Research Terms
Paleobiology Evolution DNA Sequencing Systematic Biology Mammalogy Taxonomy Natural Sciences
2015 Alhajeri, B. H., Schenk, J. J., and Steppan, S. J. Ecomorphological diversification following continental colonization in muroid rodents: a phenotypic test of the ecological opportunity model of adaptive radiation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. X:XX-XX (in press).
2015 Herrera, N. D., ter Poorten, J. J., Bieler, R., Mikkelsen, P. M., Strong, R. E., Jablonski, D., and Steppan, S. J. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography amid shifting continents in the cockles and giant clams (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93:94-106.
2015 Alhajeri, B. H., Hunt, O. J., and Steppan, S. J. Molecular systematics of gerbils and deomyines (Rodentia: Gerbillinae, Deomyinae) and a test of desert adaptation in the tympanic bulla. (in press) Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
2015 Steppan, S.J. and Ramirez-Baca, O. Genus Phyllotis. In Mammals of South America. (Patton, J. L. ed.). University of Chicago Press.
2015 Polly, P. D., Cardini, A., Davis, E.B., and Steppan, S.J. Marmot evolution and global change in the last 10 million years. In Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Palaeontology and Functional Morphology, (Cox, P. and Hautier, L. eds.) Cambridge Univ. Press.
2014 Justiniano, R., Schenk, J.J., Balete, D.S., Rickart, E.A., Esselstyn, J.A. Heaney, L.R., and Steppan, S.J. Testing diversification models of endemic Philippine forest mice (Apomys) with nuclear phylogenies across elevational gradients reveals repeated colonization of isolated mountain ranges. Journal of Biogeography. 42:51-64.
2014 Schenk, J.J., and Steppan, S.J. Too long to read: Assessing the motivation behind graduate student attendance in reading groups. Journal of College Science Teaching. 44(2):64-69.
2014 Heaney, L.R., Balete, D.S., Veluz, M.J., Steppan, S.J., Esselstyn, J.A., Pfeiffer, A.W., and Rickart, E.A. Two new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Rodentia) from Lubang and Luzon Islands, with a redescription of Apomys sacobianus Johnson, 1962. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 126(4):395–413
2013 Schenk, J.J., Rowe, K.C., and Steppan, S.J. Ecological opportunity and incumbency in the diversification of repeated continental colonizations by muroid rodents. Systematic Biology. 62(6):837–864.
2012 Ortiz, P. E., Jayat, J. P., and Steppan, S. J. A new fossil Phyllotini (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Late Pliocene in the Andes of northwestern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology2010 van der Linde, K., Houle, D., Spicer, G., and Steppan, S. J. A supermatrix analysis of the family Drosophilidae. Genetics Research. 92: 25-38
2008 Harshman, J., Braun, E. L., Braun, M. J., Huddleston, C. J., Bowie. R. C. K., Chojnowski, J. L., Hackett, S. J., Han, K-L., Kimball, R. T, Marks, B. D., Miglia, K. J., Moore, W. S., Reddy, S., Sheldon, F. H., Steadman, D. W., Steppan, S. J., Witt, C. J., and Yuri, T. Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105 (36): 13462-13467.
2008 Steppan, S. J. Aligning the spaces: a comment on Polly - Developmental dynamics and G-matrices. Evolutionary Biology. 35(2):108-110.
2008 Good, J. M., Hird, S., Demboski, J. R., Steppan, S. J., Martin-Nims, T.R., and Sullivan, J. Ancient hybridization and mitochondrial capture between two distantly related species of chipmunks (Tamias: Rodentia). Molecular Ecology. 17(5):1313-1327.
2008 Rowe, K., Reno, M. L., Richmond, D. M., Adkins, R. M., and Steppan, S. J. Pliocene colonization and adaptive radiations in Australia and New Guinea (Sahul): Multi-locus systematics of the Old Endemic rodents (Muroidea: Murinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47:84-101.
2007 Steppan, S. J., Ramirez, O., Banbury, J., Huchon, D., Pacheco, V., Walker, L, and Spotorno, A.O.. A molecular reappraisal of the systematics of the leaf-eared mice Phyllotis and their relatives. Pp. 799-820 in The quintessential naturalist: honoring the life and legacy of Oliver P. Pearson (Kelt, D. A., E. P. Lessa, J. A. Salazar-Bravo, and J. L. Patton, eds.). University of California Publications in Zoology 134. In press Steppan, S.J. and Ramirez-Baca, O. Genus Phyllotis. In South American Mammals. (Patton, J. L. ed.).
