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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 21:21:53+00:00

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Bell, R.C., P.J. McLaughlin, G.F.M. Jongsma, D.C. Blackburn, and B.L. Stuart. Morphological and genetic variation of Leptopelis brevirostris encompasses the little-known treefrogs Leptopelis crystallinoron from Gabon and Leptopelis brevipes from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.
Blackburn, D.C., G. Giribet, D.E. Soltis, and E.L. Stanley. Predicting the impact of describing new species on phylogenetic patterns.
Kouete, M.T., and D.C. Blackburn. Dietary partitioning in two co-occurring caecilian species (Geotrypetes seraphini and Herpele squalostoma) in Central Africa.
Matthews, T., R. Keeffe, and D.C. Blackburn. Identification guide to fossil frog assemblages of southern Africa based on ilia of extant taxa.
Portik, D.M., D.C. Blackburn, and J.A. McGuire. Macroevolutionary patterns of sexual size dimorphism among African tree frogs (family: Hyperoliidae).
Bamba-Kaya, A., A.-G. Zassi-Boulou, E. Tobi, T.D. Hayes, D.M. Portik, D.C. Blackburn, G.F.M. Jongsma. Notes on a little known Central African reed frog, Hyperolius schoutedeni Laurent, 1943.
Paluh, D.J., E.L. Stanley, and D.C. Blackburn. First dietary record of Gastrotheca guentheri (Hemiphractidae), the lone anuran with true mandibular teeth.
Blackburn, D.C., D.J. Paluh, I. Krone, E.M. Roberts, E.L. Stanley, and N.J. Stevens. 2019. The earliest fossil of the African Clawed Frog (genus Xenopus) from sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Herpetology.
Portik, D.M., R.C. Bell, D.C. Blackburn, A.M. Bauer, C.D. Barratt, W.R. Branch, M. Burger, A. Channing, T.J. Colston, W. Conradie, J.M. Dehling, R.C. Drewes, R. Ernst, E. Greenbaum, V. Gvoždík, J. Harvey, A. Hillers, M. Hirschfeld, G.F.M. Jongsma, J. Kielgast, M.T. Kouete, L.P. Lawson, A.D. Leaché, S.P. Loader, S. Lötters, A. van der Meijden, M. Menegon, S. Müleer, Z.T Nagy, C. Ofori-Boateng, A. Ohler, T.J. Papenfuss, D. Rößler, U. Sinsch, M.-O. Rödel, M. Veith, J. Vindum, A.-G. Zassi-Boulou, and J.A. McGuire. 2019. Sexual dichromatism drives diversification within a major radiation of African amphibians. Systematic Biology. In press. Preprint on bioRxiv.
Stocker, M.R., S.J. Nesbitt, B. Klingman, D.J. Paluh, A.D. Marsh, D.C. Blackburn, and W.G. Parker. 2019. The earliest equatorial record of anurans from the Late Triassic of Arizona. Biology Letters 15: 20180922.
Vijayakumar, S.P., R.A. Pyron, K.P. Dinesh, V. Torsekar, A.V. Srikanthan, P. Swamy, E.L. Stanley, D.C. Blackburn, and K. Shanker. 2019. A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of peninsular India. PeerJ 7: e6457.
Arroyo-Lambaer, D., H. Chapman, M. Hale, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. Conservation genetics of threatened frogs in the mountains of Nigeria. PLoS ONE 13: e0202010.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., S. Bandeira, M.P. Marques, I. Agarwal, E.L. Stanley, A.M. Bauer, M.P. Heinicke, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola. ZooKeys 780: 109–136.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., M.P. Marques, S. Bandeira, D.C. Blackburn, A.M. Bauer. 2018. Herpetological survey of Cangandala National Park, with a synoptic list of the amphibians and reptiles of Malanje Province, Central Angola. Herpetological Review 49: 408–431.
Charles, K.L., R.C. Bell, D.C. Blackburn, M. Burger, M.K. Fujita, V. Gvoždík, G.F.M. Jongsma, M.T. Kouete, A.D. Leaché, and D.M. Portik. 2018. Sky, sea, and forest Islands: diversification in the African leaf-folding frog Afrixalus paradorsalis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) of the Lower Guineo-Congolian rainforest. Journal of Biogeography 45: 1781–1794. See here for data from this publication.
Kerney, R.R., J. Hanken, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. Early limb patterning in the direct-developing salamander Plethodon cinereus revealed by sox9 and col2a1. Evolution & Development​ 20: 100–107.
