Publications resulting from work performed at the Digital imaging division
Paluh, D.J., Dillard, W.A., Stanley, E.L., Fraser, G.J. and Blackburn, D.C., 2021. Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs. Evolution. Open Access: Download here
Pinheiro, P.D., Blotto, B.L., Ron, S.R., Stanley, E.L., Garcia, P.C., Haddad, C.F., Grant, T. and Faivovich, J., 2021. Prepollex diversity and evolution in Cophomantini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Download here
Bell, C. J., Daza, J. D., Stanley, E. L., & Laver, R. J. 2021. Unveiling the elusive: X-rays bring scolecophidian snakes out of the dark. The Anatomical Record, 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24729
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Laver, R.J., Daza, J.D., Ellis, R.J., Stanley, E.L. and Bauer, A.M., 2021. Underground Down Under: Skull anatomy of the southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 (Typhlopidae: Serpentes: Squamata). The Anatomical Record. Download here
Bolet, A.; Stanley, E. L.; Daza, J. D.; Salvador Arias, J.; Čerňanský, A.; Vidal-García, M.; Bevitt, J. J.; Peretti, A. and Evans, S. E. (2021). “Unusual morphology in the mid-Cretaceous lizard Oculudentavis“. Current Biology, 31, 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.040. Open Access: Download here
Paluh, D.J., Riddell, K., Early, C.M., Hantak, M.M., Jongsma, G.F., Keeffe, R.M., Silva, F.M., Nielsen, S.V., Vallejo-Pareja, M.C., Stanley, E.L. and Blackburn, D.C., 2021. Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution. Elife, 10, p.e66926. Open Access: Download here
Blackburn, D.C., Hernández-Morales, C., Paluh, D.J. and Stanley, E.L., 2021. Predation on a gymnophthalmid lizard by the Brazilian Dumpy Frog, Stereocyclops incrassatus (Microhylidae, Gastrophryninae). Herpetology Notes, 14, pp.847-849. Download here
Bardua, C., Fabre, A., Clavel, J., Bon, M.B., Das, K., Stanley, E.L., Blackburn, D.C., and Goswami, A. (2021) Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs. Nat Commun 12, 2503. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22792-y Open Access: Download here
Goodman, C.M., Jongsma, G.F.M., Hill, J.E., Stanley, E.L., Tuckett, Q.M., Blackburn, D.C. and Romagosa, C.M. (2021) A case of mistaken identity: genetic and anatomical evidence reveal the cryptic invasion of Xenopus tropicalis in central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 55.1:62-69. Download here
Wagner, P., Stanley, E.L., Daza, J.D., Bauer, A.M. (2021) A new agamid lizard in mid Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research Download here
Feiner, N., Jackson, I.S.C., Stanley, E.L., and Tobias Uller, T. (2021) Evolution of the locomotor skeleton in Anolis lizards reflects the interplay between ecological opportunity and phylogenetic inertia. Nature Communications 12, 1525 Open Access: Download here
Venegas, P.J., L.A. García-Ayachi, L.Y. Echevarría, D.J. Paluh, J.C. Chávez–Arribasplata, A. Marchelie, and A. Catenazzi. 2021. A new species of marsupial frog (Anura; Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera de Colán in northeastern Peru. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 201–218
Daza J.D., Stanley, E.L., Bolet, A,, Bauer, A.M., Salvadore Arisa, J.m Cernasky, A., Bevitt, J., Wagner, P., and Evans, S.E. (2020) Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like and had ballistic feeding. Science. 370(6517): 687-691. Download here
Blackburn, D.C., R.M. Keeffe, M.C. Vallejo-Pareja, and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2020. The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: a fossil coquí from Puerto Rico. Biology Letters 16: 20190947.
