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Plain-Text List of Publications

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In Review

  • Brennan, I.G., Singhal, S., Al Bkhetan. (in review). pipesnake : Generalized software for the assembly and analysis of phylogenomic datasets from conserved genomic loci. bioRxiv and GitHub

  • Donnellan, S.C., Brennan, I.G., ...(11 additional coauthors). (in review). Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae)

  • Brennan, I.G.. (in review). Integrating uncertainty is essential to macroevolutionary inferences: Grass, grit, and the evolution of kangaroos. bioRxiv


2023

  • Brennan, I.G., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Hoskin, C.J., Donnellan, S.C., Keogh, J.S. (2023). Populating a continent: Phylogenomics reveal the timing of Australian frog diversification. Systematic Biology

  • Tiatragul, S., Brennan, I.G., Keogh, J.S. (2023). Australia’s hidden radiation: Phylogenomics analysis reveals rapid Miocene radiation of blind snakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

  • Chapple, D.G, Chapple, S.N.J., Smith, S.A., Shea, G.M., Brennan, I.G., Sadlier, R.A. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships in the Eugongylini (Squamata: Scincidae): generic limits and biogeography. Australian Journal of Zoology

  • Sadlier, R.A., Beatson, C.A., Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M. (2023). A new species of spiny-tailed gecko from the mulga woodlands of inland Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum )

  • Marques, M.P., Parrinha, D., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Brennan, I.G., Heinicke, M.P., Bauer, A.M. (2023). A new species of thick-toed gecko from Serra da Neve and surrounding rocky areas of southwestern Angola. Vertebrate Zoology


2022

  • Davis, H.R., Nashriq, I., Woytek, K.S., Wikramanayake, S.A., Bauer, A.M., Karin, B.R., Brennan, I.G., Iskandar, D.T., Das, I. (2022). Genomic analysis of Bornean geckos reveals need for updated taxonomy. Zoological Scripta

  • Esquerré, D., Brennan, I.G., Donnellan, S., & Keogh, J.S. (2022). Evolutionary models demonstrate rapid and adaptive diversification of Australo-Papuan pythons. Biology Letters

  • Pavón-Vázquez, C. J., Brennan, I.G., Skeels, A., & Keogh, J.S. (2022). Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo-Australasian monitor lizards. Evolution.


2021

  • Heinz, M.D., Brennan, I.G., Jackman, T.R., Bauer, A.M. (2021). Phylogeny of the Genus Chondrodactylus (Squamata:Gekkonidae) with the establishment of a stable taxonomy. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

  • Pavón-Vázquez, C. Brennan, I.G., Skeels, A., Keogh, J.S. (2021). Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo-Australasian monitor lizards. Evolution

  • Melville, J., Brennan, I.G., (28 additional coauthors). (2021). A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis. PLoS Biology

  • Gurgis, G.P., Daza, J.D., Brennan, I.G., Hutchinson, M., Bauer, A.M., Stocker, M.R., Olori, J.C. (2021). Ecomorphometric analysis of disparity in cranial shape of pygopodid geckos. Integrative Organismal Biology

  • Davis, H.R., Das, I., Leaché, A.D., Karin, B.R., Brennan, I.G., Jackman, T.R., Nashriq, I., Chan, K.O., Bauer, A.M. (2021). Genetically diverse yet morphologically conserved: Hidden diversity revealed among Bornean geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research


2020

  • Pavón-Vázquez, C., Brennan, I.G., Keogh, J.S. (accepted). A comprehensive approach to detect hybridization sheds light on the origin of Earth's largest living lizard. Systematic Biology.

  • Brennan, I.G., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Portik, D.M., Weijola, V., Welton, L., Donnellan, S.C., Keogh, J.S. (2020). Phylogenomics of monitor lizards and the role of competition in dictating body size disparity. Systematic Biology, also on bioRxiv.

