Papers
Gonzalez, E. G., P. Beerli, and R. Zardoya (2008). Genetic structuring and migration patterns
of Atlantic bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus). BMC Evolutionary Biology (PDF)
Hotz, H., P. Beerli, T. Uzzell, G.-D. Guex, N. M. Pruvost, R. Schreiber, J. Plötner (in prep.).
Balancing a cline by influx of migrants: genetic transition in water frogs of eastern Greece.
Miyamoto, M. M., P. E. Moler, P. Beerli. (in prep.). A structured-coalescence analysis of nuclear
and mitochondrial DNA diversity within the salamander genus Pseudobranchus.
Douhan G. W., Smith M. E., Huyrn K. L., Westbrook A., Beerli P., and Fisher A. J. (2008) Multigene
analysis suggests ecological speciation in the fungal pathogen Claviceps purpurea. Molecular
Ecology 17: 2276-2286. (PDF)
Plötner J., Uzzell T. , Beerli P., Spolsky C. , Ohst T., Litvinchuk S. N. , Guex G.-D., Reyer H.-U.,
Hotz H. (2008). Widespread unidirectional transfer of mitochondrial DNA: a case in
western Palearctic water frogs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21: 668-681. (PDF)
Hotz, H., Guex, G.-D., Beerli, P., Semlitsch, R. D., and Pruvost, N. (2008). Hemiclone diversity
in the hybridogenetic frog Rana esculentaoutside the area of clone formation: the view from
protein electrophoresis. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
46: 5662. (PDF)
Beerli, P. (2007). Estimation of the population scaled mutation rate from microsatellite data.
Genetics 177:1967-1968. (PDF)
Plötner, J., F. Köhler, T. Uzzell, P. Beerli. (2007). Molecular Systematics of Amphibians.
In Amphibian biology, Volume 7 (Eds. Heatwole, H., and M. Tyler). Surrey Beatty & Sons.
Chipping Norton, Australia. Pp. 2672-2756. (PDF)
Beerli, P. (2006). Comparison of Bayesian and maximum likelihood inference of population
genetic parameters. Bioinformatics 22(3): 341-345. (PDF)
Mu J, Joy D.A., Duan J., Huang Y., Carlton J., Walker J., Barnwell J., Beerli P., Charleston M.A.,
Pybus O.G., Su X.Z. (2005). Host Switch Leads to Emergence of Plasmodium vivax
Malaria in Humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(8):1686-1693 (PDF)
Beerli, P. (2004). Effect of unsampled populations on the estimation population sizes and
migration rates between sampled populations. Molecular Ecology 13: 827 - 836. (PDF)
Joy, D.A., X. Feng, J. Mu, T. Furuya, K. Chotivanich, A. U. Krettli, M. Ho, A. Wang, N. J. White,
E. Suh, P. Beerli, and X. Su. (2003). Early Origin and Recent Expansion of Plasmodium
falciparum. Science 300:318-321. (PDF)
Brumfield, R., P. Beerli, D. Nickerson, and S. Edwards. (2003). Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
in Phylogeography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18(5): 249-256. (PDF)
Beerli, P., and S. V. Edwards. (2002). When did the Neanderthals and modern humans diverge?.
Centenary Anniversary Anthropology Institute University of Zurich (1999), Evolutionary
Anthropology 11: 60-63 Suppl. 1 (PDF)
Kingsolver, J. G., H. Hoekstra, J. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S. Vignieri, C. Hill, A. Hoang, P. Gibert,
and P. Beerli. (2001). The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations.
American Naturalist 157:245-261. (PDF)
Hoekstra H., J. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S. Vignieri, C. Hill, A. Hoang, P. Gibert, P. Beerli, and J.
G. Kingsolver. (2001). The Strength and Tempo of Directional Selection in the Wild.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98(16):9157-9160. (PDF)
Beerli, P. and J. Felsenstein. (2001). Maximum likelihood estimation of a migration matrix and
effective population sizes in n subpopulations using a coalescent approach. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA 98(8):4563-4568. (PDF)
Kuhner, M. K., P. Beerli, Jon Yamato, and Joseph Felsenstein. (2000). Usefulness of single nucleotide
polymorphism data for estimating population parameters. Genetics 156:439-447. (PDF)
Kuhner, M. K., and P. Beerli. (2000). Comments in Discussion of paper by Stephens, M. and
Donnelly, P. Inference in molecular population genetics. Journal of Royal Statistical
Society Series B 62(4):605-635 (Comments in pages 642-643). (PDF)
Edwards, S. V., and P. Beerli. (2000). Perspective: Gene divergence, Population divergence, and
the variance in coalescence time in phylogeographic studies. Evolution 54(6):1839-1854. (PDF)
Hotz, H., R. Semlitsch, G.-D. Guex, and P. Beerli. (1999). Spontaneous heterosis in larval life-
history traits of hemiclonal frog hybrids, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA 96: 2171-2176. (PDF)
Felsenstein, J. , M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato, and P. Beerli. (1999). Likelihoods on coalescents: a
Monte Carlo sampling approach to inferring parameters from population samples of
molecular data. Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
33: 163-185. (PDF)
Beerli, P. and J. Felsenstein. (1999). Maximum likelihood estimation of migration rates and
effective population numbers in two populations. Genetics 152: 763-773. (PDF)
Beerli, P. (1997). Letter to the Editor: Statistical analyses of population genetic data. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution 12: 488. (PDF)
Semlitsch, R. D., S. Schmiedehausen, H. Hotz, and P. Beerli. (1996). Genetic compatibility between
sexual and clonal genomes in local populations of the hybridogenetic Rana esculenta
complex. Evolutionary Ecology 10(5): 531-543.
Hotz H., T. Uzzell, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. (1996). Are hybrid clonals species? A case for
enlightened anarchy. Amphibia-Reptilia 17: 315–320. (PDF)
Beerli, P., H. Hotz, and T. Uzzell. (1996). Geologically dated sea barriers calibrate an average
protein clock in water frogs of the Aegean region. Evolution 50(4): 1676-1687. (PDF)
Beerli, P., H. Hotz, H. Tunner, S. Heppich, and T. Uzzell. (1994). Two new water frog species
from the Aegean islands Crete and Karpathos. (Amphibia, Salientia, Ranidae). Notulae
Naturae, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (470): 1-9. (PDF)
Hotz, H., P. Beerli, and C. Spolsky. (1992). Mitochondrial DNA reveals formation of nonhybrid
frogs by natural matings between hemiclonal hybrids. Molecular Biology and Evolution
9(4): 610-620. (PDF)
Beerli, P., H. Billing, and B. Schätti. (1986). Taxonomischer Status von Vipera latasti monticola
Saint Girons, 1953. Salamandra 22(2/3): 101 - 104. (PDF)
Beerli, P. (1985). Amphibieninventar des Kantons Thurgau. Mitt. thurg. naturf. Ges. 46: 7-51 (PDF)