Lab Publications (also on Google Scholar)
39) McLean BS, et al. (48 authors) Extending mammal specimens with their essential phenotypic traits. Journal of Mammalogy in revision.
38) Odom et al. (author 8 of 9) Seasonal succession of cestode metacommunities in two North American Sorex shrews. Journal of Parasitology in press.
37) McLean BS, Stierman KE, Ivey LR, Weller AK, Chapman OS, Miller AM, Byrd JS, Garcia AM, Greiman SE. 2025. Seasonal body size plasticity and the generality of Dehnel’s phenomenon in Sorex shrews. The American Naturalist 205:537—546. <https://doi.org/10.1086/735018> <Popular Press here, here, and here>
36) McLean BS, Rickart EA, Cook JA, Guralnick RP, Burgin C, Lohr K. 2025. Integrative species delimitation reveals an Idaho-endemic ground squirrel, Urocitellus idahoensis (Merriam 1913). Journal of Mammalogy 106:405—429. <https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae135> <Popular Press here, here, and here>
35) Beltran et al. (author 7 of 13) 2025. Integrating animal tracking and trait data to facilitate global ecological discoveries. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (Suppl_1):jeb247981. <https://doi:10.1242/jeb.247981>.
34) Boldgiv et al. (author 17 of 26) 2025. Global natural history infrastructure requires international solidarity, support and investment in local capacity: lessons from Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122:e2411232122. <https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2411232122>.
33) Richardson et al. (author 5 of 9) 2024. Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA. PlosONE 19:e0311698. <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311698>
32) Chapman OS, McLean BS. 2024. Gastrointestinal morphology is an effective functional proxy for understanding small mammal community structure. Ecology 2024:e4454. <https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4454>
31) Blackburn DC, et al. (oVert Project Team) 2024. Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. Bioscience 74:169—186. <https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120>
30) Weller AK, Chapman OS, Gora SL, Guralnick RP, McLean BS. 2023. New insight into drivers of mammalian litter size from individual-level traits. Ecography 2023:e06928 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06928>
29) Chapman OS, McLean BS. 2023. Seasonal and sex-specific changes in the gastrointestinal tracts of Peromyscus maniculatus. Journal of Mammalogy 104:1264—1376 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad086>
28) McLean BS, Barve N, Guralnick RP. 2022. Sex-specific breeding phenologies in the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Ecosphere 13: e4327. <https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4327>
27) Balk M, Deck J, Emery K, et al. (author 25 of 35) 2022. A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. iScience 105101. <doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105101>
26) Abreu EF, Pavan SE, Tsuchiya MTN, McLean BS, Wilson DE, Percequillo AR, Maldonado JE. 2022. Old specimens for old branches: Assessing effects of sample age in resolving a rapid Neotropical radiation of squirrels. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175: 107576. <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107576>
25) Ponnusamy L, Garshong R, McLean BS, Wasserberg G, Durden LA, Crossley D, Apperson CS, Roe RM. 2022. Rickettsia felis and other Rickettsia Species in chigger mites collected from wild rodents in North Carolina, USA. Microorganisms 10:1342. <doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071342>
24) Kays R, et al. (author 9 of 14) 2022. Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs? Journal of Mammalogy 103:767—775. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac021>
23) McLean BS, Bell KC, Cook JA. 2022. SNP-based phylogenomic inference in Holarctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 169:107396 <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107396>
22) Hantak MM, McLean BS, Li D, Guralnick RP. 2021. Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits. Communications Biology 4:972. <doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02505-3> <Popular Press here here and here>
21) Colella JP, Stephens RB, Campbell ML, Kohli BA, Parsons DJ, McLean BS. 2021. The open-specimen movement. BioScience 71:405—414. <doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa146>
20) McLean BS, Guralnick RP. 2021. Digital biodiversity data sets reveal breeding phenology and its drivers in a widespread North American mammal. Ecology 102:e03258. <doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3258> <Popular Press here and here>
19) Guralnick RP, Hantak MM, Li D, McLean BS. 2020. Body size trends in response to climate and urbanization in the widespread North American deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus. Scientific Reports 10:8882. <doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65755-x> <Popular Press>
