2012

Rabosky, D. L., G. J. Slater, and M. E. Alfaro. 2012. Clade age and species richness are decoupled across the Eukaryotic tree of  Life. PLoS Biology 10: e1001381.

Rabosky, D. L. 2012. Positive correlation between diversification rates and phenotypic evolvability can mimic punctuated equilibrium on molecular phylogenies. Evolution 66: 2622-2627.

Springer, M. S., R. W. Meredith, J. Gatesy, C. A. Emerling, J. Park, D. L. Rabosky, T. Stadler, C. Steiner, O. A. Ryder, J. E. Janecka, C. A. Fisher, and W. J. Murphy. 2012. Macroevolutionary dynamics and historical biogeography of primate diversification inferred from a species supermatrix. PLoS ONE 7:e49521.

Rabosky, D. L., and D. C. Adams. 2012. Rates of morphological evolution are correlated with species richness in salamanders. Evolution 66:1807-1818.

Reddy, S. L., A. Driskell, D. L. Rabosky, S. J. Hackett, and T. S. Schulenberg. 2012. Diversification and the adaptive radiation of the vangas of Madagascar. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2380.

Rabosky, D. L. 2012. Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3:224-233.

2011

Rabosky, D. L., M. A. Cowan, A. L. Talaba, and I. J. Lovette. 2011. Species interactions mediate phylogenetic community structure in a hyperdiverse lizard assemblage from arid Australia. American Naturalist 178:579-595.

Meredith, R. W., J.E. Janecka, J. Gatesy, O. A. Ryder, C. A. Fisher, E. C. Teeling, A. Goodbla, E. Eizirik, T. L. L. Simao, T. Stadler, D. L. Rabosky, R. L. Honeycutt, J. J. Flynn, C. M. Ingram, C. Steiner, T. L. Williams, T. J. Robinson, A. Burk-Herrick, M. Westerman, N. A. Ayoub, M. S. Springer and W. J. Murphy. 2011. Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on mammal diversification. Science 334:521-524.

2010

Rabosky, D. L., and R. E. Glor. 2010. Equilibrium speciation dynamics in a model adaptive radiation of island lizards. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 51:22178-22183. [cover article]

Rabosky, D. L. 2010. Primary controls on species richness in higher taxa. Systematic Biology 59:634-645.

Rabosky, D. L., and M. E. Alfaro. 2010. Evolutionary bangs and whimpers: methodological advances and conceptual frameworks for studying exceptional diversification. Systematic Biology 59:615-618.

Rabosky, D. L. 2010. Extinction rates should not be estimated from molecular phylogenies. Evolution 6:1816-1824.

Rabosky, D. L., and A. R. McCune. 2010. Reinventing species selection with molecular phylogenies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:68-74.

2009

Rabosky, D. L., and U. Sorhannus. 2009. Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic. Nature  457:183-186.

Rabosky, D. L. 2009. Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions. Ecology Letters 12: 735-743.

Rabosky, D. L. 2009. Heritability of extinction rates links diversification patterns in molecular phylogenies and the fossil record. Systematic Biology 58:629-640.

Rabosky, D. L., A. L. Talaba, S. C. Donnellan, and I. J. Lovette. 2009. Molecular evidence for hybridization between two Australian desert skinks, Ctenotus leonhardii and Ctenotus quattuordecimlineatus (Scincidae : Squamata). Mol. Phyl. Evol. 53:368-377.

Rabosky, D. L. 2009. Ecological limits on clade diversification in higher taxa. American Naturalist 173:662-674.

Agrawal, A.A., M. Fishbein, R. Halitschke, A. P. Hastings, D. L. Rabosky, and S. Rasman. 2009. Tempo of trait evolution in the milkweeds: evidence for adaptive radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106: 18067-18072.

Alfaro, M. E., F. Santini, C. D. Brock, H. Alamillo, A. Dornburg, D. L. Rabosky, G. Carnevale, and L. J. Harmon. 2009. Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106:13410-13414.

Steeman, M. E., M. B. Hebsgaard, R. E. Fordyce, S. W. Y. Ho, D. L. Rabosky, R. Nielsen, C. Rahbek, H.  Glenner, M. V. Sørensen, and E. Willerslev.  2009. Evolution and radiation of extant whales. Systematic Biology. 58:573-585.

Rabosky, D. L. and I. J. Lovette. 2009. Problems detecting density-dependent diversification on phylogenies: reply to Bokma. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B Biological Sciences 276:995-997.

2008

Rabosky, D. L., and I. J. Lovette. 2008. Density dependent diversification in North American wood-warblers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B Biological Sciences 275:2363-2371.

Rabosky, D. L., and I. J. Lovette. 2008. Explosive evolutionary radiations: decreasing speciation or increasing extinction through time? Evolution 62:1866-1875.

Rawlings, L. H., D. L. Rabosky, S. C. Donnellan, and M. N. Hutchinson.  2008. Python phylogenetics: inferences from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:603-619.

2007 and earlier

Rabosky, D. L., S. C. Donnellan, A. L. Talaba, and I. J. Lovette. 2007. Exceptional among-lineage variation in diversification rates during the radiation of Australia’s largest vertebrate clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B Biological Sciences 274:2915-2923.

Rabosky, D. L, J. Reid, M. A. Cowan, and J. Foulkes. 2007. Community-wide overdispersion of body size in Australian desert lizard communities. Oecologia 154:561-570.

Rabosky, D. L. 2006. LASER: a maximum likelihood toolkit for detecting temporal shifts in diversification rates from molecular phylogenies.  Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 2:257-260.

Rabosky, D. L.  2006. Likelihood methods for inferring temporal shifts in diversification rates.  Evolution 60:1152-1164.

Rabosky, D. L, K. P. Aplin, S. C. Donnellan, and S. B. Hedges.  2004.  Molecular phylogeny of blindsnakes (Ramphotyphlops) from Western Australia and resurrection of Ramphotyphlops bicolor (Peters, 1857).  Australian Journal of Zoology 52:531-548.

Johnson, K. S., and D. Rabosky.  2000.  Phylogenetic distribution of digestive proteinases in beetles: evidence for an evolutionary shift to an alkaline digestive strategy in Cerambycidae.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 126:609-619.