DAVID GOWER - PUBLICATIONS

 

Most of these papers are available as PDFs upon request.

 

Kamei, R. G., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J. & Biju, S. D. (2009) Three new species of striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland. Zootaxa 2267: 26-42.

 

Butler, R. J., Barrett, P. M. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Postcranial pneumaticity and bird-like air sacs in the earliest pterosaurs. Biology Letters 5: 557-560.  

 

Davies, W. L., Cowing, J. A., Bowmaker, J. K., Carvalho, L. S., Gower, D. J. & Hunt, D. M. (2009) Shedding light on serpent sight: the visual pigment of henophidian snakes. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 7519-7525.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2009) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 369-372. In S. B. Hedges & S. Kumar The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.  

 

MŸller, H., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., Wirkner, C. S. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphus kirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 491-504.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Schoch, R. S. (2009) Postcranial anatomy of the rauisuchian archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 103-122.  

 


 

Gower, D. J., Captain, A. & Thakur, S. S. (2008) On the taxonomic status of Uropeltis bicatenata (GŸnther) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Hamadryad 33: 64-82.  

 

Bain, R., Biju, S.D., Brown, R., Das, I., Diesmos, A., Dutta, S., Gower, D., Inger, R., Iskandar, D., Kaneko, Y., Lau, M.W.N., Meegaskumbura, M., Ohler, A., Papenfuss, T., Pethiyagoda, R., Stuart, B., Wilkinson, M. and Xie, F. (2008) Amphibians of the Indomalayan region. Pp. 74-79, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.

 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 19-20, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.

 

Kupfer, A., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J., MŸller, H. & Jehle, R. (2008) Care and parentage in a skin-feeding caecilian amphibian. Journal of Experimental Zoology 309A: 460-467.  

 

Gower, D. J., Giri, V., Dharne, M. S. & Shouche, Y. (2008) Frequency of independent origins of viviparity among caecilians (Gymnophiona): evidence from the first 'live-bearing' Asian amphibian. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1220-1226.  

 

Gower, D. J., Rajendran, A., Nussbaum, R. A. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) A new species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the malabaricus group. Herpetologica 64: 235-245.  

 


 

Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J., Govindappa, V. & Venkatachalaiah, G. (2007) A new species of Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Karnataka, India. Herpetologica 63: 511-518.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Species groups in the Indian caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the description of a new species. Herpetologica 63: 401-410.  

 

MŸller, H., Loader, S. P., Ngalason, W., Howell, K. M. & Gower, D. J. (2007) Reproduction in brevicipitid frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) Ð evidence from Probreviceps m. macrodactylus Copeia 2007: 726-733.  

 

Newell, A. J., Gower, D. J., Benton, M. J. & Tverdokhlebov, V. P. (2007) Bedload abrasion and the in situ fragmentation of bivalve shells. Sedimentology 54: 835-845.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Winkler, J. D. (2007) Taxonomy of the Indian snake Xylophis Beddome (Serpentes: Caenophidia), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 31: 315-329.  

 

Loader, S. P., Pisani, D., Cotton, J. A., Gower, D. J., Day, J. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Relative timescales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians. Biology Letters 3: 505-508.  

 

Gower, D. J., Dharne, M., Bhatta, G., Giri, V., Vyas, R., Govindappa, V., Oommen, O. V., George, J., Schouche, Y. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Remarkable genetic homogeneity in unstriped, long-tailed Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) along 1500 km of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Zoology 272: 266-275.  

 

Harris, S. R., Pisani, D., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Investigating stagnation in morphological phylogenetics using consensus data. Systematic Biology 56: 125-129.  

 

Gower, D. J., Giri, V. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Rediscovery of Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower & Wilkinson (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) at the type locality. Herpetozoa 19: 121-127.  

 

Roelants, K., Gower, D. J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., Biju, S. D., Guillaume, K. & Bossuyt, F. (2007) Patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United states of America 104: 887-892.  

 


 

Gower, D. J. & Ablett, J. D. (2006) Counting ventral scales in Asian anilioid snakes. Herpetological Journal 16: 259-263.  