  • Novikova, P.Y.*, Brennan, I.G.*, Booker, W., Mahony, M., Doughty, P., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Yant, L., Peer, Y.V.d., Keogh, J.S., Donnellan, S.C. 2020. Polyploidy breaks speciation barriers in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus. bioRxiv, PLoS Genetics
    * co-first authors

  • Esquerré, D., Donnellan, S.C., Brennan, I.G., Zaher, H., Grazziotin, F., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Keogh, J.S. 2020. Phylogenomics, biogeography, and morphometrics reveal rapid phenotypic evolution in pythons after crossing Wallace's line. Systematic Biology

  • Maryan, B. Brennan, I.G., Hutchinson, M.N., Geidans, L.S. 2020. What's under the hood? Partial revision of the hooded snake genus Parasuta. Zootaxa

  • Davis, H.R., Chan, K.O., Das, I., Brennan, I.G., Karin, B.R., Jackman, T.R., Brown, R., Iskandar, D.J., Nasir, I.N.M., Grismer, L., Bauer, A.M. 2020. Multilocus phylogeny of Bornean Bent-Toed Geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) reveals hidden diversity, taxonomic disarray, and novel biogeographic patterns. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 147

  • Gallagher, R., Brennan, I.G., … (54 additional coauthors). 2020. The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution

  • El-Deeb, O., Skeels, A., Brennan, I.G.. 2020. Digest: The evolutionary relationship between environment and size in Australian rodents (Roycroft et al., 2019). Evolution 0(0):1--2

  • Kealley, L., Doughty, P., Edwards, D., Brennan, I.G. 2020. Taxonomic assessment of pygopodoid gecko subspecies from Western Australia. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 1:1--16.


2019

  • Esquerré, D., Brennan, I.G., Catullo, R.A., Torres-Pérez, F., Keogh, J.S. 2019. How mountains shape biodiversity: The role of the Andes in biogeography, diversification, and reproductive biology in South America's most species-rich lizard radiation (Squamata: Liolaemidae). Evolution 73(2): 214--230

2018

  • Brennan, I.G., Keogh, J.S. 2018. Miocene biome turnover drove conservative body size evolution across Australian vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181474.

  • Pepper, M., Sumner, J., Brennan, I.G., Hodges, K., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, A.M., Peterson, G., Rabosky, D.L., Schwarzkopf, L., Scott, I.A.W., Shea, G., Keogh, J.S. 2018. Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of the Australian Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of Eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 2018; 45:2040--2052.


2017

  • Brennan, I.G., Oliver, P.M. 2017. Mass turnover and recovery dynamics of a diverse Australian continental radiation. Evolution 71 (5):1352--1365.

  • Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Van Tri, N., Wang, Yy., Wang, Wz., Zhang, YP., Murphy, R.W. 2017. Barcoding utility in a mega-diverse, cross-continental genus: keeping pace with Cyrtodactylus geckos. Scientific Reports 7:5592.

  • Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M. 2017. Notes on hemipenial morphology and its implications in the Pygopodidae (Boulenger, 1884). Bonn zoological Bulletin 66 (1): 15-28.


2016

  • Ziegler, T., Botov, A., Nguyen, T.T., Bauer, A.M., Brennan, I.G., Ngo, H.T., Nguyen, T.Q. 2016. First molecular verification of Dixonius vietnamensis Das, 2004 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of a new species from Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa 4136 (3):553-566.

  • Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R. 2016. Mitochondrial introgression via ancient hybridization, and systematics of the Australian endemic pygopodid gecko genus Delma. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94 (2016): 577--590.


2015

  • Botov, A., Trung, P.M., Truong, Q.N., Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Ziegler, T. 2015. A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phu Quy Island, Vietnam. Zootaxa 4040 (1):048--058.

  • Maryan, B., Brennan, I.G., Adams, M., Aplin, K.P. 2015. Molecular and morphological assessment of Delma australis (Squamata: Pygopodidae) with description of a new species from the biodiversity 'hotspot' of southwestern Western Australia. Zootaxa 3946 (3): 301--330.

  • Jono, T., Bauer, A.M., Brennan, I.G., Mori, A. 2015. A new species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy karstic outcrops in Ankarana National Park, northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 3980 (3): 406--416.


