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METAGENOMICS

Ideating iDNA: Lessons and limitations from leeches in legacy collections. 
^{PloS ONE, 14(2), p.e0212226. 2019}

Horizontal transfer of retrotransposons between bivalves and other aquatic species of multiple phyla.
_{PNAS 115: E4227-E4235. 2018}

Evidence of horizontal transmission of the cancer-inducing Steamer retrotransposon among ecological cohort bivalve species.
^{Dis. Aquatic Org. 124: 165-168. 2017}

Characterization of the digestive tract microbiota of Hirudo orientalis (medicinal leech) and antibiotic resistance profile.
^{Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 133(3):408e-418e. 2014}

New gammaproteobacteria associated with bloodfeeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts.
^{Applied Environmental Microbiology, 71: 5219-5224. 2005.}

GENOMICS

Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants.
^{Nature. Scientific reports. 10: 9885}

Applying Evolutionary Genetics to Developmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment.
^{Reproductive Toxicology. 69:174-186}

The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).
^{Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 1: 425-427. 2016.}

Comparative mitogenomics of leeches (Annelida: Clitellata): genome conservation and Placobdella-specific trnD gene duplication.
^{PlosONE15-47320R3. 2016.}

Genome assembly and geospatial phylogenomics of the bed bug Cimex lectularius. 
^{Nature Communications, 7:10164. 2016.}

Multiplexed pyrosequencing of nine sea anemone (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Actiniaria) mitochondrial genomes. 
^{Mitochondrial DNA, 4: 1-7. 2016.}

Genome-wide search for leech antiplatelet proteins in the non-blood-feeding leech Helobdella robusta (Rhyncobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) reveals evidence of secreted anticoagulants.
^{Invert Biol. 130:344-350. 2011.}

Genome-wide screen for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes that regulate host immunity.
^{PLoS One. 5(12):e15120. 2010.}

The transcriptome of the Bermuda fireworm Odontosyllis enopla (Annelida: Syllidae) reveals a firefly-like luciferase and putative epitoky-related genes.
^{PloS ONE,13 (8) e0200944. 2018.}

Marine leech anticoagulants and diversity.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 104: 210-220. 2018.}

When predator becomes prey: investigating the salivary transcriptome of the shark‐feeding leech Pontobdella macrothela (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae).
^{Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179: 725-737. 2016.}

Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses of 3 Species of Placobdella (Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) Confirms a Single Origin of Blood Feeding in Leeches.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 102: 143-150}

Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome of Haemadipsa interrupta (Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches. 
^{Invertebrate Biology 133:74-98. 2014.}

Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae). 
^{Ecol Evol. 3:918-933. 2013.}

Bacterial symbiont and salivary peptide evolution in the context of leech phylogeny.
^{Parasitology. 138(13):1815-27. 2011}

Salivary transcriptome of the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 96: 1211-1221. 2010.}

LEECHES

Broad geographic sampling and DNA barcoding do not support the presence of Helobdella stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) in North America.
^{Zootaxa. In Press. 2019.}

Leeches from Chiapas, Mexico with a new species of Erpobdella (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae).
^{Amer Mus Novitates. 3895: 1-5. 2017.}

Phylogenetic analysis of Placobdella (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) with consideration of COI variation. Molecular
^{Phyogenetics and Evolution. 114: 234-248. 2017.}

Diversity of features of the female reproductive system and other morphological characters in leeches (Clitellata: Hirudinida) in phylogenetic conception. 
^{Cladistics 30: 540-554. 2014.}

The Eyes Have It: Long Distance Dispersal by an Intraorbital Leech Parasite of Birds.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 99: 1137-1139. 2013.}

Evaluation of the evolution of jaw morphology in New World hirudiniform leeches, with a description of a new blood-feeding species of Oxyptychus (Annelida: Hirudiniformes) from the Peruvian Amazon. 
^{Invertebrate Systematics. 26:17-24. 2012.} 

Redescription, Phylogenetic Placement, and Taxonomic Reassignment of Mesobdella lineata (Sciacchitano, 1959) (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida).
^{American Museum Novitates 3711 :1-11. 2011.}

