Publications
Some of these pubs below are available here:
Burbrink F. T., Bobo D., Harrington S., and E. Myers. 2023. Considering admixture when producing draft genomes: an example in North American ratsnakes (P. alleghaniensis/P. obsoletus). G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2023, jkad113.
Jones, L., Leaché, A., and F.T. Burbrink. 2023. Biogeographic barriers and historic climate shape the phylogeography and demography of the common gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis). Journal of Biogeography: DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14709.
Núñez L., Gray L., Weisrock D. and F. T. Burbrink. 2023. The phylogenomic and biogeographic history of the gartersnakes, watersnakes, and allies (Natricidae: Thamnophiini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution .Sep;186:107844. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107844. Epub 2023 Jun 9. PMID: 37301486.
Burbrink, F. T. 2022. Uniting genetic and geographic databases to understand the relationship between latitude and population demography. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(8), 2827–2829.
Burbrink, F. T., Crother, B. I., Murray, C. M., Smith, B. T., Ruane, S., Myers, E. A., and Pyron, R. A. 2022. Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7), e9069.
Cadle, J. E., Scherz, M. D., Ruane, S., Burbrink, F. T., Glaw, F., and Raxworthy, C. J. 2022. Pseudoxyrhophiidae and Psammophiidae, Colubroid snakes. In S. M. Goodman (Ed.), The New Natural History of Madagascar. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Das, S., Greenbaum, E., Meiri, S., Bauer, A. M., Burbrink, F. T., Raxworthy, C. J., Weinell, J. L., Brown, R. M., Brecko, J., Pauwels, O. S. G., Rabibisoa, N., Raselimanana, A. P., and Merilä, J. 2023) Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180, 107700.
DeBaun, D., Rabibisoa, N., Raselimanana, A. P., Raxworthy, C. J., and Burbrink, F. T. 2023. Widespread reticulate evolution in an adaptive radiation. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 77(4), 931–945.
Harrington, S., and Burbrink, F.T. 2023. Complex cycles of divergence and migration shape lineage structure in the common kingsnake species complex. Journal of Biogeography, 50(2), 341–351.
Pyron, R. A., O’Connell, K. A., Duncan, S. C., Burbrink, F. T., and Beamer, D. A. 2022. Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola). Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac065.
Yang, D.-C., Huang, R.-Y., Jiang, K. E., Burbrink, F. T., Gong, Y.-A., Yu, J., Zhang, Y. I., Huang, T.-Q., and Huang, S. 2022. A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, China. Zootaxa, 5190(1), 127–140.
Espindola, S., Vázquez-Domínguez E., Nakamura, M., Osorio-Olvera L., Martínez-Meyer e., Myers E. A., Overcast I., Reid B.N. and F. T. Burbrink. 2022. Complex genetic patterns and distribution limits mediated by native congeners of the worldwide invasive red-eared slider turtle. Molecular Ecology 6: 1766-1782.
Kuhn, A., Gehara, M., Andrianarimalala, M., Nirhy, R., Randriamahatantsoa, B., Raxworthy, C.J., Ruane, S., and F. T. Burbrink. 2021. Drivers of unique and asynchronous population dynamics in Malagasy herpetofauna. Journal of Biogeography 49: 600-616.
Burbrink, F. T., Bernstein, J. M., Kuhn A., Gehara,A. and S. Ruane. 2022. “Ecological divergence and the history of gene flow in the Nearctic milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulum Complex). Systematic Biology. 71: 839–858.
Lanna, F. M., Colli, G.R., Burbrink, F. T., and B. C. Carstens. 2022. “Identifying traits that enable lizard adaptation to different habitats.” Journal of Biogeography 49 (1): 104–16.
Pyron, R. A., Gotte, S. and F. T. Burbrink. 2021. “Additional comments on the types and nomina of several North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex, Colubridae, Serpentes).” Bionomina 25 (1). https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.25.1.5
Burbrink, F. T., Pyron, R. A., Gehara, M., Mckelvy, A. D., and E. A. Myers. 2021. The corrected taxonomic history of the North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex). Herpetological Review 52: 537-547.
Peng, L.-F. Huang, S., Burbrink, F.T., Zhang, Y., Peng, G., and H-L. Wu. 2021. Morphological redescription of Herpetoreas burbrinki (Serpentes, Colubridae) in life. Zootaxa 42(4): 487−491.
