Publications

In Press

Patterson, B.D. & A. Feijó. In press. Mammalian Biodiversity. in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd. Ed. (R. M. Kliman, ed.). Academic Press, Oxford.

Rossoni et al. (Am. Nat.) document that the strong modularity of the skull in phyllostomid bats enabled their dramatic responses to selection during the course of their trophic diversification

2024

Chege, M., B. Sewalt, F. Lesilau, G. de Snoo, B. D. Patterson, L. Kariuki, M. Otiende, P. Omondi, H. de Iongh, K. Vrieling & L.D. Bertola. 2024. Genetic diversity of lion populations in Kenya: evaluating past management practices and recommendations for future conservation action. Evolutionary Applications 17(3): e13676. DOI


Rossoni, D.M., B.D. Patterson, G. Marroig, J.M. Cheverud & D. Houle. 2024. The role of (co)variation in shaping the response to selection in the New World leaf-nosed bats. The American Naturalist 203(4): E107-E127. DOI

Chege et al. (Evol. Applic.) find that Tsavo lions are admixed, whether as a consequence of problem animal control or as a natural transition zone between the Maasai Steppe and the Horn of Africa

2023

Nachman, M.W. et al. (numerous authors including BDP). 2023 Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PLoS Biology 21(11): e3002318. DOI 


Cooper, D.M, N. Yamaguchi, D.W. Macdonald, B.D. Patterson, G.P. Salkina, V.G. Yudin, A.J. Dugmore & A.C. Kitchener. 2023. Getting to the meat of it: The effects of a captive diet upon the skull morphology of the lion and tiger. Animals 13: 3616. DOI--open access


Demos, T.C., P.W. Webala, S.M. Goodman, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, H.L. Lutz, B.R. Agwanda, N. Cortés-Delgado, S. Briones, R.H. Ree & B.D. Patterson. 2023. Ultraconserved elements resolve phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of African-Malagasy bent-winged bats (Miniopterus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 188(11): 107890. DOI


Patterson, B.D. 2023. Foreword. Pages vii-viii in N. C. Cáceres and C. R. Dickman, eds. American and Australasian marsupials: An evolutionary, biogeographical, and ecological approach. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. pdf


Patterson, B.D. 2023. The Man-eaters of Tsavo and the untapped potential of natural history collections. Curator 66(3): 523-531. read-only pdf


Dick, C.W., T.B. Verrett, P.W. Webala & B.D. Patterson. 2023. Nycteribiid bat flies (Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Nycteribiidae) of Kenya. ZooKeys 1169:65-85. DOI--open access


de la Sancha, N.U., B.D. Patterson, P. Teta & G. D'Elia. 2023.  A new rule for rain shadows. In the Field 94(1): 23. pdf


Nams, V. et al. (numerous authors including BDP). 2023. Spatial patterns of two large African cats: A large scale study on density, home range size, and overlap, of both lions and leopards. Mammal Review 49(2): 49-64. DOI--open access


Missagia, R.V., D.M. Casali, B.D. Patterson & F.A. Perini. 2023. Decoupled patterns of diversity and disparity characterize an ecologically specialized lineage of Neotropical cricetids. Evolutionary Biology 50(2): 181-196. DOI


Grunwald, A.L., T.C. Demos, Y. Nguéagni, M.N. Tchamba, A. Monadjem, P.W. Webala, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, B.D. Patterson & L.A. Ruedas. 2023. A review of the genus Pseudoromicia (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new species. Systematics and Biodiversity 21(1): 2156002. DOI

Disparity of akodontine rodents (from Missagia et al. 2023 Evolutionary Biology)
Shape changes in the skulls of captive vs wild lions and tigers (from Cooper et al., Animals)
The radiation of African and Malagasy Miniopterus (from Demos et al. MPE)
A nycteribiid fly (Penicillidia) on the shoulder of a horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus fumigatus) from Dick et al. 2023
A new species of Pseudoromicia (Grunwald et al., Systematics & Biodiversity)
Unvarying home range overlap of leopards (Nams et al., Mammal Review)
(Foreword only)
The Tsavo man-eaters as newly mounted in 1925 (Patterson, Curator)
Otocolobus manul cover on the issue of PNAS containing article by Feijo et al.
Piotr Naskrecki's photo of a Penicillidia fulvida on the face of a bent-wing bat.
iNaturalist photo by Fabiologopro of Dasyprocta azarae, subject of Mejía-Fontecha et al. in Checklist

2022

Feijó, A., D. Ge, Z. Wen, J. Cheng, L. Xia, B.D. Patterson & Q. Yang. 2022. Mammalian diversification bursts and biotic turnovers are synchronous with Cenozoic geoclimatic events in Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119(49): e2207845119 + cover. DOI


Verrett, T., P.W. Webala, B.D. Patterson & C.W. Dick. 2022. Remarkably low host specificity in the bat fly Penicillidia fulvida (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) as assessed by mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S sequence data. Parasites and Vectors 15: 392. DOI