Insights into the evolutionary history of Indo-Pacific bloodfeeding terrestrial leeches (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Haemadipisdae).
^{Invert Syst. 24: 456-472. 2011.}

Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular data and evaluation of the barcoding locus.
^{Zoologica Scripta 40: 194-203. 2011.}

Barcoding, types and the Hirudo files: Using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes.
^{Mitochondrial DNA. 21: 198–205. 2011.}

DNA barcoding reveals Mexican diversity within the freshwater leech genus Helobdella. 
^{Mitochondrial DNA. 21 Suppl 1:24-9. 2010.} 

Leech collections from Washington State, USA, with the description of two new species of Placobdella. 
^{Amer Mus Novitates, N3701. 2010.} 

Sanguijuelas. 
^{CONABIO. Biodiversitas, 90: 1-5. 2010}

Tyrannobdella rex n. gen. n. sp. and the evolutionary origins of mucosal leech infestations. 
^{PLoS ONE, 5(4): e10057. 2010.}

Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: Many lineages of medicinal leeches.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:246-256. 2009.

Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis (Central Newt). Leech Infestation.
^{Herp. Rev. 39: 205-206. 2008.}

Characterization of the Digestive-Tract Microbiota of Hirudo orientalis, a European Medicinal Leech. 
^{Appl. Environmental Microbiology 74: 6151-6154. 2008.}

Evolution of habitat preference in Clitellata (Annelida). Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, 95: 447-464. 2008.

Placobdella lamothei (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), a new leech parasite of freshwater turtles from Mexico. 
^{Rev. Mexicana de Biodiversidad.  79: 135-139. 2008.}

On the evolution, classification and biogeography of some haemadipsoid leeches (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Hirudiniformes).
^{Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46:142-54. 2008.}

Diverse molecular data demonstrate that commercially available medicinal leeches are not Hirudo medicinalis.
^{Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 274:1481-1487. 2007.}

Novel role for Aeromonas jandaei as digestive-tract symbiont of North American medicinal leeches. 
^{Applied environmental Microbiology, 73: 655-658. 2007.}

A new species of leech from the New York Metropolitan Area.
^{American Museum Novitates, 3578. 2007.}

A molecular phylogeny of annelids.
^{Cladistics 23, 41-63. 2007.}

A new species of leech, Placobdella burresonae N. Sp. (Annelida: Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) from Rana pretiosa (Amphibia: Ranidae) in Oregon.
^{Journal of Parasitology 92: 855. 2006.}

Hirudinida.
^{Chapter 9: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida, Rouse, G and Pliejel, F (eds.) Enfield, NH. Pp. 393-429. 2006.}

Phylogeny and revision of Erpobdelliformes (Annelida, Arhynchobdellida) from Mexico based on nuclear and mithochondrial gene sequences.
^{Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 76: 191-198. 2005.}

Phylogenetic evaluation of systematics and biogeography of the leech family Glossphoniidae.
^{Invertebrate Systematics, 19: 105-112. 2005.}

DNA-barcoding evidence for widespread introductions of a leech from the South American Helobdella triserialis complex.
^{Conservation Genetics. 6: 467-472. 2005.}

Phylogeny of the New World medicinal leech family Macrobdellidae (Oligochaeta: Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida).
^{Zool Scripta 34: 559-564. 2005.}

Review of the evolution of life history strategies and phylogeny of the Hirudinida (Annelida: Oligochaeta).
^{Lauterbornia 52: 5-25. 2004.}

Twelve variable microsatellite loci for the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora.
^{Mol Ecol Notes 4: 491-493. 2004.}

Leech collections from Chile Including two new species of Helobdella.
American Museum Novitates, 3457. 2004.

Two new Species of Salifid Leeches (Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes: Salifidae) from South Africa and Madagascar.
^{American Museum Novitates, 3457. 2004.}

Observations on the Leech Placobdella ornata Feeding from Bony Tissues of Turtles.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 90: 1186-1188. 2004.}

Arhynchobdellida (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Hirudinida): Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution.
Mol. Phylog. Evol. 30: 213-225. 2004.

