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Sara Ruane

TitleLecturer
InstitutionField Museum
DepartmentCommittee on Evolutionary Biology
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    1. Georgalis GL, Wegrzyn K, Ruane S. Vertebral morphology and intracolumnar variation of the iconic and bizarre viperid snake Pseudocerastes urarachnoides (Serpentes, Viperidae). Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2026 Sep 10. PMID: 42720717.
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    2. Vences M, Rothe LD, Glaw F, Scherz MD, Gehring PS, Hawlitschek O, Kuhn A, Multzsch M, Petzold A, Preick M, Rakotoarimalala F, Raselimanana AP, Ratsoavina FM, Ruane S, Vieites DR, Hofreiter M, Dufresnes C. Genome-scale molecular systematics of Madagascar's occipital-lobed chameleons reveals polyphyly and mito-nuclear discordances. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2026 Nov; 224:108689. PMID: 42431244.
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    3. Patron-Rivero C, Yañez-Arenas C, Ruane S, Chiappa-Carrara X, Rojas-Soto OR. A comprehensive morphological database of hognose Porthidium pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae). Database (Oxford). 2026 Jan 15; 2026. PMID: 41550075; PMCID: PMC12813580.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    4. Huang T, Overcast I, Kuhn A, Morin PJ, Ruane S. Small snakes, big cities: Population genetics of urban Dekay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi) in New Jersey. J Hered. 2026 Jan 05; 117(1):12-23. PMID: 40556260.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    5. Ruane S, Rakotoarimalala F, Kuhn AL, Raselimanana AP. Brygophis coulangesi (Domergue, 1988) (Serpentes: Pseudoxyrhophiidae) and its taxonomic relationship with respect to Compsophis (Günther, 1882). Zootaxa. 2025 Dec 16; 5729(3):469-476. PMID: 42407520.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    6. Rakotoarimalala F, Kuhn AL, Raselimanana AP, Jacquis AT, Ruane S. Habitat use, selection, and population density of chameleon communities (Calumma spp.) in the fragmented central highlands forests of Madagascar. BMC Ecol Evol. 2025 12 10; 25(1):137. PMID: 41366644; PMCID: PMC12709691.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    7. Huang T, Morin PJ, Ruane S. Interpopulation morphological differences and sexual dimorphism of Dekay's brownsnake (Storeria dekayi) along a rural-urban gradient. PeerJ. 2025; 13:e19439. PMID: 40520645; PMCID: PMC12166847.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    8. Bernstein JM, Bautista JB, Clores MA, Brown RM, Ruane S, Sanguila MB, Alis-Besenio MGJ, Pejo CLF, Cuesta MA. Using mangrove and field observation data to identify fine-scale species distributions: a case study in bockadams (Serpentes: Homalopsidae: Cerberus). R Soc Open Sci. 2024 Oct; 11(10):240483. PMID: 39469132; PMCID: PMC11515136.
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    9. Roberts JR, Bernstein JM, Austin CC, Hains T, Mata J, Kieras M, Pirro S, Ruane S. Whole snake genomes from eighteen families of snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia) and their applications to systematics. J Hered. 2024 08 20; 115(5):487-497. PMID: 38722259.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    10. Burbrink FT, Ruane S, Rabibisoa N, Raselimanana AP, Raxworthy CJ, Kuhn A. Speciation rates are unrelated to the formation of population structure in Malagasy gemsnakes. Ecol Evol. 2023 Aug; 13(8):e10344. PMID: 37529593; PMCID: PMC10375368.
      Citations: 3     
    11. Cordero GA, Birk K, Ruane S, Dinkelacker SA, Janzen FJ. Effects of the egg incubation environment on turtle carapace development. Evol Dev. 2023 03; 25(2):153-169. PMID: 36373204.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    12. Burbrink FT, Crother BI, Murray CM, Smith BT, Ruane S, Myers EA, Pyron RA. Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank. Ecol Evol. 2022 Jul; 12(7):e9069. PMID: 35845367; PMCID: PMC9271888.
