T., J. Losos, A. Larson and K. de Queiroz. 1997. Phylogenetic studies of convergent adaptive radiations in Caribbean Anolis lizards. Pp. 535-557 in T. J. Givnish and K. J. Sytsma (eds.) Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

• Macey, J. R., A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Z. Fang and T. J. Papenfuss. 1997. Two novel gene orders and the role of light-strand replication in rearrangement of the vertebrate mitochondrial genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14:91-104.

• Macey, J. R., A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva and T. J. Papenfuss. 1997. Replication slippage may cause parallel evolution in the secondary structures of mitochondrial transfer RNAs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14:30-39.

• Macey, J. R., A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva and T. J. Papenfuss. 1997. Evolutionary shifts in three major structural features of the mitochodrial genome among iguanian lizards. Journal of Molecular Evolution 44:660-674.

• Larson, A. 1998. The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics. Pp. 275-296 in R. DeSalle and B. Schierwater (eds.) Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

• Larson, A. 1998. Sixty years of biology: Essays on evolution and development by John Tyler Bonner (book review). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 20:359-361.

• Losos, J. B., T. R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz and L. Rodríguez-Schettino. 1998. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 279:2115-2118.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, N. B. Ananjeva, A. Larson, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, S. Schammokov, and T. J. Papenfuss. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships among agamid lizards of the Laudakia caucasia complex: Testing hypotheses of fragmentation and an area cladogram for the Iranian Plateau. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 10:118-131.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, Z. Fang, Y. Wang, B. S. Tuniyev and T. J. Papenfuss. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of toads of the Bufo bufo complex from the eastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau: A case of vicariance and dispersal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 9:80-87.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson and T. J. Papenfuss. 1998. Tandem duplication via light-strand synthesis may provide a precursor for mitochondrial genomic rearrangement. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15:71-75.

• Schulte, J. A. II, J. R. Macey, A. Larson, and T. J. Papenfuss. 1998. Molecular tests of phylogenetic taxonomies: A general procedure and example using four subfamilies of the lizard family Iguanidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 10:367-376.

• Cropp, S. J., A. Larson and J. M. Cheverud. 1999. Historical biogeography of tamarins, genus Saguinus: The molecular phylogenetic evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 108:65-89.

• Hrbek, T. and A. Larson. 1999. The evolution of diapause in the killifish family Rivulidae (Atherinomorpha, Cyprinodontiformes): A molecular phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective. Evolution 53:1200-1216.

• Jackman, T., A. Larson, K. de Queiroz and J. Losos. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and tempo of early diversification in Anolis lizards. Systematic Biology 48:254-285.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, B. S. Tuniyev, N. Orlov and T. J. Papenfuss. 1999. Molecular phylogenetics, tRNA evolution and historical biogeography in anguid lizards and related taxonomic families. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12:250-272.

• Macey, J. R., Y. Wang, N. B. Ananjeva, A. Larson, and T. J. Papenfuss. 1999. Vicariant patterns of fragmentation among gekkonid lizards of the genus Teratoscincus produced by the Indian collision: A molecular phylogenetic perspective and an area cladogram for Central Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12:320-332.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, H. G. Kami, N. B. Ananjeva, A. Larson and T. J. Papenfuss. 2000. Testing hypotheses of vicariance in the agamid lizard Laudakia caucasia from mountain ranges on the northern Iranian Plateau. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14:479-483.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson. 2000. Evolution and information content of mitochondrial genomic structural features illustrated with acrodont lizards. Systematic Biology 49:257-277.

• Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Y. Wang, R. Pethiyagoda, N. Rastegar-Pouyani and T. J. Papenfuss. 2000. Evaluating trans-Tethys migration: An example using acrodont lizard phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 49:233-256.

• Schulte, J. A. II, J. R. Macey, R. Espinoza and A. Larson. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships in the iguanid lizard genus Liolaemus: Multiple origins of viviparous reproduction and a phylogenetic evaluation of Andean vicariance. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69:75-102.

• Larson, A. 2001. Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution by Emma C. Spary (book review). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23:136-137.

• Creer, D. A., K. de Queiroz, T. R. Jackman, J. B. Losos and A. Larson. 2001. Systematics of the Anolis roquet series of the southern Lesser Antilles. Journal of Herpetology 35:428-441.

• Glor, R. E., L. J. Vitt and A. Larson. 2001. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of diversification in Amazonian Anolis lizards. Molecular Ecology 10:2661-2668.

• Macey, J. R., J. Strasburg, J. Brisson, V. Vredenburg, M. Jennings and A. Larson. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of western North American frogs of the Rana boylii species group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19:131-143.

• Melville, J, J. A. Schulte II and A. Larson. 2001. A molecular phylogenetic study of ecological diversification in the Australian lizard genus Ctenophorus. Journal of Experimental Zoology/Molecular and Developmental Evolution 291:339-353.

• Weisrock, D. W., J. R. Macey, I. H. Ugurtas, A. Larson and T. J. Papenfuss. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography among salamandrids of the "true" salamander clade: Rapid branching of numerous highly divergent lineages in Mertensiella luschani associated with the rise of Anatolia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18:434-448.

