In review / revision

Alfaro, M. E., L. J. Harmon, and J. P. Huelsenbeck. Does the no-common mechanism model perform well in the analysis of morphological data sets? Submitted to Systematic Biology.

Yoder, J. B., S. Des Roches, J. M. Eastman, L. Gentry, W. K. W. Godsoe, T. Hagey, D. Jochimsen, B. P. Oswald, J. Robertson, B. A. J. Sarver, J. J. Schenk, S. F. Spear, and L. J. Harmon. In review. Perspective: Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations. Submitted to Evolution.

Harmon, L. J., J. B. Losos, J. Davies, R. G. Gillespie, J. L. Gittleman, W. B. Jennings, K. Kozak, M. A. McPeek, F. Moreno-Roark, T. J. Near, A. Purvis, R. E. Ricklefs, D. Schluter, J. A. Schulte II, O. Seehausen, B. Sidlauskas, O. Torres-Carvajal, J. T. Weir, & A. Ø. Mooers. In review. Constraints, not early bursts of evolution, explain patterns of body size and shape evolution across taxa. Submitted to PLoS Biology.

Harmon, L. J. In revision. A nonparametric method to test for correlated evolution in a phylogenetic context. To be submitted to Systematic Biology.

Smith, K. L., L. J. Harmon, L. Shoo, and J. Melville. In revision. Evidence that stabilizing selection generates constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex from an unstable environment. To be submitted to Evolution.

Davies, T. J., L. J. Harmon, and P. Goldblatt. In revision. Evolutionary rates and ancestral states for incompletely sampled clades: an analysis of flower symmetry in Asterids and Irids. To be submitted to Systematic Biology.

Harmon, L. J.* and R. E. Glor*. In revision. Poor statistical performance of the Mantel test in phylogenetic comparative analyses. To be submitted to Evolution. *Equal contribution

In press

Santini, F., L. J. Harmon, G. Carnevale, and M. E. Alfaro. In press. First evidence for a link between the fish-specific genome duplication and the origin of teleosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Alfaro, M. E., F. Santini, C. Brock, H. Alamillo, A. Dornburg. D. L. Rabosky, G. Carnevale, and L. J. Harmon. In press. Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates. PNAS.

Hagey, T. J., J. B. Losos, and L. J. Harmon. Accepted pending revisions. Cruise foraging of invasive chameleons (Chamaeleo jacksonii) in Hawaii. Breviora.

Harmon, L. J. and S. Braude. In press. Conservation of Small Populations: Effective Population Size, Inbreeding, and the 50/500 Rule. in S. Braude and B. S. Low, Eds., An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Princeton University Press.

2009

Ingram, T., L. J. Harmon, and J. B. Shurin. 2009. Niche evolution, trophic structure and species turnover in model food webs. American Naturalist 174: 56-67. link. pdf.

Harmon, L. J.*, B. Matthews*, S. DesRoches, J. Chase, J. Shurin, and D. Schluter. 2009. Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature 458: 1167-1170. link. pdf. supplement. perspective. making the paper.

Nosil, P., L. J. Harmon, and O. Seehausen. 2009. Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 145-156. link. pdf.

Nosil, P. and L. J. Harmon. 2009. Niche dimensionality and ecological speciation. In R. Butlin, J. Bridle, and D. Schluter, Eds., Speciation and Patterns of Diversity, Cambridge University Press. link to book.

2008

Pinto, G., D. L. Mahler, L. J. Harmon, and J. B. Losos. 2008. Testing the island effect in adaptive radiation: rates and patterns of morphological diversification in Caribbean and mainland Anolis lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2749-2757. link. pdf.

Revell, L. J., L. J. Harmon, and D. C. Collar. 2008. Phylogenetic signal, evolutionary process, and rate. Systematic Biology 57:591-601. link. pdf.

Harmon, L. J., J. Melville, A. Larson, and J. B. Losos. 2008. The Role of Geography and Ecological Opportunity in the Diversification of Day Geckos (Phelsuma). Systematic Biology 57:562-573. link. pdf.

