Undergraduates, Graduate students, Postdocs, *equal contribution
22. Stroud JT, Giery ST, Heathcote RJP, Tiatragul S, Yuan ML, Feeley KJ, Losos JB (2024) Observing character displacement from process to pattern in a novel vertebrate community. Nature Communications 15:9862. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54302-1
21. Burns MD, Satterfield DR, Peoples N, Chan H, Barley A, Yuan ML, Roberts-Hugghis AS, Russell KT, Hess M, Williamson SL, Corn KA, Mihalitsis M, Wainwright DK, Wainwright PC (2024) Complexity and weak integration promote the diversity of reef fish oral jaws. Communications Biology 7:1433. DOI:10.1038/s42003-024-07148-8
20. Yuan ML, Westeen EP (2024) Decoupled evolution of ventral and dorsal scales in agamid lizards: ventral keels are associated with arboreality. Biology Letters 20:20240171. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0171
19. Jung C, Frederick JH, Graham NR, Wang IJ, Fenton C, de Queiroz K, Bell RC, Yuan ML (2024) Environmentally-associated color divergence does not coincide with population structure across Lesser Antillean anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blae047. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blae047
18. Bishop AP, Westeen EP, Yuan ML, Escalona M, Beraut E, Fairbairn C, Marimuthu MPA, Nguyen O, Chumchim N, Toffelmier E, Fisher RN, Shaffer HB, and Wang IJ (2023) Assembly of the largest squamate reference genome to date: the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis. Journal of Heredity 114:521–528. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esad037
17. Wogan GOU, Yuan ML, Mahler DL, Wang IJ (2023) Hybridization and transgressive evolution generate diversity in an adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards. Systematic Biology 72:874–884. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad026
16. Yuan ML, Jung C, Frederick JH, Fenton C, de Queiroz K, Cassius J, Williams R, Wang IJ*, Bell RC* (2023) Parallel and non-parallel phenotypic responses to environmental variation across Lesser Antillean anoles. Evolution 77:1031–1042. DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpad018
15. Yuan ML, Westeen EP, Wogan GOU, Wang IJ (2022) Female dewlap ornaments are evolutionarily labile and increase diversification rates in Anolis lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:28920221871. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1871
14. Yuan ML*, Frederick JH*, McGuire JA, Bell RC, Smith SR, Fenton C, Cassius J, Williams R, Wang IJ, Powell R, Hedges SB (2022) Endemism, invasion, and overseas dispersal: the phylogeographic history of the Lesser Antillean frog, Eleutherodactylus johnstonei. Biological Invasions 24:2707–2722. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02803-9
13. Yuan ML, Jung C, Bell RC, Nelson JL (2022) Aposematic patterns shift continuously through the life of poison frogs. Journal of Zoology 317:241– 248. DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12977
12. Yuan ML, Jung C, Wake MH, Wang IJ (2020) Habitat use, competition, and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw and toepad morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129:630–643. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz203
11. Wogan GOU, Yuan ML, Mahler DL, Wang IJ (2020) Genome-wide epigenetic isolation by environment in a widespread Anolis lizard. Molecular Ecology 29:40–55. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15301
10. Yuan ML, White KN, Rothermel BB, Zamudio KR, Tuberville TD (2019) Close-kin mating, but not inbred parents, reduces hatching rates and offspring quality in a threatened tortoise. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32:1152-1162. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13518
9. Yuan ML, Wake MH, Wang IJ (2019) Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation. Evolution 73:231-244. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13673
8. Yuan ML, Wang IJ (2018) Sodium ion channel alkaloid resistance does not vary with toxicity in aposematic Dendrobates poison frogs: an examination of correlated trait evolution. PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194265
7. Blekhman R, Tang K, Archie EA, Barreiro LB, Johnson ZP, Wilson ME, Kohn J, Yuan ML, Gesquiere L, Grieneisen L, Tung J (2016) Common methods for fecal sample storage in long-term field studies have a minimal impact on gut microbiome profiles. Scientific Reports 6:31519. DOI: 10.1038/srep31519
6. Snyder-Mackler N, Majoros WH, Yuan ML, Shaver AO, Gordon J, Kopp G, Schlebusch S, Wall JD, Alberts SC, Mukherjee S, Zhou X, Tung J (2016) Efficient genome-wide sequencing and low coverage pedigree analysis from non-invasively collected samples. Genetics 203:699-714. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.187492
5. Yuan ML, Dean SH, Longo AV, Rothermel BB, Tuberville TD, Zamudio KR (2015) Kinship, inbreeding, and fine-spatial structure influence gut communities of a hindgut-fermenting tortoise. Molecular Ecology 24:2521–2536. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13169
4. Goyret J, Yuan ML (2015) Influence of ambient illumination on the use of olfactory and visual signals by a nocturnal hawkmoth during close-range foraging. Integrative and Comparative Biology 55:486-494. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icv009
Technical & Natural History Notes:
3. Yuan ML, Crews SC, Esposito LA, Allen LC, Bell RC (2023) Presence of the Island Least Gecko, Sphaerodactylus sputator (Reptilia: Sphaerodactylidae), confirmed for Saba, Caribbean Netherlands. Herpetology Notes 16:1-4
2. Yuan ML, Frederick JH, Bell RC (2020) A novel color morph of Sphaerodactylus sabanus Cochran 1938 from Sint Eustatius. Herpetology Notes 13:1035-1039
1. Yuan ML, Wogan GOU, Wang IJ (2018) Trehalose improves PCR amplification of vertebrate nuclear DNA from historical allozymes. Conservation Genetics Resources 10:313-315. DOI: 10.1007/s12686-017-0811-4
Preprints:
P2. Yuan ML, Bell RC, Myers EA. Reassessing a Holocene extinction: multiple lines of evidence do not support the historical presence and recent extirpation of a protected anole on the island of Anguilla. EcoEvoRxiv. DOI: 10.32942/X2WS5H
P1. Yuan ML, Merjenburgh J, van Wagensveld TP, Esposito LA, Bell RC, Myers EA. Competitor decline coincides with recent demographic expansion and island-wide panmixia in Anolis pogus. EcoEvoRxiv. DOI: 10.32942/X29326