Mejía-Fontecha, I. Y., P.A. Ossa-López, F.A. Rivera-Páez, B.D. Patterson, & H.E. Ramírez-Chaves. 2022. Updated distribution map and notes on the cranial morphometry of Dasyprocta azarae Lichtenstein, 1823, Azara's Agouti (Mammalia, Rodentia, Dasyproctidae), in South America. Check List, 18(5): 995–1003. DOI-open access


Teta, P., N.U. de la Sancha, G. D’Elía & B.D. Patterson. 2022. Andean rain shadow effect drives phenotypic variation in a widely distributed Austral rodent. Journal of Biogeography 49(10): 1767–1778. DOI


Edirisinghe. G., A.P.M.J. Bandara, B.D. Patterson, R. Nayakkara, D. Basnayaka, S. Akmeemana, A. Sumanapala, D. Gabadage & M. Botejue. 2022. The distribution of Kerivoula malpasi and Kerivoula picta (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Sri Lanka. Journal of Bat Research and Conservation 15(1): 11–16. DOI-open access


Maestri, R., A.L. Luza, S.M. Hartz, T.R.O. de Freitas & B.D. Patterson. 2022. Bridging macroecology and macroevolution in the radiation of sigmodontine rodents. Evolution 76(8): 1790–1805. DOI 


Kusuminda, T., A. Mannakkara, K.D.B. Ukuwela, S.V. Kruskop, C.J. Amarasinghe, U. Saikia, P. Venugopal, M. Karunarathna, M. Ruedi, R. Gamage, G. Csorba, W.B. Yapa & B.D. Patterson. 2022. DNA barcoding and morphological comparisons reveal the presence of a cryptic species of Miniopterus from India and Sri Lanka. Acta Chiropterologica 24(1): 1–17. DOI.


Patterson, B.D. 2022. Breakthrough in bats. In the Field 93(2): 23. pdf


Bertola, L.D., M. Vermaat, F. Lesilau, M. Chege, P.N. Tumenta, E.A. Sogbohossou, O.D. Schaap, H. Bauer, B.D. Patterson, P.A. White, H.H. de Iongh, J. Laros & K. Vrieling. 2022. Whole genome sequencing and the application of a SNP panel reveal primary evolutionary lineages and genomic diversity within lions (Panthera leo). BMC Genomics 23: 321. DOI-open access


Marsh, C.J. et al. (numerous authors including BDP). 2022. Global geographic range maps for mammals harmonised to three taxonomic authorities. Journal of Biogeography 49(5): 979–992. DOI-open access


Sulser, R.B., B.D. Patterson, D.J. Urban, A.I. Neander & Z.-X. Luo. 2022. Inner ear neuroanatomy of bats and its implications for echolocation. Nature 602(7897): 449–454. DOI


Kusuminda, T., A. Mannakkara, R. Gamage, B.D. Patterson & W.B. Yapa. 2022. Roosting ecology of insectivorous bats in a tropical agricultural landscape. Mammalia 86(2): 134–143 . DOI 

Phenotypic disparity of sigmodontine rodents across South America, from Maestri et al., Evolution
Schematic showing the effect of Andean topography on precipitation in the southern Andes, with associated effects on Abrothrix hirta (from Teta et al.) 
Global mammal species richness from the Mammal Diversity Database (Marsh et al. 2022)
The genome of Tsavo's Kabochi and 9 other lions served to identify SNPs in the article by Bertola et al. (BMC Genomics)
Disparity in wall ossification among yangochiropteran bats; yin bats and outgroups (blue) do not differ (from Sulser et al.)

2021


Luza, A.L., R. Maestri, V.J. Debastiani, B.D. Patterson, S.M. Hartz & L. Silva Duarte. 2021. Is evolution faster at ecotones? A test using rates and tempo of diet transitions in Neotropical Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Ecology and Evolution 11(24): 18676-18690. DOI-open access


Guimarães, R.R., R. Gomes Rocha, A.C. Loss, A.C. Mendes de Oliveira, B.D. Patterson & L.P. Costa. 2021. Molecular and morphological discordance in the taxonomic rearrangement of the Marmosops pinheiroi complex (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 19(7): 770-781. DOI 


Demos, T.C., S.M. Goodman & B.D. Patterson. 2021. On the status of Nycteris madagascariensis G. Grandidier, 1937, a reputed endemic to Madagascar. Acta Chiropterologica 23(1): 21-32. DOI

Hendges, C.D., B.D. Patterson & N.C. Cáceres. 2021. Big in the tropics: ecogeographic clines in peccary size reveal the converse of Bergmann’s Rule. Journal of Biogeography 48(5): 1228-1239. DOI