 

Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V. & Wilkinson, M. (2006) Marking amphibians with alpha numeric fluorescent tags - caecilians lead the way. Herpetological Review 37: 302.  

 

Kupfer, A., Gaucher, P., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D. J. (2006) Passive trapping of aquatic caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 41: 93-96.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Nesbitt, S. J. (2006) The braincase of Arizonasaurus babbitti - further evidence for the non-monophyly of rauisuchians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 79-87.  

 

Jones, D. T., Loader, S. P. & Gower, D. J. (2006) Trophic ecology of East African caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), and their impact on forest soil invertebrates. Journal of Zoology, London 269: 117-126.  

 

Grismer, L. L., Youmans, T. M., Wood, P. L., Ponce, A., Wright, S. B., Jones, B. S., Johnson, R., Sanders, K. L., Gower, D. J., Yaakob, N. S. & Lim, K. K. P. (2006) Checklist of the herpetofauna of Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia, with comments on taxonomy. Hamadryad 30: 61-74.  

 


 

San Mauro, D., Gower, D. J., Zardoya, R. A & Wilkinson, M. (2005) A hotspot of gene order rearrangement by tandem duplication and random loss in the vertebrate mitochondrial genome Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 227-234.  

 

Gower, D. J., Vidal, N., Spinks, J. N. & McCarthy, C. J. (2005) The phylogenetic position of Anomochilidae (Reptilia: Serpentes): first evidence from DNA sequences. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 43: 315-320.  

 

Measey, G. J. & Gower, D. J. (2005) Externally measured condition versus internal organ mass in the caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae). Zoological Science 22: 445-452.  

 

Zaher, H., Souza, I., Gower, D. J., Hingst-Zaher, E. & Jorge da Silva, N. (2005) Redescription of Atractus albuquerquei (Serpentes: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with comments on geographical distribution and intraspecific variation. PapŽis Avulsos de Zoologia Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de S‹o Paulo 45: 19-32.  

 

Bossuyt, F., Beenaerts, N., Meegaskumbura, M., Gower, D. J., Pethiyagoda, R., Roelants, K., Mannaert, A., Wilkinson, M., Bahir, M. M., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Oommen, O. V., Ng, P. K. L., Schneider, C. J., & Milinkovitch, M. C. (2005) Biodiversity in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats. Science 308: 199.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2005) Conservation biology of caecilian amphibians. Conservation Biology 19: 45-55.  

 

Gower, D. J., Bahir, M., Mapatuna, Y., Pethiyagoda, R., Raheem, D. & Wilkinson, M. (2005) Molecular phylogenetics of Sri Lankan Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae), with discovery of a cryptic species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 12: 153-161.  

 


 

Gower, D. J., Loader, S. P., Moncrieff, C. B. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) Niche separation and comparative abundance of Boulengerula boulengeri and Scolecomorphus vittatus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in an East Usambara forest, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology 53: 183-190.  

 

Giri, V., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) A new species of Indotyphlus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 739: 1-19.  

 

Loader, S. P., Gower, D. J., Clarke, B. T., Howell, K. M., Doggart, N., Ršdel, M.-O., de S‡, R. O., Cohen, B. L. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) Phylogenetic relationships of African microhylid frogs inferred from DNA sequences of mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA genes. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution. 4: 227-235.  

 

Gower, D. J., Bhatta, G., Giri, V., Oommen, O. V., Ravichandran, M. S. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) Biodiversity in the Western Ghats: the discovery of new species of caecilian amphibians. Current Science 87: 739-740.  

 

Bossuyt, F., Beenaerts, N., Meegaskumbura, M., Gower, D. J., Pethiyagoda, R., Roelants, K., Mannaert, A., Wilkinson, M., Bahir, M. M., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Oommen, O. V., Ng, P. K. L., Schneider, C. J., & Milinkovitch, M. C. (2004) Local endemism within the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. Science 306: 479-481.  