Leech mycetome endosymbionts are a new lineage of alphaproteobacteria related to the Rhizobiaceae.
^{Mol. Phylog. Evol. 30: 178-186. 2003.}

Phylogeny of the leech genus Helobdella (Glossiphoniidae) based on mitochondrial gene sequences and morphological data and a special consideration of the triserialis complex.
^{Zool. Scripta 32: 23-33. 2002.}

Phylogeny and revision of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida: Oligochaeta).
^{Invertebrate Taxonomy, 16: 1-6. 2002.}

The Freshwater leeches (Hirudinea) of Southern Africa with a key to all species. In: Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates in Southern Africa.
^{Water Research Commission. Book 5,. 2002.}

Validating Livanow: Molecular Data Agree that Leeches, Branchiobdellidans and Acanthobdella peledina form a Monophyletic Group of Oligochaetes.
^{Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 21: 346-351. 2001.}

Phylogenetic assessment of the Branchiobdellidae (Annelida: Clitellata) using 18S rDNA and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I characters.
^{Zool. Scripta, 30:215-222. 2001.}

Hirudinea from the Apolobamba in the Bolivian Andes, including new species of Helobdella (Clitellata: Hirudinea).
^{American Museum Novitates, 3341: 14 pp. 2001.}

Leeches of Laguna Volcán including a new species of Helobdella.
^{American Museum Novitates. 3313: 11 pp 2001.}

Phylogeny of the leech family Glossiphoniidae based on mitochondrial gene sequences and morphological data.
^{J. Parasitol. 85, 815-823. 1999.}

Higher level relationships of leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Euhirudinea) based on morphology and gene sequences.
Mol. Phylog. Evol. 12, 350-359 . 1999.

Phylogeny of leeches (Hirudinea) based on mitochondrial cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I.
^{Mol. Phylog. Evol. 9: 156-162. 1998.}

Leeches (Oligochaeta?: Euhirudinea), their phylogeny and the evolution of life-history strategies.
^{Hydrobiologia 334: 277-285. 1996.}

Phylogeny of the Euhirudinea: Independent evolution of blood feeding by leeches?
^{Canadian Journal of Zoology, 73: 1048-1064. 1995.}

The leech as a tool for studying comparative haematology.
^{Comparative Haematology International, 2: 75-78. 1992.}

Bleeding in human volunteers from the bite of the American medicinal leech Macrobdella decora compared with its European counterpart Hirudo medicinalis.
^{Comparative Haematology International, 1: 214-216. 1991.}

EVERYTHING ELSE

Systematics and evolution of syllids (Annelida, Syllidae).
^{Cladistics, 28:234-250. 2012.}

Phylogeny of Syllidae (Polychaeta) based on combined molecular analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes.
^{Cladistics 23: 552-564. 2007.}

he phylogenetic position of Siboglinidae (Polychaeta, Annelida), inferred from 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, and morphological data.
^{Cladistics, 20: 518 –533. 2004.}

Fallacies of False Attribution as the Defense of BPA by Brooks Dowling, van Veller, and Hoberg.
^{Cladistics 20: 376-377. 2004.}

Towards a Tree of Life for the Annelida.
^{Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York. 2004.}

Molecular phylogenetic determination of the phylogenetic position of the genus Colpodella (= Spiromonas).
^{American Museum Novitates, 3314. 10 pp. 2001.}

Women in Biological Sciences.
^{Science, 283, 1115. 1999.}

Siddall, M. E., Fitzhugh, K, and Coates, K. 1998. Problems determining the phylogenetic position of echiurans and pogonophorans with limited data.
^{Cladistics, 14: 401-410.}

CONSERVATION

Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source for CITES-protected contraband leeches. 
^{Eur. J. Wildl. Res., 66:1-10. 2020.}

Biological inventory of Ranomafana National Park tetrapods using leech-derived iDNA.
^{Eur. J. Wild. Res. 65: 70. 2019.}

Debugging Diversity – a global scale exploration of terrestrial blood feeding leeches as a vertebrate monitoring tool.
^{Molecular Ecology Resources. 18: 1282-1298. 2018.}

Bloodlines: mammals, leeches, and conservation in southern Asia.
^{Systematics and Biodiversity. 16: 488-496. 2018.}

