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.
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 &
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
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,
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,
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,
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
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
Ravichandran, M. S., Gower, D.
J. & Wilkinson, M. (2003) A new species of Gegeneophis
Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona:
Caeciliidae) from
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
Gower, D. J. (2003) Osteology
of the early archosaurian reptile Erythrosuchus
africanus, Broom. Annals of the
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
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
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.
Gower, D. J. (1999) Cranial osteology
of a new rauisuchian archosaur
from the Middle Triassic of southern
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.
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.