Publications
In Press
2024
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
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
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 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
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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
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
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 **