Publications
Blackburn DC, Boyer DM, Gray JA, . . . the oVert Project Team (including WB Ludt, R Ferraro*, M Wilson*, C Fajardo*), Stanley EL (2024) Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: the open Vertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. Bioscience, 0, 1–18.
Victor BC, Frable BW, Ludt WB (2024) Halichoeres sanchezi n. sp., a new wrasse from the Revillagigedo Archipelago of Mexico, tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Labridae). PeerJ 12:e16828 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16828
Ludt WB, Corbett EC, Kattawar J, Chakrabarty P, Faircloth BC (2023) A reference genome for Bluegill (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad019
Ghezelayagh A, Harrington RC, … Ludt WB, ... Faircloth BC, Wainwright PC, Near TJ (2022) Morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01801-3.
Girard MG, Davis MP, Hui TH, Wedd D, Chakrabarty P, Ludt WB, Summers AP, Smith WL (2022) Phylogenetics of archerfishes (Toxotidae) and evolution of the toxotid shooting apparatus. Integrative Organismal Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac013
Ludt WB, Clardy TR (2022) First detection of biofluorescence in a deep-sea anglerfish. Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14988.
Alda F, Ludt WB, Elías DJ, McMahan CD, Chakrabarty P (2021) Comparing ultraconserved elements and exons for phylogenomic analyses of Middle American cichlids: when data agree to disagree. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(8), evab161.
Ludt WB (2021) Missing in the middle: A review of equatorially disjunct marine taxa. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:660984. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.660984
Bell KC, Adams BJ, Brown BV, Ludt WB, Pauly GB, Shultz AJ, Vendetti JE (2021) Museums are critical infrastructure for studying urban biodiversity. Bioscience, 71(5), 433.
Ludt WB, Myers CE (2021) Distinguishing Between Dispersal and Vicariance: A Novel Approach Using Anti-Tropical Taxa Across the Fish Tree of Life. Journal of Biogeography, 48(3), 577–589.
Shultz AJ, Adams BJ, Bell KC, Ludt WB, Pauly GB, Vendetti JE (2021) Natural history collections are critical and underutilized resources for contemporary and future studies of urban evolution. Evolutionary Applications, 14, 233–247.
Ludt WB, Jabado RW, Al Hameli SM, Freeman L*, Teruyama G*, Chakrabarty P, Al Dhaheri SS (2020) Establishing a reference collection and DNA barcoding the coastal fishes of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 35, 54–64.
Hart PB, Niemiller NM, Burress ED, Armbruster JW, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2020) Cave-adapted evolution in the North American Amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics. Evolution, 74(5), 936–949.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA, Chakrabarty P (2020) The first mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5(1), 212–213, DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1699465.
Tea YK, Van Der Wal C, Ludt WB, Gill AC, Lo N, Ho SYW (2019) Boomeranging around Australia: Historical biogeography and population genomics of the anti-equatorial fish Microcanthus strigatus (Teleostei: Microcanthidae). Molecular Ecology, 28(16), 3771–3785.
Chakrabarty P, Ludt WB, Parker S (2019) The Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science Fish Collections: An important modern collection of neotropical fishes and DNA. Boletim Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia, 29, 49–52.
Ludt WB, Burridge CP, Chakrabarty P (2019) A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa, 4585(1), 121–141.
Kenaley CP, Stote A, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2019) Comparative functional and phylogenomic analyses of host association in the remoras (Echeneidae), a family of hitchhiking fishes. Integrative Organismal Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz007
Crandall ED, Riginos C, Bird CE, … Ludt WB, … Gaither MR (2019) The molecular biogeography of the Indo-Pacific: testing hypotheses with multispecies genetic patterns. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 28(7), 943–960.
Ludt WB, Bernal MA, Kenworthy E*, Salas E, Chakrabarty P (2019) Investigating species limits of surgeonfishes from the Eastern Pacific (Acanthuridae: Prionurus) using genomic, ecological, and morphological data. Ecology & Evolution, 9(7), 4001–4012.
