Staff Publications (2008)

Agrawal, K R, K. Y. Ang, Z. Sui, H. T. W. Tan and P W Lucas, "Methods of ingestion and incisal designs". In Technique and applications in dental anthropology, ed. Irish, J D and G C Nelson, 349-363. Cambridge studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 53. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Ang, K. Y., P. W. Lucas and H. T. W. Tan, 2008. Novel way of measuring the fracture toughness of leaves and other thin films using a single inclined razor blade. New Phytologist, 177(3): 830-837.

Ang, Y., N. Puniamoorthy, and R. Meier, 2008. Perochaeta dikowi sp.n.: a new species of Sepsidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with secondarily reduced foreleg armature. Systematic Entomology, 33: 552-559.

Bickford, D. and D. Cannatella. Molecular phylogeny of the Papuan microhylid frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae and Genyophryninae) inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. In Press. Mol Phyl Evol.

Bickford, D., D.T. Iskandar and A. Barlian. 2008. First lungless frog found on Borneo. Current Biology Vol 18, R374-R375.

Bickford, D., N.S., Sodhi, A.C. Diesmos, T.M. Lee, L.P. Koh, B.W. Brook, C.H. Sekercioglu & C. J.A. Bradshaw. Forgetting Habitat Loss in Amphibian Extinctions – Missing the Forest for the Disease. 2008. A response to: Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines Lips KR, Diffendorfer J, Mendelson III JR, Sears MW PLoS Biology Vol. 6, No. 3, e72 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060072

Bickford, D., J. Supriatna, Y. Nanda, D. Iskandar, B. Evans, R. Brown, T. Townsend, Umilaela, D. Azhari, and J. McGuire. Indonesia’s protected areas need more protection – suggestions from island examples. 2008. In Sodhi, N.S., G. Acciaioli, M. Erb & A. K.-J. Tan (Editors). Biodiversity and human livelihoods in protected areas: case studies from the Malay Archipelago. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Pp. 53–77.

Boon, P.Y. Yeo D. C. J. and Todd, P.A. (2008) Feeding ecology of the genus Perisesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) in Mandai Mangroves, Singapore. Journal of Crustacean Biology.28: 480-484.

Byrnes, G., N. T-L. Lim and A. Spence, 2008. Take-off and landing kinetics of a free-ranging gliding mammal, the Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus). Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 275(1638): 1007-1013.

Castro, P. and P. K. L. Ng, 2008. Rhadinoplax , a new genus of Progeryonidae Števčić, 2005, for Carcinoplax microphthalmus Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981, and a redescription of Paragalene longicrura ( Nardo, 1868) ( Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea). – Zootaxa, New Zealand, 1777: 53-68.

Chan, J. P. Y., P. R. Lau, A. J. Tham and D. Li, 2008. The effects of male–male contests and female eavesdropping on female mate choice and male mating success in the jumping spider, Thiania bhamoensis (Araneae: Salticidae). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 62(5): 639-646.

Clark, P. F. and P. K. L. Ng, 2008. The lecithotrophic zoea of Chirostylus ortmanni Miyake & Baba, 1968 (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Chirostylidae) described from laboratory hatched material. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 56(1): 85-94.

Clark, P. F., P. K. L. Ng, C. H. J. M. Fransen, P. A. McLaughlin, P. C. Dworschak and K. Baba, 2008. A checklist of Crustacea Decapoda collected from Conic Island Cave and adjacent areas of Hong Kong. – Journal of Natural History, London, United Kingdom, 42(9-12): 913-926.

Guest, J. R., P. A. Todd, B. P. L. Goh and L. M. Chou, (in press, 2008) The effect of transplantation on reproduction in clonal ramets of Goniopora spp. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development.

Guest, J.R., Todd, P.A., Goh, E., Reddy, K.P. and Sivalonganathan, B. (2008) Can giant clam (Tridacna squamosa) populations be restored in Singapore’s heavily sedimented waters? Aquatic Conservation. 18: 570–579.

Han, L., Todd, P.A. , Chou, L.M., Yap , V.B. and Sivalonganathan, B. ( 2008 ) The defensive role of scutes in juvenile fluted giant clams (Tridacna squamosa). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 359: 77–83.

Hare, E. E., Peterson, B. K., Iyer V. N., Meier, R., Eisen, M. B. 2008. Sepsid even-skipped enhancers are functionally conserved in Drosophila despite lack of sequence conservation. PLoS Genetics 4: e1000106.doi:10.1371/journal.pgen. 1000106.

Hayden, C. J., R. M. Brown, G. Gillespie, M. Iqbal Setiadi, C. W. Linkem, D. T. Iskandar, Umilaela, D. P. Bickford, A. Riyanto, Mumpuni, and J. A. McGuire. 2008. A new species of bent-toed gecko Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827, (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the islands of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Herpetologica, 64 (1): 109-120.