Rossoni, D.M., T.C. Demos, S.M. Goodman, R.K. Yego, J.L. Molhman, P.W. Webala & B.D. Patterson. 2021. Genetic, morphological and acoustic differentiation of African trident bats (Rhinonycteridae: Triaenops). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(1): 236–257.  DOI 


Patterson, B.D., H.E. Ramírez Chaves, J.F. Vilela, A.E.R. Soares & F. Grewe. 2021. On the nomenclature of the American clade of weasels (Carnivora: Mustelidae). Journal of Animal Diversity 3(2): 1-8. DOI-open access 

Monadjem, A., T.C. Demos, D.L. Dalton, P.W. Webala, S. Musila, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans & B.D. Patterson. 2021. A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(4): 1114–146. DOI

Moreno Cárdenas, P.A., N. Tinoco, L. Albuja & B.D. Patterson. 2021. A new species of Rhagomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from southeastern Ecuador. Journal of Mammalogy 102(1): 123–138. DOI

Maestri, R. & B.D. Patterson. 2021. Geographical and macroecological patterns of tuco-tucos. Pp. 69-81, In Tuco-tucos – An evolutionary approach to the diversity of a Neotropical rodent (T.R.O. de Freitas, G.L. Gonçalves & R. Maestri, eds.). Springer Nature, Switzerland. DOI

Missagia, R.V., B.D. Patterson, D. Krentzel & F.A. Perini. 2021. Insectivory leads to functional convergence in a group of Neotropical rodents. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34(2): 391–402 + cover. DOI

Haelewaters, D., C.W. Dick, K.P. Cocherán Pitti, K. Dittmar & B.D. Patterson. 2021. Bats, bat flies and fungi: exploring uncharted waters, pp. 349-371 in 50 Years of Bat Research: Foundations and New Frontiers (B.K. Lim, M.B. Fenton, R.M. Brigham, S. Mistry, A. Kurta, E.H. Gillam, A. Russell & J. Ortega, eds.). Springer Link. DOI 

Average assemblage transition rates for sigmodontines (from Luza et al. Ecol. & Evol.)
Delimitation analyses identify varying numbers of mouse opossum species (from Guimarães et al. Syst. & Biodiv.)
A new genus and species of vesper bat from Kenya, described by Monadjem et al. (2021) ZJLS
Triaenops afer, one of the most spectacular bats I have ever seen (subject of the article by Rossoni et al. Zool. J. Linn. Soc.)
Body size in white-lipped peccaries, showing larger peccaries live in the tropics (from Hendges et al, J. Biogeogr.)
An insectivorous Blarinomys consuming a mealworm, from Missagia et al. 2021. Photo by Leandro de Oliveira Drummond.
Above: The Eastern Versant of the Andes, shot from 2700m in the Cosñipata Drainage of Manu Biosphere Reserve (from Mastozoología Neotropical). 
Bottom: Cyt-b substitution network for species of the genus Macronycteris (from the 2020 ZooKeys article)

2020

Kusuminda, T., A. Mannakkara, M. Karunarathna, C. Amarasinghe, B.D. Patterson & W.B. Yapa. 2020. Review of the distribution of Sri Lankan bats: Family Miniopteridae. WILDLanka 8(4): 152–162. PDF

Patterson, B.D. 2020. Foreword. In the footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France: Chronicle of a Giraffomania, 1826-1845, by Olivier Lebleu, translated by Cynthia T. Hahn, Pp. ix-x. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham MD, 185 pp. PDF

Patterson, B.D. 2020. On drivers of Neotropical mammal diversification. Mastozoología Neotropical 27(SI): 15–26. DOI-open access 

Noonan, M.J. et al (53 authors including BDP). 2020. Body size-dependent underestimation of mammalian area requirements. Conservation Biology 34(4): 1017–1028. DOI--open access 

Patterson, B.D., P.W. Webala, T. Lavery, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, S.M. Goodman, B. R. Agwanda & T.C. Demos. 2020. Evolutionary relationships and population genetics of the Afrotropical leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). ZooKeys 929: 117–161 open access.

Jayat, J.P., P.E. Ortiz, G. D'Elía, J. Salazar-Bravo & B.D. Patterson. 2020. Taxonomic status of the nominal forms assigned to Necromys lactens (Rodentia, Cricetidae) as revealed by molecular and morphometric evidences. Journal of Mammalogy 101(1): 24–35. DOI 

Feijó, A., B.D. Patterson & P. Cordeiro Estrela. 2020. Phenotypic variability and environmental tolerance shed light on nine-banded armadillo Nearctic invasion. Biological Invasions 22(2): 255–269. DOI 

Demos, T.C., P.W. Webala, H.L. Lutz, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, S.M. Goodman, N. Cortés-Delgado, M. Bartonjo & B.D.Patterson. 2020. Molecular phylogenetics, species limits, and historical biogeography of Miniopterus. Zoologica Scripta 49(1): 1–13. DOI--open access 

**  Many articles are open access; e-prints for the remainder are available at ResearchGate  **