Transformational principles for NEON sampling of mammalian parasites and pathogens: a response to Springer and colleagues.
^{Bioscience 66:917-919. 2016.}

Using terrestrial haematophagous leeches to enhance tropical biodiversity monitoring programs in Bangladesh.
^{Journal of Applied Ecology. 55: 2071-2081.}

iDNA from terrestrial haemophagous leeches as a wildlife surveying and monitoring tool – prospects, pitfalls and avenues to be developed. 
^{Frontiers in Zoology, 12, 24. 2015.}

Evaluating Hypotheses on the Origin and Diversification of the Ringneck Snake, Diadophis punctatus, (Colubridae: Dipsadinae).
^{Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society I158:629-640. 2009.}

Isolation and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the ringneck snake Diadophis punctatus (Colubridae: Dipsadinae).
^{Conservation Genetics, DOI 10.1007/s10592-009-9917-x. 2009.}

Phylogeography of Diadophis punctatus: extensive lineage diversity and repeated patterns of historical demography in a trans-continental snake.
^{Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46:1049-70. 2008.}

PARASITES

Reinvention and Resolve.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 102, 566-571. 2016.}

From the worm in a bottle of mezcal: iDNA confirmation of a leech parasitizing the Antillean manatee.
^{J Parasitol. 102:553-555. 2016.}

In silico hybridization enables transcriptomic illumination of the nature and evolution of Myxozoa.
^{BMC Genomics 16 (1), 840. 2015.}

The road to Cnidaria: History of phylogeny of the Myxozoa.
^{Journal of Parasitology 101: 269-274. 2015. 2014.}

A new Haplosporidium species, a parasite of the marine false limpet Siphonaria lessoni (Gastropoda, Siphonariidae) from Patagonia.
^{Comparative Parasitology, 88: 63-73. 2014.}

DNA Barcoding of Parasitic Nematodes: Is it Kosher? 
^{Journal of Parasitology 98: 692-694. 2012}

Scanning Electron Microscopy and Molecular Characterization of A New Haplosporidium Species (Haplosporidia), A Parasite of the Marine Gastropod Siphonaria pectinata (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Siphonariidae) In the Gulf of Mexico.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 97(6), 1062-1066. 2011.}

Molecular phylogenetic evidence of a haplosporidian parasite infecting the polychaete Syllis nipponica (Imajima, 1966). 
^{Parasitology Research. 99:309-12. 2006.}

Molecular Phylogeny of the Phylum Haplosporida Based on Two Independent Gene Sequences.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 90: 1111-1122. 2004.}

Resolution and independence.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 88: 1055-1058. 2002.}

Recent advances in our knowledge of the Myxozoa.
^{Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 48: 395-413. 2001.}

Developmental stages of Haemogregarina delagei in the leech Oxytonostoma typica.
^{Can. J. Zool. 79: 1897-1900 2001.}

Transmission of Haemogregarina balli from painted turtles to snapping turtles through the leech Placobdella ornata.
^{J. Parasitol. 87: 1217-1218. 2001.}

Molecular phylogeny of the other tissue coccidia: Lankesterella and Caryospora.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 87: 121-127. 2001.}

‘Total evidence’ refutes the inclusion of Perkinsus species in the phylum Apicomplexa.
^{Parasitology, 115: 165-176. 1997.}

Phylogenetic analysis of Perkinsus based on Actin Gene sequences.
^{Journal of Parasitology 83: 417-423. 1997.}

Phylogeny of the Haplosporidia (Eukaryota: Alveolata) based on small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 82: 616-623. 1996.}

Small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence of Minchinia teredinis (Haplosporidia: Haplosporidiidae) and a specific DNA probe and PCR primers for its detection.
^{Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 65: 300-308. 1995.}

Detection of Haplosporidium nelsoni (Haplospoidia: Haplosporidiidae) in oysters by PCR amplification.
^{Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 23: 145-152. 1995.}

Molecular phylogenetic evidence that the phylum Haplosporidia has an alveolate ancestry.
^{Mol. Biol. Evol.12: 573-581. 1995.}