18) Barve VV, Brenskelle L, Li D, Stucky BJ, Barve NV, Hantak MM, McLean BS, Paluh DJ, Oswald JA, Belitz MW, Folk RA. 2020. Methods for broad‐scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8:e11315. <doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11315>
17) Phillips CD, Dunnum JL, Dowler RC, Bradley LC, Garner HJ, MacDonald KA, Lim BK, Revelez MA, Campbell ML, Lutz HL, Garza NO, ASM Systematic Collections Committee. 2019. Curatorial guidelines and standards of the American Society of Mammalogists for collections of genetic resources. Journal of Mammalogy 100:1690–1694. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz111>
16) McLean BS, Cook JA, Durden LA, Hoberg EP, Guralnick RP. 2019. The next chapter of human-plague science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:14411-14412. <doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908836116>
15) Durden LA, Robinson C, Cook JA, McLean BS, Nyamsuren B, Greiman SE. 2019. A new species of sucking louse from the long-tailed ground squirrel, Urocitellus undulatus, from Mongolia, with a key to species, and a review of host associations and geographical distributions of members of the Genus LINOGNATHOIDES (PSOCODEA: ANOPLURA: POLYPLACIDAE). Journal of Parasitology 105:469-479. <doi.org/10.1645/18-198>
14) McLean BS, Barve NN, Flenniken J, Guralnick RP. 2019. Evolution of litter size in North America’s most common small mammal: an informatics-based approach. Journal of Mammalogy 100:365–381 <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz057>
13) McLean BS, Bell KC, Allen JM, Helgen KM, Cook JA. 2019. Impacts of inference method and dataset filtering on phylogenomic resolution in a rapid radiation of ground squirrels (Xerinae: Marmotini). Systematic Biology 68:298–316. <doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy064> **Featured on cover**
12) Dunnum JD, McLean BS, Dowler RC, ASM Systematic Collections Committee. 2018. Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: a survey and directory of collections. Journal of Mammalogy 99:1307–1322. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy151>
11) McLean BS. 2018. Urocitellus parryii (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Mammalian Species 50:84-99. <doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sey011>
10) McLean BS, Nyamsuren B, Tchabovsky A, Cook JA. 2018. Impacts of late Quaternary environmental change on the long-tailed ground squirrel (Urocitellus undulatus) in Mongolia. Zoological Research 39:364-372. <doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.042> ** Special issue - Mammal Biodiversity in Asia **
9) McLean BS, Helgen KM, Goodwin HT, Cook JA. 2018. Trait-specific processes of convergence and conservatism shape ecomorphological evolution in ground-dwelling squirrels. Evolution 72:473-489. <doi.org/10.1111/evo.13422>
8) Cook JA, et al. (author 27 of 36) 2017. The Beringian Coevolution Project: holistic collections of mammals and associated parasites reveal novel perspectives on evolutionary and environmental change in the north. Arctic Science 3:585-617. <doi.org/10.1139/AS-2016-0042> **Special issue on Arctic Museum Collections**
7) McLean BS. 2017. Splendid (continental) radiations. Evolution 71:802-803. <doi.org/10.1111/evo.13183>
6) McLean BS, Jackson DJ, Cook JA. 2016. Rapid divergence and gene flow at high latitudes shape the history of Holarctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102:174-188. <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.040>
5) Cook JA, McLean BS, Jackson DJ, Colella JP, Greiman SE, Tkach VV, Jung TS, Dunnum JL. 2016. First record of the Eurasian Least Shrew (Sorex minutissimus) and associated helminths from Canada: new light on northern Pleistocene refugia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 94:367-372. <doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2015-0212>
4) Cook JA, Lacey EA, Ickert-Bond SM, Hoberg EP, Galbreath KE, Bell KC, Greiman SE, McLean BS, Edwards S. 2016. From museum cases to the classroom: emerging opportunities for specimen-based education. Archives of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University 38.
3) McLean BS, Bell KC, Dunnum JL, Abrahamson B, Colella JP, Deardorff ER, Weber J, Jones AK, Salazar-Miralles F, Cook JA. 2016. Natural history collections-based research: progress, promise and best practices. Journal of Mammalogy 97:287-297. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv178>
2) McLean BS, Ward JK, Polito MJ, Emslie SD. 2014. Responses of high-elevation herbaceous plant assemblages to low glacial CO2 concentrations revealed by fossil marmot (Marmota) teeth. Oecologia 175:1117-1127. <doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-2982-y>
38) Odom et al. (author 8 of 9) Seasonal succession of cestode metacommunities in two North American Sorex shrews. Journal of Parasitology in press.
