Publications

1. ​Sethuraman A, Janzen FJ, Weisrock DW, Obrycki JJ. Insights from population genomics to enhance and sustain biological control of insect pests. Insects. 11(8):462.
2. Maigret TA, Cox JJ, Weisrock DW. A spatial genomic approach identifies time lags and historical barriers to gene flow in a rapidly fragmenting Appalachian landscape. Molecular ecology. 29:673-85.
3. Hunnicutt KE, Tiley GP, Williams RC, Larsen PA, Blanco MB, Rasoloarison RM, Campbell CR, Zhu K, Weisrock DW, Matsunami H, Yoder AD. Comparative genomic analysis of the pheromone receptor class 1 family (V1R) reveals extreme complexity in mouse lemurs (genus, microcebus) and a chromosomal hotspot across mammals. Genome biology and evolution. 12:3562-79.

2019

1. Hime PM, Briggler JT, Reece JS, Weisrock DW. Genomic data reveal conserved female heterogamety in giant salamanders with gigantic nuclear genomes. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 9:3467-3476  PDF DOI
2. Donohue M, Absanga A, Ralainirina J, Weisrock DW, Stumpf R, Wright PC. Habitat disturbance and food species diversity drive extensive variability in the microbiome of a highly-specialized and critically endangered lemur species. American Journal of Primatology, e23046.  PDF DOI
3. Hotaling S, Kelley JL, Weisrock DW. Nuclear and mitochondrial genomic resources for the meltwater stonefly (Plecoptera: Nemouridae), Lednia tumana (Ricker, 1952). Aquatic Insects, published online.  bioRxiv preprint PDF DOI
4. Hotaling S, Foley ME, Zeglin L, Finn DS, Tronstad LM, Giersch JJ, Muhlfeld CC, Weisrock DW. Microbial assemblages reflect environmental heterogeneity in alpine streams. Global Change Biology, 25:2576-2590.  PDF DOI
5. Hotaling S, Shain DH, Lang SA, Bagley RK, Tronstad LM, Weisrock DW, Kelley JL. Long-distance dispersal, ice sheet dynamics, and mountaintop isolation underlie the genetic structure of glacier ice worms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286:20190983.  PDF  DOI
6. Murphy SM, Hast JT, Augustine BC, Weisrock DW, Clark JD, Kocka DM, Ryan CW, Sajecki JL, Cox JJ. Early genetic outcomes of American black bear reintroductions in the Central Appalachians, USA. Ursus, 29:119-133.  PDF  DOI
7. Plouviez S, LaBella AL, Weisrock DW, von Meijenfeldt FAB, Ball B, Neigel JE, Van Dover CL. Amplicon sequencing of 42 nuclear loci supports directional gene flow between South Pacific populations of a hydrothermal vent limpet. Ecology and Evolution, 9:6568-6580. PDF  DOI
8. Yuan Z, Zhang B, Raxworthy CJ, Weisrock DW, Hime PM, Jin J, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Holland SD, Kortyna M, Zhou W, Peng M, Che J, Prendini E. Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean. National Science Review, 6:10-14.  PDF  DOI
9. Hotaling S, Giersch JJ, Finn DS, Tronstad LM, Jordan SP, Serpa LE, Call RG, Muhlfeld CC, Weisrock DW. Congruent population genetic patterns but differing depths of divergence for three alpine stoneflies with similar ecology, geographic distributions, and climate change threats. Freshwater Biology, 64:335-347.  PDF  DOI

2018

1. Jones K, Weisrock DW. 2018. Genomic data reject the hypothesis of sympatric ecological speciation in a clade of Desmognathus salamanders. Evolution, 72:2378-2393. PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
2. Weisrock DW, Hime PM, Nunziata SO, Jones K, Murphy MO, Hotaling S, Kratovil JD. 2018. Surmounting the large-genome “problem” for genomic data generation in salamanders. In: Population Genomics: Wildlife. Editors Hohenlohe P, Rajora O. Springer, New York.  PDF
3. Murphy MO, Jones K, Price SJ, Weisrock DW. 2018. A genomic assessment of population structure in an aquatic salamander identifies the roles of spatial scale, barriers, and river architecture. Freshwater Biology, 63:407-419.  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
4. Nunziata SO, Weisrock DW. 2018. Estimation of contemporary effective population size and population declines using RAD sequence data. Heredity, 120:196-207  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
5. Hotaling S, Muhlfeld CC, Giersch JJ, Ali OA, Jordan S, Miller MR, Luikart G, Weisrock DW. 2018. Demographic model testing reveals a history of divergence and gene flow for a glacially-tied stonefly in a changing post-Pleistocene landscape. Journal of Biogeography, 45:304-317. PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
6. Hotaling S, Slabach BL, Weisrock DW. 2018. Next-generation teaching: a template for bringing genomic and bioinformatic tools into the classroom. Journal of Biological Education, 52:301-313.PDFDOI

