My Google Scholar profile can be found here. I'm also on ResearchGate here. 

Peer-reviewed articles 

1 equal authorship * undergraduate mentee co-author

2025

Westeen EP, Yuan ML, Wang IJ. Ecomorphology is associated with speciation and community composition in Sceloporus lizards. 2025. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 292: 20251305.

Krone IW1 & Westeen EP1. Does karyotype structure co-occurrence patterns in a chromosomally diverse and species-rich clade of lizards (genus Sceloporus)? 2025. Journal of Biogeography. 2025; 0:e70077.

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Westeen EP, Horncastle VJ, Chambers CL. 2025. Vegetation height and height variability drive habitat occupancy in riparian areas for New Mexico jumping mice. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2025;e70131. 

Holmes IA, Martínez-Fonseca JG, von May R, Sealey BA, Cerda PA, Grundler MR, Westeen EP, Nondorf D, Larson JG, Myers CR, Hendry TA. 2025. Increased host diversity limits bacterial generalism but may promote microbe-microbe interactions. ISME Communications. 5(1): ycaf146. 

Westeen EP, Wogan GOU, Wang IJ, Yuan ML. 2025. Loss of costly pigments in females drives the evolution of sexual dichromatism in an ornamental trait. Evolution. 79(7):1299-1309.

2024

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Westeen EP, Wan HY, Cushman SA, Chambers CL. 2024. A global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats reveals geographic and taxonomic biases and opportunities for novel research. Biological Conservation. 299:110829.

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Westeen EP, Jenness J, Zahratka J, Chambers CL. 2024. Species distribution models inform survey areas for the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2024;88:e22646.

Yuan ML, Westeen EP.  2024. Decoupled evolution of ventral and dorsal scales in agamid lizards: ventral keels are associated with arboreality. Biology Letters. 20(7): 20240171. 

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Trujillo LA, Westeen EP, Reid FA, Hood C, Fernández-Mena MA, Gutiérrez-López LE, Molina-Loza JC, Chambers CL. 2024. New departmental and noteworthy records of mammals from Nicaragua. Check List. 20(3): 706-720.

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Holmes IA, Sunyer J, Westeen EP, Grundler MR, Cerda PA, Fernandez-Meña M, Loza J, Monagan IV, Nondorf D, Pandelis GG, Davis Rabosky AR. 2024. A collection and analysis of amphibians and reptiles from Nicaragua with new country and departmental records. Check List. 20(1): 58-125.

Sealey BA, Larson JG, Westeen EP, Sánchez Paredes CM, Moore TY, Davis Rabosky AR. 2024. Body size and predator cues structure variation in defensive displays of Neotropical calico snakes (Oxyrhopus spp.) Ethology. 2024;130:e13439.

2023

Westeen EP, Martínez-Fonseca JG, d’Orgeix C, Sanchez DE, Walker FM, Wang IJ. 2023. Dietary niche partitioning of three Sky Island Sceloporus lizards as revealed through DNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution. 13:e10461. 

Westeen EP, Escalona M, Holding M, Beraut E, Fairbairn C, Marimuthu MPA, Nyugen O, Perri R, Fisher RN, Toffelmier E, Shaffer HB, Wang IJ. 2023. A genome assembly for the southern Pacific rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus helleri, in the western rattlesnake species complex. Journal of Heredity. 114(6): 681-689.

Westeen EP, Martínez-Fonseca JG, Chen H*, Wang IJ. 2023. Phenotypic diversity facilitates niche partitioning in a sky island assemblage of spiny lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140(4): 589-605.

Westeen EP, Escalona M, Beraut E, Marimuthu MPA, Nyugen O, Fisher RN, Toffelmier E, Shaffer HB, Wang IJ. 2023. A reference genome assembly for the continentally-distributed ring-necked snake, Diadophis punctatus. Journal of Heredity. 114(6): 690-697. 

Bishop AP, Westeen EP, Yuan ML, Escalona M, Beraut E, Fairbairn C, Marimuthu MPA, Nyugen O, Chumchim N, Toffelmier E, Fisher RN, Shaffer HB, Wang IJ. 2023. Assembly of the largest squamate reference genome to date: the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis. Journal of Heredity. 114(5): 521-528.

2022

Ramírez-Castañeda V1, Westeen EP1, Frederick JH, Amini S, Wait D, Achmadi AS, Andayanie N, Arida E, Arifin U, Bérnal MA, Bonaccorso E, Sanguila MB, Brown RM, Che J, Condori FP, Hartiningtias D, Hiller AE, Iskandar DT, Jiménez RA, Khelifa R, Márquez R, Martínez-Fonseca JG, Parra JL, Peñalba JV, Pinto-García L, Razafindratsima OH, Ron S, Souza S, Supriatna J, Bowie RCK, Cicero C, McGuire JA, Tarvin RD. 2022. A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(34).

Yuan ML, Westeen EP, Wogan GOU, Wang IJ. 2022. Female dewlap ornaments are evolutionarily labile and associated with increased diversification rates in Anolis lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289:20221871.

2021 and earlier

Davis Rabosky AR, Moore TY, Sanchez-Paredes CM, Westeen EP, Larson JG, Sealey BA, Balinski BA. 2021. Convergence and divergence in snake anti-predator displays: A novel approach to quantitative behavioral comparison. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132(4): 811-828.

Shi JJ, Westeen EP, and Rabosky DL. 2021. A test for rate-coupling of trophic and cranial evolutionary dynamics in New World bats. Evolution. 75(4): 861-875.

Westeen EP, Durso AM, Grundler MC, Rabosky DL, and Davis Rabosky AR. 2020. What makes a fang? Phylogenetic and ecological influences on tooth evolution in rear-fanged snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(80).

Martínez-Fonseca JG, Fitoria-Medina A, Westeen EP, and Chambers CL. 2020. Revised Checklist of the Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Nicaragua. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University. OP-369.

von May R, Biggi E, Cárdenas H, Diaz MI, Alarcón C, Herrera V, Santa-Cruz R, Tomasinelli F, Westeen EP, Sánchez-Paredes CM, Larson JG, Title PO, Grundler MR, Grundler MC, Davis Rabosky AR, and Rabosky DL. 2019. Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. 13(1): 65–77.

Shi JJ, Westeen EP, and Rabosky DL. 2018. Digitizing extant bat diversity: An open-access repository of 3D μCT-scanned skulls for research and education. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0203022.

Shi JJ, Westeen EP, Katlein NT, Dumont ER, and Rabosky DL. 2018. Ecomorphological and phylogenetic controls on sympatry across extant bats. Journal of Biogeography. 45(7): 1560-1570.