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List of works by Rafe M. Brown

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The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

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Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family ranidae

scientific article published in August 2006

Evolutionary and biogeographic origins of high tropical diversity in old world frogs (Ranidae).

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Do geological or climatic processes drive speciation in dynamic archipelagos? The tempo and mode of diversification in Southeast Asian shrews

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Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation

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Philippine Bent-Toed Geckos of the Cyrtodactylus agusanensis Complex: Multilocus Phylogeny, Morphological Diversity, and Descriptions of Three New Species

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Specimen collection: an essential tool

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The challenge of species delimitation at the extremes: diversification without morphological change in philippine sun skinks

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Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Phylogeny and biogeography of Philippine bent-toed geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) contradict a prevailing model of Pleistocene diversification

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Evolutionary Processes of Diversification in a Model Island Archipelago

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The role of repeated sea-level fluctuations in the generation of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) diversity in the Philippine Archipelago

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Integrating phylogenetic and taxonomic evidence illuminates complex biogeographic patterns along Huxley’s modification of Wallace’s Line

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Is chytridiomycosis an emerging infectious disease in Asia?

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Evidence for climate-driven diversification? A caution for interpreting ABC inferences of simultaneous historical events

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Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity?

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Phylogeography and historical demography of Polypedates leucomystax in the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines: evidence for recent human-mediated range expansion?

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Phylogeny of Philippine slender skinks (Scincidae: Brachymeles) reveals underestimated species diversity, complex biogeographical relationships, and cryptic patterns of lineage diversification

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A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae).

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Adaptive radiation and ecological opportunity in Sulawesi and Philippine fanged frog (Limnonectes) communities

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An adaptive radiation of frogs in a southeast Asian island archipelago

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Phylogenetic systematics of the Rana signata complex of Philippine and Bornean stream frogs: reconsideration of Huxley’s modification of Wallace’s Line at the Oriental-Australian faunal zone interface

scientific article published on 10 December 2003

Phylogenetics of fanged frogs: testing biogeographical hypotheses at the interface of the asian and Australian faunal zones

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An ancient origin for the enigmatic flat-headed frogs (Bombinatoridae: Barbourula) from the islands of Southeast Asia

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Species boundaries and cryptic lineage diversity in a Philippine forest skink complex (Reptilia; Squamata; Scincidae: Lygosominae).

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Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships

scientific article (publication date: 25 November 2011)

Multilocus phylogeny and Bayesian estimates of species boundaries reveal hidden evolutionary relationships and cryptic diversity in Southeast Asian monitor lizards

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Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae).

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Evidence for repeated acquisition and loss of complex body-form characters in an insular clade of Southeast Asian semi-fossorial skinks

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Phylogenetic relationships of Ansonia from Southeast Asia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: systematic and biogeographic implications (Anura: Bufonidae).

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Sun skink landscape genomics: assessing the roles of micro-evolutionary processes in shaping genetic and phenotypic diversity across a heterogeneous and fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

Philippine Frogs of the Genus Leptobrachium (Anura; Megophryidae): Phylogeny-based Species Delimitation, Taxonomic Review, and Descriptions of Three New Species

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Did geckos ride the Palawan raft to the Philippines?

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Genomic data reveals potential for hybridization, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting to confound phylogenetic relationships in an adaptive radiation of narrow-mouth frogs.

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Impending conservation crisis for Southeast Asian amphibians

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Phylogeography, geographic structure, genetic variation, and potential species boundaries in Philippine slender toads.

scientific article published on 3 July 2011

Integrative taxonomy uncovers high levels of cryptic species diversity inHemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the description of a new species from Peninsular Malaysia

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

Testing the phylogenetic affinities of Southeast Asia's rarest geckos: Flap-legged geckos (Luperosaurus), Flying geckos (Ptychozoon) and their relationship to the pan-Asian genus Gekko

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A spectacular new Philippine monitor lizard reveals a hidden biogeographic boundary and a novel flagship species for conservation

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The Eurasian invasion: phylogenomic data reveal multiple Southeast Asian origins for Indian Dragon Lizards

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Higher-level phylogeny of Asian and American coralsnakes, their placement within the Elapidae (Squamata), and the systematic affinities of the enigmatic Asian coralsnake Hemibungarus calligaster (Wiegmann, 1834)

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2007)

Species delimitation with gene flow: A methodological comparison and population genomics approach to elucidate cryptic species boundaries in Malaysian Torrent Frogs

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The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: the herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

A coalescent framework for comparing alternative models of population structure with genetic data: evolution of Celebes toads

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Phylogeny of the island archipelago frog genus Sanguirana: Another endemic Philippine radiation that diversified 'Out-of-Palawan'.

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Phylogeny and cryptic diversification in Southeast Asian flying geckos

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THE FLYING LIZARDS OF THE DRACO LINEATUS GROUP (SQUAMATA: IGUANIA: AGAMIDAE): A TAXONOMIC REVISION WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES

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Species interactions during diversification and community assembly in an island radiation of shrews

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Did true frogs 'dispersify'?

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A comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Kurixalus (Rhacophoridae, Anura) sheds light on the geographical range evolution of frilled swamp treefrogs

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