2017

1. Nunziata SO, Lance S, Scott D, Lemmon EM, Weisrock DW. 2017. Genomic data detect corresponding signatures of very recent population expansion in two species of salamanders affected by recent climate change. Molecular Ecology, 26:1060-1074  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
2. Hotaling S, Finn DS, Giersch JJ, Weisrock DW, Jacobsen D. 2017. Climate change and alpine stream biology: progress, challenges, and opportunities for the future. Biological Reviews, 92:2024-2045.  PDF  DOI

2016

1. Nunziata SO, Wallenhorst P, Barrett MA, Junge RE, Yoder AD, Weisrock DW. 2016. Population and conservation genetics in an endangered lemur, Indri indri, across three forest reserves in Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology, 37:688-702.  PDF Sweet Cover Art
2. Hime PM, Hotaling S, Grewelle RE, O’Neill EM, Voss SR, Shaffer HB, Weisrock DW. The influence of locus number and information content on species delimitation: an empirical test case in an endangered Mexican salamander. Molecular Ecology, 25:5959-5974.  PDF  Dryad Accession
3. Murphy, MO, Price SJ, Hime PH, Drayer AN, Weisrock DW. 2016. A review and comparison of common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) capture methods and the description of a new trap design. Herpetological Review, 47:575–578.  PDF
4. Yoder AD, Campbell CR, Blanco M, Ganzhorn JU, Goodman SM, Hunnicutt KE, Larsen PA, Kappeler PM, Rasoloarison RM, Ralison JM, Swofford D, Weisrock DW. 2016. Geogenetic patterns in mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) reveal the ghosts of Madagascar’s forests past. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113:8049-8056.  PDF  DOI
5. Hotaling S, Foley M, Lawrence NM, Bocanegra J, Blanco MB, Rasoloarison R, Kappeler PM, Barrett MA, Yoder AD, Weisrock DW. 2016. Species discovery and validation in a cryptic radiation of endangered primates: coalescent-based species delimitation in Madagascar’s mouse lemurs. Molecular Ecology, 25:2029-2045.  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession* Fixed Figure 1.  After publication, we were made aware of an error in the Figure 1 distribution map where the M. rufus localities were incorrectly labeled as M. sambiranensis. This link provides a corrected map figure.
6. Yoder AD, Weisrock DW, Rasoloarison RM, Kappeler PM. 2016. Cheirogaleid diversity and evolution: big questions about small primates. In: The Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Editors: Lehman SM, Radespiel U, Zimmermann E. Cambridge University Press.  PDF

2015 and earlier

Rasoloarison RM, Weisrock DW, Yoder AD, Rakotondravoney D, Kappeler PM. 2013. Two new species of mouse lemur (Cheirogaleidae: Microcebus) from eastern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology, 34:455-469.  PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Macey JR, Mulcahy DR, Matsui M, Papenfuss, TJ. 2013. Molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of the endemic Asian salamander family Hynobiidae (Amphibia, Caudata). Zootaxa, 3626:77-93.  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession

Williams JS, Niedzwiecki JH, Weisrock DW. 2013. Species tree reconstruction of a poorly resolved clade of salamanders (Ambystomatidae) using multiple nuclear markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68:671-682.  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession

O’Neill EM, Schwartz R, Bullock CT, Williams JS, Shaffer HB, Aguilar-Miguel X, Parra-Olea G, Weisrock DW. 2013. Parallel tagged amplicon sequencing reveals major lineages and phylogenetic structure in the North American tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) species complex. Molecular Ecology, 22:111-112.  PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession
** See the News and Views article by McCormack and Faircloth here.

Kajita Y, O’Neill EM, Zheng Y, Obrycki J, Weisrock DW. 2012. A population genetic signature of human introduction efforts in an invasive lady beetle. Molecular Ecology, 21:5473-5483. PDF  DOI  Dryad Accession

Weisrock D. 2012. Concordance analysis in mitogenomic phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65:194-202. PDF Dryad Accession

Haws D, Yoshida R, O’Neill EM, and Weisrock DW. Haws D, Huggins P, O’Neill EM, Yoshida R, and Weisrock DW. 2012. A support vector machine based test for incongruence between sets of trees. BMC Bioinformatics, 13:210. Link

