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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2010
Thorpe
RS, Surget-Groba Y, Johansson H (2010) Genetic Tests for Ecological and
Allopatric Speciation in Anoles on an Island Archipelago. PLoS Genet
6(4): e1000929. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000929 . http://www.plosgenetics.org/doi/pgen.1000929
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Featured in | ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS) April
29, 2010
Island Reptiles Buck an Evolutionary Trend
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/island-reptiles-buck-an-evolutio.html.
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Featured in Science. Island Reptiles Buck an
Evolutionary Trend Science 2010. 328:677.
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Featured in Nature. Not-so-lonesome
lizards Nature 2010 465:12. PDF
Selected by Faculty of 1000 Biology
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Malhotra
A, S Creer, CE Pook, RS Thorpe (2010) Inclusion of nuclear intron sequence
data helps to identify the Asian sister group of New World pitvipers. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 54 172–178. PDF
J. Eales,
R. S. Thorpe and A. Malhotra (2010) Colonisation history and genetic diversity:
adaptive potential in early stage invasions. Molecular Ecology. 19:2858-2869.
email r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk for a PDF.
Daniells,
E.A., N.J. Vélez Espinet, R.S. Thorpe, and R. Powell. 2010. Sphaerodactylus
fantasticus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 876.1-8
Powell,
R., R.W. Henderson, and R.S. Thorpe. 2010. Sphaerodactylus phyzacinus. Catalogue
of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 877.1-3
2009
J.
Eales & R. S. Thorpe (2010). Revealing the geographic origin of an invasive
lizard: the problem of native population genetic diversity. Biol Invasions
12:77–86
DOI 10.1007/s10530-009-9431-6. Email me for this article. r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk
Guo
P, A Malhotra, RS Thorpe, S Creer & CE Pook (2009) Comments on the systematic
status of specimens belonging to the genus Viridovipera (Serpentes: Viperidae:
Crotalinae) from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of southwestern China, with
a redescription of V. yunnanensis. Herpetological Journal 19: 151–162.
PDF.
Dawnay
N, Ogden R, Wetton JH, Thorpe RS, McEwing R. 2009. Genetic data from 28
STR loci for forensic individual identification and parentage analyses in
6 bird of prey species. Forensic Science International: Genetics 3
(2009) e63–e69 Epub 2008 Aug 15.
2008
Johansson
H , Y Surget-Groba, RS. Thorpe (2008). The roles of allopatric divergence
and natural selection in quantitative trait variation across a secondary
contact zone in
the lizard Anolis roquet. Molecular Ecology 17, 5146–5156 doi:
10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03979.x.
Email me at r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk
Dawnay
N, R McEwing, RS. Thorpe, R Ogden. (2008) Preliminary data suggests genetic
distinctiveness of gyr and saker falcons. Conserv Genet (2008) 9:703–707
DOI 10.1007/s10592-007-9392-1. PDF
Dawson K,
A. Malhotra, R S Thorpe et al. 2008. Mitochondrial
DNA analysis reveals a new member of the Asian pitviper genus Viridivipera
(Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). Mol Phylo. Evol. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.044
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Johansson, H.,
Surget-Groba, Y., Thorpe R. S. 2008 Microsatellite data
show evidence for male-biased dispersal in the Caribbean lizard Anolis
roquet. Mol Ecol. 17:4425-4432.email r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk
for a PDF
Thorpe,
R. S., Surget-Groba,Y. & Johansson, H. 2008. The relative
importance of ecology and geographic isolation for speciation in anoles.
