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7. Rivera D, Prates I, Caldwell JP, Rodrigues MT, Fujita MK. 2022. Testing assertions of widespread introgressive hybridization in a clade of neotropical toads with low mate selectivity (Rhinella granulosa species group). Heredity 130: 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00571-9. PDF
6. Rivera D, Prates I, Firneno TJ, Rodrigues MT, Caldwell JP, Fujita MK. 2021. Phylogenomics, introgression, and demographic history of South American true toads (Rhinella). Molecular Ecology 31: 978– 992. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16280 PDF
5. Rivera D, Prates I, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. 2020. Effects of climate and geography on spatial patterns of genetic structure in tropical skinks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 143: 106661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106661 PDF
4. Leaché AD, Portik DM, Rivera D, Rödel MO, Gvoždík V, Penner J, Gvoždík V, Greenbaum E, Ofori-Boateng C, Burger M, Eniang EA, Bell RC, Fujita MK. 2019. Exploring rainforest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam-nest treefrog (Chiromantis rufescens). Journal of Biogeography 46: 2706– 2721. doi:10.1111/jbi.13716. PDF
3. Portik DM, Leaché AD, Rivera D, Barej MF, Burger M, Hirschfeld M, Rödel MO, Blackburn DC, Fujita MK. 2017. Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo-Congolian forest frog using demographic model selection. Molecular Ecology 26(19): 5245–5263. doi:10.1111/mec.14266. PDF
2. Prates I, Rivera D, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. 2016. A mid-Pleistocene rainforest corridor enabled synchronous invasions of the Atlantic Forest by Amazonian anole lizards. Molecular Ecology 25(20): 5174–5186. doi:10.1111/mec.13821. PDF
1. Carnaval AC, Waltari E, Rodrigues MT, Rosauer D, VanDerWal J, Damasceno R, Prates I, Strangas M, Spanos Z, Rivera D, Pie MR., Firkowski CR, Bornschein MR, Ribeiro LF, and Moritz C. 2014. Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281: 20141461. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1461 PDF
Unpublished Master’s Dissertation
Rivera D. 2015. The widespread skink Mabuya dorsivittata reveals complex patterns of genetic diversity in South America. The City College of New York.
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