Peng, L.-F., Zhang, Y., Huang, S., Burbrink, F.T., Chen, J.-M., Hou, M., Zhu, Y.-W., Yang, H., and J.-C. Wang. 2021. A new snake species of the genus Gonyosoma Wagler, 1828 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Hainan Island, China. Zoological Research (accepted ms).
Kuhn, A., Gehara, M., Andrianarimalala, M., Nirhy, R., Randriamahatantsoa, B., Raxworthy, C.J., Ruane, S., and F. T. Burbrink. 2021. Drivers of unique and asynchronous population dynamics in Malagasy herpetofauna. Journal of Biogeography. (accepted manuscript).
Cadle, J. E., Scherz, M. D., Ruane, S., Burbrink, F. T., Raxworthy, C. J., and F. Glaw. 2021. Pseudoxyrhophiidae and Psammophiidae, colubroid snakes, bibilava. In: The New Natural History of Madagascar. Princeton University Press (in press).
Burbrink, F. T. and S. Ruane. 2021. Contemporary philosophy and methods for evidence-based species delimitations. Ichthyology and Herpetology (formerly Copeia) (in press).
Burbrink, F. T., Gehara, M., and E. A. Myers. 2021. Resolving spatial complexities of hybridization in the context of the gray zone of speciation in North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex). Evolution 75: 260-277.
de Oliveira, F. F. R., Gehara, M., Solé, M. , Lyra, M. , Haddad, C. F. B. , Silva, D. P. , de Magalhães, R. F. , Leite, F. S. F., and F. T. Burbrink. 2021. Quaternary climatic fluctuations influence the demographic history of two species of sky-island endemic amphibians in the Neotropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160:107113. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107113
Weinell, J. L., Barley, A. J., Siler, C. D., Orlov, N. L., Ananjeva, N. B. , Oaks, J. R. , Burbrink, F. T., and R. M. Brown. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic range evolution in cat-eyed snakes, Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192:169–184.
Burbrink, F. T., F. G. Grazziotin, R. A. Pyron, D. Cundall, S. Donnellan, F. Irish, J. S. Keogh, F. Kraus, R. W. Murphy, and B. Noonan. 2020. Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) shows no support for key traditional morphological relationships. Systematic Biology 69:502–520.
Myers, E. A., A. D. McKelvy, and F. T. Burbrink. 2020. Biogeographic barriers, Pleistocene refugia, and climatic gradients in the southeastern Nearctic drive diversification in cornsnakes ( Pantherophis guttatus complex). Molecular Ecology 29:797–811.
Myers, E. A., A. T. Xue, M. Gehara, C. L. Cox, A. R. Davis Rabosky, J. Lemos‐Espinal, J. E. Martínez‐Gómez, and F. T. Burbrink. 2019b. Environmental heterogeneity and not vicariant biogeographic barriers generate community‐wide population structure in desert‐adapted snakes. Molecular Ecology 28:4535–4548.
Burbrink F.T., Ruane S., Kuhn A., Rabibisoa N, Randriamahatantsoa B., Raselimanana A. P., Andrianarimalala M.S.M, Cadle J. E., Lemmon A. R., Lemmon E. M., Nussbaum R. A., Jones L., Pearson R., and C.J. Raxworthy. The origins and diversification of the exceptionally rich gemsnakes in Madagascar. Systematic Biology 68: 918-936.
Lamichhaney, S., Card D., Grayson P., Tonini J. F. R., Bravo G. A., Näpflin K, Termignoni-Garcia F, Torres C., Burbrink F. T., Clarke J. A., Sackton T. B., and S. V. Edwards. 2019. Integrating natural history-derived phenomics with comparative genomics to study the genomic architecture of convergent evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 374:20180248.
Burbrink, F. T., and I. Futterman. 2019. Female‐biased gape and body‐size dimorphism in the New World watersnakes (tribe: Thamnophiini) oppose predictions from Rensch’s rule. Ecology and Evolution 9:9624–9633.
Myers E. A., Bryson R. W. , Hansen R. W. , Aardema M. L., Lazcano D. and F. T. Burbrink. 2019. Exploring Chihuahuan Desert diversification in the gray-banded kingsnake, Lampropeltis alterna (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131:211–218.
Ruane S., Myers E. A. , Lo K. , Yuen S., Welt R. S., Juman M., Futterman I., Nussbaum R. A., Schneider G., Burbrink F. T., and C. J. Raxworthy. 2018. Unrecognized species diversity and new insights into colour pattern polymorphism within the widespread Malagasy snake Mimophis (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae). Syst. Biodivers. 16:229–244.
