David J. Gower, British herpetologist.

  • Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdon.

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2003

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  • Gower, D.J. & Wilkinson, M. 2007. Species groups in the Indian caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the description of a new species. Herpetologica 63(3): 401–410. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[401:SGITIC]2.0.CO;2   Reference page
  • Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J., Govindappa, V. & Venkatachalaiah, G. 2007. A new species of Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Karnataka, India. Herpetologica 63(4): 511–518. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[511:ANSOIA]2.0.CO;2   Reference page
  • Müller, H., Loader, S. P., Ngalason, W., Howell, K. M. & Gower, D. J. (2007) Reproduction in brevicipitid frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) – evidence from Probreviceps m. macrodactylus Copeia 2007: 726–733.
  • Newell, A. J., Gower, D. J., Benton, M. J. & Tverdokhlebov, V. P. (2007) Bedload abrasion and the in situ fragmentation of bivalve shells. Sedimentology 54: 835–845.
  • Gower, D. J. & Winkler, J. D. (2007) Taxonomy of the Indian snake Xylophis Beddome (Serpentes: Caenophidia), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 31: 315–329.
  • Loader, S. P., Pisani, D., Cotton, J. A., Gower, D. J., Day, J. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Relative timescales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians. Biology Letters 3: 505–508.
  • Gower, D. J., Dharne, M., Bhatta, G., Giri, V., Vyas, R., Govindappa, V., Oommen, O. V., George, J., Schouche, Y. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Remarkable genetic homogeneity in unstriped, long-tailed Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) along 1500 km of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Zoology 272: 266–275.
  • Harris, S. R., Pisani, D., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Investigating stagnation in morphological phylogenetics using consensus data. Systematic Biology 56: 125–129.
  • Gower, D. J., Giri, V. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Rediscovery of Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower & Wilkinson (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) at the type locality. Herpetozoa 19: 121–127.
  • Roelants, K., Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S.P., Biju, S.D., Guillaume, K., Moriau, L. & Bossuyt, F. 2007. Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(3): 887–892. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608378104   Reference page

2008

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  • Gower, D.J., Captain, A. & Thakur, S.S. 2008. On the taxonomic status of Uropeltis bicatenata (Günther) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Hamadryad 33(1): 64-82. Reference page
  • Bain, R., Biju, S.D., Brown, R., Das, I., Diesmos, A., Dutta, S., Gower, D., Inger, R., Iskandar, D., Kaneko, Y., Lau, M.W.N., Meegaskumbura, M., Ohler, A., Papenfuss, T., Pethiyagoda, R., Stuart, B., Wilkinson, M. and Xie, F. (2008) Amphibians of the Indomalayan region. Pp. 74-79, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.
  • Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 19-20, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.
  • Kupfer, A., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J., Müller, H. & Jehle, R. (2008) Care and parentage in a skin-feeding caecilian amphibian. Journal of Experimental Zoology 309A: 460–467.
  • Gower, D. J., Giri, V., Dharne, M. S. & Shouche, Y. (2008) Frequency of independent origins of viviparity among caecilians (Gymnophiona): evidence from the first 'live-bearing' Asian amphibian. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1220–1226.
  • Gower, D. J., Rajendran, A., Nussbaum, R. A. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) A new species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the malabaricus group. Herpetologica 64: 235–245.

2009

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  • Kamei, R.G., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J. & Biju, S.D. 2009. Three new species of striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland. Zootaxa 2267(1): 26–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2267.1.2   Reference page
  • Butler, R. J., Barrett, P. M. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Postcranial pneumaticity and bird-like air sacs in the earliest pterosaurs. Biology Letters 5: 557–560.
  • Davies, W. L., Cowing, J. A., Bowmaker, J. K., Carvalho, L. S., Gower, D. J. & Hunt, D. M. (2009) Shedding light on serpent sight: the visual pigment of henophidian snakes. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 7519–7525.
  • Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2009) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 369-372. In S. B. Hedges & S. Kumar The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Müller, H., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., Wirkner, C. S. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphus kirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 491–504.
  • Gower, D. J. & Schoch, R. S. (2009) Postcranial anatomy of the rauisuchian archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 103–122.
  • San Mauro, D., Gower, D.J., Massingham, T., Wilkinson, M., Zardoya, R. & Cotton, J.A. 2009. Experimental Design in Caecilian Systematics: Phylogenetic Information of Mitochondrial Genomes and Nuclear rag1. Systematic Biology 58(4): 425–438. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp043   Reference page

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