V. Louise Roth
Professor in the Department of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Yale University 1982
M.Phil., Yale University 1978
B.S., Brown University 1975
Louise Roth, V, and Mercer, JM. "Themes and variation in sciurid evolution." In Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development, 221-245. January 1, 2015. Full Text
Roth, VL. "Within and Between Organisms: Replicators, Lineages, and Homologues." In Homology: The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology, 301-337. October 22, 2013. Full Text
Roth, VL. "Variation and versatility in macroevolution." In Variation, a Central Concept in Biology,edited by B HallgrÍmsson and BK Hall, 455-474. Academic Press, 2005. (Chapter) Full Text
Roth, VL. "Character replication." In The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology,edited by GP Wagner, 81-107. Academic Press, 2001. (Chapter)
Roth, VL. "Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands." In The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives,edited by J Shoshani and P Tassy, 249-253. Oxford University Press, 1996. (Chapter)
Todd, NE, and Roth, VL. "Origin and radiation of the Elephantidae." In The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives,edited by J Shoshani and P Tassy, 193-202. Oxford University Press, 1996. (Chapter)
Roth, VL. "Within and between organisms: Replicators, lineages, and homologues." In Homology: the Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology,edited by BK Hall, 310-337. Academic Press, 1994. (Chapter)
Agenbroad, LD, Lister, AM, Mol, D, and Roth, VL. "Mammuthus primigenius remains from the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota." In The Hot Springs Mammoth Site: a Decade of Field and Laboratory Research in Paleontology, Geology, and Paleoecology,edited by LD Agenbroad and JI Mead, 269-281. Hot Springs, SD: The Mammoth Site, 1994. (Chapter)
Roth, VL. "Dwarfism and variability in the Santa Rosa island mammoth: An interspecific comparison of limb-bone sizes and shapes in elephants." In Third California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands,edited by FG Hochberg, 433-442. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1993. (Chapter)
Roth, VL. "On three-dimensional morphometrics, and on the identification of landmark points." In Advances in Morphometrics,edited by L Marcus, E Bello, and AG Valdecasas, 41-61. Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1993. (Chapter)
Pages
Badgley, C, Smiley, TM, Terry, R, Davis, EB, DeSantis, LRG, Fox, DL, Hopkins, SSB, Jezkova, T, Matocq, MD, Matzke, N, McGuire, JL, Mulch, A, Riddle, BR, Roth, VL, Samuels, JX, Strömberg, CAE, and Yanites, BJ. "Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32, no. 3 (March 2017): 211-226. (Review) Full Text
Hoehn, KB, Harnik, PG, and Roth, VL. "A framework for detecting natural selection on traits above the species level." Edited by R Freckleton. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 3 (March 2016): 331-339. Full Text
Van Valkenburgh, B, Hayward, MW, Ripple, WJ, Meloro, C, and Roth, VL. "The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 4 (2016): 862-867.
Durst, PAP, and Roth, VL. "Mainland size variation informs predictive models of exceptional insular body size change in rodents." Proceedings. Biological sciences 282, no. 1810 (July 2015). Full Text Open Access Copy
Price, SA, Hopkins, SSB, Smith, KK, and Roth, VL. "Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 18 (May 2012): 7008-7012. Full Text
Durst, PAP, and Roth, VL. "Classification tree methods provide a multifactorial approach to predicting insular body size evolution in rodents." Am Nat 179, no. 4 (April 2012): 545-553. Full Text
Curtin, AJ, MacDowell, AA, Schaible, EG, and Roth, VL. "Noninvasive histological comparison of bone growth patterns among fossil and extant neonatal elephantids using synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32, no. 4 (2012): 939-955. Full Text
Chi, K-J, and Roth, VL. "Scaling and mechanics of carnivoran footpads reveal the principles of footpad design." Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7, no. 49 (2010): 1145-1155. Full Text
Curtin, AJ, MacDowell, AA, Schaible, EG, and Roth, VL. "Non-invasive histological comparison of bone growth patterns among fossil and extant neonatal elephantids using synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography." INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 49 (February 2009): E42-E42.
Siegel, SJ, Percopo, CM, Dyer, KD, Zhao, W, Roth, VL, Mercer, JM, and Rosenberg, HF. "RNase 1 genes from the family Sciuridae define a novel rodent ribonuclease cluster." Mammalian Genome 20, no. 11-12 (2009): 749-757. Full Text
Pages
Durst, PA, and Roth, VL. "Examining factors influencing body size change for insular rodents." April 2013.
Chi, K-J, Schmitt, D, and Roth, VL. "Different functional mechanisms of foot-footpad complex for plantigrade and digitigrade mammals in the context of locomotion." February 2009.
Chi, KJ, and Roth, VL. "Scaling of foot contact area and its mechanical implications for mammals of different foot postures." December 2004.
Roth, VL. "Ecology and evolution of dwarfing in insular elephants." The World of Elephants: Proceedings of the 1st International Congress. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Rome. 2001.
Roth, VL. "Morphometrics in development and evolution." 1999.
ROTH, V, and DISHOP, M. "Evolutionary Relationships Among the Scriurdae - Analysis of Cranial Characters in Tree, ground, and Flying Squirrels." October 1994.
Roth, VL. Dwarf mammoths from the Santa Barbara, California Channel Islands: size, shape, development and evolution. 1982. (PhD Thesis)
Roth, VL. "Macroecology of animal body size." BioScience (BioOne) 64, no. 6 (2014): 546-547. (Scholarly Commentary)
Roth, VL. "Homology." Novartis Foundation Symposium #222 (1999). (Scholarly Commentary)
Roth, VL. "Homoplasy: the recurrence of similarity in evolution." American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society 86 (1998): 193-193. (Scholarly Commentary)
Roth, VL. "Mammoths, mastodonts, and elephants: biology, behavior and the fossil record." Journal of Mammalogy 75 (1994): 234-236. (Scholarly Commentary)
Roth, VL. "On evolution and fossil mammals." American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society 77 (1989): 283-283. (Scholarly Commentary)
Roth, VL. "Vertebrate Fetal Membranes. Comparative Ontogeny and Morphology; Evolution; Phylogenetic Significance; Basic Functions; Research Opportunities. Harland W. Mossman." The Quarterly Review of Biology 63, no. 1 (March 1988): 89-89. Full Text
Roth, VL. "The Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (1814) in The Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia; Its Distribution, Ecology, and Conservation." Systematic Zoology 36 (1987): 90-91. (Scholarly Commentary)
Selected Grants
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Factors Influencing the Coevolution of Peromyscus Maniculatus and its Ectoparasites on the Califo awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Mechanical Properties and Functional Morphology of Mammalian Footpads awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2002 to 2004
REU Supplement: Molecular Systematics of the Sciuridae awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1998 to 2004
(97-1024) Molecular Systematics of the Sciuridae awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1998 to 2002
Dissertation Research: Evolution and Functional Morphology in Incisors in Wood-Cutting Castorids awarded by National Science Foundation (Co Investigator). 2000 to 2001
(91-0449) A Comparative Study of Cranial Development in the Thamnophiine Snakes awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1991 to 1993
(86-0098) Systematics and Allometry of Pygmy Squirrels awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1986 to 1989
(86-0123) Systematic and Allometry of Pygmy Squirrels awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1986 to 1989