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David J. Gower is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in Gower's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David J. Gower include:

  • Eye-Transcriptome and Genome-Wide Sequencing for Scolecophidia: Implications for Inferring the Visual System of the Ancestral Snake (2021) Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Multilocus phylogeny, natural history traits and classification of natricine snakes (Serpentes: Natricinae) (2021) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology (2020) Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Spectral Diversification and Trans-Species Allelic Polymorphism during the Land-to-Sea Transition in Snakes (2020) Current Biology
  • Ongoing declines for the world's amphibians in the face of emerging threats (2023) Nature

Frequent co-authors in Gower's research include:

  • V. Deepak
  • Kate N. Thomas
  • Ryan K. Schott
  • Jeffrey W. Streicher
  • Rayna C. Bell

Gower has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zootaxa
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Vertebrate Zoology
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility

In addition to journal articles, Gower has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press: "The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes" (2022).

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians

    Kim Roelants;David J. Gower;Mark Wilkinson;Simon P. Loader

  • Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

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  • Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

    Simon J. O’Hanlon;Adrien Rieux;Rhys A. Farrer;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Gonçalo M. Rosa

  • Local Endemism Within the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot

    Franky Bossuyt;Madhava Meegaskumbura;Natalie Beenaerts;David D.J. Gower

  • A Hotspot of Gene Order Rearrangement by Tandem Duplication and Random Loss in the Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genome

    Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Rafael Zardoya;Mark Wilkinson

  • Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1

    Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Oommen V. Oommen;Mark Wilkinson

  • Conservation Biology of Caecilian Amphibians

    David J. Gower;Mark Wilkinson

  • A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

    Mark Wilkinson;Diego San Mauro;Emma Sherratt;David J. Gower

  • A molecular phylogeny of ichthyophiid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae): out of India or out of South East Asia?

    David J. Gower;Alex Kupfer;Oommen V. Oommen;Werner Himstedt

  • Dissecting the major American snake radiation: A molecular phylogeny of the Dipsadidae Bonaparte (Serpentes, Caenophidia)

    Nicolas Vidal;Maël Dewynter;David J. Gower

  • Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes and the role of life history and climate

    H. Christoph Liedtke;David J. Gower;Mark Wilkinson;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa

    Rachunliu G. Kamei;Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Ines Van Bocxlaer

  • Postcranial Anatomy of the Rauisuchian Archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis

    David J. Gower;Rainer R. Schoch

  • Evolution of Cranial Shape in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

    Emma Sherratt;Emma Sherratt;Emma Sherratt;David J. Gower;Christian Peter Klingenberg;Mark Wilkinson

  • Osteology of the early archosaurian reptile Erythrosuchus africanus, Broom

    DJ Gower

  • Biotic evolution and environmental change in Southeast Asia

    David Gower;Kenneth Johnson;James Richardson;Brian Rosen

  • Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians.

    Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Hendrik Müller;Simon P. Loader

  • The braincase of Euparkeria, and the evolutionary relationships of birds and crocodilians

    David J. Gower;Erich Weber

  • Braincase evolution in suchian archosaurs (Reptilia: Diapsida): evidence from the rauisuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis

    David J. Gower

  • Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida); an overview

    David J. Gower

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Ronald A. Nussbaum
Ronald A. Nussbaum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martín D. Ezcurra
Martín D. Ezcurra University of Birmingham
David Hunt
David Hunt University of Edinburgh
Andrew A. Cunningham
Andrew A. Cunningham Zoological Society of London
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Simon R. Harris
Simon R. Harris Wellcome Sanger Institute
Trenton W. J. Garner
Trenton W. J. Garner Zoological Society of London
Julian C. Partridge
Julian C. Partridge University of Western Australia
Rafael Zardoya
Rafael Zardoya Spanish National Research Council

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