Cannatella Lab – UT Austin

2024

Tarvin, R. D., Coleman, J. L., Donoso, D. A., Betancourth-Cundar, M., López-Hervas, K., Gleason, K. S., Sanders, J. R., Smith, J. M., Ron, S. R., Santos, J. C., Sedio, B. E., Cannatella, D. C., & Fitch, R. W. (2024). Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses. eLife, 13, RP100011.

Coleman, J. L., & Cannatella, D. C. (2024). The molecular basis and evolution of toxin resistance in poison frogs. Evolutionary Ecology, 38(5), 747–780.

López-Hervas, K., Santos, J. C., Ron, S. R., Betancourth-Cundar, M., Cannatella, D. C., & Tarvin, R. D. (2024). Deep divergences among inconspicuously colored clades of Epipedobates poison frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 195, 108065.

Dobbins, B. A., Tovar, R. U., Oddo, B. J., Teague, C. G., Sindhi, N. A., Devitt, T. J., Hillis, D. M., & García, D. M. (2024). PAX6 protein in neuromasts of the lateral line system of salamanders (Eurycea). PLOS ONE, 19(8), e0293163.

2023

Coleman, J. L., Wyffels, J. T., Penfold, L. M., Richardson, D., & Maddox, J. D. (2023). Development of genetic markers for reproductive management of toucans. Zoo Biology, 42(6), 825–833.

Coleman, J. L. (2023). Why the striking diversity of conspicuous color patterns in a poison frog from Central America? The Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 58(5), 70–74.

Coleman, J. L. (2023). The role of sex chromosomes in the evolution of a few frog lineages. The Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 58(1), 11–16.

Kemp, M. E., Boville, A. E., Carneiro, C. M., Jacisin III, J. J., Law, C. J., Ledesma, D. T., Meza A., Shields-Estrada A. &, Xu T. (2023). Looking back for the future: The ecology of terrestrial communities through the lens of conservation paleobiology. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 54(1), 259–282.

Nachman, M. W., Beckman, E. J., Bowie, R. C. K., Cicero, C., Conroy, C. J., Dudley, R., Hayes, T. B., Koo, M. S., Lacey, E. A., Martin, C. H., McGuire, J. A., Patton, J. L., Spencer, C. L., Tarvin, R. D., Wake, M. H., Wang, I. J., Achmadi, A., Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T., Andersen, M. J., Arroyave, J., Austin, C. C., Barker, F., Barrow, L. N., Barrowclough, G. F., Bates, J., Bauer, A. M., Bell, K. C., Bell, R. C., Bronson, A. W., Brown, R. M., Burbrink, F. T., Burns, K. J., Cadena, C. D., Daniel, A., Cannatella, D. C. et al. (2023). Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PLOS Biology, 21(11), e3002318.

Wan, Y. C., Navarrete Méndez, M. J., O’Connell, L. A., Uricchio, L. H., Roland, A. B., Maan M. E., Ron S. R., Betancourth-Cundar M., Pie M. R., Howell K. A., Richards-Zawacki C. L., Cummings M. E., Cannatella D. C., Santos J. C. &, Tarvin R. D. (2023). Selection on visual opsin genes in diurnal Neotropical frogs and loss of the SWS2 opsin in poison frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(10), msad206.

York, J. M., Borghese, C. M., George, A. A., Cannatella, D. C., & Zakon, H. H. (2023). A potential cost of evolving epibatidine resistance in poison frogs. BMC Biology, 21(1), 144.

Devitt, T. J., Tseng, K., Taylor-Adair, M., Koganti, S., Timugura, A., & Cannatella, D. C. (2023). Two new species of Eleutherodactylus from western and central Mexico (Eleutherodactylus jamesdixoni sp. nov., Eleutherodactylus humboldti sp. nov.). PeerJ, 11, e14985.

Chambers, E. A., Tarvin, R. D., Santos, J. C., Ron, S., Betancourth-Cundar, M., Hillis D. M., Matz M. V. &, Cannatella D. C. (2023). 2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is an effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics. Ecology and Evolution, 13(3), e9842.

Devitt, T. J., Enge, K. M., Farmer, A. L., Beerli, P., Richter, S. C., Hall, J. G., & Lance, S. L. (2023). Population subdivision in the gopher frog (Rana capito) across the fragmented longleaf pine-wiregrass savanna of the southeastern USA. Diversity, 15(1), 93.

2022

Coleman, J. L. (2022). A note on the current state of the field: The evolution of chromosome number in the Neotropical poison frog family (Dendrobatidae). The Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 57(11), 201–203.

Coleman, J. L., & Cannatella, D. C. (2022). How phylogenetics can elucidate the chemical ecology of poison frogs and their arthropod prey. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 48(4), 384–400.

Womack, M. C., Steigerwald, E., Blackburn, D. C., Cannatella, D. C., Catenazzi, A., Che, J., Koo, M. S., McGuire, J. A., Ron, S. R., Spencer, C. L., Vredenburg, V. T., & Tarvin, R. D. (2022). State of the Amphibia 2020: A review of five years of amphibian research and existing resources. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 110(4), 638–661.

2021

Mandle, L., Shields-Estrada, A., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Mitchell, M. G. E., Bremer, L. L., Gourevitch J. D., Hawthorne P., Johnson J. A., Robinson B. E., Smith J. R., Sonter L. J., Verutes G. M., Vogl A. L., Daily G. C., & Ricketts T. H. (2021). Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. Nature Sustainability, 4(2), 161–169.

