publications
5.6.2011
Koopman MM, Carstens BC (2011) The microbial phyllogeography of the carnivorous plant Sarracenia alata. Microbial Ecology, in press.
Hird S, Brumfield RT, Carstens BC. (2011) PRGmatic: an efficient pipeline for collating genome-enriched second-generation sequencing data using a provisional reference genome. Molecular Ecology Resources, in press.
Ence DD, Carstens BC. (2011) spedeSTEM: A rapid and accurate method for species delimitation. Molecular Ecology Resources 11, 473-480.
Hird S, Kubatko LS, Carstens BC. (2010) Rapid and accurate species tree estimation for phylogeographic investigations using replicated subsampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.
Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2010) Navigating the unknown: model selection in phylogeography. Molecular Ecology 19, 4581-4582.
Carstens BC, Dewey TA. (2010) Species delimitation using a combined coalescent and information theoretic approach: An example from North American Myotis bats. Systematic Biology 59, 400-414.
Koopman MM, Carstens BC. (2010) Inferring population structure and demographic parameters across a riverine barrier in the carnivorous plant Sarracenia alata (Sarraceniaceae). Conservation Genetics, in press.
Koopman MM, Fuselier DM, Hird S, Carstens BC. (2010) Bacterial characterization of the carnivorous Pale Pitcher Plant reveals diverse, distinct, and temporally dependent communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76, 1851-1860.
Fleming TH, Murray KL, Carstens BC. (2010) Phylogeography and Genetic Structure of Three Evolutionary Lineages of West Indian Phyllostomid Bats. Chapter 5 in Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Island Bats, T.H. Fleming and P.A. Racey, eds. Univ. Chicago Press.
Hickerson MJ, Carstens BC, Cavender-Bares J, Crandall KA, Graham CH, Johnson JB, Rissler L, Victoriano PF, Yoder AD (2010) Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 54, 291-301.
Carstens BC, Stoute HN, Reid NM (2009) An information-theoretic approach to phylogeography. Molecular Ecology, 18, 4270-4282.
Koopman MM, Gallagher E, Carstens BC (2009) Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci in the Pale Pitcher Plant Sarracenia alata. Molecular Ecology Resources, in press.
Cantrell M, Carstens BC, Wichman HA (2009) X Chromosome Inactivation in Xist evolution in a rodent lacking LINE-1 activity. PLoS One, 4, e6252.
Kubato LS, Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2009) STEM: species tree estimation using maximum likelihood for gene trees under coalescence. Bioinformatics 25, 971-973.
Eckert AJ, Carstens BC (2008) Does gene flow destroy phylogenetic signal? The performance of three methods for estimating species phylogenies in the presence of gene flow. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 49, 832-842.
Knowles LL, Carstens BC (2007) Delimiting species without monophyletic gene trees. Systematic Biology 56, 400-411.
Richards CL, Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2007) Distribution modeling and statistical phylogeography: An integrative framework for generating and testing alternative biogeographic hypotheses. Journal of Biogeography 34 1833-1845.
Knowles LL, Carstens BC, Keat ML (2007) Coupling genetic and ecological-niche models to examine how past population distributions contribute to divergence. Current Biology 17, 1-7.
Carstens BC, Richards CL (2007) Integrating coalescent and ecological niche modeling in comparative phylogeography. Evolution 61, 1439-1454. Blackwell access
Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2007) Estimating phylogeny from gene tree probabilities in Melanoplus grasshoppers despite incomplete lineage sorting. Systematic Biology 56, 400-411.
Knowles LL, Carstens BC (2007) Estimating a geographically explicit model of population divergence for statistical phylogeography. Evolution 61, 477-493. Blackwell access
Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2007) Shifting distributions and speciation: species divergence during rapid climate change. Molecular Ecology 16, 619-627.
Brunsfeld SJ, Miller TR, Carstens BC (2007) Insights into the biogeography of the Pacific Northwest of North America: Evidence from the phylogeography of Salix melanopsis (Salicacae). Systematic Botany 32, 129-139.
Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2006) Variable nuclear markers for Melanoplus oregonensis identified from the screening of a genomic library. Molecular Ecology Notes 6, 683-685.
Carstens BC, Brunsfeld SJ, Demboski JR, Good JD, Sullivan J (2005) Investigating the evolutionary history of the Pacific Northwest mesic forest ecosystem: Hypothesis testing within a comparative phylogeographic framework. Evolution 59, 1639-1652.
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Carstens BC, Degenhardt JD, Stevenson AL, Sullivan J (2005) Accounting for coalescent stochasticity in testing phylogeographic hypotheses: Modeling Pleistocene population structure in the Idaho Giant Salamander Dicamptodon aterrimus. Molecular Ecology 14, 255-265.
Carstens BC, Bankhead III A, Joyce P, Sullivan J (2005) Testing population genetic structure using parametric bootstrapping. Genetica 124, 71-75.
Steele CA, Carstens BC, Storfer A, Sullivan J (2005) Testing hypotheses of speciation timing in Dicamptodon copei and Dicamptodon aterrimus (Caudata: Dicamptodontidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36, 90-100.
Johnson DG, Carstens BC, Sheppard WS, Zack RS (2005) Phylogeny of the leafhopper subgenus Errhomus (Erronus) (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98, 165-172.
Carstens BC, Stevenson AL, Degenhardt JD, Sullivan J (2004) Testing nested phylogenetic and phylogeographic hypotheses in the Plethodon vandykei species group. Systematic Biology 53, 781-792.
Carstens BC, Sullivan J, Davalos LM, Larsen PA, Pedersen SC (2004) Exploring population genetic structure in three species of Lesser Antillean bats. Molecular Ecology 13, 2557-2566.
Carstens BC, Lundrigan BL, Myers P (2002) A phylogeny of the Neotropical nectar-feeding bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9, 23-53.