Some of Wake’s main publications

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Wake, D. B. 1966. Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, Family Plethodontidae. Mem. South. California Acad. Sci. 4:1-111.

Wake, D. B., and J. F. Lynch. 1976. The distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history of plethodontid salamanders in tropical America. Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 25:1-65.

Lombard, R. E., and D. B. Wake. 1977. Tongue evolution in the lungless salamanders, Family Plethodontidae. II. Function and evolutionary diversity. J. Morphol. 153:39-80.

Alberch, P., S. J. Gould, G. F. Oster, and D. B. Wake. 1979. Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny. Paleobiology 5:296-317.

Wake, D. B. 1987. Adaptive radiation of salamanders in Middle American cloud forests. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 74:242-264.

Wake, D. B. 1991. Homoplasy: the result of natural selection, or evidence of design limitations? Amer. Nat. 138:543-567.

Good, D. A., and D. B. Wake. 1992. Geographic variation and speciation in the torrent salamanders of the genus Rhyacotriton (Caudata: Rhyacotritonidae). Univ. California Publ. Zool. 126:1-91.

Wake, D. B. 1997. Incipient species formation in salamanders of the Ensatina complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:7761-7767.

Min, M. S., S. Y. Yang, R. M. Bonett, D. R. Vieites, R. A. Brandon, and D. B. Wake. 2005. Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. Nature 435:87-90.

Wake, D. B. 2006. Problems with species: patterns and processes of species formation in salamanders. Annals Missouri Botanical Garden 93:8-23.