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• Davalos, L. M. and S. L. Perkins. Saturation and base composition bias explain phylogenomic conflict in Plasmodium. Genomics. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.01.006
• E. S. Martinsen, S. L. Perkins, and J. J. Schall. 2008. A three-genome phylogeny of malaria parasites. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.012
• Piaggio, A. J., J. J. Johnston, and S. L. Perkins. 2007. Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phylostomatidae). Molecular Ecology Notes. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01986.x
• Olival, K. J., E. O. Stiner, and S. L. Perkins. Detection of Hepatocystis sp. in Southeast Asian flying foxes (Pteropodidae) using microscopic and molecular methods. Journal of Parasitology. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.012
• S. L. Perkins, A. Rothschild, and E. Waltari. 2007. Infections of the malaria parasite,
  Plasmodium floridense, in the invasive anole, Anolis sagrei, in Florida. Journal of Herpetology 41: 750-754. doi:10.1670/07-052.1
• R. L. Burke, S. R. Goldberg, C. R. Bursey, S. L. Perkins, and P. T. Andreadis. Depauperate parasite fauna in introduced populations of Podarcis (Squamata: Lacertidae) lizards in North America. 2007. Journal of Herpetology. 41: 755-757.doi:10.1670/07-023.1
• Waltari, E., R. J. Hijmans, A. Townsend Peterson, A. S. Nyári, S. L. Perkins, and R. P. Guralnick. 2007. Locating Pleistocene Refugia: Comparing Phylogeographic and Ecological Niche Modeling Predictions. PLoS One. 7:e563. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000563
• Perkins, S. L., I. N. Sarkar, and R. Carter. 2007. The phylogeny of rodent malaria parasites: simultaneous analysis across three genomes. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution 7:74-83.doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2006.04.005
• C. C. Austin and S. L. Perkins. 2006. Parasites in a biodiversity hotspot: a survey of hematozoa and a molecular phylogenetic analysis of Plasmodium in New Guinea skinks. Journal of Parasitology. 92:770-777.PDF
• M. A. Charleston and S. L. Perkins. 2006. Traversing the tangle: algorithms and applications for cophylogenetic studies. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 39:62-71. PDF
• S. L. Perkins, R. B. Budinoff, and M. E. Siddall. 2005. New gammaproteobacteria associated with blood-feeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts. Applied and Envrionmental Microbiology 71:5219-5224. PDF.
• A. J. Piaggio and S. L. Perkins. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of North American big-eared bats (Vespertilionidae: Corynorhinus): inter- and intraspecific relationships inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:762-765. PDF
• Guralnick, R. P., E. Hall, and S. L. Perkins. 2004. A comparative approach to understanding causes and consequences of mollusc-digenean size relationships: A case study with Allocreadiid trematodes and Cyclocalyx clams. Journal of Parasitology 90:1253-1262. PDF
• Siddall, M. E., S. L. Perkins, and S. S. Desser. 2004. Leech mycetome symbionts are a new lineage of a-proteobacteria related to the Rhizobiacaea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30:178-186. PDF
• Siddall, M. E., and S. L. Perkins. 2003. Brooks parsimony analysis: a valiant failure. Cladistics 19:554-564. PDF
• Charleston, M. A., and S. L. Perkins. 2003. Lizards, malaria, and jungles in the Caribbean. In Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation and Coevolution (Page, R. D. M., ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Perkins, S. L., and J. J. Schall. 2002. A molecular phylogeny of malaria parasites recovered from cytochrome b gene sequences. Journal of Parasitology 88:972-978.PDF
• Perkins, S. L., and A. K. Keller. 2001. Phylogeny of nuclear small subunit rRNA genes of hemogregarines amplified with specific primers. Journal of Parasitology 87:870-876. PDF
• Perkins, S. L. 2001. Phylogeography of Caribbean lizard malaria: tracing the history of vector borne parasites. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:34-45. PDF
• Perkins, S. L. 2000. Species concepts and malaria parasites: detecting a cryptic species of Plasmodium. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267:2345-2350. PDF
• Schall, J. J., A. R. Pearson, and S. L. Perkins. 2000. Prevalence of malaria parasites (Plasmodium floridense and P. azurophilum) infecting a Puerto Rican lizard (Anolis gundlachi): a nine-year study. Journal of Parasitology 86:511-515. PDF
• Perkins, S. L., and J. M. Martin. 1999. Conserved PCR primers fail in diagnosis of parasitic infection. Journal of Parasitology 85:982-984.
• Perkins, S. L., S. M. Osgood, and J. J. Schall. 1998. Use of PCR for detection of subpatent infections of lizard malaria: implications for epizootiology. Molecular Ecology 7:1587-1590. PDF
• Gill, D. G., L. Chao, S. L. Perkins, and J. B. Wolf. 1995. Genetic mosaicism in plants and clonal animals. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26:423-444.