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  1. Outgroup sampling in phylogenetics: Severity of test and successive outgroup expansion

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, July 2019, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  2. Differences in ocular media transmittance in classical frog and toad model species and its impact on visual sensitivity

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Taran Grant

  3. A total evidence analysis of the phylogeny of hatchet-faced treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae: Sphaenorhynchus )

    Article • Cladistics, January 2019, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  4. A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2018, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  5. Concentrated evolutionary novelties in the foot musculature of Odontophrynidae (Anura: Neobatrachia), with comments on adaptations for burrowing

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2017, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  6. Phylogeny ofRiama(Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna

    Article • Cladistics, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Pedro M S Nunes, Taran Grant

  7. Phylogenetic relationships and morphology of the Pristimantis leptolophus species group (Amphibia: Anura: Brachycephaloidea), with the recognition of a new species group in Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

    Article • Zootaxa, March 2017, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  8. Invasion of the acoustic niche: variable responses by native species to invasive American bullfrog calls

    Article • Biological Invasions, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  9. The complex evolutionary history of the tympanic middle ear in frogs and toads (Anura)

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  10. A new red-eyed of stream treefrog of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from Peru, with comments on the taxonomy of the genus

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2016, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  11. Mitogenome assembly from genomic multiplex libraries: comparison of strategies and novel mitogenomes for five species of frogs

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, December 2015, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  12. The relationship between poison frog chemical defenses and age, body size, and sex

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  13. Sequestered and Synthesized Chemical Defenses in the Poison Frog Melanophryniscus moreirae

    Article • Journal of Chemical Ecology, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  14. Two new endangered species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) from Roraima State, northern Brazil

    Article • Zootaxa, March 2015, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  15. Two new species of the genus Zorochros (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Negastriinae) from Korea

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2015, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  16. Systematics of the Neotropical GenusLeptodactylusFitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Phylogeny, the Relevance of Non-molecular Evidence, and Species Accounts

    Article • South American Journal of Herpetology, September 2014, Brazilian Herpetological Society

    Taran Grant

  17. Corrections to “Padial et al. (2014) Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria”

    Article • Zootaxa, July 2014, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  18. Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria

    Article • Zootaxa, June 2014, Magnolia Press

    Taran Grant

  19. Amphibian richness patterns in Atlantic Forest areas invaded by American bullfrogs

    Article • Austral Ecology, June 2014, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  20. Discovery of a Novel Accessory Structure of the Pitviper Infrared Receptor Organ (Serpentes: Viperidae)

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2014, PLOS

    Taran Grant

  21. Dietary Alkaloid Sequestration in a Poison Frog: An Experimental Test of Alkaloid Uptake in Melanophryniscus stelzneri (Bufonidae)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Ecology, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  22. Review of the Frog GenusSilverstoneia, with Descriptions of Five New Species from the Colombian Chocó (Dendrobatidae: Colostethinae)

    Article • American Museum Novitates, October 2013, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  23. New Morphological Synapomorphies for the New World Direct-Developing Frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Terrarana)

    Article • Herpetologica, September 2013, Herpetologists League

    Taran Grant

  24. Does counting species count as taxonomy? On misrepresenting systematics, yet again

    Article • Cladistics, June 2013, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  25. Acoustic invasion: How invasive species can impact native species acoustic niche?

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Taran Grant

  26. An Extraordinary New Species ofMelanophryniscus(Anura, Bufonidae) from Southeastern Brazil

    Article • American Museum Novitates, November 2012, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  27. Discovery of the Frog GenusAnomaloglossusin Panama, with Descriptions of Two New Species from the Chagres Highlands (Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae)

    Article • American Museum Novitates, November 2012, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  28. Biological invasions and the acoustic niche: the effect of bullfrog calls on the acoustic signals of white-banded tree frogs

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Taran Grant

  29. The occurrence of defensive alkaloids in non-integumentary tissues of the Brazilian red-belly toad Melanophryniscus simplex (Bufonidae)

    Article • Chemoecology, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  30. Diel pattern of migration in a poisonous toad from Brazil and the evolution of chemical defenses in diurnal amphibians

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  31. Directional orientation of migration in an aseasonal explosive-breeding toad from Brazil

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, May 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Taran Grant

  32. REP provides meaningful measurement of support across datasets

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, April 2010, Elsevier

    Taran Grant

  33. Perspective: Parsimony, explanatory power, and dynamic homology testing

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Taran Grant

  34. Clade support measures and their adequacy

    Article • Cladistics, December 2008, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  35. Credit where credit is due: The Goodman–Bremer support metric

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2008, Elsevier

    Taran Grant

  36. Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed?

    Article • Cladistics, June 2008, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  37. Ratio of explanatory power (REP): A new measure of group support

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, July 2007, Elsevier

    Taran Grant

  38. From conviction to anti-superfluity: old and new justifications of parsimony in phylogenetic inference

    Article • Cladistics, June 2006, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  39. THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE

    Article • Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, March 2006, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  40. Stability, sensitivity, science and heurism

    Article • Cladistics, December 2005, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  41. On the Identities of Colostethus inguinalis (Cope, 1868) and C. panamensis (Dunn, 1933), with Comments on C. latinasus (Cope, 1863) (Anura: Dendrobatidae)

    Article • American Museum Novitates, June 2004, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  42. Transformation Series as an Ideographic Character Concept

    Article • Cladistics, February 2004, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  43. Data exploration in phylogenetic inference: scientific, heuristic, or neither

    Article • Cladistics, October 2003, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  44. Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Taran Grant

  45. Testing Methods: The Evaluation of Discovery Operations in Evolutionary Biology

    Article • Cladistics, February 2002, Wiley

    Taran Grant

  46. Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 2001, Elsevier

    Taran Grant

  47. Two New Species of Frogs of the Genus Colostethus (Dendrobatidae) from Peru and a Redescription of C. trilineatus (Boulenger, 1883)

    Article • American Museum Novitates, December 2001, American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)

    Taran Grant

  48. The Advertisement Call of Centrolene geckoideum

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, September 1998, JSTOR

    Taran Grant

  49. The Cloud Forest Colostethus (Anura, Dendrobatidae) of a Region of the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, September 1998, JSTOR

    Taran Grant