37) McLean BS, Stierman KE, Ivey LR, Weller AK, Chapman OS, Miller AM, Byrd JS, Garcia AM, Greiman SE. 2025. Seasonal body size plasticity and the generality of Dehnel’s phenomenon in Sorex shrews. The American Naturalist 205:537—546. <https://doi.org/10.1086/735018> <Popular Press here, here, and here>
36) McLean BS, Rickart EA, Cook JA, Guralnick RP, Burgin C, Lohr K. 2025. Integrative species delimitation reveals an Idaho-endemic ground squirrel, Urocitellus idahoensis (Merriam 1913). Journal of Mammalogy 106:405—429. <https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae135> <Popular Press here, here, and here>
35) Beltran et al. (author 7 of 13) 2025. Integrating animal tracking and trait data to facilitate global ecological discoveries. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (Suppl_1):jeb247981. <https://doi:10.1242/jeb.247981>.
34) Boldgiv et al. (author 17 of 26) 2025. Global natural history infrastructure requires international solidarity, support and investment in local capacity: lessons from Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122:e2411232122. <https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2411232122>.
33) Richardson et al. (author 5 of 9) 2024. Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA. PlosONE 19:e0311698. <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311698>
32) Chapman OS, McLean BS. 2024. Gastrointestinal morphology is an effective functional proxy for understanding small mammal community structure. Ecology 2024:e4454. <https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4454>
31) Blackburn DC, et al. (oVert Project Team) 2024. Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. Bioscience 74:169—186. <https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120>
30) Weller AK, Chapman OS, Gora SL, Guralnick RP, McLean BS. 2023. New insight into drivers of mammalian litter size from individual-level traits. Ecography 2023:e06928 <https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06928>
29) Chapman OS, McLean BS. 2023. Seasonal and sex-specific changes in the gastrointestinal tracts of Peromyscus maniculatus. Journal of Mammalogy 104:1264—1376 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad086>
28) McLean BS, Barve N, Guralnick RP. 2022. Sex-specific breeding phenologies in the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Ecosphere 13: e4327. <https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4327>
27) Balk M, Deck J, Emery K, et al. (author 25 of 35) 2022. A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. iScience 105101. <doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105101>
26) Abreu EF, Pavan SE, Tsuchiya MTN, McLean BS, Wilson DE, Percequillo AR, Maldonado JE. 2022. Old specimens for old branches: Assessing effects of sample age in resolving a rapid Neotropical radiation of squirrels. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175: 107576. <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107576>
25) Ponnusamy L, Garshong R, McLean BS, Wasserberg G, Durden LA, Crossley D, Apperson CS, Roe RM. 2022. Rickettsia felis and other Rickettsia Species in chigger mites collected from wild rodents in North Carolina, USA. Microorganisms 10:1342. <doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071342>
24) Kays R, et al. (author 9 of 14) 2022. Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs? Journal of Mammalogy 103:767—775. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac021>
23) McLean BS, Bell KC, Cook JA. 2022. SNP-based phylogenomic inference in Holarctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 169:107396 <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107396>
22) Hantak MM, McLean BS, Li D, Guralnick RP. 2021. Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits. Communications Biology 4:972. <doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02505-3> <Popular Press here here and here>
21) Colella JP, Stephens RB, Campbell ML, Kohli BA, Parsons DJ, McLean BS. 2021. The open-specimen movement. BioScience 71:405—414. <doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa146>
20) McLean BS, Guralnick RP. 2021. Digital biodiversity data sets reveal breeding phenology and its drivers in a widespread North American mammal. Ecology 102:e03258. <doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3258> <Popular Press here and here>
19) Guralnick RP, Hantak MM, Li D, McLean BS. 2020. Body size trends in response to climate and urbanization in the widespread North American deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus. Scientific Reports 10:8882. <doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65755-x> <Popular Press>
18) Barve VV, Brenskelle L, Li D, Stucky BJ, Barve NV, Hantak MM, McLean BS, Paluh DJ, Oswald JA, Belitz MW, Folk RA. 2020. Methods for broad‐scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8:e11315. <doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11315>