Siddall, M. E. 1995. Phylogeny of adeleid blood parasites and systematic revision of the haemogregarine complex.
^{Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 42: 116-125.}

Seasonal changes in erythrocyte osmotic fragility in American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) in relation to infection with the piroplasm Haemohormidium terranovae.
^{Journal of Fish Biology, 47: 1-6. 1995.}

Light and electron microscopic examination of so-called piroplasms of fishes from Atlantic Canada and systematic revision of the Haemohormiidae (incertae sedis).
^{Journal of Parasitology, 80: 1018-1025. 1994.}

The development of a hemogregarine of Lycodes raridens from Alaska in its definitive leech host.
^{Journal of Parasitology. 80: 569-575. 1994.}

Infection with the piroplasm Haemohormidium terranovae in relation to haematocrit and mortality of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides).
^{Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 51: 959-964. 1994.}

Cytopathological changes induced by Haemogregarina (sensu lato) myoxocephali in its fish host and leech vector.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 79: 297-301. 1993.}

Ultrastructure of merogonic development of Haemogregarina (sensu lato) myoxocephali (Apicomplexa: Adeleina) in the marine leech Malmiana scorpii and localization of infective stages in the salivary cells.
^{European Journal of Protistology, 29: 191-201. 1993.}

An ultrastructural study of Brugerolleia algonquinensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Diplomonadida: Diplomonadina), a flagellate parasite from the blood of frogs from Ontario, Canada.
^{European Journal of Protistology, 29: 72-80. 1993.}

Ultrastructure of gametogenesis and sporogony of Haemogregarina (sensu lato) myoxocephali (Apicomplexa: Adeleina) in the marine leech Malmiana scorpii.
^{Journal of Protozoology, 39: 545-554. 1992.}

Alternative leech vectors of frog and turtle trypanosomes.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 78: 562-563. 1992.}

Phylogenetic analysis of the Diplomonadida (Wenyon, 1926) Brugerolle, 1975: Evidence for heterochrony in protozoa and against Giardia lamblia as a “missing link”.
^{Journal of Protozoology, 39: 361-367. 1992.}

Hohlzylinders.
^{Parasitol. Today 8, 90-91. 1992.}

Prevalence and intensity of Haemogregarina balli (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in three turtle species from Ontario, with observations on intraerythrocytic development.
^{Canadian Journal of Zoology, 70: 123-128. 1992.}

The demise of a phylum of protists: Myxozoa and other parasitic Cnidaria.
^{Journal of Parasitology 81: 961-967. 1995.}

Phylogeny and the reversibility of parasitism.
^{Evolution, 47: 308-313. 1993.}

1994. Parasites and reproductive output in Chelydra serpentina.
^{Copeia, 1994: 228-231.}

Phylogeny of Plasmodium species: Estimation and inference.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 78: 567-568. 1992.}

Merogonic development of Haemogregarina balli (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in the leech Placobdella ornata (Glossiphoniidae), its transmission to a chelonian intermediate host and phylogenetic implications.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 77: 426-436.}

Gametogenesis and sporogonic development of Haemogregarina balli (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in the leech Placobdella ornata.
^{Journal of Protozoology, 37: 511-520.}

Ultrastructural observations on developmental stages of Lankesterella minima (Apicomplexa) in experimentally infected Rana catesbeiana tadpoles.
^{Journal of Parasitology, 76: 97-103. 1990.}

PHYLOGENOMICS

A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans. 
^{Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1901), p.20190079. 2019.}

Worms that suck: phylogenetics of leeches, crayfish worms, and Acanthobdellida (Hirudinea).
^{Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127: 129-134. 2018.}

Phylogenomics of Annelida revisited: a cladistics approach using genome-wide EST data mining.
^{Cladistics. 4:435-448. 2013.}

Phylogenomics of Reichenowia parasitica, an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont of the freshwater leech Placobdella parasitica.
^{PLoS ONE 6(11): e28192.}

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Testing the impact of two key scan parameters on the quality and repeatability of measurements from CT scan data. 
^{Palaeontol. Electron. Accepted. PDF. 2020.}