Phil Trans. R. Soc Lond B. 363:3071-3081.email r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk
for a PDF PDF
Thorpe
RS et al 2008. Adaptive radiation in Lesser Antillean lizards: molecular
phylogenetics and species recognition in the Lesser Antillean dwarf
gecko complex, Sphaerodactylus fantasticus. Mol Ecol 17:1489-1504.
email r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk for a PDF
Eales,
J, RS Thorpe, A Malhotra 2008. Weak founder effect signal in a recent
introduction of Caribbean Anolis. Mol Ecol. 17:1416-1426.
email r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk for a PDF
Dawnay, N., R. Ogden, R. S. Thorpe, L. C. Pope, D. A. Dawson & R. McEwing. 2008. A forensic STR profiling system for the Eurasian badger: A framework for developing profiling systems for wildlife species. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2: 47-53. PDF
Johansson,
H., Surget-Groba, Y., Gow, J.L., Thorpe R. S. 2008. Development of
microsatellite markers in the St Lucia anole, Anolis luciae.
Mol. Ecol. Resources. 8:1408-1410 email
r.s.thorpe@bangor.ac.uk for a PDF
2007
Creer,
S., Pook, C.E., Malhotra, A., Thorpe, R.S.
2006. Optimal intron analyses in the
Trimeresurus radiation of Asian pitvipers. Systematic Biology
55: 57-72. PDF
Gow
JL, H Johansson, Y Surget-Groba, R S Thorpe. 2006. Ten polymorphic
tetranucleotide microsatellite markers isolated from the Anolis roquet
series of Caribbean lizards. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6:873-876.
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Sanders
KL, A. Malhotra, R.S. Thorpe. 2006. Evidence
for a Müllerian mimetic radiation in Asian
pitvipers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273: 1135-1141.
PDF
Sanders KL, A. Malhotra, R.S. Thorpe. 2006. Combining molecular,morphological and ecological data to infer species boundaries in a cryptic tropical pitviper. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87: 343-664. PDF
2005
Thorpe
RS. 2005. Population evolution and island biogeography. Science.
310:1778-1779. PDF
Science summary link http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/310/5755/1778?ijkey=jJvlLKRj4UDc6&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
Science Full text link http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5755/1778?ijkey=jJvlLKRj4UDc6&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
Creer
S, A Malhotra, R S Thorpe, C E Pook. 2005. Targetting
introns for phylogenetic analyses in non-model taxa: experimental
results in Asian pitvipers. Cladistics. 21:390-395. PDF
Thorpe RS, DL Leadbeater, C
Thorpe RS,
JT Reardon, A Malhotra. 2005. Common garden and natural
selection experiments support ecotypic differentiation in
the Dominican anole (Anolis oculatus). Amer Nat . 165:495-504. PDF
Wüster
W, JE Ferguson, JA Quijada-Mascareñas, CE Pook,
MG Salomão & RS Thorpe 2005 Tracing an invasion:
landbridges, refugia and the phylogeography of the Neotropical
rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus)
. Mol Ecol. 14: 1095-1108. PDF
Gübitz
T, RS Thorpe, A Malhotra 2005.
The dynamics of genetic and morphological variation on volcanic
islands Proc R. Soc B. 272:751-757. PDF
Malhotra A,
& RS Thorpe. 2005. Erratum to “A phylogeny of four
mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for
Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis)” {Mol Phylogenet.
Evol. 32 (2004) 83-100]. Mol Phylo. Evol. 34:68-681. PDF
2004
Stenson,AG
RS Thorpe and A Malhotra. 2004.
Evolutionary differentiation of bimaculatus group
anoles based on analyses of mtDNA and microsatellite data.
Mol Phylo Evol 32:1-10.
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Malhotra,
A., and R.S.Thorpe. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions
suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pit vipers (Trimeresurus
and Ovophis). Mol Phylo Evol. 32: 83-100. PDF
Creer, S.,
Thorpe, R.S., Malhotra, A., W.-H.
Chou. & AG Stenson 2004. The utility of AFLPs for supporting
mitochondrial DNA phylogeographical analysres in the Taiwanese
bamboo viper, Trimeresurus stejnegeri. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 100-107.
PDF
Sanders,
K.L., A. Malhotra, and R.S. Thorpe. 2004. Ecological diversification
in a group of Indomalayan pitvipers (Trimeresurus):
convergence in taxonomically important traits has implications
for species identification. J. Evol. Biol.
