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2025
2025
Alston, J.M. et al. (numerous authors including BDP). In press. Clarifying space use concepts in ecology: range vs. occurrence distributions. Ecology.
Kusuminda, T., C. Amarasinghe, A. Mannakkara, B.D. Patterson, W.B. Yapa. In press. First records of the Wroughton’s free-tailed bat (Otomops wroughtoni) and the East Asian free-tailed bat (Tadarida insignis) from Sri Lanka. Mammal Study.
Patterson, B.D. & A. Feijó. 2025. Mammalian Biodiversity. Pp. 236–247 In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 3. (J.B. Wolf & C.A.d.M. Russo, eds.), Elsevier, Academic Press. DOI
Fagan, W.F. et al. (numerous authors including BDP). 2025. Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 122: e2401042122. DOI
Missagia, R.V., A. Feijó, L. Johnson, M.L. Allen, B.D. Patterson, P.D. Jenkins & G.M.G. Shepherd. 2025. Evolution of thumb nails across Rodentia. Science 389(6764): 1049–1053. DOI
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/thumbnail-rodent-evolution-food
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-rodents-thumbnails-claws-world.html#google_vignette
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/09/04/rodents-thumbs-rats-squirrels-evolution/
https://www.miragenews.com/rodents-unique-thumbnail-key-to-evolution-1527522/
https://www.wsj.com/science/rodents-evolution-thumbs-0fde6421
Patterson, B.D., H.E. Ramírez Chaves, A.E.R. Soares, J.F. Vilela & F. Grewe. 2025. Complete mitochondrial genomes support the composition and rank of the American weasel genus Neogale (Mustelidae). Journal of Animal Diversity 7(1): 41–48. DOI--open access
Armstrong, E.E., C. Curry, K.A. Solari, S. Morgan, B.D. Patterson, B. Agwanda et al. 2025. President Roosevelt's lions reveal a century of population fragmentation in Africa's largest carnivore. bioRxiv 2025.02.26.640359. DOI--open access
Patterson, B.D., T.C. Demos, L. Torrent, A. Grunwald, C. Montauban, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, M.M. McDonough, C.W. Dick, M. Bartonjo, M.C. Schoeman, L. Ruedas & J. Juste. 2025. A survey of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for three additional Afrotropical bat species. Journal of Mammalogy 106(1): 187–201. DOI--open access (online publication of new species 9/13/2024)
Reuse of travel routeways differs between canids and felids, as revealed by Fagan et al. in PNAS
Manual claws and a D1 nail are both characteristic and ancestral for Rodentia, relating to their unique jaw mechanics, as shown by Missagia et al.
Mitogenome assemblies from two FMNH weasel specimens (from Journal of Animal Diversity)
Mt-DNA evidence that East Africa is populated by a new species of the Rhinolophus landeri complex (J. Mamm.)
PCA of genomic variation among historic (x) and modern (dots) African lions, from Armstrong et al.
Echolocation calls of South Asian molossids, from Kusuminda et al.
Haplotype substitution network for the nuclear intron COPS7A among a group of African Vespertilionini, from Demos et al. in Acta Chiropterologica
Artist's depiction of Cape lion, from https://www.extinctanimals.org/extinct-lions (Nanova et al. Sci. Rep.)
Rossoni et al. (Amer. Nat.) highlight the importance of weak integration to the morphological and ecological diversification of phyllostomid bats.
Where mammal species newly discovered and described in the 21st century originated, from Patterson & Feijó in Reference Module.
2024
2024
Grunwald, A.L., T.C. Demos, C.M. Volk, P.J. Atagana, F. Meyo, Y. Ngueagni, R.T. Merrill, I. Bevers, K.D. Armstrong, E.E. Kilber, A. Talla, E.-M. Bakwo Fils, A. Monadjem, B.D. Patterson & L.A. Ruedas. 2024. Uncovering the diversity of bats in the Mbam Minkom Massif, Cameroon: insights into the importance of tropical inselbergs. Acta Chiropterologica 26(2): 275–314. DOI
Demos, T.C., P.W. Webala, A. Monadjem & B.D. Patterson. 2024. Nuclear introns support subtribe and generic arrangements of the tribes Vespertilionini and Pipistrellini (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 26(2): 143–152. DOI
Nanova, O., D. Cooper, A.C. Kitchener, G.I.H. Kerley, T. Gnoske, J. Kerbis, V. Simeonovski, B.D. Patterson, D.W. Macdonald & N. Yamaguchi. 2024. Skull morphology analysis suggests the extinct Cape lion, Panthera leo melanochaita (Smith, 1842), is not distinctive. Scientific Reports 14: 24251. DOI--open access
Morales, A.E., F.T. Burbrink, M. Segall, M. Meza, C. Munegowda, P.W. Webala, B.D. Patterson, Vu D.T., M. Ruedi, M. Hiller & N.B. Simmons. 2024. Convergent evolution of bat ecomorphs involves changes in genes with similar functions but not always the same genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(9): msae165. DOI
Patterson, B.D. & A. Feijó. 2024. Mammalian Biodiversity. in Reference Module in Life Sciences (Nitesh Shrivastava and Rajeswari R., eds.). Elsevier; pp. 1–12. DOI
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
Sampling for the three convergent ecomorphs of the genus Myotis by Morales et al. in Molecular Biology & Evolution.
Portraits of 33 species of bats collected from Mbam Minkom Massif and surrounding forest in Cameroon (Grunwald et al. Acta Chiropterologica).
2023
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(23): 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
Missagia et al. 2023 document disparity of akodontine rodents in 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. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution)
A nycteribiid fly (Penicillidia) on the shoulder of a horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus fumigatus) from Dick et al. in ZooKeys.
A new species of Pseudoromicia described by Grunwald et al. in Systematics & Biodiversity
Unvarying home range overlap of leopards (Nams et al., Mammal Review)
(Foreword only)
The Tsavo man-eaters as newly mounted in 1925. as discussed by me in Curator
Otocolobus manul cover on the issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA containing article by Feijo and colleagues
Piotr Naskrecki's photo of a Penicillidia fulvida on the face of a bent-wing bat, the subject of Verrett and colleagues in Parasites and Vectors.
iNaturalist photo by Fabiologopro of Dasyprocta azarae, subject of Mejía-Fontecha and coauthors in Checklist
2022
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
Phys.org: The evolution of Asia's mammals was dictated by ancient climate change and rising mountains
EurekAlert: Study explains formation of rich mammal diversity in Asia
Earth.com: Past geologic events shaped Asian mammal evolution
Europapress: Cambios de clima y montañas marcaron la evolución de mamíferos en Asia
Asiaone: Rise of Tibetan Plateau, climate change shaped evolution of mammals
ScienceDaily: The evolution of Asia's mammals was dictated by ancient climate change and rising mountains
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 alia (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
Nature's News & Views feature by Brock Fenton
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, from Marsh et al. in Journal of Biogeography.
The genome of Tsavo's Kabochi and 9 other lions served to identify SNPs in the article by Bertola et al. in BMC Genomics.
Disparity in wall ossification among yangochiropteran bats; yin bats and outgroups (blue) do not differ from Sulser et al. in Nature
2021
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, the 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)
Bottom: Cyt-b substitution network for species of the genus Macronycteris (from the 2020 ZooKeys article)
2020
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
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