2012

  • Brennan, I.G. 2012. Natural History Notes. Osteophagy by Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii. Herpetological Review 43 (4):638-–639.

Theses

  • Brennan, I.G. Macroevolution across a changing Australian landscape. PhD Thesis 2019. Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 203 pp. Link

  • Brennan, I.G. Interspecific and intraspecific relationships and biogeography of flap-footed geckos Delma. M.Sc. Thesis 2014. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA, 143 pp.


Graphical Publication List

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Andean Uplift
+ the Liolaemidae

(2018). Esquerré, D., Brennan, I.G., Catullo, R.A., Torres-Pérez, F., Keogh, J.S.

How mountains shape biodiversity: the role of the Andes in biogeography, diversification and reproductive biology in South America’s most species rich lizard radiation (Squamata: Liolaemidae).

Evolution. evo.13657. Link or Download.

Fig.2 - All.Radiations.Model.Comparison.LF.jpg

Tempo + Mode of Size Evolution

(2018). Brennan, I.G., Keogh, J.S.

Miocene biome turnover constrained body size evolution across multiple radiations of Australian vertebrates.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181474. Link or Download.

Eulamprus Phylo

Phylogenetics of Water Skinks


(2018). Pepper, M., Sumner, J., Brennan, I.G., Hodges, K., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, A.M.,
Peterson, G., Rabosky, D.L., Schwarzkopf, L., Scott, I.A.W., Shea, G., Keogh, J.S.

Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of the
Australian Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of Eastern Australia
.

Journal of Biogeography 2018;45:2040-2052. Link or Download.

Gecko Extinction

Gecko Extinction


2017. Brennan, I.G., Oliver, P.M.

Mass turnover and recovery dynamics of a diverse Australian continental radiation.

Evolution 71 (5):1352-1365. Link or Download.

Covered in popular media at: IFL Science, the Daily Mail, Gizmodo (bonus points for "lizard-pocalypse"), International Business Times, and here at ANU (with video).

Barcoding Cyrtodactylus

Barcoding Cyrtodactylus


2017. Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Van Tri, N., Wang, Yy., Wang, Wz., Zhang, YP., Murphy, R.W.

Barcoding utility in a mega-diverse, cross-continental genus: keeping pace with Cyrtodactylus geckos.

Scientific Reports 7:5592.
Link (open access) or Download.

Gecko Weiners

Pygo 'penes


2017. Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M.

Notes on hemipenial morphology and its implications in the Pygopodidae (Boulenger, 1884).

Bonn zoological Bulletin 66 (1): 15-28. Link or Download.

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A New Gecko
in Vietnam


2016. Ziegler, T., Botov, A., Nguyen, T.T., Bauer, A.M., Brennan, I.G., Ngo, H.T., Nguyen, T.Q.

First molecular verification of Dixonius vietnamensis Das, 2004 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of a new species from Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam.

Zootaxa 4136 (3):553-566. Link or Download.

Delma Phylo

Legless Geckos


2016. Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R.

Mitochondrial introgression via ancient hybridization, and systematics of the Australian endemic pygopodid gecko genus Delma.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94 (2016): 577-590. Link or Download.

Dixonius

A New Island Microendemic


2015. Botov, A., Trung, P.M., Truong, Q.N., Brennan, I.G., Bauer, A.M., Ziegler, T.

A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phu Quy Island, Vietnam.

Zootaxa 4040 (1):048-058. Link or Download.

Covered in popular media at: Monga Bay.

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Southern Delmas

2015. Maryan, B., Brennan, I.G., Adams, M., Aplin, K.P.

Molecular and morphological assessment of Delma australis (Squamata: Pygopodidae) with description of a new species from the biodiversity 'hotspot' of southwestern Western Australia.

Zootaxa 3946 (3): 301-330. Link or Download.

Blaesodactylus

A Tsingy Gecko


2015. Jono, T., Bauer, A.M., Brennan, I.G., Mori, A.

A new species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy karstic outcrops in Ankarana National Park, northern Madagascar.

Zootaxa 3980 (3): 406-416. Link or Download.