Huang, D., R. Meier, P. A. Todd, and L. M. Chou 2008. Slow mitochondrial COI sequence evolution at the base of the metazoan tree and its implications for DNA barcoding. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 66: 167-174.

Ingram, K. K., T. Laamanen, N. Puniamoorthy, and R. Meier, 2008. Lack of Morphological Coevolution Between Male Forelegs and Female Wings in Themira (Sepsidae: Diptera: Insecta). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 93: 227-238.

Koh, L.P., H.T.W. Tan and N.S. Sodhi. 2008. Biofuels: Waste not, want not. Science (Correspondence) 320: 1419.

Kottelat, M. & H. H. Tan, 2008. A synopsis of the genus Lobocheilos in Java, Sumatra and Borneo, with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 19 (1): 27-58.

Larson, H. K., Z. Jaafar and K. K. P. Lim, 2008. An annotated checklist of the gobioid fishes of Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 56(1): 135-155.

Li, J. J., L. M. M. Lim, Z. T. Zhang, Q. Q. Liu, F. X. Liu, J. Chen and D. Li, 2008. Sexual dichromatism and male colour morph in UV-B reflectance in two populations of the jumping spider Phintella vittata (Araneae: Salticidae) from tropical China. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94 (1): 7-20.

Lim, M. L. M., J. J. Li and D. Li, 2008. Effect of UV-reflecting markings on female mate-choice decisions in Cosmophasis umbratica, a jumping spider from Singapore. Behavioral Ecology 19(1):61-66.

Lim, M. L. M., N. S. Sodhi and J. A. Endler, 2008. Conservation with sense. Science 319:281. (Letter)

Meier, R., 2008. DNA Sequences in Taxonomy: Opportunities and Challenges. Page 95-128 in Wheeler, Q. The New Taxonomy Systematics Association Special Volume edited by Q. Wheeler. CRC Press.

Naruse , T., P. K. L. Ng and D. Guinot, 2008. Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991. – Zootaxa, New Zealand, 1739: 21-40.

Ng, P. K. L. and P. F. Clark, 2008. A revision of Latopilumnus Türkay & Schuhmacher, 1985, and Aniptumnus Ng, 2002 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae) with larval comparisons. – Journal of Natural History, London, United Kingdom, 42(9-12): 885-912.

Ng, P. K. L., D. Guinot, and P. J. F. Davie, 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part 1. An Annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement Series No. 17: 1-286.

Puniamoorthy, N., K. F.-Y. Su, R. Meier, 2008. Bending for love: losses and gains of sexual dimorphisms are strictly correlated with changes in the mounting position of sepsid flies (Sepsidae: Diptera). BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:155.

Sodhi, N. S., 2008. Tropical biodiversity loss and people - a brief review. Basic and Applied Ecology 9:93-99.

Sodhi, N. S. , G. Acciaioli, M. Erb and A. K.-J. Tan (Editors), 2008. Biodiversity and human livelihoods in protected areas: case studies from the Malay Archipelago. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Sodhi, N. S., D. Bickford, A. C. Diesmos, T. M. Lee, L. P. Koh, B. W. Brook, C. H. Sekercioglu and C. J. A. Bradshaw, 2008. Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. PLoS One 3(2): e1636.

Tan, H. H., 2008. Book Review. An Identification Guide to the Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Singapore, 56 (1): 209.

Tan, H. H., R. Pethiyagoda, Z. Jaafar, P. K. L. Ng & P. Berrebi, 2008. Comments on the proposed suppression of Gobius lagocephalus Pallas, 1770 ( Osteichthyes, Teleostei, Gobiidae) (Case 3383; see BZN 64: 103-107). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 65 (2): 150-151.

Tan, S. H. D., F. Ali, S. N. Kutty, R. Meier, 2008. The need for specifying species concepts: how many species of silvered langurs (Trachypithecus cristatus group) should be recognized? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.020.

Tan, H. T. W. and X. Giam, 2008. Plant Magic: Auspicious and Inauspicious Plants from around the World. Marshall Cavendish, Singapore.

Todd, P.A. (2008) Morphological plasticity in scleractinian corals. Biological Reviews. 83: 315-337.

Todd, P.A. and Guest, J.R. (2008) Giant clam conservation and research in Singapore. Tentacle. IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group. 16: 01.

Todd, P.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2008) Citations: poor practices by authors reduce their value. Nature (Correspondence). 451: 244.

Todd, P.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2008) Hidden dangers of a ‘citation culture’. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. 8:13-16.

Yeo , D. C. J., P. K. L. Ng, N. Cumberlidge, C. Magalhães, S. R. Daniels and M. R. Campos, 2008. Global diversity of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) living in freshwater. In: E. V. Balian, C. Lévêque, H. Segers and K. Martens (editors). Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. Hydrobiologia, Belgium, 575: 275-286.