Publications

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Schachner, E. R., A. J. Moore, A. Martinez, R. E. Diaz, Jr., M. S. Echols, J. Atterholt, R. Kissane, B. P. Hedrick, and K. T. Bates. 2024. The respiratory system influences flight mechanics in soaring birds. Nature 20 June 2024, 630: 671 [journal cover Image]
  2. Ollonen, J., E.R. Khannoon, S. Macri, V. Vergilov, J. Kuurne, J. Saarikivi, A. Soukainen, I.-M. Aalto, I. Werneberg, R.E. Diaz, Jr., and N. Di-Poi. 2024. From embryo to evolution: dynamic interplay between ontogenetic skull patterning and whole-head integration. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
  3. Garcia, P., R. E. Diaz, Jr., C. V. Anderson, T. M. Andrianjafy, L. de Beer, D. A. Edmonds, and R. M. Carney. 2024. Mosquito bite-induced color change in chameleon skin. Herpetological Review.
  4. C.A. Grande Pre, W. Thielicke, R. E. Diaz Jr., B. P. Hendrick, R. M. Elsey, and E. R. Schachner. 2023. Validating an osteological correlate for the hepatic piston ventilatory apparatus in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis): Identifying the functional relationship between the axial skeleton and pleural displacement.  PEERJ
  5. Pham, V. and R. E. Diaz, Jr.. 2023. KALOULA PULCHRA (Banded Bullfrog). ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR. Herpetological Review 54(1): 61-62.
  6. Schachner ER, Lawson AB, Martinez A, Grand Pre CA, Sabottke C, Abou-Issa F, Echols S, Diaz RE Jr, Moore AJ, Grenier JP, Hedrick BP, Spieler B. 2023. Perspectives on lung visualization: Three-dimensional anatomical modeling of computed and micro-computed tomographic data in comparative evolutionary morphology and medicine with applications for COVID-19. Anat Rec (Hoboken). doi: 10.1002/ar.25300. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37528640.
  7. Ekhator, C., Varshney, A., Young, M. W., Tanis, D., Granatosky, M. C., Diaz, R. E., & Molnar, J. L. 2023. Locomotor characteristics of the ground-walking chameleon Brookesia superciliaris. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2703
  8. Schachner, E. R., R. E. Diaz, R. Coke, S. Echols, M. L. Osborn, and B. P. Hedrick. 2022. Architecture of the bronchial tree in Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus). The Anatomical Record 305: 3037-3054.
  9. Diaz, Jr., R.E., E.A. Taylor-Diaz, P.A. Trainor, R. Diogo, and J.L. Molnar. 2021. Comparative development of limb musculature in phylogenetically and ecologically divergent lizards. Developmental Dynamics. 2021: 1-37. DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.447
  10. Sanger, T.J., L. Harding, J. Kyrkos, A. J. Turnquist, L. Epperlein, S. A. Nunez, D. Lachance, S. Dhindsa, J. T. Stroud, R. E. Diaz, Jr., and B. Czesny. 2021. Environmental Thermal Stress Induces Neuronal Cell Death and Craniofacial Malformations in Reptiles. Integrative Organismal Biology 3(1): 1-18. [Cover image] https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/3/1/obab033/6430169
  11. Hoon-Hanks, L. L., A. C. Stöhr, A. J. Anderson, D. E. Evans, J. G. Nevarez, R. E. Diaz, C. P. Rodgers, S. T. Cross, H. Steiner, R. R. Parker, and M. D. Stenglein. 2020. Serpentovirus (Nidovirus) and Orthoreovirus Coinfection in Captive Veiled Chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) with Respiratory Disease. Viruses 12(11): 1329: 1-17
  12. Diaz, Jr., R. E. 2020. Evo-Devo Path as a bridge between evolution, morphological disparity, and medicine with comments on “hopeful monsters” in the age of genomics. Current Molecular Biology Reports https://doi.org/10.1007/s40610-020-00131-2
  13. Yang, C., J. Zhao, R. Diaz, and N. Lyo. 2019. Development of sexual dimorphism in two sympatric skinks with different growth rates. Ecology and Evolution.
  14. Diaz, Jr, R. E., N. A. Shylo, D. Roellig, M. Bronner and P. A. Trainor. 2019. Filling in the phylogenetic gaps: induction, migration and differentiation of neural crest cells in a squamates reptile, the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus). Developmental Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.38 [Journal Cover Image].