Weisrock DW, Smith SD, Chan LM, Biebouw K, Kappeler PM, Yoder AD. 2012. Concatenation and concordance in the reconstruction of mouse lemur phylogeny: an empirical demonstration of the effect of allele sampling in phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2012: 1615-1630.  PDFDryad Accession

Chan L, Goodman SM, Nowak M, Weisrock DW, Yoder AD. 2010. Increased population sampling confirms low genetic divergence among Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) fruit bats of Madagascar and other western Indian Ocean islands. PLoS Currents: Tree of Life, 3:RRN1226 Link

Weisrock DW, Rasoloarison RM, Fiorentino I, Ralison JM, Goodman SM, Kappeler PM, Yoder AD. 2009. Delimiting species without nuclear monophyly in Madagascar’s mouse lemurs. PLoS One, 5:e9883. Link

Groeneveld LF, Weisrock DW, Rasoloarison RM, Yoder AD, Kappeler PM. 2009. Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:30. Link

Horvath JE, Weisrock DW, Embry SL, Fiorentino I, Balhoff JP, Kappeler P, Wray GA, Willard HF, Yoder AD. 2008. Development and application of a phylogenomic toolkit: resolving the evolutionary history of Madagascar’s lemurs. Genome Research, 18:489-499. PDF

Christensen AB, Christensen EF, Weisrock DW. 2008. Population genetic structure of North American Ophiactis spp. brittlestars possessing hemoglobin. Marine Biology, 154:755-763. PDF

Weisrock DW, Shaffer HB, Storz BL, Storz SR, Voss SR. 2006. Multiple nuclear gene sequences identify phylogenetic species boundaries in the rapidly radiating clade of Mexican ambystomatid salamanders. Molecular Ecology, 15:2489-2503. PDF

Weisrock DW, Papenfuss TJ, Macey JR, Litvinchuk SN, Polymeni R, Ugurtas IH, Zhao E, Larson A. 2006. A molecular assessment of phylogenetic relationships and lineage accumulation rates within the family Salamandridae (Amphibia, Caudata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 41:368-383. PDF

Weisrock DW, Larson A. 2006. Phylogeographic tests of speciation in the Plethodon jordani species complex with allozyme and mtDNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 89:25-51. PDF

Smith JJ, Putta S, Walker JA, Kump DK, Samuels AK, Monaghan JR, Weisrock DW, Staben C, Voss SR. 2006. Sal-Site: Integrating new and existing ambystomatid salamander research resources. BMC Genomics, 6:181 Link

*Kozak KH, *Weisrock DW, Larson A. 2006. Rapid lineage splitting in a non-adaptive radiation: phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (genus Plethodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 273:539-546. PDF  DOI

Jones MT, Voss SR, Ptacek MB, Weisrock DW, Tonkyn DW. 2006. River drainages and phylogeography: an evolutionary significant lineage of shovel-nosed salamander (Desmognathus marmoratus) in the southern Appalachians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 38:280-187. PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Harmon LH, Larson A. 2005. Resolving deep phylogenetic relationships among salamander families: analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genomic data. Systematic Biology 54:758-777.  PDF  DOI

Samuels AK, Weisrock DW, Smith JJ, France KJ, Walker LA, Putta S, Voss SR. 2005. Transcriptional and phylogenetic analysis of five complete ambystomatid salamander mitochondrial genomes. Gene 349:43-53.  PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Kozak KH, Larson A. 2005. Phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial gene flow and introgression in the salamander, Plethodon shermani. Molecular Ecology 14:1457-1472.  PDF  DOI

Putta S, Smith JJ, Walker J, Rondet M, Weisrock DW, Monaghan J, Kump K, Yan X, Stromberg A, King DC, Maness NJ, Habermann B, Tanaka E, Bryant SV, Gardiner DM, Parichy DM, Voss SR. 2004. From biomedicine to natural history research: expressed sequence tag resources for ambystomatid salamanders. BMC Genomics 5:54

Larson A, Weisrock DW, Kozak KH. 2003. Phylogenetic systematics of salamanders (Amphibia: Caudata), a review. In D. M. Sever (ed.) Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Urodela. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, New Hampshire.

Weisrock DW, Macey JR, Ugurtas IH, Larson A, Papenfuss TJ. 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.  PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Janzen FJ. 2000. Comparative molecular phylogeography of North American softshell turtles (Apalone): implications for regional and wide-scale historical evolutionary forces. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14:152-164.  PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Janzen FJ. 1999. Thermal and fitness related consequences of nest location in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta). Functional Ecology 13:94-101.  PDF  DOI

Weisrock DW, Haselkorn TS, Janzen FJ. 1998. Lack of genetic variation in Cytochrome b in a population of smooth softshell turtles. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 105:158-160.