La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Molecular toolkit and guidelines for the management of genetic pollution. Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands

Wielstra, B., J.W. Arntzen, R.K. Butlin, J.J.C.W. van Delft, K. Vrieling & H.B. Shaffer

2018.

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Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in anurans of the Mediterranean region of Baja California, México

Peralta-García, A., Adams, A.J., Galina-Tessaro, P., Briggs, C.J., Valdez-Villavicencio, J.H., Hollingsworth, B.D., Shaffer, H.B., and R.N. Fisher

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 127:193-200, 2018.

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La Kretz Center 2017 Annual Report

2018.

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Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators

E. Hartop, E. Long, C. Bornstein, L. Gonzalez, B. Brown

Zoosymposia 12: 029–050 (2018), 2018.

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Population genetic and field-ecological analyses return similar estimates of dispersal over space and time in an endangered amphibian

Wang, I.J. and H.B. Shaffer

Evolutionary Applications 10:630-639, 2017.

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An amphibian chemical defense phenotype is inducible across life history stages

Bucciarelli, G. M., Shaffer, H. B., Green, D. B., & Kats, L. B.

Scientific Reports, 7(1), 8185, 2017.

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Noxious newts and their natural enemies: Experimental effects of tetrodotoxin exposure on trematode parasites and aquatic macroinvertebrates

Calhoun, D.M., Bucciarelli, G.M., Kats, L.B, Zimmer, R.K., & Johnson, P.T.J.

Toxicon. 137: 120-127, 2017.

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Distribution, identification, landscape setting, and conservation of Rana kauffeldi in the northeastern U.S.

Schlesinger, M.D., J.A. Feinberg, N.H. Nazdrowicz, J.D. Kleopfer, J. Beane, J.F. Bunnell, J. Burger, E. Corey, K. Gipe, J.W. Jaycox, E. Kiviat, J. Kubel, D. Quinn, C. Raithel, S. Wenner, E.L. White, B. Zarate, and H.B. Shaffer

2017.

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Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)

Shaffer, H.B., McCartney-Melstad, E., Near, T., Mount, G. G., and P.Q. Spinks

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 115: 7-15, 2017.

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Desert tortoises in the genomic age: population genomics and the landscape

Shaffer HB, McCartney-Melstad E, Ralph P, Bradburd G, Lundgren E, Vu J, Hagerty B, Sandmeier F, Weitzman C, Tracy CR.

2017.

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