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List of works by Jacob A. Esselstyn

A New Species of Stripe-faced Fruit Bat (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Styloctenium) from the Philippines

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A New Species ofDesmalopex(Pteropodidae) from the Philippines, with a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Pteropodini

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A hog-nosed shrew rat (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

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A new genus and species of omnivorous rodent (Muridae: Murinae) from Sulawesi, nested within a clade of endemic carnivores

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A new genus and species of shrew (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Palawan Island, Philippines

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A new hero emerges: another exceptional mammalian spine and its potential adaptive significance

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A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha:Crocidura) from Java, Indonesia: possible character displacement despite interspecific gene flow

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A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha:Crocidura) from West Java, Indonesia

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Carving out turf in a biodiversity hotspot: multiple, previously unrecognized shrew species co-occur on Java Island, Indonesia.

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Conservation genetics of the Philippine tarsier: cryptic genetic variation restructures conservation priorities for an island archipelago primate

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Convergent evolution of an extreme dietary specialisation, the olfactory system of worm-eating rodents

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Convergent evolution of aquatic foraging in a new genus and species (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2014)

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

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Ecological causes of uneven diversification and richness in the mammal tree of life: Supplementary Information

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

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Evolutionary Processes of Diversification in a Model Island Archipelago

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Evolutionary history of the Paradoxurus palm civets - a new model for Asian biogeography

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Evolutionary novelty in a rat with no molars

scientific article published on August 22, 2012

Expanded host diversity and geographic distribution of hantaviruses in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article (publication date: July 2014)

Geographic isolation and elevational gradients promote diversification in an endemic shrew on Sulawesi.

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Impact of Posttyphoon Hunting on Mariana Fruit Bats (Pteropus mariannus)

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

scientific article published in 2019

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

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Investigating Difficult Nodes in the Placental Mammal Tree with Expanded Taxon Sampling and Thousands of Ultraconserved Elements

scientific article published on September 2017

Isolation by marine barriers and climate explain areas of endemism in an island rodent

Local endemism and within-island diversification of shrews illustrate the importance of speciation in building Sundaland mammal diversity.

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New species of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) from Sibuyan Island, Philippines

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

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Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in theCrocidura monax(Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species

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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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Reduced representation genome sequencing suggests low diversity on the sex chromosomes of tonkean macaque monkeys

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Repeated evolution of carnivory among Indo-Australian rodents

scientific article published on 30 January 2016

Single-locus species delimitation: a test of the mixed Yule-coalescent model, with an empirical application to Philippine round-leaf bats

scientific article published on 04 July 2012

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

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The Challenges of Resolving a Rapid, Recent Radiation: Empirical and Simulated Phylogenomics of Philippine Shrews.

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

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

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Two new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Rodentia) from Lubang and Luzon Islands, with a redescription ofApomys sacobianusJohnson, 1962

scientific article (publication date: 2014)