 

Gower, D. J., Loader, S. P. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) Assessing the conservation status of soil-dwelling vertebrates: insights from the rediscovery of Typhlops uluguruensis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 2: 79-82.  

 

San Mauro, D., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V., Wilkinson, M. & Zardoya, R. (2004) Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 413-427.  

 

Gower, D. J., Rasmussen, J. B., Loader, S. P. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) The burrowing asp Atractaspis aterrima GŸnther as a predator of the caecilian amphibian Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger: Trophic relationships of fossorial vertebrates. African Journal of Ecology 42: 83-87.  

 

Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., MŸller, H. & Gower, D. J. (2004) Taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships of Boulengerula denhardti Nieden, 1912 (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fŸr Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 80: 41-51.   

 

Captain, A., Gower, D. J., David, P. & Bauer, A. M. (2004) Taxonomic status of the colubrid snake Sibynophis subpunctatus (DumŽril, Bibron & DumŽril). Hamadryad 28: 90-94.  

 

Measey, G. J., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V. & Wilkinson, M. (2004) A subterranean generalist predator: diet of the fossorial caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia; Gymnophiona; Caeciliidae) in southern India. Comptes Rendus Biologies 327: 65-76.  

 


 

Harris, S. R., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) Phylogenetic methods and aetosaur interrelationships: A rejoinder. Systematic Biology 52: 851-852.  

 

Wilkinson, M., MŸller, H. & Gower, D. J. (2003) On Herpele multiplicata (Amphibia: Gymnophiona Caeciliidae). African Journal of Herpetology 52: 119-122.  

 

Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., Gower, D. J., Sheps, J. A. & Cohen, B. L. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Insights from mitochondrial rRNA Gene Sequences. African Journal of Herpetology 52: 83-92.  

 

Giri, V., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D. J. (2003) A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Western Ghats of southern Maharashtra, India, with a key to the species of the genus. Zootaxa 351: 1-10.  

 

Ravichandran, M. S., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 350: 1-8.  

 

Gower, D. J. (2003) Scale microornamentation in uropeltid snakes. Journal of Morphology 258: 249-268.  

 

Measey, G. J., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) A pilot mark-recapture study of the caecilian amphibian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) in southern India. Journal of Zoology 261: 129-133.  

 

Gower, D. J. (2003) Osteology of the early archosaurian reptile Erythrosuchus africanus, Broom. Annals of the South African Museum 110: 1-84.

 

Kupfer, A. Gower, D. J. & Himstedt, W. (2003) Field observations on the predation of the caecilian amphibian Ichthyophis sp. by the red-tailed pipe snake Cylindrophis ruffus. Amphibia-Reptilia 24: 212-215.  

 

Harris, S. R., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) Intraorganismal homology, character construction and the phylogeny of aetosaurian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida). Systematic Biology 52: 239-252.  

 

Measey, G. J., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) Quantitative surveying of limbless endogeic vertebrates - a case study of Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in southern India. Applied Soil Ecology 23: 43-53.  

 

Wilkinson, M., Lapointe, F.-J. & Gower, D. J. (2003) Branch lengths and support. Systematic Biology 52: 127-130.  

 

Loader, S. P., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J. & Msuya, C. A. (2003) A remarkable young Scolecomorphus vittatus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae) from the North Pare Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of Zoology 259: 93-101.  

 


 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2002) Phallus morphology in caecilians and its systematic utility. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Zoology Series 68: 143-154.  

 

Presswell, B., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V., Measey, G. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2002) Scolecophidian snakes in the diets of south Asian caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Herpetological Journal 12: 123-126.  

 

Wilkinson, M., Richardson, M. K., Gower, D. J. & Oommen, O. V. (2002) Extended embryo retention, caecilian oviparity and amniote origins. Journal of Natural History 36: 2185-2198.  

 

Gower, D. J. (2002) Braincase evolution in suchian archosaurs: evidence from the rauisuchian Batrachotomus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 49-76.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Walker, A. D. (2002) New data on the braincase of the aetosaurian archosaur (Reptilia: Diapsida) Stagonolepis robertsoni Agassiz. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 7-23.  