17: 721-731. PDF
Herrmann, H.W.,
T. Ziegler, A. Malhotra, R.S. Thorpe, and C.L. Parkinson.
2004. Redescription and systematics of Trimeresurus cornutus
(Serpentes: Viperidae) based on
morphology and molecular data. Herpetologica,
60: 211-221.
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Malhotra,
A., and R.S. Thorpe. 2004. Maximising information in systematic revisions:
a combined molecular and morphological analysis of a cryptic green pitviper
complex (Trimeresurus stejnegeri). Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 82: 219-235. PDF
Malhotra,
A., R.S. Thorpe and B.L. Stuart. 2004. A morphometric analysis of Trimeresurus
vogeli (David, Vidal and Pauwels, 2001), with new data
on diagnostic characteristics, distribution and natural history. Herpetological
Journal. 14: 65-77. PDF
Malhotra,
A., and R.S. Thorpe. 2004. Reassessment of the validity and diagnosis of
the pitviper Trimeresurus venustus Vogel, 1991 Herpetological Journal, 14: 21-33. PDF
Sanders, K.L., A. Malhotra, A. Gumprecht, R. S. Thorpe &
U. Kuch. 2004. Poeia inornata, a new species of pitviper
from
Thorpe RS,
Malhotra A, Stenson AG and Reardon JT (2004) Adaptation and speciation in Lesser Antillean
anoles. In: (eds.) Dieckmann, U., Doebeli, M., Metz JAJ, and Tautz, D., (Eds.) pp322-344 In: Adaptive
Speciation, Cambridge University
Press,
2003
Thorpe RS.
2003. Garth Underwood (1919-2002): A vision of reptile
systematics. Herpetological Review. 34:6-8. PDF
Thorpe RS
and Stenson AG (2003) Phylogeny, paraphyly and
ecological adaptation of the colour and pattern in the Anolis
roquet complex on
Creer S, Malhotra
A and Thorpe RS (2003) Assessing
the phylogenetic utility of four mitochondrial genes and
a nuclear intron in the Asian pitviper genus Trimeresurus: separate, simultaneous, and conditional data
combination analyses. Mol Biol Evol 20,
1240-1251. PDF
Creer S, Malhotra
A, Thorpe RS, Stocklin R, Favreau P and Chou W-H (2003) Genetic and ecological correlates of intraspecific
variation in pitviper venom composition detected using
matrix assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry
(MALDI-TOF-MS) and isoelectric focusing.
J Mol Evol
56, 317-329. PDF
2002
Thorpe RS (2002). Analysis of Color Spectra
in Comparative Evolutionary Studies: Molecular Phylogeny
and Habitat Adaptation in the St. Vincent Anole (Anolis trinitatis). Syst Biol 51:
554-569. PDF
Stenson AG,
Malhotra A, Thorpe RS (2002). Population
differentiation and nuclear gene flow in the Dominican
anole (Anolis oculatus). Mol. Ecol. 11: 1679-1688. PDF
Creer, S., Chou, W.-H., Malhotra, A. and Thorpe, R.S. 2002.
Offshore insular variation in the diet of the Taiwanese
bamboo viper, Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt).
Zoological Science, 19:907-913. PDF
Sanders, K.L., Malhotra, A., and R.S. Thorpe. 2002. A contribution to the
systematics of two commonly confused pitvipers from the
Sunda region: Trimeresurus hageni and T. sumatranus.
Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus, Zoology, 68(2):107-111.
PDF
Hille A, Janssen
IAW, Menken SBJ, Schlegel M, Thorpe RS (2002). Heterologous
Amplification of Microsatellite Markers From Colubroid
Snakes in European Natricines (Serpentes : Natricinae). Journal of Heredity 93: 63-66. PDF
Thorpe RS (2002) Geographic variation. In: Pagel MD, (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolution, pp. 430-435.
