Peer-reviewed publications
Tran, L. A. P., and S. P. Pfeifer. 2018. Germ Line Mutation Rates in Old World Monkeys. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0028242
Tran, L. A. P. 2016. Interaction between digestive strategy and niche specialization predicts speciation rates across herbivorous mammals. The American Naturalist 187: 468-480. https://doi.org/10.1086/685094
Zelditch, M., J. Li, L. A. P. Tran, and D. Swiderski. 2015. Relationships of diversity, disparity and their evolutionary rates in squirrels (Sciuridae). Evolution 5: 1284-1300. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12642
Huateng, H., L. A. P. Tran, and L. L. Knowles. 2014. Do estimated and actual species phylogenies match? Evaluation of African cichlid radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 56-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.010
Tran, L. A. P. 2014. The role of ecological opportunity in shaping disparate diversification trajectories in a bicontinental primate radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20131979. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1979
Price, S. L., S. Powell, D. J. C. Kronauer, L. A. P. Tran, N. E. Pierce, and R. K. Wayne. 2014. Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 242-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12300
Tran, L. A. P., and S. P. Pfeifer. 2018. Germ Line Mutation Rates in Old World Monkeys. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0028242
Tran, L. A. P. 2016. Interaction between digestive strategy and niche specialization predicts speciation rates across herbivorous mammals. The American Naturalist 187: 468-480. https://doi.org/10.1086/685094
Zelditch, M., J. Li, L. A. P. Tran, and D. Swiderski. 2015. Relationships of diversity, disparity and their evolutionary rates in squirrels (Sciuridae). Evolution 5: 1284-1300. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12642
Huateng, H., L. A. P. Tran, and L. L. Knowles. 2014. Do estimated and actual species phylogenies match? Evaluation of African cichlid radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 56-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.010
Tran, L. A. P. 2014. The role of ecological opportunity in shaping disparate diversification trajectories in a bicontinental primate radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20131979. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1979
Price, S. L., S. Powell, D. J. C. Kronauer, L. A. P. Tran, N. E. Pierce, and R. K. Wayne. 2014. Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 242-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12300
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Invited Talks
2018 “A temperate armadillo: A genomic portrait of the nine-banded armadillo's northward range expansion.” Department of Biological Sciences Friday Seminar Series, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN. 2017 “Links between genomic and environmental variation in a mammalian geographic range expansion.” Enviro-Lunch Seminar, Environmental Systems Graduate Group, University of California, Merced, CA. 2016 “Revisiting the scale-dependence of the biotic-abiotic paradigm in evolutionary biology.” MVZ Lunch Seminar, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2013 “Monkey eat, monkey do: Folivory and the diversification of colobine monkeys.” Michigan Geometric Morphometrics Meeting, Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. |
Oral Presentations
2017 "A temperate armadillo: a genomic portrait of the nine-banded armadillo's northward migration." Evolution Meeting. Portland, OR.
2017 "A temperate armadillo: a genomic portrait of the nine-banded armadillo's northward migration." American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting. Moscow, ID.
2014 "Toward a mechanistic understanding of trait-dependent diversification: The role of niche width in the diversification of foregut-fermenting mammals." Evolution Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
*Selected for the Society of Systematic Biology Ernst Mayr Award Symposium
2013 "Monkey eat, monkey do: Folivory specialization and the diversification of colobine monkeys." Evolution Meeting. Snowbird, UT.
2012 "Getting to the guts of the matter: How an evolutionary innovation shaped diversification and species richness in a primate radiation." U-M EEB Lunch Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI.
2010 "Ecological divergence as a driver of Asian colobine monkey diversification?" Evolution Meeting. Portland, OR.
2009 "Resolving phylogenetic relationships among Asian colobine monkeys with estimates of the underlying species tree." EEB Tropical Biology Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI.
2009 "Resolving phylogenetic relationships among Asian colobine monkeys with a Bayesian estimate of the underlying species tree." Evolution Meeting. Moscow, ID.
2017 "A temperate armadillo: a genomic portrait of the nine-banded armadillo's northward migration." Evolution Meeting. Portland, OR.
2017 "A temperate armadillo: a genomic portrait of the nine-banded armadillo's northward migration." American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting. Moscow, ID.
2014 "Toward a mechanistic understanding of trait-dependent diversification: The role of niche width in the diversification of foregut-fermenting mammals." Evolution Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
*Selected for the Society of Systematic Biology Ernst Mayr Award Symposium
2013 "Monkey eat, monkey do: Folivory specialization and the diversification of colobine monkeys." Evolution Meeting. Snowbird, UT.
2012 "Getting to the guts of the matter: How an evolutionary innovation shaped diversification and species richness in a primate radiation." U-M EEB Lunch Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI.
2010 "Ecological divergence as a driver of Asian colobine monkey diversification?" Evolution Meeting. Portland, OR.
2009 "Resolving phylogenetic relationships among Asian colobine monkeys with estimates of the underlying species tree." EEB Tropical Biology Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI.
2009 "Resolving phylogenetic relationships among Asian colobine monkeys with a Bayesian estimate of the underlying species tree." Evolution Meeting. Moscow, ID.