17) Phillips CD, Dunnum JL, Dowler RC, Bradley LC, Garner HJ, MacDonald KA, Lim BK, Revelez MA, Campbell ML, Lutz HL, Garza NO, ASM Systematic Collections Committee. 2019. Curatorial guidelines and standards of the American Society of Mammalogists for collections of genetic resources. Journal of Mammalogy 100:1690–1694. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz111>
16) McLean BS, Cook JA, Durden LA, Hoberg EP, Guralnick RP. 2019. The next chapter of human-plague science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:14411-14412. <doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908836116>
15) Durden LA, Robinson C, Cook JA, McLean BS, Nyamsuren B, Greiman SE. 2019. A new species of sucking louse from the long-tailed ground squirrel, Urocitellus undulatus, from Mongolia, with a key to species, and a review of host associations and geographical distributions of members of the Genus LINOGNATHOIDES (PSOCODEA: ANOPLURA: POLYPLACIDAE). Journal of Parasitology 105:469-479. <doi.org/10.1645/18-198>
14) McLean BS, Barve NN, Flenniken J, Guralnick RP. 2019. Evolution of litter size in North America’s most common small mammal: an informatics-based approach. Journal of Mammalogy 100:365–381 <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz057>
13) McLean BS, Bell KC, Allen JM, Helgen KM, Cook JA. 2019. Impacts of inference method and dataset filtering on phylogenomic resolution in a rapid radiation of ground squirrels (Xerinae: Marmotini). Systematic Biology 68:298–316. <doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy064> **Featured on cover**
12) Dunnum JD, McLean BS, Dowler RC, ASM Systematic Collections Committee. 2018. Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: a survey and directory of collections. Journal of Mammalogy 99:1307–1322. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy151>
11) McLean BS. 2018. Urocitellus parryii (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Mammalian Species 50:84-99. <doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sey011>
10) McLean BS, Nyamsuren B, Tchabovsky A, Cook JA. 2018. Impacts of late Quaternary environmental change on the long-tailed ground squirrel (Urocitellus undulatus) in Mongolia. Zoological Research 39:364-372. <doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.042> ** Special issue - Mammal Biodiversity in Asia **
9) McLean BS, Helgen KM, Goodwin HT, Cook JA. 2018. Trait-specific processes of convergence and conservatism shape ecomorphological evolution in ground-dwelling squirrels. Evolution 72:473-489. <doi.org/10.1111/evo.13422>
8) Cook JA, et al. (author 27 of 36) 2017. The Beringian Coevolution Project: holistic collections of mammals and associated parasites reveal novel perspectives on evolutionary and environmental change in the north. Arctic Science 3:585-617. <doi.org/10.1139/AS-2016-0042> **Special issue on Arctic Museum Collections**
7) McLean BS. 2017. Splendid (continental) radiations. Evolution 71:802-803. <doi.org/10.1111/evo.13183>
6) McLean BS, Jackson DJ, Cook JA. 2016. Rapid divergence and gene flow at high latitudes shape the history of Holarctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102:174-188. <doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.040>
5) Cook JA, McLean BS, Jackson DJ, Colella JP, Greiman SE, Tkach VV, Jung TS, Dunnum JL. 2016. First record of the Eurasian Least Shrew (Sorex minutissimus) and associated helminths from Canada: new light on northern Pleistocene refugia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 94:367-372. <doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2015-0212>
4) Cook JA, Lacey EA, Ickert-Bond SM, Hoberg EP, Galbreath KE, Bell KC, Greiman SE, McLean BS, Edwards S. 2016. From museum cases to the classroom: emerging opportunities for specimen-based education. Archives of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University 38.
3) McLean BS, Bell KC, Dunnum JL, Abrahamson B, Colella JP, Deardorff ER, Weber J, Jones AK, Salazar-Miralles F, Cook JA. 2016. Natural history collections-based research: progress, promise and best practices. Journal of Mammalogy 97:287-297. <doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv178>
2) McLean BS, Ward JK, Polito MJ, Emslie SD. 2014. Responses of high-elevation herbaceous plant assemblages to low glacial CO2 concentrations revealed by fossil marmot (Marmota) teeth. Oecologia 175:1117-1127. <doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-2982-y>
- 1) McLean BS, Emslie SD. 2012. Stable isotopes reflect the ecological stability of two high-elevation mammals from the late Quaternary of Colorado. Quaternary Research 77:408-417. <doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2012.02.001>