Heinicke M.P., Titus-McQuillan, J.E., Daza, J.D., Kull, E.M., Stanley, E.L. and Bauer, A.M. 2020.Phylogeny and evolution of unique skull morphologies in dietary specialist African shovel-snouted snakes (Lamprophiidae: Prosymna), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blaa076. Download here
Fabre, A.-C., C. Bardua, M. Bon, J. Clavel, R.N. Felice, J.W. Streicher, J. Bonnel, Stanley, E.L., D.C. Blackburn and A. Goswami. 2020. Metamorphosis and the evolution of morphological diversity in salamanders. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2020. Download here
Weinell, J.L., D.J. Paluh, C.D. Siler, and R.M. Brown. 2020. A new miniaturized genus and species of snake (Lamprophiidae: Cyclocoridae) from the Philippines. Copeia 108: 907–923. PDF
Vigle, G.O, L.A. Coloma, J.C. Santos, S. Hernández-Nieto, H.M. Ortega-Andrade, D.J. Paluh, and M. Read. 2020. A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar Colostethus and Hyloxalus. Zootaxa 4896: 342–372
Bardua, C., Fabre, A.‐C., Bon, M., Das, K., Stanley, E.L., Blackburn, D. and Goswami, A. 2020, Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium. Evolution. doi:10.1111/evo.13984 Open Access: Download here
Paluh, D.P., Stanley, E.L. and Blackburn, D.C., 2020 Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (15) 8554-8562 Open Access: Download here
Bates, M.F. and Stanley, E.L. 2020 A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae). PeerJ 8:e8526 Open Access: Download here
Singer, R., Moore, J. and Stanley, E.L. 2020 Novel life history strategy in a deep sea fish challenges assumptions about reproduction in extreme environments. Scientific Reports 10, 3649 Open Access: Download here
Claunch N., Stanley E.L. and Romagosa C.M. 2020 Natural History note: Leiocepahalus carinatus (Northern Curly-Tailed Lizard) Extreme Fecal Impaction. Herpetological Review 51(1): p126. Open Access: Download here
Blackburn, D.C., L. Roberts, M.C. Vallejo-Pareja, and. Stanley, E.L.. 2019. First record of the anuran family Rhinophrynidae from the Oligocene of eastern North America. Journal of Herpetology. Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 316-323. Open Access: Download here
Černanský A., Stanley E.L. 2019. The atlas– axis complex in Dibamidae (Reptilia: Squamata) and their potential relatives: The effect of a fossorial lifestyle on the morphology of this skeletal bridge. Journal of Morphology. 2019;1–21. Download here
Marques, M., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Stanley, E.L., Bandeira, S.A., Agarwal, I. and Bauer A.M., 2019. A new species of Girdled Lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. Zootaxa 4668(4) Download here
Evans B.J., Gansauge, M-T., Stanley, E.L., Furman, B.L.S., Caroline M. S. Cauret, C.M.S., Ofori-Boateng, C., Gvoždík, V., Streicher, J.W., Greenbaum, E., Tinsley, R.C., Meyer, M. and Blackburn D.C. 2019. Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from? PLoS ONE 14(9): e0220892. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220892 Open Access: Download here
Holovacs, N.T., Daza, J.D., Guerra, C., Stanley, E.L. and Montero, R., 2019. You can’t run, but you can hide: the skeleton of the sand‐swimmer lizard Calyptommatus leiolepis (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). The Anatomical Record. Download here
Griffing A.H., Sanger T.J., Daza J.D., Nielsen S.V., Pinto B.J., Stanley E.L., and Gamble T. 2019 Embryonic development of a parthenogenetic vertebrate, the mourning gecko . Embryonic development of a parthenogenetic vertebrate, the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris). Developmental Dynamics. 2019; 248: 1070– 1090.
doi:10.1002/dvdy.72
Camaiti, M. , Villa, A. , Wencker, L. C., Bauer, A. M., Stanley, E. L. and Delfino, M. 2019, Descriptive osteology and patterns of limb loss of the European limbless skink Ophiomorus punctatissimus (Squamata, Scincidae). Journal of Anatomy. 235: 313-345.