Oliveira E.F., M. Gehara, V.A. São-Pedro, G.C. Costa, F. T. Burbrink, G. R. Colli, M. T. Rodrigues and A. A. Garda.. Phylogeography of Muller's termite frog suggests the vicariant role of the Central Brazilian Plateau. Journal of Biogeography 45:2508– 2519.
Lazzeroni, M. E., F. T. Burbrink, and N.B. Simmons. 2018. Hibernation in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) did not evolve through positive selection of leptin. Ecology and Evolution 8 (24):12576-12596.
Burbrink, F.T., and M. Gehara. The Biogeography of Deep Time Phylogenetic Reticulation 2018. Systematic Biology. 67:743-755.
Burbrink F.T., Lorch J.M.J, Lips K.R. 2017. Host susceptibility to snake fungal disease is highly dispersed across phylogenetic and functional trait space. Science Advances 3:e1701387.
Myers, E. A., J. L. Burgoon, J. M. Ray, J. E. Martínez-Gómez, N. Matías-Ferrer, D. G. Mulcahy, and F. T. Burbrink. 2017. Coalescent Species Tree Inference of Coluber and Masticophis. Copeia 105:640-680.
Chen X., Lemmon A.R, Lemmon E.M., Pyron R.A, Burbrink F.T. 2017. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111:206–218.
Chen, X., A. R. Lemmon, E. M. Lemmon, R. A. Pyron, and F. T. Burbrink. 2017. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111:206–218.
Burbrink FT, Chan YL, Myers EA, Ruane S, Smith BT, Hickerson MJ. 2016. Asynchronous demographic responses to Pleistocene climate change in Eastern Nearctic vertebrates. Ecology Letters. 19: 1457-1467.
McKelvy AD, Burbrink FT. 2017. Ecological divergence in the yellow-bellied kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) at two North American biodiversity hotspots. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106:61–72.
Myers EA, Hickerson MJ, Burbrink FT. 2016. Asynchronous diversification of snakes in the North American warm deserts. Journal of Biogeography 44: 461-474.
Guo, P., Liu, Q., Zhu, F., Zhong, G.H., Chen, X., Myers, E. A., Che, J., Ziegler, T., Nguyen, T. Q., and F. T. Burbrink. 2016. Molecular phylogeography reveals west to east diversification in Stejneger’s pit viper Viridovipera stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1925) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae). Molecular Ecology 25: 2920-2936
Ruane, S. Burbrink, F. T., B. Randriamahtantsoa, and C. J. Raxworthy. 2016. The Cat-eyed Snakes of Madagascar: Phylogeny and Description of a New Species of Madagascarophis (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae) from the Tsingy of Ankarana. Copeia 104: 712-721.
Burbrink, F. T., McKelvy, A. and R. Pyron, E. A. Myers. 2015. Predicting community structure in snakes on Eastern Nearctic islands using ecological neutral theory and phylogenetic methods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282(1819): 20151700
Burbrink, F. T. and E. A. Myers. 2015. Both traits and phylogenetic history influence community structure in snakes over steep environmental gradients. Ecography 38:1036-1048.
Oliveira, E.F., Gehara, M., São Pedro, V.A., Chen, X., Myers, E. A., Burbrink, F.T., Mesquita, D. O., Garda, A. A., Colli, G. R., Rodrigues, M. T., Arias, F. J., Zaher H., Santos, R. M. L, and G. Costa. Speciation with gene flow in whiptail lizards from a Neotropical xeric biome. Molecular Ecology 23: 5957-597.
Ruane, S., Raxworthy, C. J., Lemmon, A. R., Lemmon, E.M., and F. T. Burbrink. 2015. Comparing species tree estimation with large anchored phylogenomic and small Sanger-sequenced molecular datasets: An empirical study on Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:221.
Burbrink, F. T. and T. J. Guiher. 2015. Considering gene flow when using coalescent methods to delimit lineages of North American pitvipers of the genus Agkistrodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 505-526.
Ruane, S., Carvajal, O. T., and F. T. Burbrink.2015. Independent demographic responses to climate change among temperate and tropical milksnakes (Colubridae: Genus Lampropeltis). PLOS ONE 10(6): e0128543.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2015. Contrasting models of parity-mode evolution in squamate reptiles. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324: 467-472.
