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Recent Publications

Russell, Amy L., Calvin M. Butchkoski, Leslie Saidak, and Gary F. McCracken, in press. Roadkilled bats, highway design, and the commuting ecology of bats. Endangered Species Research. Accepted 25 April 2009.

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O'Brien, John, Carol Mariani, Link Olson, Amy L. Russell, Ludovic Say, Anne Yoder, and Tom J. Hayden, 2009. Multiple colonisations of the Western Indian Ocean by Pteropus fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae): the furthest islands were colonised first. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(2): 294-303.

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Russell, Amy L., Steven M. Goodman, Murray P. Cox, 2008. Coalescent analyses support multiple mainland-to-island dispersals in the evolution of Malagasy Triaenops bats (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). Journal of Biogeography 35(6): 995-1003.

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Russell, Amy L., Steven M. Goodman, Isabella Fiorentino, and Anne D. Yoder, 2008. Population genetic analysis of Myzopoda spp. (Chiroptera: Myzopodidae) in Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 89(1): 209-221.

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Russell, A. L., J. Ranivo, E. P. Palkovacs, S. M. Goodman, and A. D. Yoder, 2007. Working at the interface of phylogenetics and population genetics: a biogeographical analysis of Triaenops spp. (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). Molecular Ecology 16(4): 839-851.

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Goodman, Steven M., Scott G. Cardiff, Julie Ranivo, Amy L. Russell, and Anne D. Yoder, 2006. A new species of Emballonura (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from the dry regions of Madagascar. American Museum Novitates 0(3538): 1-24.

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Russell, Amy and Gary F. McCracken, 2006. Population genetic structure of very large populations: the Brazilian free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis. In "Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats" (A. Zubaid, G. F. McCracken, T. H. Kunz, eds.) pp 227-247. Oxford University Press, New York.

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Russell, A. L., R. A. Medellín and G. F. McCracken, 2005. Genetic variation and migration in the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana). Molecular Ecology 14(7): 2207-2222.

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Yoder, Anne D., Link E. Olson, Carol Hanley, Kellie Heckman, Rodin Rasoloarison, Amy L. Russell, Julie Ranivo, Voahangy Soarimalala, K. Praveen Karanth, Achille P. Raselimanana, and Steven M. Goodman, 2005. A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102(S1): 6587-6594.

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Also published as:

Yoder, Anne D., Link E. Olson, Carol Hanley, Kellie Heckman, Rodin Rasoloarison, Amy L. Russell, Julie Ranivo, Voahangy Soarimalala, K. Praveen Karanth, Achille P. Raselimanana, and Steven M. Goodman, 2005. A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates. In "Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary" (J. Hey, W. M. Fitch, F. J. Ayala, eds.), pp 203-228. National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

Russell, A. L., A. S. Turmelle, V. A. Brown, and G. F. McCracken, 2005. Exrtremely variable di- and tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 669-671.

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Russell, A. L. and R. C. Woodruff, 1999. The genetics and evolution of the mariner transposable element in Drosophila simulans: worldwide distribution and experimental population dynamics. Genetica 105(2): 149-164.

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Manuscripts in Preparation

Muscarella, Robert A., Kevin L. Murray, Derek Ortt, Amy L. Russell, Theodore H. Fleming, in prep. Does wind or demography shape genetic structure in two lineages of Greater Antillean bats? Intended for Molecular Ecology.

Heckman, K. L., A. L. Russell, D. Weisrock, and A. D. Yoder, in prep. Demographic history of mouse lemur sister species: insight into species diversification. Intended for BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Russell, Amy L., Murray P. Cox, Veronica A. Brown, and Gary F. McCracken, in prep. Population growth of Mexican free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae: Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) predates human agricultural activity. Intended for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Russell, Amy L., Michael Worobey, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Michael F. Hammer, in prep. Demographic analyses of wild populations illuminate the early evolution of chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Vonhof, Maarten J., and Amy L. Russell, in prep. A mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of eastern red bats: effective population size and demographic trends in a species under threat. Intended for Molecular Ecology.

Russell, Amy L., and Maarten J. Vonhof, in prep. Parameterizing the effectiveness of genetic data for detecting population declines: a feasibility study. Intended for Conservation Biology.

Russell, Amy L., Tasha K. Altheide, Jessica Bendewald, and Michael F. Hammer, in prep. Genetic variation in hominid species. Current Biology.

Russell, Amy L., Fernando Méndez, Jessica Bendewald, and Michael. F. Hammer, in prep. Significant rate heterogeneity among hominid lineages associated with older Alu families. Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Russell, Amy L., Ruth C. B. Utzurrum, Anne P. Brooke, Veronica Brown, and Gary F. McCracken in prep. Genetic analyses reveal differing evolutionary histories in two sympatric species of Pteropus in the South Pacific. Intended for Molecular Ecology.

Russell, Amy L., Myriam Favi, Rosane V. Marques, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Susi M. Pacheco, Marcelo Romano, and Gary F. McCracken, in prep. Genetic structuring and subspecies status of mainland populations of the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Published Abstracts

Hallam Thomas G., Paula Frederico, Thomas H. Kunz, Gary F. McCracken, and Amy Russell, 2002. Physiologicaly-based models of bat population dynamics. Bat Research News 43(4): 150.

Russell, Amy L., 2002. Bats and panmixis: Investigating population genetic structure in large populations of migratory bats. Bat Research News 43(4):180.

Russell, Amy L., Calvin Butchkoski, Annie Tibbels, Leslie Saidak, and Gary F. McCracken, 2002. Bats, road-kill, and the FBI (Flat Bat Investigation).Bat Research News 43(4): 180.

Russell, Amy L., 2000. Population genetics of the Brazilian free-tailedbat as determined by mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Bat Research News 41(4): 136-137.

Russell, Amy L., 1999. Phylogeography of the Brazilian free-tailed batsTadarida brasiliensis mexicana and T. b. cynocephala as determined by mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Bat Research News 40(4): 188-189.

Russell, Amy L., 1998. Genetic structuring of migratory and non-migratory populations of Brazilian free-tailed bats T. b. mexicana and T. b. cynocephala. Bat Research News 39(4):

Comeaux, Lisa, Gary McCracken and Amy Russell, 1997. Exposing the polygamous behavior at the Lubee Foundation, Inc. Bat Research News 38(4):

 
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