• Larson, A. 2002. Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution, Second Edition by Jeffrey S. Levinton (book review). Écoscience 9:553-554.

• Larson, A. 2002. The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock (book review). Isis 93:348-349.

• Jackman, T. R., D. J. Irschick, K. de Queiroz, J. B. Losos and A. Larson. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic perspective on evolution of lizards of the Anolis grahami series. Journal of Experimental Zoology/Molecular and Developmental Evolution 294:1-16.

• Schulte, J. A. II, J. R. Macey, R. Pethiyagoda and A. Larson. 2002. Rostral horn evolution among agamid lizards of the genus Ceratophora endemic to Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:111-117

• Townsend, T. and A. Larson. 2002. Molecular phylogenetics and mitochondrial genomic evolution in the Chamaeleonidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23: 22-36.

• Larson, A., D. W. Weisrock and K. H. Kozak. 2003. Phylogenetic systematics of salamanders (Amphibia: Urodela), a review. Pp. 31-108 in D. M. Sever (ed.) Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Urodela (Amphibia). Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, New Hampshire.

• Glor, R. E., J. J. Kolbe, R. Powell, A. Larson and J. B. Losos. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of ecological and morphological diversification in Hispaniolan trunk-ground anoles (Anolis cybotes group). Evolution 57:2383-2397.

• Harmon, L. J., Schulte, J. A. II, A. Larson and J. B. Losos. 2003. Tempo and mode of evolutionary radiation in iguanian lizards. Science 301:961-964.

• Hickman, C. P., Jr., L. S. Roberts and A. Larson. 2003. Animal Diversity, Third Edition. McGraw-Hill, Boston. 447 pp.

• Losos, J. B., M. Leal, R. E. Glor, K. de Queiroz, P. E. Hertz, L. Rodríguez Schettino, A. C. Lara, T. R. Jackman and A. Larson. 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424:542-545.

• Schulte, J. A. II, J. Melville and A. Larson. 2003. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the age of Wallace’s Line. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 270:597-603.

• Schulte, J. A. II, J. P. Valladares and A. Larson. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships within Iguanidae using molecular and morphological data and a phylogenetic taxonomy of iguanian lizards. Herpetologica 59:400-420.

• Gifford, M. E., R. Powell, A. Larson and R. L. Gutberlet, Jr. 2004. Population structure and history of a phenotypically variable teiid lizard (Ameiva chrysolaema) from Hispaniola: the influence of a geologically complex island. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32:735-748

• Glor, R. E., M. E. Gifford, A. Larson, J. B. Losos, L. Rodriguez- Schettino, A. R. Chamizo Lara, and T. R. Jackman. 2004. Partial island submergence and speciation in an adaptive radiation: a multilocus analysis of the Cuban green anoles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 271:2257-2265.

• Kolbe, J. J., R. E. Glor, L. Rodriguez Schettino, A. C. Lara, A. Larson, and J. B. Losos. 2004. Genetic variation increases during the biological invasion of a Cuban lizard. Nature 431:177-181.

• Melville, J., J. A. Schulte, II and A. Larson. 2004. A molecular study of phylogenetic relationships and evolution of anti-predator strategies in the Australian Diplodactylus geckos, subgenus Strophurus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82:123-138.

• Townsend, T., A. Larson, E. J. Louis and J. R. Macey. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics of Squamata: the position of snakes, amphisbaenians, and dibamids, and the root of the squamate tree. Systematic Biology 53:735-757.

• Glor, R. E., J. B. Losos and A. Larson. 2005. Out of Cuba: overwater dispersal and diversification in green anoles (Anolis carolinensis subgroup). Molecular Ecology 14:2419-2432.

• Kozak, K. H., R. A. Blaine and A. Larson. 2005. Salamander gene trees and eastern North American paleodrainage basins: A phylogeographic analysis of the Eurycea bislineata species complex. Molecular Ecology (in press).

• Kozak, K. H., A. Larson, R. M. Bonett and L. J. Harmon. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of ecomorphological divergence, species coexistence, and diversification rates in dusky salamanders. Evolution 59:2000-2016.

• Kozak, K. H., D. W. Weisrock and A. Larson. 2005. Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: Phylogeographic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (genus Plethodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (in press)

• Nicholson, K. E., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, A. Larson, S. B. Hedges and J. B. Losos. 2005. Mainland colonization by island lizards. Journal of Biogeography 32:929-938.

• Weisrock, D. W., L. J. Harmon and A. Larson. 2005. Resolving the deep phylogenetic relationships among salamander families: analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genomic data. Systematic Biology54:758-777.

• Weisrock, D. W., K. H. Kozak and A. Larson. 2005. Phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial gene flow and introgression in the salamander, Plethodon shermani. Molecular Ecology 14:1457-1472.

• Weisrock, D. W. and A. Larson. 2005. Testing hypotheses of population-level lineages in the Plethodon jordani species complex with allozyme and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press)

• Hickman, C. P., Jr., L. S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. I'Anson and D. J. Eisenhour. 2006. Integrated Principles of Zoology, Thirteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston. 882 pp.