Publications: Mark E. Siddall

Siddall, M.E. 2009. Unringing a bell: metazoan phylogenomics and the partition bootstrap. Cladistics, in press.

Phillips, A.J. and Siddall, M.E. 2009. Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae:
Many lineages of medicinal leeches. BMC Evolutionary Biology, in press.

Siddall, M.E., Fontanella, F.M., Watson, S.C., Kvist, S. and Erséus, C. 2009. Barcoding bamboozled by bacteria: Convergence to metazoan mitochondrial primer targets by marine microbes. Systematic
Biology, online early

Fontanella, F.M. and Siddall, M.E. 2009. Isolation and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the ringneck snake Diadophis punctatus (Colubridae: Dipsadinae).
"http://www.springerlink.com/content/vu876742x574l275/">Conservation
Genetics, online early

Fontanella, F.M. and Siddall, M.E. 2009. Evaluating hypotheses on the origin and diversification of the ringneck snake, Diadophis punctatus, (Colubridae: Dipsadinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press

Laufer, A., Siddall, M.E., and Graf, J. 2008. Characterization of the digestive-tract microbiota of Hirudo orientalis, a European medicinal leech. Applied
Environmental Microbiology 74:6151-6154

Rousset, V., Plaisance, L., Erséus, C., Siddall, M.E., and Rouse, G.W. 2008. Evolution of habitat preference in Clitellata (Annelida). Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society 95:447-464

Oceguera, A.F. and Siddall, M.E. 2008. Placobdella lamothein.
sp. (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), sanguijuela nueva parásita de tortugas de agua dulce del Estado de México, México.
"http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/bio/BIO079-01S/BIO0790S0118.pdf">Revista
Mexicana de Biodiversidad 79:135S-139S

Fontanella, F.M., C.R. Feldman, M.E. Siddall 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

Borda, E., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Siddall, M.E. 2008. On the classification, evolution and biogeography of terrestrial haemadipsoid leeches (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Hirudiniformes).
Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:142-54

Siddall, M.E., Trontelj, P., Utevsky, S.Y., Nkamany, M., and Macdonald III, K.S. 2007. Diverse molecular data demonstrate that commercially available medicinal leeches are not Hirudo medicinalis. Proceedings
of the Royal Society London, B 274:1481-1487

Aguado, M.T., Nygren, A. and Siddall, M.E. 2007. Phylogeny of Syllidae (Polychaeta) based on combined molecular analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Cladistics
23:552-564

Hughes, J.L., and Siddall, M.E. 2007. A new species of leech from the New York Metropolitan Area. American
Museum Novitates 3578

Siddall, M.E., Worthen, P.L. , Johnson, M., and Graf, J. 2007. Novel role for Aeromonas jandaei as digestive-tract symbiont of North American medicinal leeches. Applied
Environmental Microbiology 73:655-658

Rousset, V., Pleijel, F., Rouse, G.W., Erséus, C, and Siddall, M.E. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics
23:41-63

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