Curator of Mammals
  University of Alaska Museum of the North
  907 Yukon Drive
  99775-6960
  tel: 907-474-5998
  link.olson@uaf.edu

  Associate Professor
  Department of Biology and Wildlife

  Research Associate
  Institute of Arctic Biology
 
     

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Gunderson, AM, BK Jacobsen, and LE Olson. In press. Revised distribution of the Alaska marmot, Marmota broweri, and confirmation of parapatry with hoary marmots. Journal of Mammalogy.

  • Lanier, HC, and LE Olson. In press. Inferring divergence times within pikas (Ochotona) using mtDNA and relaxed molecular dating techniques. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. (view online)

  • Roberts, TE, EJ Sargis, and LE Olson. In press. Networks, trees, and treeshrews: Assessing support and identifying conflict with multiple loci and a problematic root. Systematic Biology. (view online)

  • O'Brien, J, C Hanley, LE Olson, AL Russell, L Say, AD Yoder, and TJ Hayden. 2009. Multiple colonisations of the western Indian Ocean by Pteropus fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae): The furthest islands were colonised first. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51: 294-303. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE, EJ Sargis, WT Stanley, KBP Hildebrandt, and TRB Davenport. 2008. Additional molecular evidence strongly supports the distinction between the recently described African primate Rungwecebus kipunji (Cercopithecidae, Papionini) and Lophocebus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 789–794. (download pdf)

  • Gilbert, C, SM Goodman, V Soarimalala, LE Olson, PCM O'Brien, FFB Elder, F Yang, MA Ferguson-Smith, and TJ Robinson. 2007. Chromosomal evolution in tenrecs (Microgale and Oryzorictes, Tenrecidae) from the Central Highlands of Madagascar. Chromosome Research DOI: 10.1007/s10577-007-1182-6. (download pdf)

  • Millien, V, SK Lyons, LE Olson, FA Smith, AB Wilson, and Y Yom-Tov. 2006. Ecotypic
    variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules. Ecology Letters 9: 853-869. (download pdf)

  • Davenport, TRB, WT Stanley, EJ Sargis, DW De Luca, NE Mpunga, SJ Machaga, and LE Olson. 2006. A new genus of African monkey, Rungwecebus: Morphology, ecology, and molecular phylogenetics. Science 312: 1378-1381. (download pdf)
    • Read about UAF undergraduate involvement in this project
    • Read more about the discovery of Rungwecebus: Field Museum, Wildlife Conservation Society

  • Goodman, SM, CJ Raxworthy, CP Maminirina, and LE Olson. 2006. A new species of shrew tenrec (Microgale jobihely) from northern Madagascar. Journal of Zoology 270: 384-398. (download pdf)

  • Stanley, WT and LE Olson. 2005. Phylogeny, phylogeography, and geographic variation of Sylvisorex howelli, an endemic shrew of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Journal of Zoology 266: 341-354. (download pdf)

  • Yoder, AD, LE Olson, C Hanley, K Heckman, R Rasoloarison, AL Russell, J Ranivo, V Soarimalala, KP Karanth, AP Raselimanana, and SM Goodman. 2005. A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 102 (suppl. 1): 6587-6594. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE, EJ Sargis, and RD Martin. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) based on evidence from the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 656-673. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE, SM Goodman, and AD Yoder. 2004. Illumination of cryptic species boundaries in long-tailed shrew tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae; Microgale): New insights into geographic variation and distributional constraints. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 1-22. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE, EJ Sargis, and RD Martin. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among treeshrews (Scandentia): A review and critique of the morphological evidence. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 11: 49-71. (download pdf)

  • Harris, MB, LE Olson, and WK Milsom. 2004. The origin of mammalian heterothermy: A case for perpetual youth? Pp. 143-152 in Living in the Cold, BM Barnes & HV Carey (eds.). (download pdf)

  • Benstead, JP and LE Olson. 2003. Limnogale mergulus. Pp. 1267-1273 in Natural History of Madagascar, SM Goodman & JP Benstead (eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2003. Phylogeny of Madagascar's tenrecs (Lipotyphla, Tenrecidae). Pp. 1235-1242 in Natural History of Madagascar, SM Goodman & JP Benstead (eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

  • Olson, LE and A Hassanin. 2003. Contamination and chimerism are perpetuating the legend of the snake-eating cow with twisted horns (Pseudonovibos spiralis). A case study of the pitfalls of ancient DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 545-548. (download pdf)

  • Olson, LE and AD Yoder. 2002. Using secondary structure to identify ribosomal numts: cautionary examples from the human genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 93-100. (download pdf)

  • Brandt, JH, M Diolo, A Hassanin, RA Melville, LE Olson, A Seveau, and RM Timm. 2001. Debate on the authenticity of Pseudonovibos spiralis as a new species of wild bovid from Vietnam and Cambodia. Journal of Zoology 254: 437-444. (download pdf)

  • Goodman, SM, D. Rakotondravony, LE Olson, E. Razafimahatratra, and V. Soarimalala. 1998. Les insectivores et les rongeurs. In Inventaire biologique Foret d'Andranomay, Anjozorobe. Recherches pour le Development, Sérei Sciences biologiques, No. 13 (SM Goodman, ed.), pp. 80-93. Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique, Antananarivo, Madagascar.

  • Goodman, SM, JU Ganzhorn, LE Olson, M Pidgeon, and V. Soarimalala. 1997. Annual variation in species diversity and relative density of rodents and insectivores in the Parc National de la Montagne d'Ambre, Madagascar. Ecotropica 3: 109-118.

  • Goodman, SM, A. Andrianarimisa, LE Olson, and V. Soarimalala. 1996. Patterns of elevational distribution of birds and small mammals in the humid forests of the Montagne d'Ambre, Madagascar. Ecotropica 2: 87-98.

Non-reviewed publications, reviews, reports, and accounts

  • 2005-2009. Numerous mammal species accounts coauthored with undergraduate students and published on the Animal Diversity Web. For a complete list, click here.

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2008. Echinops telfairi. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2008. Geogale aurita. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2008. Limnogale mergulus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2008. Microgale majori. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

  • Olson, LE and SM Goodman. 2008. Microgale principula. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

  • Olson, LE. 1997. Mammals of the Great Lakes Region [review]. Journal of Mammalogy 78: 696-698.

  • Olson, LE. 1997. Tenrecs---an example of evolution in isolation. In the Field 68: 1.
 
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