Portik, D.M., G.F.M. Jongsma, M.T. Kouete, L.A. Scheinberg, B. Freiermuth, W.P. Tapondjou, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. Ecological, morphological, and reproductive aspects of a diverse assemblage of hyperoliid frogs (family: Hyperoliidae) surrounding Mt. Kupe, Cameroon. Herpetological Review 48: 397–408.
Santos, J.C., R.D. Tarvin, L.A. O'Connell, D.C. Blackburn, and L.A. Coloma. 2018. Diversity within diversity: parasite species richness in poison frogs assessed by transcriptomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 40–50.
Tolley, K.A., W. Conradie, J. Harvey, J. Measey, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. Molecular phylogenetics reveals a complex history underlying cryptic diversity in the Bush Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis wahlbergii) in southern Africa. African Zoology 53: 83–97.
​Xing, L., E.L. Stanley, M. Bai, and D.C. Blackburn. 2018. The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports 8: 8770.
Feng, Y.-J., D.C. Blackburn, D. Liang, D.M. Hillis, D.B. Wake, D.C. Cannatella, and P. Zhang. 2017. Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 114: E5864–E5870.
Heinicke, M.P., L.M.P. Ceríaco, I.M. Moore, A.M. Bauer, and D.C. Blackburn. 2017. Tomopterna damarensis (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) is broadly distributed in Namibia and Angola. Salamandra 53: 461–465.
Jongsma, G.F.M., E. Tobi, G.P. Dixon-MacCallum, A. Bamba, J.-A. Yoga, J.-D. Mbega, J.-H. Mve Beh, A.M. Emrich, and D.C. Blackburn. 2017. Amphibians of Haut Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 11: 1–23.
Riberio, L.F., D.C. Blackburn, E.L. Stanley, M.R. Pie, and M.R. Bornschein. 2017. Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. PeerJ 5:e3603.
Blackburn, D.C., E. Greenbaum, M. Fabrezi, D. Meirte, A.J. Plumptre, and E.L. Stanley. 2016. The distribution of the Bururi Long-fingered Frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila, family Arthroleptidae), a poorly known Albertine Rift endemic. Zootaxa 4170: 355–364.
Bornschein, M.R., L.F. Ribeiro, D.C. Blackburn, E.L. Stanley, and M.R. Pie. A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. PeerJ 4: e2629.
Dececchi, T.A., P.M. Mabee, and D.C. Blackburn. 2016. Data sources for trait databases: comparing the phenomic content of monographs and evolutionary matrices. PLoS One 11: e0155680.
Hirschfeld, M., D.C. Blackburn, T.M. Doherty-Bone, L.N. Gonwouo, S. Ghose, and M.-O. Rödel. 2016. Dramatic declines of montane frogs in a Central African biodiversity hotspot. PLoS One 11: e0155129.
Jongsma, G.F.M., A.B. Kaya, J.-A. Yoga, J.-D. Mbega, J.-H. Mve Beh, E. Tobi, A.M. Emrich, G.P. Dixon-MacCallum, D. Davis, J. Kerby, and D.C. Blackburn. 2016. Widespread presence and high prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Gabon. Herpetological Review 47: 227–230. Data available on amphibiandisease.org.
Menke, M., P. Peram, I. Starnberger, W. Hödl, G.F.M. Jongsma, D.C. Blackburn, M.-O. Rödel, M. Vences, and S. Schulz. Identification, synthesis, and mass spectrometry of a macrolide from the African Reed Frog Hyperolius cinnamomeoventris. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 12: 2731–2738.
Portik, D.M., G.F.M. Jongsma, M.T. Kouete, LA. Scheinberg, B. Freiermuth, W.P. Tapondjou, and D.C. Blackburn. 2016. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in the foothills of Mount Kupe, Cameroon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10: 37–67.
Blackburn, D.C., E.M. Roberts, and N.J. Stevens. 2015. The earliest record of the endemic African frog family Ptychadenidae from the Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35: e907174.
Brown, R.M., Y.-C. Su, B. Barger, C.D. Siler, A.C. Diesmos, and D.C. Blackburn. 2015. Phylogeny of the island archipelago frog genus Sanguirana: another endemic Philippine radiation that diversified ‘Out-of-Palawan.’ Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 531–536.
Deans, A.R. et al. 2015. Finding our way through phenotypes. PLoS Biology 13: e1002033.
​​Evans, B.J., T.F. Carter, E. Greenbaum, V. Gvoždík, D.B. Kelley, P.J. McLaughlin, O.S.G. Pauwels, D.M.Portik, E.L. Stanley, R.C. Tinsley, M.L. Tobias, and D.C. Blackburn. 2015. Genetics, morphology, advertisement calls, and historical records distinguish six new polyploid species of African clawed frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa. PLoS ONE 10: e0142823.
