Benjamin R. Karin

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(32), Species Distribution and Climate Change(22), Genetic diversity and population structure(16), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(10), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(6)

Publications52 total

A new species of Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo)
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new species of Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo)
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A new skink of the genus Subdoluseps (Hardwicke & Gray, 1828) from Peninsular Malaysia
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Data from: The evolutionary history of dragon lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) revealed by phylogenomics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Data from: The evolutionary history of dragon lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) revealed by phylogenomics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Data from: The evolutionary history of dragon lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) revealed by phylogenomics
DRYAD·2025Open Access
The Evolutionary History of Dragon Lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) Revealed by Phylogenomics
Systematic Biology·2025Open Access
When islands collide: Divergence predicts outcomes of secondary contact during the fusion of Sulawesi’s paleo-archipelago
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Elevational surveys of Sulawesi herpetofauna 2: Mount Katopasa on the Eastern Peninsula of Sulawesi island, Indonesia
PeerJ·2025Open Access
A chromosome-level reference genome assembly for Gilbert’s skink <i>Plestiodon gilberti</i>
Journal of Heredity·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Rampant Dispersal Without Gene‐Flow: Reproductively and Geographically Isolated Lineages of the Supertramp Lizard <scp><i>Lamprolepis smaragdina</i></scp> Permeate the Lesser Sunda Archipelago
Journal of Biogeography·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Third time’s the charm: nomenclatural availability provided to the nomina of two Bornean Cyrtodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae)
Bionomina·2024
The natural and human-mediated expansion of a human-commensal lizard into the fringes of Southeast Asia
BMC Ecology and Evolution·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Redescription of two Bornean gekkonid lizard species of the Cyrtodactylus consobrinus (Peters, 1871) complex with comments on online supplementary material
Bionomina·2023· 2 cited
Elevational surveys of Sulawesi herpetofauna 1: Gunung Galang, Gunung Dako Nature Reserve
PeerJ·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Bewildering biogeography: Waves of dispersal and diversification across southern Wallacea by bent-toed geckos (genus: Cyrtodactylus)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Highly-multiplexed and efficient long-amplicon PacBio and Nanopore sequencing of hundreds of full mitochondrial genomes
BMC Genomics·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
Cannibalism in &lt;i&gt;Varanus timorensis&lt;/i&gt; (Squamata: Varanidae) Reveals Some Reproductive Traits of Wild Population on Sabu Island, Indonesia
Russian Journal of Herpetology·2023
Genomic analysis of Bornean geckos (Gekkonidae: <i>Cyrtodactylus</i>) reveals need for updated taxonomy
Zoologica Scripta·2023· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Jimmy A. McGuire(22), Djoko T. Iskandar(21), Evy Arida(18), Alexander L. Stubbs(17), Aaron M. Bauer(16), Sean B. Reilly(14), Indraneil Das(13), Umilaela Arifin(12), Todd R. Jackman(10), L. Lee Grismer(8), Robert N. Fisher(8), Amir Hamidy(6), Rafe M. Brown(5), Christopher C. Austin(5), Hinrich Kaiser(5), Hayden R. Davis(5), Ian G. Brennan(5), Izneil Nashriq(5), Frank Glaw(4), Ivan Ineich(4)