2005 Steppan, S. J., Adkins, R. M., Spinks, P. Q., and Hale, C. Multigene phylogeny of the Old World mice Murinae reveals distinct geographic lineages and the declining utility of mitochondrial genes compared to nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37:370-388.
2005 Steppan, S. J., Seeing the Forest for the Trees. Book review of “Assembling the Tree of Life.” Science. 307:677-678.
2004 Steppan, S. J., Adkins, R.M., and Anderson, J. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of murid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology. 53(4):533-553.
2004 Holliday, J. A. and Steppan, S. J. Evolution of hypercarnivory: the effect of specialization on morphological and taxonomic diversity. Paleobiology. 30(1):108-128.
2004 Steppan, S. J. Phylogenetic comparative analysis of multivariate data. In Phenotypic Integration. (eds., Piggliuci, M and Preston, K. A.). Oxford Univ. Press.
2004 Steppan, S. J., Storz, B. L., and Hoffmann, R. S. Nuclear DNA phylogeny of the squirrels (Mammalia: Rodentia) and the evolution of arboreality from c-myc and RAG1. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30:703-719.
2003 Steppan, S. J., Zawadzki, C., and Heaney, L. R. Molecular phylogeny of the endemic Philippine rodent Apomys (Muridae) and the dynamics of diversification in an oceanic archipelago. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 80:699-715
2002 Steppan, S.J., Houle, D., and Phillips, P.C. Comparative quantitative genetics: evolution of the G matrix. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 17:320-327.
2002 Kuch, M., Rohland, N., Betancourt, J., Lattore, C., Steppan, S.J., and Poinar, H.N. Molecular Analysis of a 11,700-yr old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert Chile. Molecular Ecology. 11:913-924.
2000 Steppan, S.J. Flexural stiffness patterns of butterfly wings. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 35:61-77.
2000 Steppan, S.J. and Sullivan, J. The emerging statistical perspective in systematics and the status of Andalgalomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae): a comment on Mares and Braun. Journal of Mammalogy. 81(1):260-270.
2000 Ortiz, P.E., Pardiñas, U.F.J. and Steppan, S.J. A new extinct phyllotine (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Pleistocene of Argentina and a consideration of the phylogenetic relationships of the “Reithrodon group.” Journal of Mammalogy. 81(1):37-51.
1999 Steppan, S.J., Akhverdyan, M. R., Lyapunova, E.A., Fraser, D.G., Vorontsov, N.N., Hoffmann, R.S., and Braun, M.J. Molecular phylogeny of the marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): tests of evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses. Systematic Biology.48(4):715-734.
1998 Steppan, S. J. and U. Pardiñas. Two new fossil murids from the Pleistocene of Argentina: phylogeny and paleoecology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18(3):640-649.
1998 Steppan, S.J. Phylogenetic relationships and species limits within Phyllotis (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae): concordance between mtDNA sequence and morphology. Journal of Mammalogy. 79(2):573-593.
1997 Steppan, S.J. Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic covariance structure. I. Contrasting results from matrix correlation and Common Principal Component analyses. Evolution. 51(2): 571-586.
1997 Steppan, S.J. Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic covariance structure. II. Reconstructing matrix evolution. Evolution. 51(2): 587-594.
1996 Steppan, S.J. A new species of Holochilus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the middle Pleistocene of Bolivia and its phylogenetic significance. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16(3):522-530.
1995 Steppan, S.J. Revision of the tribe Phyllotini (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) with a phylogenetic hypothesis for the Sigmodontinae. Fieldiana: Zoology. n.s. 80:1-112.
1993 Steppan, S.J. Phylogenetic relationships among the Phyllotini (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) using morphological characters. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 1(3):187-213.
Science, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science; 1999 - 2010
Ameghiniana
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
American Museum Novitates
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Entomological Society of America
Evolution
Fiediana: Zoology
Journal of Mammalogy
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; 1998
; Florida State University; 1997
; Utah State University; 1997
; American Museum of Natural History; 1996
; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 1996
; University of Chicago.; 1995
; Universidad de Católica, Santiago, Chile; 1993
; Field Museum of Natural History; 1992
Xa Jornadas Argentinas de Mastozoología; La Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos; 1995