Publications
Hervias-Parejo, S., Heleno, R., Rumeu, B., Guz mán, B., Vargas, P., Olesen, J.P., Traveset, A., Vera C, Benavides E., Nogales M. 2018. Small size does not restrain frugivory and seed dispersal across the evolutionary radiation of Galápagos lava lizards, Current Zoology, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy066
Park B, Sinnott-Armstrong M, Schlutius CV, Zuluaga JP, Spriggs EL, Simpson RG, Benavides E, Landis MJ, Sweeney PW, Eaton DA et al.. 2019. Sterile marginal flowers increase visitation and fruit set in the hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides, Adoxaceae) at multiple spatial scales. Annals of Botany. 123:381-390
Kozal, L. C., Simmons, J. W., Mollish, J. M., MacGuigan, D. J., Benavides, E., Keck, B. P., and T. J. Near. 2017. Phylogenetic and Morphological Diversity of the Etheostoma zonistiumSpecies Complex with the Description of a New Species Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 58(2), 263-286.
Near, T.J., J.W. Simmons, J.M. Mollish, M.A. Correa, E. Benavides, R.C. Harrington and B.P. Keck. 2017. A new species of logperch endemic to Tennessee (Percidae: Etheostomatinae: Percina). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(2):287–309
Poulakakis, N., Edwards, D.L., Chiari, Y., Garrick, R.C., Russello, M.A., Benavides, E., Watkins-Colwell, G.J., Glaberman, S., Tapia, W., Gibbs, J.P. and Cayot, L.J., 2015. Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island. PLoS One, 10(10).
Garrick R.C., Kajdacsi B., Russello M.A., Benavides E., Hyseni C., Gibbs J.P., Tapia W, Caccone G. (2015) Naturally rare versus newly rare: Demographic inferences on two timescales inform conservation of Galápagos giant tortoises. Ecology and Evolution, 5:676-694.
Garrick, R. C., Benavides, E., Russello, M. A., Hyseni, C., Edwards, D. L., Gibbs, J. P., Tapia, W., Ciofi, C. and Caccone, A. 2014. Lineage fusion in Galápagos giant tortoises. Molecular Ecology, 23: 5276–5290.
Hauswaldt, S.J., Angelini, C., Gehara, M., Benavides, E., Polok, A., S. Steinfartz. 2014. From species divergence to population structure: A multimarker approach on the most basal lineage of Salamandridae, the spectacled salamanders (genus Salamandrina) from Italy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70:1-12.
Harrington R., Benavides, E., T. Near. 2013. Egg mimic evolution in darters (Percidae: Etheostoma: Tigmacerca): investigating nuptial trait evolution in the face of hybridization Evolution 67:388-402.
Edwards D. L., Benavides, E., R. C. Garrick, J. P. Gibbs, M. A. Russello, and A. Caccone. 2013. The genetic legacy of Lonesome George survives: Giant tortoises with Pinta Island ancestry identified in Galápagos. Conservation Biology 157:225-228.
Garrick, R*., Benavides, E*., (shared first authorship) et al. 2012. Genetic evidence for the recovery of an extinct Galápagos tortoise. Current Biology 22: R10-R12.
Benavides, E., Rusello, M., Garrick, R, and A. Caccone. 2011. Lineage Origin of Captive Galapagos Tortoises. Molecular Markers Inform Ancestry and Relatedness of Tortoises Born in the Wild and in Captivity. Zoo Biology 30:1–14 DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20397.
Lanterbecq D., Glaberman S., Vitousek M. N., Steinfartz S., Wikelski, M., Benavides, E, and A. Caccone. 2010. Genetic differentiation between marine Iguanas from different breeding sites on the Island of Santa Fe (Galápagos Archipelago). Journal of Heredity 101:663-75.
Russello M. A., Poulakakis N., Gibbs J. P., Tapia W., Benavides E., Powell J. R., and A. Caccone. 2010. DNA from the Past Informs Ex situ Conservation for the Future: An “Extinct” Species of Galápagos Tortoise Identified in Captivity. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8683. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0008683.
Benavides, E., Baum R.**, Snell H. L., Snell H.M. and J. W. Sites, Jr. 2009. Island biogeography of Galápagos lava lizards (Tropiduridae: Microlophus): arrival times and colonization within the archipelago. Evolution 63: 1606-1626.