Wuster W, Salomao
MG, Quijada-Mascarenas JA, Thorpe RS. 2002. Origins and evolution of the
South American pit viper fauna: evidence from mitiochondrial DNA sequence
analysis. In. Biology of the Vipers (eds
Schuett GW, Hoggren M, Douglas ME, Greene HW) pp 111-128 Eagle
Mountain Publishing, Eagle Mt,
Wüster
W, Thorpe RS Salomao MG, Thomas, L., Puorto G, Theakston
RDG, & Warrell, DA. 2002. Origin and phylogenetic position
of the Lesser Antillean species of Bothrops (Serpentes,
Viperidae): biogeographical and medical implications. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus, Zoology, 68: 101-106. PDF
2001
Thorpe RS, Richard M (2001). Evidence That
Ultraviolet Markings Are Associated With Patterns of Molecular
Gene Flow. PNAS 98: 3929-3934.
PDF
Creer S, Malhotra A, Thorpe RS, Chou WH
(2001). Multiple Causation of Phylogeographical Pattern
as Revealed by Nested Clade Analysis of the Bamboo Viper
(Trimeresurus stejnegeri) Within Taiwan. Mol. Ecol. 10: 1967-1981.
PDF
Giannasi N,
Malhotra A, Thorpe RS (2001). Nuclear and MtDNA Phylogenies of the Trimeresurus Complex: Implications for the Gene Versus
Species Tree Debate. Mol Phylo Evol 19:
57-66. PDF
Giannasi N,
Thorpe RS, Malhotra A (2001). The
Use of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism in Determining
Species Trees at Fine Taxonomic Levels: Analysis of a Medically
Important Snake, Trimeresurus albolabris.
Mol. Ecol. 10:
419-426. PDF
Richard M,
Thorpe RS (2001). Can
microsatellites be used to infer phylogenies? Evidence from population affinities
of the western
Surget-Groba
Y, Heulin B, Guillaume G P, Thorpe RS, Kupriyanova
L, Vogrin N, Maslak R, Mazzotti S, Venczel M, Ghira I,
Odierna G, Leontyeva O, Monney JC, Smith N (2001). Intraspecific
Phylogeography of Lacerta vivipara and the Evolution
of Viviparity. Mol Phylo Evol 18: 449-459.
PDF
Puorto G, Salomao
MD, Theakston RDG, Thorpe RS, Warrell DA, Wüster W (2001). Combining
Mitochondrial DNA Sequences and Morphological Data to Infer
Species Boundaries: Phylogeography of Lanceheaded Pitvipers
in the
2000
Richard M
& Thorpe R S. 2000.Highly polymorphic microsatellites in the lacertid
Gallotia galloti from the western
Stenson A, Malhotra A, Thorpe R S. 2000. Highly
polymorphic micriosatellite loci. from the Dominican anole
(Anolis oculatus) and their amplification in other
bimaculatus series anoles. Mol Ecol. 9:1661-1686.
PDF
Malhotra A
& Thorpe R S. 2000. A phylogeny of the Trimeresurus group of pit-vipers: new evidence
from a mitochondrial gene tree. Mol
Phylo Evol. 16:199-211. PDF
Giannasi,
N, Thorpe R S, & Malhotra A. 2000. A phylogenetic
analysis of body size evolution in the Anolis
roquet group (Sauria: Iguanidae) character displacement
or size assortment? Mol Ecol. 9:193-202. PDF
Gübitz
T, Thorpe R S, Malhotra A, 2000. Phylogeography and natural
selection in the
Tarkhnishvili
D, Thorpe R S , Arntzen JW 2000. Pre-Pleistocene refugia
and differentiation between populations of the Caucasian
salamander (Mertensiella caucasica). Mol Phylo Evol. 14:414-422. PDF
Pook, C
E, Wüster W, Thorpe, R S. 2000. Historical biogeography
of the Western Rattlesnake (Serpentes:Viperidae: Crotalus viridis) inferred from mitochondrial
DNA sequence information. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 15:269-282. PDF
Malhotra
A & R S Thorpe. 2000. The dynamics of natural selection
and vicariance in the Dominican anole: patterns of within-island
molecular and morphological divergence. Evolution 54:245-258. PDF
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