Hirschfeld, M., D.C. Blackburn, M. Burger, E. Greenbaum, A.-G. Zassi-Boulou, and M.-O. Rödel. 2015. Two new species of long-fingered frogs of the genus Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae) from Central African rainforests. African Journal of Herpetology 64: 81–102.
Portik, D.M., L. Scheinberg, D.C. Blackburn, and R.A. Saporito. 2015. Lack of defensive alkaloids in the integumentary tissue of four brilliantly colored African reed frog species (Hyperoliidae: Hyperolius). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10: 833–838.
Wake, D.B., D.C. Blackburn, and R.E. Lombard. 2015. Transitions to feeding on land by salamanders feature repetitive convergent evolution. Pp. 395–405 in N. Shubin, K. Dial, and E.L. Brainerd (eds.), Great Transformations: Major Events in the History of Vertebrate Life. University of Chicago Press.
​Blackburn, D.C., and S. Scali. 2014. An annotated catalog of the type specimens of amphibians in the collection of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Herpetological Monographs 28: 24–45.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., A.M. Bauer, D.C. Blackburn, and A. Lavres. 2014. The herpetofauna of the Capanda Dam Region, Malanje, Angola. Herpetological Review 45: 667–674.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., D.C. Blackburn, M.P. Marques, and F.M. Calado. 2014. Catalogue of the amphibian and reptile type specimens of the Museo de História Natural da Universidade do Porto in Portugal, with some comments on problematic taxa. Alytes 31: 13–36.
Haendel, M.A., J.P. Balhoff, F.B. Bastian, D.C. Blackburn, J.A. Blake, Y. Bradford, A. Comte, W.M. Dahdul, T.A. Dececchi, R.E. Druzinsky, T.F. Hayamizu, N. Ibrahim, S.E. Lewis, P.M. Mabee, A. Niknejad, M. Robinson-Rechavi, P.C. Sereno, and C.J. Mungall. 2014. Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 5: 21.
Rocha, L.A., et al. 2014. Specimen collection: an essential tool. Science 344: 814–815.
Blackburn, D.C., C.A. Siler, A.C. Diesmos, J.A. McGuire, D.C. Cannatella, and R.M. Brown. 2013. An adaptive radiation of frogs in a Southeast Asian island archipelago. Evolution 67: 2631–2646.
Blackburn, D.C., and W.E. Duellman. 2013. Brazilian marsupial frogs are diphyletic (Anura: Hemiphractidae: Gastrotheca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 709–714.
Brown, R.M., C.D. Siler, C.H. Oliveros, J.A. Esselstyn, A.C. Diesmos, P.A. Hosner, C.W. Linkem, A.J. Barley, J.R. Oaks, M.B. Sanguila, L.J. Welton, D.C. Blackburn, R.G. Moyle, A.T. Peterson, and A.C. Alcala. 2013. Evolutionary processes of diversification in a model island archipelago. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 44: 411–435.
Chan, K.O., D.C. Blackburn, R.W. Murphy, B.L. Stuart, D.A. Emmett, and R.M. Brown. 2013. New species of narrow-mouthed frog of the genus Kaloula Gray, 1831 from eastern Indochina. Herpetologica 69: 329–341.
Cruz, D., A.L. Dawson, and D.C. Blackburn. 2013. Description of the tadpoles of two Cameroonian frogs, Leptodactylodon axillaris and L. perreti (Anura: Arthroleptidae). African Journal of Herpetology 62: 28–39.
Midford, P.E., T.A. Dececchi, J.P. Balhoff, W.M. Dahdul, N. Ibrahim, H. Lapp, J.G. Lundberg, P.M. Mabee, M. Westerfield, T.J. Vision, and D.C. Blackburn. 2013. The Vertebrate Taxonomy Ontology: a framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 4: 34.
Dahdul, W.M., J.P. Balhoff, D.C. Blackburn, A.D. Diehl, M.A. Haendel, B.K. Hall, H. Lapp, J.G. Lundberg, C.J. Mungall, M. Ringwald, E. Segerdell, C.E. Van Slyke, M.K. Vickaryous, M. Westerfield, and P.M. Mabee. 2012. A unified anatomy ontology of the vertebrate skeletal system. PLoS ONE 7: e51070.
Blackburn, D.C., and D.B. Wake. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. [Invited Review]. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.), Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 39–55.
See also: Blackburn, D.C., and D.B. Wake. 2012. Additions and Corrections. Zootaxa 3381: 45–46.
Blackburn, D.C., V. Gvoždik, and A.D. Leaché. 2010. A new squeaker frog (Arthroleptidae: Arthroleptis) from the mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria. Herpetologica 66: 335–348.