Revell, L. J. and L. J. Harmon. 2008. Testing quantitative genetic hypotheses about the evolutionary rate matrix for continuous characters. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:311-321. link.

Harmon, L. J., J. Weir, C. Brock, R. E. Glor, and W. Challenger. 2008. GEIGER: Investigating evolutionary radiations. Bioinformatics 24:129-131. link, pdf.

2007

Harmon, L. J., L. L. Harmon, and C. G. Jones. 2007. Competition and community structure in diurnal arboreal geckos (genus Phelsuma) in the Indian Ocean. Oikos 116: 1863-1878. link, pdf

Vellend, M., L. J. Harmon, J. L. Lockwood, M. M. Mayfield, A. R. Hughes, J. P. Wares, and D. F. Sax. 2007. Effects of exotic species on evolutionary diversification. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 481-488. link, pdf

Nicholson, K. E., L. J. Harmon, and J. B. Losos. 2007. Evolution of Anolis lizard dewlap diversity. PLoS ONE 2(3): e274 .link

Revell, L. J., L. J. Harmon, R. B. Langerhans, and J. J. Kolbe. 2007. A phylogenetic approach to determining the importance of constraint on phenotypic evolution in the neotropical lizard Anolis cristatellus. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 261-282. link, pdf

Mooers, A.O., Harmon, L.J., Wong, D.H.J., and S.B. Heard. 2007. Some models of phylogenetic tree shape. Pages 149-170 in Reconstructing Evolution: New Mathematical and Computational Advances (O. Gascuel and M. Steel, eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford. book

2006

Harmon, L. J. and R. Gibson. 2006. Multivariate phenotypic evolution among island and mainland populations of the ornate day gecko, Phelsuma ornata. Evolution 60: 2622-2632. link, pdf

Melville, J., L. J. Harmon, and J. B. Losos. 2006. Intercontinental community convergence of ecology and morphology in desert lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences 273: 557-563. link, pdf

2005

Harmon, L. J. and J. B. Losos. 2005. The effect of intraspecific sample size on type I and type II error rates in comparative studies. Evolution 59:2705-2710. link, pdf

Revell, L. J., L. J. Harmon, and R. E. Glor. 2005. Under-parameterized model of sequence evolution leads to bias in the estimation of diversification rates from molecular phylogenies. Systematic Biology 54: 973-983. link,pdf

Weisrock, D. W., L. J. Harmon, and A. Larson. 2005. Resolving deep phylogenetic relationships in salamanders: analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genomic data. Systematic Biology 54:758-777. link, pdf

Kozak, K. H., A. Larson, R. M. Bonett, and L. J. Harmon. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of ecomorphological divergence, species coexistence, and diversification rates in dusky salamanders (Plethodontidae, Desmognathinae). Evolution 59: 2000-2016. link, pdf

Harmon, L. J., K. Bauman, M. McCloud, J. Parks, S. Howell, and J. B. Losos. 2005. What the free-ranging animals do at the zoo: a study of the behavior and habitat use of opossums (Didelphis virginiana) on the grounds of the St. Louis Zoo. Zoo Biology 24: 197-213. link, pdf

Harmon, L. J., J. J. Kolbe, J. M. Cheverud, and J. B. Losos.2005. Convergence and the multidimensional niche. Evolution 59: 409-421. link, pdf

1999-2004

Harmon, L. J., J. A. Schulte, J. B. Losos, and A. Larson. 2003. Tempo and mode of evolutionary radiation in iguanian lizards. Science 301: 961-964.link, pdf, supporting materials

Harmon, L. J. 2002. Some observations of the natural history of the prehensile-tailed skink, Corucia zebrata, in the Solomon Islands. Herpetological Review 33: 177-179.

Harmon, L. J. 2000. A Translocation Strategy for Confiscated Pancake Tortoises. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(4):738-743.

Kolbe, J. J., L. J. Harmon, and D. A. Warner. 1999. New state record lengths and associated natural history notes for some Illinois snakes. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 92:133-135. pdf

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