 

Benton, M. J. & Gower, D. J. (2002) Alick D Walker 1925-1999: an appreciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 1-5.  

 

Norman, D. B. & Gower, D. J. (eds) (2002) Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker. 169pp. Blackwell Scientific Publications.

 

Gower, D. J., Kupfer, A., Oommen, O. V., Himstedt, W., Nussbaum, R. A , Loader, S. P., Presswell, B., MŸller, H., Krishna, S. B.,Boistel, R. & Wilkinson, M. (2002) A molecular phylogeny of ichthyophiid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae): Out of India or out of southeast Asia? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269: 1563-1569.  

 


 

Measey, G. J., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V. & Wilkinson, M. (2001) Permanent marking of a fossorial caecilian, Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae). Journal of South Asian Natural History 5: 109-115.

 

Gower, D. J. (2001) Possible postcranial pneumaticity in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodilians - evidence from Erythrosuchus and other early archosaurs. Naturwissenschaften 88: 119-122.  

 


 

Gower, D. J. (2000) Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida): an overview. Neues Jahrbuch fŸr Geologie und PalŠontologie, Abhandlungen 218: 447-488.  

 

Oommen, O. V., Measey, G. J., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2000) Distribution and abundance of Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in Kerala. Current Science 79: 1386-1389.  

 

Gower, D. J. & Sennikov, A. G. (2000) Early Archosaurs from Russia.  In  M. J. Benton, E. N. Kurochkin, M. A. Shishkin, & D. M. Unwin (eds) The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 140-159. Cambridge University Press.

 


 

Gower, D. J. (1999) Cranial osteology of a new rauisuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Germany. Stuttgarter BeitrŠge zur Naturkunde B 280: 1-49.  

 

Vincent, J. F. V. & Gower, D. J. (1999) Structure of the cuttlefish phragmocone. In E. Savazzi (ed.) Functional morphology of the invertebrate skeleton 350-354. John Wiley & sons, Chichester.

 


 

Wilkinson, M., Upchurch, P, Barrett, P. M., Gower, D. J. & Benton, M. J. (1998) Robust dinosaur phylogeny? Nature 396: 423-424.    

 

Gower, D. J. & Weber, E. (1998) The braincase of Euparkeria, and the evolutionary relationships of birds and crocodilians. Biological Reviews 73: 367-411.

 


 

Gower, D. J. (1997) The braincase of the early archosaur Erythrosuchus africanus Broom. Journal of Zoology 242: 557-576. 

 

Benton, M. J. & Gower, D. J. (1997) Richard Owen's giant Triassic frogs - Middle Triassic archosaurs from England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17: 74-88.

 

Gower, D. J. & Sennikov, A. G. (1997) Sarmatosuchus and the early history of the Archosauria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17: 60-73.

 


 

Gower, D. & Vincent, J. F. V. (1996) The mechanical design of the cuttlebone and its bathymetric implications. Biomimetics 4: 37-57. 

 

Gower, D. J. & Sennikov, A. G. (1996) Morphology and phylogenetic informativeness of early archosaur braincases. Palaeontology 39: 883-906.

 

Gower, D. J. & Sennikov, A. G. (1996) Endocranial casts of early archosaurian reptiles. PalŠontologische Zeitschrift 70: 579-589. 

 

Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (1996) Is there any consensus on basal archosaur phylogeny?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 263: 1399-1406.  

 

Storrs, G. W., Gower, D. J., & Large, N. F. (1996) The diapsid reptile Pachystropheus rhaeticus, a probable choristodere from the Rhaetian of Europe. Palaeontology 39: 323-349.

 

Gower D. J. (1996) The tarsus of erythrosuchid archosaurs (Reptilia), and implications for early diapsid phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 116: 347-375.  

 


 

Storrs, G. W. & Gower, D. J. (1993) The earliest possible choristodere (Diapsida) and gaps in the fossil record of semi-aquatic reptiles. Journal of the Geological Society, London 150: 1103-1107.