  15. Pinto, B. J., D. C. Card, T. A. Castoe, R. E. Diaz, Jr.,  S. V. Nielsen, P. A. Trainor and T. Gamble. 2019. The transcriptome of the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): a resource for studying the evolution and development of vertebrates. Developmental Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.20
  16. Diaz, Jr., R. E. and P. A. Trainor. 2018. An integrative view of Lepidosaur cranial anatomy, development and diversification in Heads, Jaws, and Muscles: Anatomical, Functional, and Developmental Diversity in Chordate Evolution, Chapter 9. Eds: Janine M. Ziermann, Raul E. Diaz, Jr., Rui Diogo. Springer Publishers: Fascinating Life Sciences Series.
  17. Nielsen, S. V., J. L. Banks, R. E. Diaz, jr., P. A. Trainor, and T. Gamble. 2018. Dynamic sex chromosomes in old world chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13242 [Journal Cover Image].
  18. Diaz, Jr., R. E., F. Bertocchini, and P. Trainor. 2017. Lifting the veil on reptile embryology: the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) as a model system to study reptilian development. In Avian and Reptilian Developmental Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 1650), pp. 269-284. [Book Cover Image].
  19. Molnar, J. L., R. E. Diaz, Jr., T. Skorka, G. Dagliyan, and R. Diogo. 2017. Comparative musculoskeletal anatomy of chameleon limbs, with implications for the evolution of arboreal locomotion in lizards and for teratology. Journal of Morphology DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20708 (One of top downloads in recent history for journal)
  20. Diogo, R, G. Guinard and R. E. Diaz. 2016. Dinosaurs, chameleons, humans and Evolutionary Developmental Pathology: linking Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Waddington’s homeorhesis, Alberch’s logic of monsters, and Goldschmidt’s hopeful monsters. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (invited for special issue: Developmental Evolution in Biomedical Research; One of top downloads in recent history for journal)
  21. Diaz, R. E., Jr. and P. A. Trainor. 2015. Hand/foot splitting and the ‘re-evolution’ of mesopodial skeletal elements during the evolution and radiation of chameleons. BMC Evolutionary Biology [Previously ranked at #1 in most views with 3,491; Press Release by BMC and profiled in the New York Times, Phys.org, LiveScience.com, IFLScience.com, ScienceDaily.com]
  22. Diaz, R. E., Jr., C. A. Anderson, D. Baumann, D. Jewell, R. Kupronis, C. Piraquive, J. Schieszer, K. Winter and P. A. Trainor. 2015. The Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus: A model for studying reptile bodyplan development and evolution. To Emerging Model Organisms, Cold Spring Harbor Press [Journal Cover Image].
  23. Diaz, R. E., Jr., C. A. Anderson, D. Baumann, D. Jewell, R. Kupronis, C. Piraquive, J. Schieszer, K. Winter and P. A. Trainor. 2015. Protocol: Captive care, raising and breeding of the Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus. Emerging Model Organisms, Cold Spring Harbor Press. [Journal Cover Image].
  24. Dominguez, M. and R. E. Diaz, Jr. 2015. Resurrection and Redescription of the Typhlops silus Legler, 1959 from Cuba (Scolecophidia, Typhlopidae). Journal of Herpetology 49(2): 325-331.
  25. Stower, M., Diaz, R, White Crother, M., Crother, B., Marco, A., Trainor, P., Srinivas, S., Bertocchini, F. 2015. Bi-modal strategy of gastrulation in reptiles. Developmental Dynamics. June 19 doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24300.
  26. Young, N.M., Hu, D., Lainoff, A.J., Smith, F., Diaz, R., Tucker, A.S., Trainor, P.A., Schneider, R.A., Hallgrímsson, B., Marcucio, R.S. 2014. Embryonic bauplans and the developmental origins of facial diversity and constraint. Development 141(5). [Journal Cover Image].
  27. R. Browne, H. Li, Z. Wang, S. Okada, P. Hime, A. McMillan, H. Merideth, L. Gang, M. Wu, T. Johnson, R. Diaz, Z. Hongxing. 2013. The Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchidae): Part B. Range, Ecology, Behaviour, Reproduction. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5(4): 30-50.
  28. R. Browne, H. Li, Z. Wang, S. Okada, P. Hime, A. McMillan, H. Merideth, L. Gang, M. Wu, T. Johnson, R. Diaz, Z. Hongxing. 2012. The Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchidae): Part A. Conservation Biology. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5(4): 17-29 (e54).
  29. Bhatt, S., R. Diaz, P. Trainor. 2013. Signals and switches in mammalian Neural Crest Cell development. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 5(2). [Journal Cover Image].