      Citations: 21     
    13. Burbrink FT, Bernstein JM, Kuhn A, Gehara M, Ruane S. Ecological Divergence and the History of Gene Flow in the Nearctic Milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulum Complex). Syst Biol. 2022 06 16; 71(4):839-858. PMID: 35043210.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    14. Durso AM, Ruiz de Castañeda R, Montalcini C, Mondardini MR, Fernandez-Marques JL, Grey F, Müller MM, Uetz P, Marshall BM, Gray RJ, Smith CE, Becker D, Pingleton M, Louies J, Abegg AD, Akuboy J, Alcoba G, Daltry JC, Entiauspe-Neto OM, Freed P, de Freitas MA, Glaudas X, Huang S, Huang T, Kalki Y, Kojima Y, Laudisoit A, Limbu KP, Martínez-Fonseca JG, Mebert K, Rödel MO, Ruane S, Ruedi M, Schmitz A, Tatum SA, Tillack F, Visvanathan A, Wüster W, Bolon I. Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite. Toxicon X. 2021 Jul; 9-10:100071. PMID: 34278294; PMCID: PMC8264216.
      Citations: 6     
    15. Bernstein JM, Murphy JC, Voris HK, Brown RM, Ruane S. Phylogenetics of mud snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae): A paradox of both undescribed diversity and taxonomic inflation. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2021 07; 160:107109. PMID: 33609712.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    16. Burbrink FT, Grazziotin FG, Pyron RA, Cundall D, Donnellan S, Irish F, Keogh JS, Kraus F, Murphy RW, Noonan B, Raxworthy CJ, Ruane S, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Zaher H. Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships. Syst Biol. 2020 05 01; 69(3):502-520. PMID: 31550008.
      Citations: 90     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    17. Burbrink FT, Ruane S, Kuhn A, Rabibisoa N, Randriamahatantsoa B, Raselimanana AP, Andrianarimalala MSM, Cadle JE, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Nussbaum RA, Jones LN, Pearson R, Raxworthy CJ. The Origins and Diversification of the Exceptionally Rich Gemsnakes (Colubroidea: Lamprophiidae: Pseudoxyrhophiinae) in Madagascar. Syst Biol. 2019 11 01; 68(6):918-936. PMID: 31188455.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    18. Ruane S, Austin CC. Phylogenomics using formalin-fixed and 100+ year-old intractable natural history specimens. Mol Ecol Resour. 2017 Sep; 17(5):1003-1008. PMID: 28118515.
      Citations: 45     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    19. Burbrink FT, Chan YL, Myers EA, Ruane S, Smith BT, Hickerson MJ. Asynchronous demographic responses to Pleistocene climate change in Eastern Nearctic vertebrates. Ecol Lett. 2016 12; 19(12):1457-1467. PMID: 27781365.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    20. Ruane S, Raxworthy CJ, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Burbrink FT. Comparing species tree estimation with large anchored phylogenomic and small Sanger-sequenced molecular datasets: an empirical study on Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snakes. BMC Evol Biol. 2015 Oct 12; 15:221. PMID: 26459325; PMCID: PMC4603904.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    21. Ruane S, Torres-Carvajal O, Burbrink FT. Independent Demographic Responses to Climate Change among Temperate and Tropical Milksnakes (Colubridae: Genus Lampropeltis). PLoS One. 2015; 10(6):e0128543. PMID: 26083467; PMCID: PMC4470684.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    22. Ruane S, Bryson RW, Pyron RA, Burbrink FT. Coalescent species delimitation in milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis) and impacts on phylogenetic comparative analyses. Syst Biol. 2014 Mar; 63(2):231-50. PMID: 24335429.
      Citations: 21     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    23. Burbrink FT, Yao H, Ingrasci M, Bryson RW, Guiher TJ, Ruane S. Speciation at the Mogollon Rim in the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2011 Sep; 60(3):445-54. PMID: 21627995.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
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