Bold indicates undergraduate researchers, ǂRepresents author who contributed equally
Available as a preprint or currently under review
Bredeson, JV, et al. (34 authors). 2021. Conserved chromatin and repetitive patterns reveal slow genome evolution in frogs. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.18.464293v1.abstract
Denton, RD, RS Kudra, JW Malcom, L Du Preez, and JH Malone. The African Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) genome unites the two ancestral ingredients for making vertebrate sex chromosomes. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/329847
Published in peer-reviewed literature
McCluskey, EM, V Lulla, WE Peterman, KM Stryszowska-Hill, RD Denton, AC Fries, TA Langen, G Johnson, SW Mockford, and RA Gonser. 2022. Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle. Landscape Ecology. 37:1017-1034.
Adams, AN, RD Denton, and RL Mueller. 2022. Gigantic genomes of salamanders indicate body temperature, not genome size, is the driver of global methylation and 5-methylcytosine deamination in vertebrates. Evolution. 76(5):1052-1061.
Wade, BS, BH Kemp, MS Vininski, RD Denton, SC Richter, AN Drayer, SJ Price, BH Holt, KG Hutcheson, and BM Fitzpatrick. 2021. Kleptogenesis in Kentucky: Genetic analyses of unisexual Ambystoma at the southernmost extent of their range. Herpetological Review, 52(4):730-734.
Civitello, ML, RD Denton, MA Zasloff, and JH Malone. 2019. Activation of the bile acid pathway and a lack of antimicrobial peptides in the skin of a poison frog. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. PDF
Denton RD, AE Morales, and HL Gibbs. 2018. Genome-specific histories of divergence and introgression between an allopolyploid unisexual salamander lineage and two ancestral sexual species. Evolution 72(8):1689-1700. PDF
Pelletierǂ TA and RD Dentonǂ. 2018. A Pheromone By Any Other Gene Would Smell as Sweet [Invited, peer-reviewed perspective on Treer et al. 2017]. Molecular Ecology. 27(2):311-312. PDF
McElroyǂ K, RD Dentonǂ, J Sharbrough, L Bankers, M Neiman, and HL Gibbs. 2017. Genome balance in a triploid trihybrid vertebrate. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9:968–980. PDF
Media coverage from Popular Science and Public Radio International’s Science Friday
Denton RD, KR Greenwald, and HL Gibbs. 2017. Locomotor endurance predicts differences in realized dispersal between sympatric sexual and unisexual salamanders. Functional Ecology. 31:915–926. PDF
Media coverage from The Washington Post, Science News, and The Columbus Dispatch
Hudson P, RD Denton, ML Holding, and HL Gibbs. 2016. Repeatability of Locomotor Endurance in the Small–mouthed Salamander, Ambystoma texanum. Herpetological Review. 47(4):583–586. PDF
Greenwald KR, RD Denton, and HL Gibbs. 2016. Niche partitioning among sexual and unisexual Ambystoma salamanders. Ecosphere. 7:1–17. PDF
Pomento AM, BW Perry, RD Denton, HL Gibbs, and ML Holding. 2016. No safety in the trees: Evidence of local and species–level adaptation of the Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) to resisting the venom of sympatric rattlesnakes. Toxicon. 118:149–155. PDF
Saccucci MJ, RD Denton, ML Holding, and HL Gibbs. 2016. Polyploid unisexual salamanders have higher tissue regeneration rates than diploid sexual relatives. Journal of Zoology. 300(4):77–81. PDF
Media coverage from National Geographic news, The Washington Post, and Discover
Denton RD. 2016. Response to the comment on ‘polyploid unisexual salamanders have higher tissue regeneration rates than diploid sexual relatives’ [Peer-reviewed response to Werner 2016]. Journal of Zoology. 300(4):239–240. PDF
Gibbs HL and RD Denton. 2016. Cryptic Sex? Estimates of genome replacement in asexual mole salamanders (Ambystoma sp.). Molecular Ecology. 30(12): 2805–2815. PDF
Holding ML, EH Kern, RD Denton, and HL Gibbs. 2016. Fixed prey cue preference among Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) raised on different long–term diets. Evolutionary Ecology. 30: 1–7. PDF
Denton RD, HL Gibbs, and TC Glenn. 2015. Development of 31 new microsatellite loci for two mole salamanders (Ambystoma laterale and A. jeffersonianum). Conservation Genetics Resources. 7(1):167–170. PDF
Holdingǂ ML, RD Dentonǂ, AE Kulesza, and JS Ridgway. 2014. Confronting scientific misconceptions by fostering a classroom of scientists in the introductory biology lab. American Biology Teacher. 76:518–523. PDF
Denton RD, LJ Kenyon, KR Greenwald, and HL Gibbs. 2014. Evolutionary basis of mitonuclear discordance between sister species of mole salamanders (Ambystoma sp.). Molecular Ecology. 23:2811–2824. PDF
Denton RD and SC Richter. 2013. Amphibian Communities in Natural and Constructed Ridge Top Wetlands With Implications for Wetland Construction. Journal of Wildlife Management. 77:886–896. PDF
Nunziata SO, SC Richter, RD Denton, JM Yeiser, DE Wells, KL Jones, C Hagen, and SL Lance. 2012. Fourteen novel microsatellite markers for the gopher frog, Lithobates capito (Amphibia: Ranidae). Conservation Genetics Resources. 4:201–203. PDF
Denton RD and SC Richter. 2012. A quantitative comparison of two common larval amphibian sampling techniques for wetlands. Herpetological Review. 43:44–47. PDF
Denton RD and MJ Bernot. 2011. Examining the effects of multiple agricultural chemicals on amphibian development. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 120:39–44.