Peer-Reviewed Publications

* mentored undergraduate or graduate student co-author

  • Salerno, P.E., L.M. Chan, G.B. Pauly, W.C. Funk, and J.M. Robertson. 2022. Near-short island lizard fauna shaped by a combination of human-mediated and natural dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 50: 116-129. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14511

  • Randriamahazo, H., J.E. Cadle, L.M. Chan, A.D. Yoder, and A. Miralles. 2022. Iguanidae (Oplurines), oplurine lizards. In: S.M. Goodman ed. The New Natural History of Madagascar. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

  • Fitzgerald, L.A., W.A. Ryberg, D. Walkup, T. Hibbitts, M.T. Hill, D.J. Leavitt, L.M. Chan, and M.R. Parker. 2022. Ecology and conservation of the imperiled Dunes Sagebrush Lizard: an ecological specialist in a threatened ecosystem. The future for reptiles: advances and challenge in the Anthropocene. Pp 163-174. In: Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation. Eds. D.A. Dellasala, M.I. Goldstein. Elsevier. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00214-2 Email me for PDF.

  • Chan, L.M., C.W. Painter, M.T. Hill, T.J. Hibbitts, D.J. Leavitt, W.A. Ryberg, D. Walkup, and L.A. Fitzgerald. 2020. Phylogeographic structure of the dunes sagebrush lizard, an endemic habitat specialist. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0238194. OpenAccess

  • Odden, J.P. *W. Eng, K. Lee, H. Donelick, M. Hiefield, J. Steach, and L.M. Chan. 2019. Novel host-bacterial symbioses revealed: characterization of Wolbachia in arthropods of western North America. Western North American Naturalist. 79: 534-550.

  • Baranzelli, M.C., A.Cosacov, A. Espíndola, M. del Rosario Iglesias, L.M. Chan, L.A. Johnson, and A.N. Sérsic. 2018. Echoes of the whispering land: interacting roles of vicariance and selection in shaping the evolutionary divergence of two Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species from Patagonia and Malvinas/Falkland Islands. Evolutionary Ecology

  • Robertson, J.M., S.W. Fitzpatrick, B.B. Rothermel, and L.M. Chan. 2018. Fire does not strongly affect genetic diversity or structure of a common treefrog in the endangered Florida Scrub. Journal of Heredity 109: 2433-252.

  • Pabijan, M., J.L. Brown, L.M. Chan, H.E. Rakontondravony, A.P. Raselimanana, A.D. Yoder, F. Glaw, and M. Vences. 2015. Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 92: 11-24.

  • *Shi, J.J., ^L.M. Chan, A. Peel, *R. Lai, A.D. Yoder, and S.M. Goodman. 2014. A deep divergence time between sister species of Eidolon (Pteropodidae) with evidence for widespread panmixia. Acta Chiropterologica 16(2): 279-292. (^ corresponding author)

  • Jenkins et al. (one of 39 authors). 2014. Extinction risks and the conservation of Madagascar’s reptiles.PLoS ONE 9(8): e100173. pdf

  • Yoder, A.D., ^L.M. Chan, ^M. dos Reis, †P. Larsen, C. Campbell, R. Rasolarison, M. Barrett, C. Roos, P. Kappeler, J. Bielawski, and Z. Yang. 2014. Molecular Evolutionary Characterization of a V1R Subfamily Unique to Strepsirrhine Primates. Genome Biology and Evolution 6: 213-227. ^: authors contributed equally

  • *Shi, J.J., ^L.M. Chan, *Z. Rakotomalala, *A.M. Heilman, S.M. Goodman, and A.D. Yoder. 2013. Latitude drives diversification in Madagascar’s endemic dry forest rodent, Eliurus myoxinus (sub-family Nesomyinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110: 500-517. (^ corresponding author)

  • Chan, L.M., J.W. Archie, A.D. Yoder, and L.A. Fitzgerald. 2013. Review of the systematic status of Sceloporus arenicolus Degenhardt and Jones, 1972 with an estimate of divergence time. Zootaxa 3664(3): 312-320. | appendices

  • Chan, L.M., *D. Choi, A.P. Raselimanana, H.E. Rakotonadravony, and A.D. Yoder. 2012. Defining spatial and temporal patterns of phylogeographic structure in Madagascar’s iguanid lizards (genus Oplurus). Molecular Ecology 21: 3839-3851.