Akram, A., Rais, M., Lopez-Hervas, K., Tarvin, R. D., Saeed, M., Bolnick, D. I., & Cannatella, D. C. (2021). An insight into molecular taxonomy of bufonids, microhylids, and dicroglossid frogs: First genetic records from Pakistan. Ecology and Evolution, 11(20), 14175–14216.

Vasconcellos, M. M., Colli, G. R., & Cannatella, D. C. (2021). Paleotemperatures and recurrent habitat shifts drive diversification of treefrogs across distinct biodiversity hotspots in sub-Amazonian South America. Journal of Biogeography, 48(2), 305–320.

2020

Coleman, J. L. (2020). Anthropogenic drivers and chytridiomycosis: Untangling the disappearances of the golden toad and Costa Rican variable harlequin toad and addressing amphibian decline. The Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 55(8), 157–162.

Tarvin, R. D., Santos, J. C., O’Connell, L. A., Zakon, H. H., & Cannatella, D. C. (2020). Corrigendum: Convergent Substitutions in a Sodium Channel Suggest Multiple Origins of Toxin Resistance in Poison Frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(2), 607.

2019

Khatiwada, J. R., Zhao, T., Chen, Y., Wang, B., Xie, F., Cannatella, D. C., & Jiang, J. (2019). Amphibian community structure along elevation gradients in eastern Nepal Himalaya. BMC Ecology, 19(1), 19.

Vasconcellos, M. M., Colli, G. R., Weber, J. N., Ortiz, E. M., Rodrigues, M. T., & Cannatella, D. C. (2019). Isolation by instability: Historical climate change shapes population structure and genomic divergence of treefrogs in the Neotropical Cerrado savanna. Molecular Ecology, 28(7), 1748–1764.

Devitt, T. J., Wright, A. M., Cannatella, D. C., & Hillis, D. M. (2019). Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(7), 2624–2633.

Devitt, T. J. (2019). Evolution of Edwards-Trinity Aquifer biodiversity: Insights from phylogeography. In J. M. Sharp Jr., R. T. Green, & G. M. Schindel (Eds.), The Edwards Aquifer: The Past, Present, and Future of a Vital Water Resource (pp. 299–307). Geological Society of America Memoir 215.

Devitt, T. J. (2019). Species limits and evolutionary relationships of Texas Eurycea. Herpetological Review, 50(1), 1–2.

2018

Waddell, E. H., Crotti, M., Lougheed, S. C., Cannatella, D. C., & Elmer, K. R. (2018). Hierarchies of evolutionary radiation in the world’s most species-rich vertebrate group, the Neotropical Pristimantis leaf litter frogs. Systematics and Biodiversity, 16(8), 807–819.

Duellman, W. E., & Cannatella, D. C. (2018). A new subgeneric name for a hemiphractid frog name that is preoccupied by a generic name of a fossil sponge. Alytes, 36(1–4), 194–199.

2017

Tarvin, R. D., Borghese, C. M., Sachs, W., Santos, J. C., Lu, Y., O’Connell, L. A., Zakon, H. H., & Cannatella, D. C. (2017). Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance. Science, 357(6357), 1261–1266.

Feng, Y.-J., Blackburn, D. C., Liang, D., Hillis, D. M., Wake, D. B., Cannatella, D. C., & Zhang, P. (2017). Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(29), E5864–E5870.

Tarvin, R. D., Powell, E. A., Santos, J. C., Ron, S. R., & Cannatella, D. C. (2017). The birth of aposematism: High phenotypic divergence and low genetic diversity in a young clade of poison frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 109, 283–295.

2016

Yuan, Z.-Y., Zhou, W.-W., Chen, X., Poyarkov Jr, N. A., Chen, H.-M., Jang-Liaw, N. H., Chou W. H., Matzke N. J., Iizuka K., Min M. S., Kuzmin S. L., Zhang Y. P., Cannatella D. C., Hillis D. M., & Che J. (2016). Spatiotemporal diversification of the true frogs (genus Rana): A historical framework for a widely studied group of model organisms. Systematic Biology, 65(5), 824–842.

Tarvin, R. D., Santos, J. C., O’Connell, L. A., Zakon, H. H., & Cannatella, D. C. (2016). Convergent substitutions in a sodium channel suggest multiple origins of toxin resistance in poison frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(4), 1068–1080.

2015

Ortega-Andrade, H. M., Rojas-Soto, O. R., Valencia, J. H., Espinosa de los Monteros, A., Morrone, J. J., Ron, S. R., & Cannatella, D. C. (2015). Insights from integrative systematics reveal cryptic diversity in Pristimantis frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0143392.

Cannatella, D. (2015). Xenopus in space and time: fossils, node calibrations, tip-dating, and paleobiogeography. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 145(3-4), 283–301.

Colli, G. R., Hoogmoed, M. S., Cannatella, D. C., Cassimiro, J., Gomes, J. O., Ghellere, J. M., Sales Nunes P. M., Pellegrino K. C. M., Salerno P., De Souza S. M., & Rodrigues M. T. (2015). Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Squamata). Zootaxa, 4000(4), 401–427.

Brown, R. M., Siler, C. D., Richards, S. J., Diesmos, A. C., & Cannatella, D. C. (2015). Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(1), 130–168.

Salerno, P. E., Señaris, J. C., Rojas-Runjaic, F. J. M., & Cannatella, D. C. (2015). Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: Population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography of sky-island treefrogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82, 314–323.

2014

Santos, J. C., Baquero, M., Barrio-Amorós, C., Coloma, L. A., Erdtmann, L. K., Lima, A. P., & Cannatella, D. C. (2014). Aposematism increases acoustic diversification and speciation in poison frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1796), 20141761