Fry, B.G, Sunagar, K., Casewell, N., Kochva, E., Scheib, H., Wuster, W., Vidal, N., Young, B., Burbrink, F.T., Pyron, R.A., Vonk, F.J., Roelants, K., and T.N.W. Jackson. 2014. The origin and evolution of the Toxicofera reptile venom system. Chapter 1 in Venomous Reptiles And Their Toxins: Evolution, Pathophysiology And Biodiscovery (B. G. Fry, ed.) Oxford University Press.
Pyron, R. A., G. C. Costa, M.A. Patton, and F. T. Burbrink. 2015. Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation. Biological Reviews 90(4): 1248-1262.
Chen, X., A. D. McKelvy, L. L. Grismer, M. Matsui, K. Nishikawa, and F. T. Burbrink. 2014. The phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of the Rainbow Tree Snake Gonyophis margaritatus (Peters, 1871) (Squamata: colubridae). Zootaxa 3881(6): 532-548.
Pyron, R. A., C. R. Hendry, V. M Chou, E.M. Lemmon, A. R. Lemmong and F. T. Burbrink. Effectiveness of phylogenomic data and coalescent species-tree methods for resolving difficult nodes in the phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 81: 221-231.
Leaché, A. D., P. Wagner, C. W. Linkem, W. Böhme, T. J. Papenfuss, R. A. Chong, B. R. Lavin, A. M. Bauer, S. Nielsen, E. Greenbaum, M-O. Rödel, A. Schmitz, M. LeBreton, I. Ineich, L. Chirio, E. A. Eniang, S. Baha El Din, A. R. Lemmon, and F. T. Burbrink. 2014. A hybrid phylogenetic-phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in AfricanAgama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79:215-230.
Pyron, R. A., R. G. Reynolds, and F. T. Burbrink. 2014, A taxonomic revision of boas (Serptentes: Boidae). Zootaxa 3846 (2): 249-260.
Suárez, M., F. T. Burbrink, and E. V. Domínguez. 2014. Phylogeographical structure within Boa constrictor imperator across the lowlands and mountains of Central America and Mexico. Journal of Biogeography 41: 2371-2384.
Burbrink, F. T. and E. A. Myers. 2014. Body size distributions at community, regional or taxonomic scales do not predict the direction of trait-driven diversification in snakes in the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:490–503.
Pyron, R.A. and F.T. Burbrink. 2014. Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles. Ecology Letters 17: 13-21.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2014. Ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness and phylogenetic diversity for island snakes. Global Ecology and Biogeographry 23: 848-856.
Ruane, S., R. W. Bryson, R. A. Pyron, and F. T. Burbrink. 2014. Coalescent Species Delimitation in Milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis) and Impacts on Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses. Systematic Biology 63:231-250.
Jadin, R. C., F. T. Burbrink, G. A. Rivas, L. J. Vitt, C. L. Barrio-Amorós, and R. P. Guralnick. 2013. Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52: 257-264.
Pyron, R.A. and F.T. Burbrink. 2013. Phylogenetic estimates of speciation and extinction rates for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (in press): 10.1016/j.tree.2013.09.007.
Chen, X., Jiang, K., Guo, P., Huang, S., Rao, D., Ding, L., Takeuchi, H., Che, J., Zhang, Y., Myers, E. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2013.Assessing species boundaries and the phylogenetic position of the rare Szechwan Ratsnake, Euprepiophis perlaceus (Serpentes: Colubridae), using coalescent-based methods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (in press).
Near, T.J., Dornburg, A., Eytan, R. I., Keck, B. P., Smith, W. L., Kuhn, K. L, Moore, J. A., Price, S. A., Burbrink, F. T., Friedman, M., and P. C. Wainwright. 2013. Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes. Proceedings of the Natural Academy Sciences 31: 12738-12743.
Myers, E.A., Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., DeNardo, D. F. , Staub, R. E. , Stropoli, A. , Ruane, and F. T. Burbrink. 2013. Speciation in the California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata) at a North American Biodiversity Hotspot. Molecular Ecology 22: 5418-5429.
Pyron, R. A., Burbrink, F. T., and J. J Wiens. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:93 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93.
Guo,P. Zhang, F. G., Li, Q., Li, C., Jiang, K., Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2013. Lycodon and Dinodon: One Genus or Two? Evidence from Molecular Phylogenetics and Morphological Comparisons. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 68:144-149.
Colston, T. J., Grazziotin, F. G., Shepard, Vitt, L. J. , Colli, G. R., Henderson, R. W., Hedges, S. B., Bonatto, S., Zaher, H., Noonan, B. P., and F. T. Burbrink. 2013. Molecular Systematics and Historical Biogeography of Tree Boas (Corallus spp.). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66:953-9.