doi:10.1111/joa.13017
Blackburn D.C., Paluh, D.J., Krone, I., Roberts, E.M., Stanley, E.L. and Stevens, N.J. “The Earliest Fossil of the African Clawed Frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Herpetology, 53(2), 125-130. Open Access: Download here
Portillo F., Stanley E.L., Branch W.R., Conradie W.R., Rödel M.O., Penner J., Barej M., Kusamba, C., Muninga W.M., Aristote M.M., Bauer A.M., Trape J.F., Nagy Z.T., Carlino P., Pauwels O.S.G., Menegon M., Ineich I., Burger M., Mazuch T., Jackson K.; Hughes D.F., Behangana M and Greenbaum E. 2019. Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Atractaspidinae) (Squamata: Lamprophiidae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection PLoS One 14 (4) doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214889 Open Access: Download here
Vijayakumar S.P., Pyron, R.A., Dinesh K.P., Torsekar V.R., Srikanthan A.N., Swamy P., Stanley E.L., Blackburn D.C., Shanker K. 2019. A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India, PeerJ 7:e6457 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6457 Open Acess: Download here
Daza, J. D., Bauer, A. M., Stanley, E. L., Bolet, A., Dickson, B., and Losos, J. B. 2018. An Enigmatic Miniaturized and Attenuate Whole Lizard from the Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Breviora 563 (1), 1-18 Download here
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Bandeira, S., Agarwal, I., Stanley, E.L., Bauer, A.M., Heinicke, M.P., Blackburn, D.C. 2018. A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola. ZooKeys 780: 109–136, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.780.25859 Download here
Xing, L., Stanley, E.L., Bai, M. and Blackburn, D.C. 2018. The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports 8, Article number: 8770 Open Access: Download here
Li Y., Ruan Y., Kasson M.T., Stanley E.L., Gillett C.P.D.T., Johnson A.J., Zhang M, Hulcr J. Structure of the Ambrosia Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Mycangia Revealed Through Micro-Computed Tomography, 2018. Journal of Insect Science, Volume 18, Issue 5, September 2018, 13, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iey096 Download here
Hill R.L., Martin, K.G., Stanley, E.L. and Mendelson, J.R. 2018. A taxonomic review of the genus Hemiphractus (Anura: Hemiphractidae) in Panama: Description of Two New Species, Resurrection of Hemiphractus panamensis (Stejneger, 1917), and Discussion of Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters. 1862 Zootaxa 4429 (3): 495–512 Download here
Li, Y. , Ruan, Y. , Stanley, E. L., Skelton, J. and Hulcr, J. 2018. Plasticity of mycangia in Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles. Insect Science. 00, 0-11. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12590 Download here
Supporting grants
National Science Foundation DMR#2017977, $1,202,863. MRI: Acquisition of Nano-resolution Zeiss Xradia 620 Versa X-ray Computed Tomography with Phase Contrast and Lab Diffraction Contrast Tomography, Co-Principal Investigator, July 2020
National Science Foundation ICB#1929448, $763,978. CSBR: Curating the Early Anthropocene Record of circum-Caribbean Animal Biodiversity in the Florida Museum of Natural History, Co-Principal Investigator, September 2019
National Science Foundation SBS #1924759 $104,252. Collaborative Research: Repeated Adaptive Radiation in the Coevolutionary History of Birds and Feather Lice, Principal Investigator, September 2019.
National Science Foundatation DBI #1756306 $499,767. CSBR: Natural History: Big Data From Small Fossils: Curation and Digitization of Major Microvertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History September 2018
National Science Foundation EAR #1839102 $74,170. RAPID: High-Fidelity 3-D Digitization of Paleocene Vertebrate Fossils from Colombia: A Unique Opportunity for Science and Education, 2018
National Science Foundation DBI #1701714 $808,235. Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D, Co-Principal Investigator, September 2017.NSF page.iDigBio Wiki page.