Martin, J.L., D.C. Blackburn, and E.O. Wiley. 2010. Are node-based and stem-based clades equivalent? Insights from graph theory. PLoS Currents: Tree of Life.
Stock, S.R., D.C. Blackburn, M. Gradassi, and H.-G. Simon. 2003. Bone formation during forelimb regeneration: A microtomography (microCT) analysis. Developmental Dynamics 226: 410–417.
Blackburn, D.C. 2011. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Quarterly Review of Biology 86: 150.
Blackburn, D.C. 2011. Field Guide to Frogs of Western Australia, Fourth Edition. Herpetological Review 42: 123–124.
Blackburn, D.C. 2010. Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, Third Edition. Quarterly Review of Biology 85: 375–376.
Blackburn, D.C. 2009. Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Amphibians. Herpetological Review 40: 374–376.
Blackburn, D.C. 2007. A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt. Herpetological Review 38: 251-252.
Blackburn, D.C. 2006. The Amphibians of East Africa. Herpetological Review 37: 503-504.
Weinell, J.L., D.J. Paluh, A.J. Singh, D.C. Blackburn, and R.M. Brown. 2019. Myersophis alpestris: reproduction. Herpetological Review 50: 164–165.
Blackburn, D.C., D.J. Paluh, and E.L. Stanley. 2017. Phrynobatrachus krefftii: anurophagy. Herpetological Review 48: 413–414.
Ceríaco,L.M.P., A.M. Bauer, M.P. Heinicke, and D.C. Blackburn. 2016. Ptychadenidae: Ptychadena mapacha: geographic distribution (Namibia). African Herp News ​63: 19–20.
Bauer, A.M., L.M.P. Ceríaco, M.P. Heinicke, and D.C. Blackburn. 2015. Gekkonidae: Pachdactylus barnardi FitzSimons, 1941: geographic distribution (Namibia). African Herp Notes 62: 35–37.
Blackburn, D.C. 2008. Pyxicephalus sp.: geographic distribution (Niger). Herpetological Review 39: 363–364.
Blackburn, D.C. and V. Droissart. 2008. Nectophryne batesii: juvenile coloration. Herpetological Review 39: 208-209.
Blackburn, D.C. 2006. Cardioglossa schioetzi: geographic distribution (Cameroon). Herpetological Review 37: 486.
Blackburn, D.C. and K. Jackson. 2006. Cryptothylax greshoffii: geographic distribution (Republic of Congo). Herpetological Review 37: 358.
Bateman, C., Yin-Tse Huang, D.R. Simmons, M.T. Kasson, E.L. Stanley, and J. Hulcr. 2017 Ambrosia beetle Premnobius cavipennis (Scolytinae: Ipini) carries highly divergent ascomycotan ambrosia fungus, Afroraffaelea ambrosiae gen. nov. sp. nov. (Ophiostomatales). Fungal Ecology 25: 41–49.
Kim, B.-O., Y.H. Kim, E.L. Stanley, E.M. Garrido-Martin, Y.J. Lee, and S.P. Oh. 2017. CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling plays an essential role in proper patterning of aortic arch and pulmonary arteries. Cardiovascular Research.
Oswald, J.A., I. Overcast, W.M. Mauck III, M.J. Andersen, and B.T. Smith. 2017. Isolation with asymmetric gene flow during the nonsynchronous divergence of dry forest birds. Molecular Ecology 26: 1386–1400.
Paluh, D.J., A.H. Griffing, and A.M. Bauer. 2017. Sheddable armour: identification of osteoderms in the integument of Geckolepis maculata (Gekkota). African Journal of Herpetology 66: 12–24.
Paluh, D.J., and A.M. Bauer. 2017. Comparative skull anatomy of terrestrial and crevice-dwelling Trachylepis skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) with a survey of resources in scincid cranial osteology. PLoS ONE 12: e0184414.
Daza, J.D., E.L. Stanley, P. Wagner, A.M. Bauer, and D.A. Grimaldi. 2016. Mid-Cretaceous amber fossils illuminate the past diversity of tropical lizards. Science Advances 2: e1501080.
Oswald, J.A., M.G. Harvey, R.C. Remsen, D.U. Foxworth, S.W. Cardiff, D.L. Dittmann, L.C. Megna, M.D. Carling, and R.T. Brumfield. 2016. Willet be one species or two? A genomic view of the evolutionary history of Tringa semipalmata. The Auk 133: 593–614.
Stanley, E.L., L.M.P. Ceríaco, S. Bandeira, H. Valerio, M.F. Bates, and W.R. Branch. 2016. A review of Cordylus machadoi (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southwestern Angola, with the description of a new species from the Pro-Namib desert. Zootaxa 4061: 201–226.
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