Blight LK (2011) Egg Production in a Coastal Seabird, the Glaucous-Winged Gull (Larus glaucescens), Declines during the Last Century. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22027. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022027 (pdf) (Museum specimens used).
Blight, Louise K., Keith A. Hobson, T. Kurt Kyser, & Peter Arcese. (2014). Changing gull diet in a changing world: A 150-year stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) record from feathers collected in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Global Change Biology. (pdf). (Museum specimens used).
Bond, A.L., K.A. Hobson, and B.A. Branfireun. 2015. Rapidly increasing methyl mercury in endangered Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) feathers over a 130-year record. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20150032. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0032 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1805/20150032
Burg, T. M., Bird, H., Lait, L. and de L. Brooke, M. 2014 Colonization pathways of the northeast Atlantic by northern fulmars: a test of James Fisher’s ‘out of Iceland’ hypothesis using museum collections. Journal of Avian Biology, 45: 209–218. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00262.x.
Caves, Eleanor M., Martin Stevens, Edwin S. Iversen, Claire N. Spottiswoode. 2015. HOSTS OF AVIAN BROOD PARASITES HAVE EVOLVED EGG SIGNATURES WITH ELEVATED INFORMATION CONTENT. Proc. R. Soc. B 2015 282 20150598; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0598. Published 17 June 2015
Chavez, A. S., Saltzberg, C. J. and Kenagy, G. J. 2011. Genetic and phenotypic variation across a hybrid zone between ecologically divergent tree squirrels (Tamiasciurus). Molecular Ecology, 20: 3350–3366. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05184.x
Chavez, A. S., S. P. Maher, B. S. Arbogast, and G. J. Kenagy. 2014. Diversification and gene fllow in nascent lineages of island and mainland North American Tree Squirrels (Tamiasciurus). Evolution (Apr) 68(4):1094-1109. doi: 10.1111/evo.12336. (Museum specimens used)
Desrochers, A. 2010. Morphological response of songbirds to 100 years of landscape change in North America. Ecology 91:6, 1577-1582. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-2202.1
Durst, Paul. A. P., Louise Roth. 2015. Mainland size variation informs predictive models of exceptional insular body size change in rodents. Proc. R. Soc. B 2015 282 20150239; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0239. Published 17 June 2015. pdf
Floren, H.P., Shugart, G.W., Plastic in Cassin's Auklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) from the 2014 stranding on the
Northeast Pacific Coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.076
Helgen, K. M., F. R. Cole, L. E. Helgen, & D. E. Wilson. 2009. Generic revision in the holarctic ground squirrel genus Spermophilus. J. Mammalogy 90(2):270–305, 2009. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-309.1
Hornsby, A., Matocq, M. 2013. Patterns of Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in the Bushy-Tailed Woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) Across Western North America. J Mammal Evolution, 12 pages, published online 21 May 2013. (Museum specimens used)
Lait, L. A. and T M Burg. 2013. When east meets west: population structure of a high-latitude resident species, the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus). Heredity (2013) 111, 321–329; doi:10.1038/hdy.2013.54; published online 12 June 2013
Manthey, J. D., J. Klicka, and G. M. Spellman. 2014. Effects of climate change on the evolution of Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) lineages. Auk 131: 559–570. DOI: 10.1642/AUK-13-242.1 (used museum locality data and climatic overlays)
Osterback,A.K, Frechette, D.M, Hayes, S.A, Shaffer, S.A., Moore, J.W. 2015. Long-term shifts in anthropogenic subsidies to gulls and implications for an imperiled fish. Biological Conservation 191 (2015) 606–613 (used feather clipping from museum specimens for SIA) doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.038
Roulin, A. and C. Randin. 2015. Gloger’s rule in North American Barn Owls. 132: 321–332. DOI: 10.1642/AUK-14-167.1 (Museum specimens used).
Shugart et al., 2023. Short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) plastic loads and particle dimensions exhibit spatiotemporal similarity in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 192 (2023) 115038https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D3JZK6iF3kfPyZ_3h5KyAx5B7dOvpuF7/view?usp=share_link
Sullivan J, Demboski JR, Bell KC, et al. Divergence with gene flow within the recent chipmunk radiation (Tamias). Heredity. 2014;113(3):185-194. doi:10.1038/hdy.2014.27.
Terepocki, A.K., et al., Size and dynamics of microplastic in gastrointestinal tracts of Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus
glacialis) and Sooty Shearwaters (Arden..., Marine Pollution Bulletin (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.12.064
Turvey, S.T., S. Peters, S. Brace, et al. 2016. Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal. Diversity Distrib. 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/ddi. 12420. (Museum specimens used).
Vredenburg VT, Felt SA, Morgan EC, McNally SVG, Wilson S, et al. (2013) Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Xenopus Collected in Africa (1871–2000) and in California (2001–2010). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63791. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.006379. (frog specimens archived in California collections were used)
Vo, Anh-Thu E., Michael S. Bank, James P. Shine, and Scott V. Edwards. 2011. Temporal increase in organic mercury in an endangered pelagic seabird assessed by century-old museum specimens. PNAS 2011 108 (18) 7466-7471; doi:10.1073/pnas.1013865108
Welch, A. J., R C Fleischer, H F James, A E Wiley,P H Ostrom, J Adams, F Duvall, N Holmes, D Hu, J Penniman, and K A Swindle. 2012. Population divergence and gene flow in an endangered and highly mobile seabird. Heredity (Edinb). 2012 Jul; 109(1): 19–28. (toe pads from specimens).
Zermoglio, P. F, Guralnick, R, P, Wieczorek, J. R. 2016. A Standardized Reference Data Set for Vertebrate Taxon Name Resolution. Published: January 13, 2016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146894. (used online records)
Zika, P.F., 2013. A synopsis of the Juncus hesperius group (Juncaceae, Juncotypus) and their hybrids in western North America. Brittonia, 65(2), 128-141. (used museum specimens)
related page on use of museum specimens UC-Santa Cruz
https://arboretum.ucsc.edu/education/research/publications.html