Pyron, R. A., Kandambi, D., Hendry, C. R., Pushpamal, V., Burbrink, F. T., and R. Somaweera. 2013. Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 969-978.
Chen, X., Huang, S., Guo, P., Colli, G.R., Montes de Oca, A.N., Vitt, L.J., Pyron, R.A., and F.T. Burbrink. 2013. Understanding the formation of ancient intertropical disjunct distributions using Asian and Neotropical hinged-teeth snakes (Sibynophis and Scaphiodontophis: Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66:254-261.
Burbrink, F.T., Chen, X., Myers, E.A., Brandley, M.C., and R.A. Pyron. 2012. Evidence for determinism in species diversification and contingency in phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences 279: 4817-4826.
Burbrink, F. T., Ruane*, S., and R. A. Pyron. 2012. When are adaptive radiations replicated in areas? ecological opportunity and unexceptional diversification in West Indian dipsadine snakes (Colubridae: Alsophiini). Journal of Biogeography 39: 465-475.
Fujita, M., Leaché, A., Burbrink, F.T., McGuire, J.A. and C. Moritz. 2012. Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27:480-488.
Myers, E. A. and F. T. Burbrink. 2012. Ecological Opportunity: Trigger of Adaptive Radiation. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):23
Huang, S., Ding, L., Burbrink, F. T., Yang, J., Huang, J., Ling, C., Chen, X. and Y. Zhang. 2012. A New Species of the Genus Elaphe (Squamata: Colubridae) from Zoige County, Sichuan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 3: 38–45.
Guo, P., Liu, Q., Xu, Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Ding, L., Pyron, R.A., and F.T. Burbrink. Out of Asia: Natricine snakes support the Cenozoic Beringian Dispersal Hypothesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63:825-833.
Pyron, R.A., and F.T. Burbrink. 2012. Trait-dependent diversification and the impact of paleontological data on evolutionary hypothesis testing in New World ratsnakes (tribe Lampropeltini). Journal of Evolutionary Biology DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02440.x.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2012. Extinction, Ecological Opportunity, and the Origins of Global Snake Diversity. Evolution. 66: 163-178
Burbrink, F. T., and R. Alexander Pyron. 2012. Erratum: Burbrink and Pyron (2011).Evolution DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01492.x.
Burbrink, F.T., Yao*, H., Ingrasci, M., Bryson, R., Guiher*, T.J., Ruane*, S.. 2011. Speciation at the Mogollon Rim in the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60: 445-454.
Burbrink, F. T., and R. Alexander Pyron. 2011. The impact of gene-tree/species-tree discordance on diversification-rate estimation. Evolution 65: 1851-1961.
Burbrink, F.T., and B. I. Crother. 2011. Evolution and taxonomy of snakes In R.D. Aldridge and D. M. Sever (eds), Reproductive biology and phylogeny of snakes. Volume 9, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny series, B. G. M. Jamieson (ed). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Shepard, D. B., and F. T. Burbrink. 2011. Local-scale environmental variation generates highly divergent lineages associated with stream drainages in a terrestrial salamander, Plethodon caddoensis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 399-411.
Pyron, R. A., Burbrink, F. T., Colli, G. R., Montes de Oca, A. N.,Vitt, L. J. , Kuczynski, C. A., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. The Phylogeny of advanced Snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58:329-342.
Ruane, S.,Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships of the Cretaceous frog Beelzebufo from Madagascar and the placement of fossil constraints based on temporal and phylogenetic evidence. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:274-285.
Burbrink, F. T. 2010. Historical versus contemporary migration in fragmented populations. Molecular Ecology 19:5321-5323.
Ling, C., Shaoying, L., Song, H., Burbrink, F. T., Guo, P., Zhiyu,z S., and Z .Jie. 2010. Phylogenetic analyses reveal a unique species of Elaphe (serpents, Colubridae) new to science. Asian Herpetological Research 1: 90-96.
Burbrink, F. T., and R. A. Pyron. 2010. How does ecological opportunity influence rates of speciation, extinction, and morphological diversification in New World ratsnakes (Tribe Lampropeltini)? Evolution 64:934-943.
