Javier A. Rodríguez

Associate Professor and Associate Director

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Evolutionary Ecology; Systematics and Phylogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians

javier.rodriguez@unlv.edu

My research focuses on the systematics (i.e., the discovery of the diversity and evolutionary history of organisms) and population and evolutionary ecology of reptiles and amphibians, with emphasis on phylogeography (of Anolis lizards and leptodactylid frogs from Puerto Rico) and snake foraging and feeding ecology.

Selected Publications

• Jezkova, T., M. Leal, and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2009. Living together but remaining apart: comparative phylogeography of Anolis poncensis and A. cooki, two lizards endemic to the aridlands of Puerto Rico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(3):617-634.
• Glaudas, X., T. Jezkova, and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2008. Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(7):723-734.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., Jezkova, T., and Leal, M. 2008. Genetic structuring in the threatened “Lagartijo del Bosque Seco” (Anolis cooki) from Puerto Rico. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46(2):503-514.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A.,T. Jezkova, and M. A. García. 2007. Evolutionary relationships and historical biogeography of Anolis desechensis and A. monensis, two lizards endemic to small islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Journal of Biogeography 34(9):1546-1558.
• de Queiroz, A., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles. 2006. Historical contingency and animal diets: the origins of egg eating in snakes. The American Naturalist 167(5):684-694.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., M. Leal, and J. B. Losos. 2005. Habitat selection by the Puerto Rican Yellow-chinned Anole, Anolis gundlachi. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(7):983-988.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., D. A. Good, and D. B. Wake. B. 2003. Brief history of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a list of type specimens of recent amphibians and reptiles. University of California Publications in Zoology 131:1-119 + xiv.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2003. Home ranges of Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae) in central California. Copeia 2003(2):391-396.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A. 2002. Feeding ecology of North American Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2):165-183.
• Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., Stewart, G. R., and Papenfuss, T. J. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA-based phylogeography of North American rubber boas, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18(2):227-237.