A paper that I wrote with Dan Rabosky at UC Berkeley came out in yesterday’s PNAS.  We’re excited about the results of the study and the new methods introduced in our paper.  I’m also psyched by the fact that the cover features one of my favorite animals: Anolis distichus vinosus from Tiburon Peninsula in Haiti.  Anolis distichus is a highly geographically variable species that is the focus of ongoing work in the Glor lab by graduate students Julienne Ng and Anthony Geneva, as well as star undergraduates Audrey Kelly and Ryane Logsdon.  The little bugger in this photo just could not resist the urge to display right in front of my face (the photo was taken from about two feet away with a 105mm macro lens).  I’m including a large image of the cover in this post because the versions available via PNAS.org are really low quality and do little justice to the beauty of this animal.

UPDATE: More information about our article can be found in a related press release and on the Anole Annals blog.