Brandley, M. C., Guiher, T. J., Pyron, R. A., Winne, C. T., and F. T. Burbrink. 2010. Does dispersal across an aquatic geographic barrier obscure phylogeographic structure in the diamond-backed watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer)? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:552-560.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2010. Hard and soft allopatry: physically and ecologically mediated modes of geographic speciation. Journal of Biogeography 37:2005-2015.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009a. Body size as a primary determinant of ecomorphological diversification and the evolution of mimicry in the lampropeltinine snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Evolution Biology 22:2057-2067.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009b. Can the tropical conservatism hypothesis explain temperate species richness patterns? An inverse latitudinal biodiversity gradient in the New World snake tribe Lampropeltini. Global Ecology Biogeography 18:406-415.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009c. Lineage diversification in a widespread species: roles for niche divergence and conservatism in the common kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula. Molecular Ecology 18:3443-3457.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009d. Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52:524-529.
Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009e. Systematics of the Common Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula; Serpentes: Colubridae) and the burden of heritage in taxonomy. Zootaxa 2241:22-32.
Pyron, R. A., F. T. Burbrink, and T. J. Guiher. 2008. Claims of Potential Expansion throughout the U.S. by Invasive Python Species Are Contradicted by Ecological Niche Models. Plos One 3 (8): e2931. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002931.
Burbrink, F. T., and R. A. Pyron. 2008. The taming of the skew: Estimating proper confidence intervals for divergence dates. Systematic Biology 57:317-328.
Fontanella, F. M., Feldman, C.R., Siddall, M.E., and F. T. Burbrink. 2008. Phylogeography of Diadophis punctatus: Extensive lineage diversity and repeated patterns of historical demography in a trans-continental snake. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:1049-1070.
Shepard, D. B., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009. Phylogeographic and demographic effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations in a montane salamander, Plethodon fourchensis. Molecular Ecology18:2243-2262.
Burbrink, F. T., and T. A. Castoe. 2009. Molecular Snake Phylogeography. Pp. 38-77 in S. J. M. a. R. A. Siegel, ed. Snakes: Applied Ecology and Conservation Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Burbrink, F. T., Fontanella, F., Pyron, R. A., Guiher, T. J. and C. Jimenez. 2008. Phylogeography across a continent: The evolutionary and demographic history of the North American racer (Serpentes : Colubridae : Coluber constrictor). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:274-288.
Guiher, T. J., and F. T. Burbrink. 2008. Demographic and phylogeographic histories of two venomous North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:543-553.
Shepard, D. B., and F. T. Burbrink. 2008. Lineage diversification and historical demography of a sky island salamander, Plethodon ouachitae, from the Interior Highlands. Molecular Ecology 17:5315-5335.
Burbrink, F. T., and R. Lawson. 2007. How and when did Old World ratsnakes disperse into the New World? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution l 43:173-189.
Bryson, R. W., Pastorini, J., Burbrink,F. T., and M. R. J. Forstner. 2007. A phylogeny of the Lampropeltis mexicana complex (Serpentes : Colubridae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences suggests evidence for species-level polyphyly within Lampropeltis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43:674-684.
Jiang, Z. J., Castoe, T. A. , Austin, C. C. , Burbrink, F. T., Herron, M. D. , McGuire, J. A., Parkinson, C. L., and D. D. Pollock. 2007. Comparative mitochondrial genomics of snakes: extraordinary substitution rate dynamics and functionality of the duplicate control region. BMC Evol Biol 7:123: doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-123
Burbrink, F. T. 2005. Inferring the phylogenetic position of Boa constrictor among the Boinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34:167-180.
Rossman, D.A. and Burbrink, F.T. 2005. Species limits within the Mexican garter snakes of the Thamnophis godmani complex. Occ. Papers Mus. Nat. Science (79): 1-43.
Lawson, R., Slowinski, J. B., Crother, B. I., and F. T. Burbrink. 2005. Phylogeny of the Colubroidea (Serpentes): New evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:581-601.
Lawson, R., Slowinski, J. B., and F. T. Burbrink. 2004. A molecular approach to discerning the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic snake Xenophidion schaeferi among the Alethinophidia. Journal of Zoology 263:285-294.
Burbrink, F. T. 2002. Phylogeographic analysis of the cornsnake (Elaphe guttata) complex as inferred from maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25:465-476.
Burbrink, F. T. 2001. Systematics of the eastern ratsnake complex (Elaphe obsoleta). Herpetological Monographs: 1-53.
Burbrink, F. T., Lawson, R. and J. B. Slowinski. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the polytypic North American rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta): A critique of the subspecies concept. Evolution 54:2107-2118.
Burbrink, F. T., Phillips, C. A. and Heske, E. J. 1998. A riparian zone in southern Illinois as a potential dispersal corridor for reptiles and amphibians. Biological Conservation 86:107-115.