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Bryan Carstens

 

Bryan Carstens
Research Fellow


U-M affiliation(s)
Museum of Zoology

Contact information
University of Michigan
Museum of Zoology

1089/1079 Museums
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 764-0471
Fax: (734) 764-4080
Email: bcarsten@umich.edu

Fields of study
Systematics, phylogeography, population genetics

Select publications

Knowles LL, Carstens BC (2006) Estimating a geographically explicit model of population divergence for statistical phylogeography. Evolution

Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2006) Shifting distributions and speciation: species divergence during rapid climate change. Molecular Ecology.

Brunsfeld SJ, Miller TR, Carstens BC (2006) Insights into the biogeography of the Pacific Northwest of North America: Evidence from the phylogeography of Salix melanopsis (Salicacae). Systematic Botany.

Carstens BC, Knowles LL (2006) Variable nuclear markers for Melanoplus oregonensis identified from the screening of a genomic library. Molecular Ecology Notes 6, 683-685.

Carstens BC, Brunsfeld SJ, Demboski JR, Good JD, Sullivan J (2005) Investigating the evolutionary history of the Pacific Northwest mesic forest ecosystem: Hypothesis testing within a comparative phylogeographic framework. Evolution 59, 1639-1652.

Carstens BC, Degenhardt JD, Stevenson AL, Sullivan J (2005) Accounting for coalescent stochasticity in testing phylogeographic hypotheses: Modeling Pleistocene population structure in the Idaho Giant Salamander Dicamptodon aterrimus. Molecular Ecology 14, 255-265.

Carstens BC, Bankhead III A, Joyce P, Sullivan J (2005) Testing population genetic structure using parametric bootstrapping. Genetica 124, 71-75.

Steele CA, Carstens BC, Storfer A, Sullivan J (2005) Testing hypotheses of speciation timing in Dicamptodon copei and Dicamptodon aterrimus (Caudata: Dicamptodontidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36, 90-100.

Johnson DG, Carstens BC, Sheppard WS, Zack RS (2005) Phylogeny of the leafhopper subgenus Errhomus (Erronus) (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98, 165-172.

Carstens BC, Stevenson AL, Degenhardt JD, Sullivan J (2004) Testing nested phylogenetic and phylogeographic hypotheses in the Plethodon vandykei species group. Systematic Biology 53, 781-792.

Carstens BC, Sullivan J, Davalos LM, Larsen PA, Pedersen SC (2004) Exploring population genetic structure in three species of Lesser Antillean bats. Molecular Ecology 13, 2557-2566.

Carstens BC, Lundrigan BL, Myers P (2002) A phylogeny of the Neotropical nectar-feeding bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9, 23-53.

 

Carstens' homepage and article downloads available here

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