Description of a soft‐bodied invertebrate with microcomputed tomography and revision of the genus Chtonobdella (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae). 
^{Zoologica Scripta DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12165. 2016.}

Microcomputed tomography of Chtonobdella.
^{Dryad Digital Repository,dryad.50s1g. 2016.}

THEORY

Teaching Biodiversity and evolutionary biology in a North American marine coastal environment. 
^{American Biology Teacher, 73:72-77. 2011.}

On MaHo.
^{Cladistics 27: 335-336. 2011.}

Unringing a bell: metazoan phylogenomics and the partition bootstrap.
^{Cladistics, 26: 444-452. 2010.}

Barcoding Bamboozled by Bacteria: Convergence to Metazoan Mitochondrial Primer Targets by Marine Microbes.
^{Systematic Biology. 58:445-451. 2009.}

The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding.
^{Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London – Biological Sciences, 360: 1905 – 1916. 2005.}

Bracing for another decade of deception: The Promise of Secondary BPA.
^{Cladistics. 21: 90 – 99. 2005.}

Measures of stratigraphic fit to phylogeny and their sensitivity to tree size, tree shape, and scale.
^{Cladistics, 20: 64-75. 2004.}

Brooks Parsimony Analysis: A valiant failure.
^{Cladistics 19: 554-564. 2003.}

^{Incorrect evaluation of the information content of multistate characters. Cladistics, 19: 269-272. 2003.}

Characteristic attributes in cancer microarrays,
^{Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 35: 111-122. 2002.}

Measures of Support. In: Techniques in Molecular Evolution and Systematics, (Desalle , R and Giribet, G., eds).
^{Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine Series, Birkhauser Boston. 2002.}

Parsimony Analysis. In: Techniques in Molecular Evolution and Systematics, (Desalle , R and Giribet, G., eds).
^{Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine Series, Birkhauser Boston. 2002.}

On the cladistic use of riboprinting.
^{Cladistics, 17:290-297. 2001.}

Biases in maximum likelihood and parsimony: a simulation approach to a ten-taxon case.
^{Cladistics. 17:266-281. 2001.}

Philosophy and phylogenetic inference: A comparison of likelihood and parsimony methods in the context of Karl Popper’s writings on corroboration.
^{Cladistics, 17, 395-399. 2001.}

Systematic analysis of DNA microarray data: ordering and interpreting patterns of gene expression.
^{Genome Research, 11: 1149-1155. 2001.}

Computer intensive randomization in systematics.
^{Cladistics, 17, S35-S52. 2001.}

Randomization analyses: mimicry, geographic variation and cultural evolution of song in brood-parasitic straw-tailed whydahs, Vidua fischeri.
^{Ethology 106: 261-282. 2000.}

Notes on likelihood.
^{Cladistics. 15: 439-440. 1999.}

Noise.
Cladistics. 15: 51-64. 1999.

Long-branch abstractions.
^{Cladistics,15: 9-24. 1999.}

Success of parsimony in the four-taxon case: Long-branch repulsion by likelihood in the Farris Zone.
^{Cladistics, 14: 209-220. 1998.}

Stratigraphic fit to phylogenies: A proposed solution.
^{Cladistics, 14: 201-208. 1998.}

Probabilism and Phylogenetic Inference.
^{Cladistics, 13: 313-336. 1997.}

The AIDS pandemic is new, but is HIV not new?
^{Cladistics 13:267-273. 1997.}

Prior Agreement: Arbitration or Arbitrary.
^{Syst. Biol.46:766-770. 1997.}

Stratigraphic Indices in the Balance: A Reply to Hitchin and Benton.
^{Syst. Biol. 46:569-573. 1997.}

Uneconomical Diagnosis of Cladograms: Comments on Wheeler and Nixon’s Method for Sankoff Optimization.
^{Cladistics, 13:153-159. 1997.}

Phylogenetic Covariance Probability: Confidence and Historical Associations.
^{Systematic Biology 45: 48-66. 1995.}

Stratigraphic consistency and the shape of things.
^{Systematic Biology 45: 111-115. 1995.}

Another monophyly index: Revisiting the jackknife.
^{Cladistics 11:33-56. 1995.}