Our collections are used for research as well as teaching. Here is a partial list of research theses and publications that have used specimens in our collection.

Bird Collection

Alexander, M. 2005. Intraspecific Phylogeography of the White-headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus). MS Thesis, San Diego State University. 

Alexander, M. P. and K. J. Burns. 2006. Intraspecific phylogeography and adaptive divergence in the White-headed Woodpecker. The Condor 108: 489-518. 

Barhoum, D. 2001. Interspecific and Intraspecific Analysis of the Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata): Implications for Biogeography, Morphological Variation, and Ancestry. MS Thesis, San Diego State University.  

Barhoum, D. N. and K. J. Burns. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of the Wrentit based on mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. The Condor 104: 740-749.

Burns, K. J. and D. N. Barhoum. 2006. Population-level history of the wrentit (Chamaea fasciata): Implications for comparative phylogeography in the California Floristic Province. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 117-129.

Burns, K. J., M. P. Alexander, D. N. Barhoum, and E. A. Sgariglia. 2007. A statistical assessment of congruence among phylogeographic histories of three avian species in the California Floristic Province. Pages 96-109 in Festschrift for Ned K. Johnson: Geographic Variation and Evolution in Birds (C. Cicero and J. V. Remsen, Jr., Eds.). Ornithological Monographs, no. 63.

Fleischer, R. C. et al. 2008. As the raven flies: using genetic data to infer the history of invasive common raven (Corvus corax) populations in the Mojave Desert. Molecular Ecology 17: 464-474.

Patten, M. A., G. McCaskie, and P. Unitt. 2003. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology. University of California Press, Berkeley. 

Rourke, J. W. 2004. An evaluation of fluctuating asymmetry as a tool in identifying imperiled bird populations. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University.

Sgariglia, E. 2001. Phylogeography of the California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) Based on Nested Clade Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Variation. MS Thesis, San Diego State University. 

Sgariglia, E. A. and Burns, K. J. 2003. Phylogeography of the California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) based on nested-clade analysis of mitochondrial-DNA variation. The Auk 120: 346-361.

Shepherd, T. 2004. Analysis of Intraspecific Variation within the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra), Including a Population-Level Study of P. rubra cooperi. MS Thesis, San Diego State University. 

Shepherd, T. M. and K. J. Burns. 2007. Intraspecific genetic analysis of the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra): Implications for species limits and conservation. Journal of Avian Biology 38: 13-27.

Stiles, F. G., D. L. Altshuler, and R. Dudley. 2005. Wing morphology and flight behavior of some North American hummingbird species. The Auk 122: 872-886. 

Unitt, Philip. 1984. The Birds of San Diego County. San Diego Society of Natural History. Memoir 13. 

Unitt, Philip. 2004. San Diego County Bird Atlas. Ibis Publishing Co., San Diego. 

Zink, R. M., J. D. Rising, S. Mockford, A. G. Horn, J. M. Wright, M. Leonard, and M. C. Westberg. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA variation, species limits, and rapid evolution of plumage coloration and size in the Savannah Sparrow. The Condor 107: 21-28. 

Herbarium Collection

Hargrove, Lori and Michael G. Simpson. 2003. Ultrastructure of heterocolpate pollen in Cryptantha (Boraginaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: 137-151.

Marsden, Kim L. and Michael G. Simpson. 1999.  Eryngium pendletonensis (Apiaceae), a new species from southern california. Madroño 46: 55-58.

Pierce, Nuri and Michael G. Simpson. 2009. Polyaperturate pollen types and ratios of heteromorphism in the monocot genus Conostylis R. Br. (Haemodoraceae). Australian Systematic Botany 22: 1-15.

Pierce, Nuri and Michael G. Simpson. 2010. Chenopodium littoreum (Chenopodiaceae), a new goosefoot from dunes of south-central coastal California. Madroño 57: 64-72.

Simpson, Michael G. and Kristen E. Hasenstab. 2009. Cryptantha of Southern California. Crossosoma 35: 1-59.

Simpson, Michael G., C. Matt Guilliams, and Michael Silveira. 2010. Taxonomy of Calyptridium parryi (Montiaceae). Madroño 57: 145-160.

Herpetology Collection

Torres-Carvajal, O., K. de Queiroz, and R. Etheridge. 2009. A new species of lizard (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae: Enyalioides) from the upper basin of Río Zamora in southeastern Ecuador. ZooKeys, 27: 59-71.

Torres-Carvajal, O., R. Etheridge and K. de Queroz. 2011. A systematic revision of neotropical lizards in the calde Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania). Zootaxa 2752: 1-44.

Online Publications (2010-2011)

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Corytophanidae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Crotaphytidae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Leiocephalidae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Iguanidae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Leiocephalidae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Leiosauridae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Opluridae.pdf

http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/f/Liomaemidae_5_Jan_2011.pdf

Mammal Collection

Adam, Peter J. and A. Berta. 2002. The evolution of prey capture strategies and diet in the Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora). Oryctos, 4:83-107.

Cooper, L.N., A. Berta, J. Reidenberg, S.D. Dawson. 2007. Hyperphalangy and digit reduction: evolution of the cetacean manus. Anatomical Record 290: 654-673.

Cooper, L.N., S.D. Dawson, J. Reidenberg and A. Berta. 2007. Neuromuscular anatomy and the evolution of the cetacean forelimb. Anatomical Record 290: 1121-1137.

Walsh, B. and A. Berta. Cranial (occipital) ossification of balaenopteroid mysticetes. In review. Anatomical Record. Walsh and Berta, 2011.

Terrestrial Arthropod Collection

Crews SC & M Hedin. 2006. Studies of morphological and molecular phylogenetic divergence in spiders (Araneae: Homalonychus) from the American southwest, including divergence along the Baja California peninsula. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 38: 470-487.

Derkarabetian S, DB Steinmann & M Hedin. 2010. Repeated and time-correlated morphological convergence in cave-dwelling harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores) from montane western North America. Published in PLoS ONE.

Hedin M & B Dellinger. 2005. Descriptions of a new species and previously unknown males of Nesticus (Araneae: Nesticidae) from caves in eastern North America, with comments on species rarity. Zootaxa 904:1-19.

Hedin M & M Lowder. 2009. Phylogeography of the Habronattus amicus species complex (Araneae: Salticidae) of western North America, with evidence for localized asymmetrical mitochondrial introgression. Zootaxa 2307, 39-60.

Hedin M & SM Thomas. 2010. Molecular systematics of eastern North American Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores), demonstrating convergent morphological evolution in caves. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54, 107-121.

Starrett J and M Hedin. 2007. Multilocus genealogies reveal multiple cryptic species and biogeographic complexity in the California turret spider Antrodiaetus riversi (Mygalomorphae, Antrodieatidae). Molecular Ecology, 16:583-604.

Thomas SM & M Hedin. 2006. Natural history and distribution of the enigmatic southern Appalachian opilionid, Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Laniatores: Triaenonychidae), with an assessment of morphological variation. Zootaxa 1242:21-36.

Thomas SM and M Hedin. 2008. Multigenic phylogeographic divergence in the paleoendemic southern Appalachian opilionid Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 46, 645-658.