  • Johnson, L.A., L.M. Chan, R. Pozner, *L.D. Glazier. 2012. Allotetraploids in Patagonia with affinities to Western North American diploids: did dispersal or genome doubling occur first? Botanical Review 78: 288-306.

  • Johnson, L.A., L.M. Chan, *K. Burr, and D. Hendrickson. 2012. Navarretia furnissii (Polemoniaceae), a new diploid species from the intermountain western United States distinguished from tetraploid Navarretia saximontana. Phytotaxa 42: 51-61.

  • Weisrock, D.W., S.D. Smith, L.M. Chan, K. Biebouw, P.M. Kappeler, and A.D.Yoder. 2012. Concatenation and concordance in the reconstruction of mouse lemur phylogeny: an empirical demonstration of the effect of allele sampling in phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(6): 1615–1630.

  • Chan, L.M., J.L. Brown, and A.D. Yoder. 2011. Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 523-537. | supplementary material

  • Chan, L.M., S.M. Goodman, *M.D. Nowak, D.W. Weisrock, and A.D. Yoder. 2011. Increased population sampling confirms low genetic divergence among Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) fruit bats of Madagascar and other western Indian Ocean islands. PLoS Currents: Tree of Life online

  • Vredenburg, V.T., J.R. Romansic, L.M. Chan, and T. Tunstall. 2010. Does UV-B radiation affect embryos of three high elevation amphibian species in California? Copeia, 2010 (3): 502-512.

  • Goodman, S.M., L.M. Chan, *M.D. Nowak, and A.D. Yoder. 2010. Phylogeny and phylogeography of western Indian Ocean Rousettus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae).Journal of Mammalogy, 91(3): 593-606.

  • Chan, L.M. and K.R. Zamudio. 2009. Population differentiation of temperate amphibians in unpredictable environments. Molecular Ecology, 18: 3185-3200.

  • Zamudio, K.R., J.M. Robertson, L.M. Chan, and I. Sazima. 2009. Population structure in an extreme narrow endemic: evidence for drift offset by asymmetrical migration in a tiny geographic range. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 97: 259-274.

  • Chan, L.M., L.A. Fitzgerald, and K.R. Zamudio. 2009. The scale of genetic differentiation in the Dunes Sagebrush-Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus), an endemic habitat specialist. Conservation Genetics 10 (1): 131-142. | Highlighted with additional data analyses in Marko and Hart, TREE 26 (9): 448-456 (DOI) .

  • Johnson, L.A., L.M. Chan, T.L. Weese, *L.D. Busby, and S. McMurry. 2008. Nuclear and cpDNA sequences combined provide strong inference of higher phylogenetic relationships in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 997-1012.

  • Zamudio, K.R. and L.M. Chan. 2008. Alternative reproductive tactics in amphibians. In R. Oliveira, M. Taborsky, and J. Brockman eds. Alternative Reproductive Tactics: an Integrative Approach. Pp. 300-331. Cambridge University Press.

  • Chan, L.M. 2003. Seasonality, microhabitat, and cryptic variation in tropical salamander reproductive cycles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78 (4): 489-496.

  • Chan, L.M., K.R. Zamudio, and D.B. Wake. 2001. Relationships of the salamandrid genera Paramesotriton, Pachytriton, and Cynops based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia 2001 (4): 997-1009.

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  • Chan, L.M., *W. Eng, *B. Hergert, *A. Osbrink, and C.N. Templeton. 2020. Lithobates catesbeianius. Diet. Herpetological Review, 51: 301. pdf

  • Robertson, J.M. and L.M. Chan. 2011. Species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot (Commentary). Journal of Biogeography 38: 2043-2044. pdf

  • Chan, L.M. 2007. Twelve novel microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 278-280. pdf

  • Chan, L.M. 2007. Characterization of microsatellite markers for Couch’s Spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii) and cross-amplification in other species of the Family Scaphiopodidae. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 318-320. pdf

  • Chan, L.M., L.A. Fitzgerald, and K.R. Zamudio. 2007. Characterization of microsatellite markers for the endemic sand dune lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 337-339. pdf

  • Chan, L.M. 2001. Pseudoeurycea goebeli, diet. Herpetological Review 32 (3): 179.

  • Chan, L.M. 2001. Bufo canorus, larval cannibalism. Herpetological Review 32 (2): 101.

  • Zamudio, K.R. and L.M. Chan. 2001. Book review, Herpetology. Copeia 2001 (1): 294-296.