Publications

M. A. Miller, L. Chan, M. T. Holder, P. Hoover, T. Leibowitz, P. Midford, R. A. Vos and T. Warnow. In review. The CIPRES Portal for Inference of Phylogenetic Trees. Bioinformatics

J. M. Hipfner, K. B. Gorman, J. B. Joy and R. A. Vos, in review. Evolutionary determinants of prenatal developmental period in the marine bird family Alcidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B: Biological Sciences

Vos, R. A., accepted. Accelerated Metropolis-Hastings coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo burn-in by iterative jackknifing. Systematic Biology

Vos, R. A. and A. Ø. Mooers, in revision. A dated MRP supertree for the order Primates. Systematic Biology

William H. Piel, Lucie Chan, Mark J. Dominus, Jin Ruan, Rutger A. Vos, Val Tannen. 2009. TreeBASE Version 2: A Database Of Phylogenetic Knowledge. e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics

Rutger A. Vos. 2008. Data standards in phylogenetics: the NeXML project. Proceedings of TDWG [abstract]

H. Lapp, S. Bala, J. P. Balhoff, A. Bouck, N. Goto, M. Holder, R. Holland, A. Holloway, T. Katayama, P. O. Lewis, A. Mackey, B. I. Osborne, W. H. Piel, S. L. Kosakovsky Pond, A. Poon, W.-G. Qiu, J. E. Stajich, A. Stoltzfus, T. Thierer, A. J. Vilella, R. A. Vos, C. M. Zmasek, D. Zwickl and Todd J. Vision. 2007. The 2006 NESCent Phyloinformatics Hackathon: A field report. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online3: 357-366. [abstract]

O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds, M. Cardillo, K. E. Jones, R. D. E. MacPhee, R. M. D. Beck, R. Grenyer, S. A. Price, R. A. Vos, J. L. Gittleman and A. Purvis, 2007. The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446: 507-512. [doi:10.1038/nature05634]

E. J. de Vries, R. A. Vos, G. Jacobs, and J. A. J. Breeuwer, 2006. Western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) preference for thrips-damaged leaves over fresh leaves enables uptake of symbiotic gut bacteria. European Journal of Entomology 103: 779-786. [abstract]

T. Gernhard, D. Ford, R. A. Vos and M. Steel, 2006. Estimating the relative order of speciation or coalescence events on a given phylogeny. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 2: 309-317. [abstract]

Vos, R. A. and A. Ø. Mooers, 2004. Reconstructing divergence times for supertrees: a molecular approach. In: O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds (Ed.), Phylogenetic supertrees: Combining information to reveal the Tree of Life. pp 281-299. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Vos, R. A. 2003. Accelerated likelihood surface exploration: The likelihood ratchet. Systematic Biology 52: 368-373. [doi:10.1080/10635150390196993]

Rundle, H. D., F. Breden, C. Griswold, A. Ø. Mooers, R. A. Vos, and J. Whitton. 2001. Hybridization without Guilt: Gene Flow and the Biological Species Concept. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 868-869. [doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00338.x]

Vos, R.A., 2000. The generalist-to-specialist hypothesis in primate evolution. MSc Thesis, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.