Publications

*  = equal contribution; § = mentored undergraduate

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 esad037. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esad037
  4. Wogan GOU, Yuan ML, Mahler DL, Wang IJ (2023) Hybridization and transgressive evolution as drivers of adaptive radiations: reticulate evolution generates diversity in the Puerto Rican Anolis Lizards. Systematic Biology. syad026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad026
  5. 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. DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpad018
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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 
  10. 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 
  11. 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 
  12. 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 
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  13. 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   
  14. 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 
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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 and Natural History Notes:

  1. Yuan ML, Crews SC, Esposito LA, Allen LC, Bell RC (2022) 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  
  3. 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:

  1. Yuan ML, Bell RC, Myers EA (2024) Reassessing a Holocene extinction: Multiple lines of evidence do not support the historical presence and recent extirpation of a protected anole on Anguilla. EcoEvoRxiv DOI:10.32942/X2WS5H
  2. Yuan ML, Merjenburgh J, van Wagensveld TP, Esposito LA, Bell RC, Myers EA (2024) Demographic expansion and panmixia in a St. Martin endemic, Anolis pogus, coincides with the decline of a competitor. EcoEvoRxiv DOI:10.32942/X29326