Torres-Perez, F., Mendez, M., Benavides, E., Moreno, R., Lamborot, M., and J. C. Ortiz. 2009. Systematics and evolutionary relationships of the mountain lizard Liolaemus monticola (Liolaemini): how morphological and molecular evidence contribute to reveal hidden species diversity. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 96: 635–650.
Victoriano, P. F., Ortiz, J. C., Adams, B., Benavides, E., and J. W. Sites Jr. 2008. Comparative phylogeography of co-distributed species of Chilean Liolaemus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) from the Central-Southern Andean range. Molecular Ecology 17: 2397-2416.
Benavides, E., Baum, R**., Sites, J.W., and D. McClellan. 2007. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Microlophus (Squamata: Tropiduridae): Aligning and Retrieving Indel Signal from Nuclear Introns. Systematic Biology 56: 776-797.
Marshall, J. M., Benavides, E. Sites, J. and J. W. Sites Jr. 2006. Delimiting species: comparing methods for Mendelian characters using lizards of the Sceloporus grammicus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) complex. Evolution 60: 1050-1065.
Benavides, E. 2005. The Telmatobius species complex in Lake Titicaca: applying phylogeographic and coalescent approaches to evolutionary studies of highly polymorphic Andean frogs. Monografías de Herpetología
7: 167-185.
Formas, J. R., Benavides E., and C. C. Cuevas. 2003. A new species of Telmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Río Vilama, northern Chile, and the redescription of T. halli Noble. Herpetologica. 59: 253-270.
Benavides, E., Ortiz, J. C., and J. W. Sites Jr. 2002. Species Boundaries Among the Telmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae), of the Lake Titicaca Basin: Allozyme and Morphological Evidence. Herpetologica 58: 31-55.
Benavides, E., Ortiz, J.C., and R. Formas. 2002. A new Species of Telmatobius from (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from northern Chile. Herpetologica 58: 210-220.
Benavides, E. 1999. Situación Taxonómica de Telmatobius albiventris (Anura: Leptodactylidae) y Complejos Relacionados. Un Enfoque Morfológico y Molecular. Ms. Thesis. Universidad de Concepción. Concepción, Chile. 181 p.
Benavides, E. 1995. Status taxonómico de las dos subspecies de Liolaemus alticolor Barbour, 1909. Honors Thesis Universidad de Concepción. 120 p.
Hervias-Parejo, S., Heleno, R., Rumeu, B., Guz mán, B., Vargas, P., Olesen, J.P., Traveset, A., Vera C, Benavides E., Nogales M. 2018. Small size does not restrain frugivory and seed dispersal across the evolutionary radiation of Galápagos lava lizards, Current Zoology, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy066
Park B, Sinnott-Armstrong M, Schlutius CV, Zuluaga JP, Spriggs EL, Simpson RG, Benavides E, Landis MJ, Sweeney PW, Eaton DA et al.. 2019. Sterile marginal flowers increase visitation and fruit set in the hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides, Adoxaceae) at multiple spatial scales. Annals of Botany. 123:381-390
Kozal, L. C., Simmons, J. W., Mollish, J. M., MacGuigan, D. J., Benavides, E., Keck, B. P., and T. J. Near. 2017. Phylogenetic and Morphological Diversity of the Etheostoma zonistiumSpecies Complex with the Description of a New Species Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 58(2), 263-286.
Near, T.J., J.W. Simmons, J.M. Mollish, M.A. Correa, E. Benavides, R.C. Harrington and B.P. Keck. 2017. A new species of logperch endemic to Tennessee (Percidae: Etheostomatinae: Percina). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(2):287–309
Poulakakis, N., Edwards, D.L., Chiari, Y., Garrick, R.C., Russello, M.A., Benavides, E., Watkins-Colwell, G.J., Glaberman, S., Tapia, W., Gibbs, J.P. and Cayot, L.J., 2015. Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island. PLoS One, 10(10).
Garrick R.C., Kajdacsi B., Russello M.A., Benavides E., Hyseni C., Gibbs J.P., Tapia W, Caccone G. (2015) Naturally rare versus newly rare: Demographic inferences on two timescales inform conservation of Galápagos giant tortoises. Ecology and Evolution, 5:676-694.
Garrick, R. C., Benavides, E., Russello, M. A., Hyseni, C., Edwards, D. L., Gibbs, J. P., Tapia, W., Ciofi, C. and Caccone, A. 2014. Lineage fusion in Galápagos giant tortoises. Molecular Ecology, 23: 5276–5290.