Alda F, Tagliacollo VA, Bernt MJ, Waltz BT, Ludt WB, Faircloth BC, Alfaro MA, Albert JS, Chakrabarty P (2019) Resolving deep nodes in an ancient radiation of neotropical fishes in the presence of conflicting signals from incomplete lineage sorting. Systematic Biology, 68(4), 573–593.
Ludt WB, Morgan L*, Bishop J, Chakrabarty P (2018) A quantitative and statistical biological comparison of three semi- enclosed seas: The Red Sea, the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, and the Gulf of California. Marine Biodiversity, 48(4), 2119–2124.
Chakrabarty P, Faircloth B, Alda F, Ludt WB, McMahan CD, Near TJ, Dornberg A, Albert JS, Arroyave J, Stiassny MLJS, Sorenson L, Alfaro ME (2017) Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-Monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic Biology, 66(6), 881–895.
Ng, HH, Tan HH, Lim KKP, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2015) Fishes of the eastern Johor Strait. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 31.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA, Erdmann MV, Chakrabarty P (2015) Skipping across the tropics: the evolutionary history of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84, 166-172.
Derouen, VA, Ludt WB, Ho, H, Chakrabarty P (2015) Examining evolutionary relationships and shifts in depth-preferences in batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84, 27-33.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA (2015) Shifting seas: the impacts of Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations on the evolution of tropical marine taxa. Journal of Biogeography 42, 25-38.
Ludt WB, Bernal M, Bowen B, Rocha LA (2012) Living in the past: Phylogeography and population histories of Indo-Pacific Wrasses (Genus Halichoeres) in shallow lagoons versus outer reef slopes. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38042. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038042
Victor BC, Frable BW, Ludt WB (2024) Halichoeres sanchezi n. sp., a new wrasse from the Revillagigedo Archipelago of Mexico, tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Labridae). PeerJ 12:e16828 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16828
Ludt WB, Corbett EC, Kattawar J, Chakrabarty P, Faircloth BC (2023) A reference genome for Bluegill (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad019
Ghezelayagh A, Harrington RC, … Ludt WB, ... Faircloth BC, Wainwright PC, Near TJ (2022) Morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01801-3.
Girard MG, Davis MP, Hui TH, Wedd D, Chakrabarty P, Ludt WB, Summers AP, Smith WL (2022) Phylogenetics of archerfishes (Toxotidae) and evolution of the toxotid shooting apparatus. Integrative Organismal Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac013
Ludt WB, Clardy TR (2022) First detection of biofluorescence in a deep-sea anglerfish. Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14988.
Alda F, Ludt WB, Elías DJ, McMahan CD, Chakrabarty P (2021) Comparing ultraconserved elements and exons for phylogenomic analyses of Middle American cichlids: when data agree to disagree. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(8), evab161.
Ludt WB (2021) Missing in the middle: A review of equatorially disjunct marine taxa. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:660984. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.660984
Bell KC, Adams BJ, Brown BV, Ludt WB, Pauly GB, Shultz AJ, Vendetti JE (2021) Museums are critical infrastructure for studying urban biodiversity. Bioscience, 71(5), 433.
Ludt WB, Myers CE (2021) Distinguishing Between Dispersal and Vicariance: A Novel Approach Using Anti-Tropical Taxa Across the Fish Tree of Life. Journal of Biogeography, 48(3), 577–589.
Shultz AJ, Adams BJ, Bell KC, Ludt WB, Pauly GB, Vendetti JE (2021) Natural history collections are critical and underutilized resources for contemporary and future studies of urban evolution. Evolutionary Applications, 14, 233–247.
Ludt WB, Jabado RW, Al Hameli SM, Freeman L*, Teruyama G*, Chakrabarty P, Al Dhaheri SS (2020) Establishing a reference collection and DNA barcoding the coastal fishes of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 35, 54–64.
Hart PB, Niemiller NM, Burress ED, Armbruster JW, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2020) Cave-adapted evolution in the North American Amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics. Evolution, 74(5), 936–949.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA, Chakrabarty P (2020) The first mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5(1), 212–213, DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1699465.
