Stuart V. Nielsen

Florida Museum of Natural History — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(32), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(26), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities(19), Species Distribution and Climate Change(17), Genetic diversity and population structure(14)

Publications72 total

A new species of Naultinus from the Te Paki area, northern New Zealand
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new species of Rain Frog (Brevicipitidae, Breviceps) endemic to Angola
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new, enigmatic species of black-eyed gecko (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae Mokopirirakau) from North Otago, New Zealand
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new species of Naultinus from the Te Paki area, northern New Zealand
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Hidden diversity in the driest desert on Earth: genomics unveils cryptic diversity in an ancient South American gecko lineage (Phyllodactylidae, Garthia)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2025Open Access
Sex chromosome identification and genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
2025Open Access
Hidden Diversity in the Driest Desert on Earth: Genomics Unveils Cryptic Diversity in an Ancient South American Gecko Lineage (Phyllodactylidae, Garthia)
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Toe pad morphology and adhesion in the miniaturized gecko, <i>Chatogekko amazonicus</i> (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae)
The Anatomical Record·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
It’s a trap?! Escape from an ancient, ancestral sex chromosome system and implication of <i>Foxl2</i> as the putative primary sex-determining gene in a lizard (Anguimorpha; Shinisauridae)
Evolution·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Clarifying a male color morph of Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Günther, 1859 and resolving the taxonomic confusion on Saint Croix
Zootaxa·2023Open Access
It’s a Trap?! Escape from an ancient, ancestral sex chromosome system and implication of <i>Foxl2</i> as the putative primary sex determining gene in a lizard (Anguimorpha; Shinisauridae)
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Reappraising the evolutionary history of the largest known gecko, the presumably extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti, via high-throughput sequencing of archival DNA
Scientific Reports·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
A New Species of Sphaerodactylus (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Northwest Limestone Region of Puerto Rico
Ichthyology & Herpetology·2022· 6 cited
Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly Reveals Dynamic Sex Chromosomes in Neotropical Leaf-Litter Geckos (Sphaerodactylidae:<i>Sphaerodactylus</i>)
Journal of Heredity·2022· 33 citedOpen Access
Variable vulnerability to climate change in New Zealand lizards
Journal of Biogeography·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
A comprehensive phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus, with insights into their systematics and morphological variation
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Phylogeny of African Long-Fingered Frogs (Arthroleptidae: Cardioglossa) Reveals Recent Allopatric Divergences in Coloration
Ichthyology & Herpetology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
The first chromosome-level gecko genome reveals dynamic sex chromosomes in Neotropical leaf-litter geckos (Sphaerodactylidae: <i>Sphaerodactylus</i> )
2021Open Access
Do male and female heterogamety really differ in expression regulation? Lack of global dosage balance in pygopodid geckos
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 23 citedOpen Access
Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution
eLife·2021· 26 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Tony Gamble(25), Brendan J. Pinto(16), Aaron M. Bauer(10), Shannon E. Keating(8), Lukáš Kratochvíl(7), Michail Rovatsos(7), Juan D. Daza(7), Edward L. Stanley(5), David C. Blackburn(5), Matthew P. Heinicke(5), Rodney A. Hitchmough(5), Mark‐Oliver Rödel(4), Aaron H. Griffing(4), Werner Conradie(4), Tariq Ezaz(4), Brice P. Noonan(4), Eli Greenbaum(3), Irán Andira Guzmán Méndez(3), Madison Blumer(3), Paul M. Oliver(3)