Hauswaldt, S.J., Angelini, C., Gehara, M., Benavides, E., Polok, A., S. Steinfartz. 2014. From species divergence to population structure: A multimarker approach on the most basal lineage of Salamandridae, the spectacled salamanders (genus Salamandrina) from Italy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70:1-12.
Harrington R., Benavides, E., T. Near. 2013. Egg mimic evolution in darters (Percidae: Etheostoma: Tigmacerca): investigating nuptial trait evolution in the face of hybridization Evolution 67:388-402.
Edwards D. L., Benavides, E., R. C. Garrick, J. P. Gibbs, M. A. Russello, and A. Caccone. 2013. The genetic legacy of Lonesome George survives: Giant tortoises with Pinta Island ancestry identified in Galápagos. Conservation Biology 157:225-228.
Garrick, R*., Benavides, E*., (shared first authorship) et al. 2012. Genetic evidence for the recovery of an extinct Galápagos tortoise. Current Biology 22: R10-R12.
Benavides, E., Rusello, M., Garrick, R, and A. Caccone. 2011. Lineage Origin of Captive Galapagos Tortoises. Molecular Markers Inform Ancestry and Relatedness of Tortoises Born in the Wild and in Captivity. Zoo Biology 30:1–14 DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20397.
Lanterbecq D., Glaberman S., Vitousek M. N., Steinfartz S., Wikelski, M., Benavides, E, and A. Caccone. 2010. Genetic differentiation between marine Iguanas from different breeding sites on the Island of Santa Fe (Galápagos Archipelago). Journal of Heredity 101:663-75.
Russello M. A., Poulakakis N., Gibbs J. P., Tapia W., Benavides E., Powell J. R., and A. Caccone. 2010. DNA from the Past Informs Ex situ Conservation for the Future: An “Extinct” Species of Galápagos Tortoise Identified in Captivity. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8683. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0008683.
Benavides, E., Baum R.**, Snell H. L., Snell H.M. and J. W. Sites, Jr. 2009. Island biogeography of Galápagos lava lizards (Tropiduridae: Microlophus): arrival times and colonization within the archipelago. Evolution 63: 1606-1626.
Torres-Perez, F., Mendez, M., Benavides, E., Moreno, R., Lamborot, M., and J. C. Ortiz. 2009. Systematics and evolutionary relationships of the mountain lizard Liolaemus monticola (Liolaemini): how morphological and molecular evidence contribute to reveal hidden species diversity. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 96: 635–650.
Victoriano, P. F., Ortiz, J. C., Adams, B., Benavides, E., and J. W. Sites Jr. 2008. Comparative phylogeography of co-distributed species of Chilean Liolaemus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) from the Central-Southern Andean range. Molecular Ecology 17: 2397-2416.
Benavides, E., Baum, R**., Sites, J.W., and D. McClellan. 2007. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Microlophus (Squamata: Tropiduridae): Aligning and Retrieving Indel Signal from Nuclear Introns. Systematic Biology 56: 776-797.
Marshall, J. M., Benavides, E. Sites, J. and J. W. Sites Jr. 2006. Delimiting species: comparing methods for Mendelian characters using lizards of the Sceloporus grammicus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) complex. Evolution 60: 1050-1065.
Benavides, E. 2005. The Telmatobius species complex in Lake Titicaca: applying phylogeographic and coalescent approaches to evolutionary studies of highly polymorphic Andean frogs. Monografías de Herpetología
7: 167-185.
Formas, J. R., Benavides E., and C. C. Cuevas. 2003. A new species of Telmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Río Vilama, northern Chile, and the redescription of T. halli Noble. Herpetologica. 59: 253-270.
Benavides, E., Ortiz, J. C., and J. W. Sites Jr. 2002. Species Boundaries Among the Telmatobius (Anura: Leptodactylidae), of the Lake Titicaca Basin: Allozyme and Morphological Evidence. Herpetologica 58: 31-55.
Benavides, E., Ortiz, J.C., and R. Formas. 2002. A new Species of Telmatobius from (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from northern Chile. Herpetologica 58: 210-220.
Benavides, E. 1999. Situación Taxonómica de Telmatobius albiventris (Anura: Leptodactylidae) y Complejos Relacionados. Un Enfoque Morfológico y Molecular. Ms. Thesis. Universidad de Concepción. Concepción, Chile. 181 p.
Benavides, E. 1995. Status taxonómico de las dos subspecies de Liolaemus alticolor Barbour, 1909. Honors Thesis Universidad de Concepción. 120 p.