  30. Rödel, M-O., M. F. Barej, A. Hillers, A. D. Leaché, N. G. Kouamé, C. Ofori-Boateng, N. E. Assemian, B. Tohé, J. Penner, M. Hirschfeld, J. Doumbia, L. N. Gonwouo, J. Nopper, C. Brede, R. Diaz, M. K. Fujita, M. Gil, G. H. Segniagbeto, R. Ernst, and L. Sandberger. 2012. The genus Astylosternus in the Upper Guinea rainforsts, West Africa, with the description of a new species (Amphibia: Anura: Arthroleptidae). Zootaxa,3245:1-29.
  31. Trueb, L., R. Diaz and D. Blackburn. 2011. Osteology and chondrocranial morphology of Gastrophryne carolinensis (Anura: Microhylidae), with a review of the osetological diversity of New World microhylids. Phyllomedusa 10(2): 99-135.
  32. Domínguez, M. and R. E. Díaz. 2011. Anguis lumbricalis Linnaeus, 1758 and Anguis jamaicencis Shaw, 1802 (currently Typhlops lumbricalis and Typhlops jamaicencis) (Reptilia, Serpentes): proposed conservation of usage of the specific names by the designation of neotypes for both species. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68(3):197-203.
  33. Domínguez, M. and Díaz, R. E.,Jr. 2011. Taxonomy of the Blind Snakes Associated with Typhlops lumbricalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Scolecophidia, Typhlopidae) from the Bahamas Islands and Cuba. Herpetologica: June 2011, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 194-211.
  34. Leaché, A. D., Rödel, M-O, Linkem, C. W., Diaz, R. E., Hillers, A., and M. K. Fujita. 2006. Biodiversity in a forest island: Reptiles and amphibians of the West African Togo Hills. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 4:22-45.
  35. Rödel, M-O, Gil, M., Agyei, A. C., Leaché, A. D., Diaz, R. E., Fujita, M. K.,and R. Ernst. 2005.  The amphibians of the forested parts of south-western Ghana. Salamandra 41:107-127.
  36. Diaz, R.E., M. T. Leong, N. S. Yaakob, and L. L. Grismer. 2004. A New Species of Dibamus (Squamata: Dibamidae) from West Malaysia. Asiatic Herpetological Research 10:1-7.
  37. Diaz, R.E.,S. Guerrero, C. Ledbetter, S. Newbold. 2003.  Natural History Notes: Feeding behavior of Ptyas carinatus. Herpetological Review 34(4): 377.
  38. Grismer, L. L., N. S. Yaakob, L. B. Liat, T. M. Leong, I. Das, R. A. Sosa, J. L. Grismer, K. M. Crane, R. E. Diaz, S. V. Figueroa, C. A. Ledbetter, S. C. Newbold, S. R. Newbold, C. P. Patel, J. Castro, R. A. Escobar III, S. Guerrero, J. W. Pinedo, P. E. Jones, and H. Kaiser. 2001b.  Report on the herpetofauna of Pulau Tulai, West Malaysia. Hamadryad 26: 369-371.
  39. Grismer, L. L., N. S. Yaakob, L. B. Liat, T. M. Leong, I. Das, R. A. Sosa, J. L. Grismer, K. M. Crane, R. E. Diaz, S. V. Figueroa, C. A. Ledbetter, S. C. Newbold, S. R. Newbold, C. P. Patel, J. Castro, R. A. Escobar III, S. Guerrero, J. W. Pinedo, and H. Kaiser. 2001a.  First report on the herpetofauna of Pulau Aur, Johor, West Malaysia. Hamadryad 26: 350-353.
  40. Kaiser, H. and R. E. Diaz. 2001. Natural History Note on Tropidurus plica fighting behavior.  Herpetological Review 32: 260.
  41. Kaiser, H. and R. E. Diaz. 2001. Natural History Note on Thecadactylus rapicauda territorial behavior. Herpetological Review 32: 259.
  42. Diaz, R.E. 2000. Book Review: Reptiles and Amphibians of the Maya World, by Julian C. Lee.  Herpetological Natural History 7(2): 187-188.

Heads, Jaws, and Muscles: Anatomical, Functional, and Developmental Diversity in Chordate Evolution. Janine M. Ziermann, Raul E. Diaz, Jr., Rui Diogo. 2019. Springer Publishers: Fascinating Life Sciences Series.

*As an undergraduate, i was secretarial assistant to Dr. Robert C. Stebbins at UC Berkeley and over the course of 3 years helped him update his field guide which was published in 2003

Additionally, I managed Asiatic Herpetological Research (AHR) (LINK) for several years while an undergraduate until it was eventually passed on to the Chengdu Institute of Biology where it was renamed Asian Herpetological Research (AHR) (LINK).