Tea YK, Van Der Wal C, Ludt WB, Gill AC, Lo N, Ho SYW (2019) Boomeranging around Australia: Historical biogeography and population genomics of the anti-equatorial fish Microcanthus strigatus (Teleostei: Microcanthidae). Molecular Ecology, 28(16), 3771–3785.
Chakrabarty P, Ludt WB, Parker S (2019) The Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science Fish Collections: An important modern collection of neotropical fishes and DNA. Boletim Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia, 29, 49–52.
Ludt WB, Burridge CP, Chakrabarty P (2019) A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa, 4585(1), 121–141.
Kenaley CP, Stote A, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2019) Comparative functional and phylogenomic analyses of host association in the remoras (Echeneidae), a family of hitchhiking fishes. Integrative Organismal Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz007
Crandall ED, Riginos C, Bird CE, … Ludt WB, … Gaither MR (2019) The molecular biogeography of the Indo-Pacific: testing hypotheses with multispecies genetic patterns. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 28(7), 943–960.
Ludt WB, Bernal MA, Kenworthy E*, Salas E, Chakrabarty P (2019) Investigating species limits of surgeonfishes from the Eastern Pacific (Acanthuridae: Prionurus) using genomic, ecological, and morphological data. Ecology & Evolution, 9(7), 4001–4012.
Alda F, Tagliacollo VA, Bernt MJ, Waltz BT, Ludt WB, Faircloth BC, Alfaro MA, Albert JS, Chakrabarty P (2019) Resolving deep nodes in an ancient radiation of neotropical fishes in the presence of conflicting signals from incomplete lineage sorting. Systematic Biology, 68(4), 573–593.
Ludt WB, Morgan L*, Bishop J, Chakrabarty P (2018) A quantitative and statistical biological comparison of three semi- enclosed seas: The Red Sea, the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, and the Gulf of California. Marine Biodiversity, 48(4), 2119–2124.
Chakrabarty P, Faircloth B, Alda F, Ludt WB, McMahan CD, Near TJ, Dornberg A, Albert JS, Arroyave J, Stiassny MLJS, Sorenson L, Alfaro ME (2017) Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-Monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic Biology, 66(6), 881–895.
Ng, HH, Tan HH, Lim KKP, Ludt WB, Chakrabarty P (2015) Fishes of the eastern Johor Strait. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 31.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA, Erdmann MV, Chakrabarty P (2015) Skipping across the tropics: the evolutionary history of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84, 166-172.
Derouen, VA, Ludt WB, Ho, H, Chakrabarty P (2015) Examining evolutionary relationships and shifts in depth-preferences in batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84, 27-33.
Ludt WB, Rocha LA (2015) Shifting seas: the impacts of Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations on the evolution of tropical marine taxa. Journal of Biogeography 42, 25-38.
Ludt WB, Bernal M, Bowen B, Rocha LA (2012) Living in the past: Phylogeography and population histories of Indo-Pacific Wrasses (Genus Halichoeres) in shallow lagoons versus outer reef slopes. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38042. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038042
Book reviews and other publications
Ludt WB (2021) A review of: Miller and Lea's Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California. Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Thacker CE, Ludt WB, Pauly GB (2021) Richard Francis Feeney (1954–2021). Ichthyology& Herpetology, 109(4) , 1085–1089.
Ludt WB (2016) A review of: A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes from Alaska to California.
Copeia, 104(2), 611–612.
Ludt WB (2015) A review of: Review of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Anthiine Fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Serranidae), with Descriptions of Two New Genera. Copeia, 103(1), 229-230.
Thacker CE, Ludt WB, Pauly GB (2021) Richard Francis Feeney (1954–2021). Ichthyology& Herpetology, 109(4) , 1085–1089.
Ludt WB (2016) A review of: A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes from Alaska to California.
Copeia, 104(2), 611–612.
Ludt WB (2015) A review of: Review of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Anthiine Fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Serranidae), with Descriptions of Two New Genera. Copeia, 103(1), 229-230.
* Designates undergraduate author