F. James Rohlf

Professional service (past and present)

• Established the "Rohlf Medal" for Excellence in Morphometric Methods and Applications in 2006.

Publications (recent first)

• Braga, José and Veronika Zimmer, Jean Dumoncel, Chafik Samir, Clément Zanolli, Débora Pinto, F. James Rohlf, Frederick Grine. 2019. Efficacy of diffeomorphic surface matching and 3D geometric morphometrics for taxonomic discrimination of Early Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars. J. Human Evol. 130:21-35.
• Rohlf, F. J. 2017. The method of random skewers. Evolutionary Biology 44:542-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9425-8
• Martinez, C. M., F. J. Rohlf, and M. G. Frisk. 2016. Sexual dimorphism in sister species of Leucoraja skate and its relationship to reproductive strategy and life history. Evolution and Development. 18:105-115.
• Martinez, C. M., F. J. Rohlf, and M. G. Frisk. 2016. Re-evaluation of batoid pectoral morphology reveals novel patterns of diversity among major lineages. Journal of Morphology 277:482-493.
• Rohlf, F. J. 2016. Some notes on the early years of the Classification Society. Classification Society Newsletter 87:3-5.
• Sclove, S. L. and F. J. Rohlf. 2016. The Classification Society: the first fifty years. Classification Society Newsletter 87:6-20.
• Smaers, J. B. and F. J. Rohlf. 2016. Testing species’ deviation from allometric predictions using the phylogenetic regression. Evolution, 70:1145-1149.
• Rohlf, F.J. 2015. The tps series of software. Hystrix: The Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 26:1-4.
• Sibony, P., M. J. Kupersmith, R. Honkanen, F. J. Rohlf, and A. Torab-Parhiz. 2014. Effects of lowering cerebrospinal fluid pressure on the shape of the peripapillary retina in intracranial hypertension. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. 55:8223-8231.
• Baab, K. L., J. M. G. Perry, F. J. Rohlf, and W. L. Jungers. 2014. Phylogenetic, Ecological, and Allometric Correlates of Cranial Shape in Malagasy Lemuriforms. Evolution, 68:1450-1468.
• Bland, J. M., D. G. Altman, and F. J. Rohlf. 2013. In defense of the logarithmic transformation. Statistics in Medicine, 32:3766-3769.
• Adams, D. C., F. J. Rohlf, and D. E. Slice. 2013?. A field comes of age: geometric morphometrics in the 21st century. Hystrix, 24:7-14.
• Zhang, T., R. A. DeSimone, X. Jiao, F. J. Rohlf, W. Zhu, Q. Q. Gong, S. R. Hunt, T. Dassopoulos, R. D. Newberry, E. Sodergren, G. Weinstock, D. N. Frank, E. Li. 2012. Host genes related to Paneth cells and xenobiotic metabolism are associated with shifts in human ileum-associated microbial composi¬tion. PLoS ONE, 7:e30044. 7pp.
• Cruz, R. A. L., M. J. R. Pante, and F. J. Rohlf. 2012. Geometric Analysis of Shell Shape Variation in Conus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 165:296-310.
• Li, E., C. M. Hamm, A. Gulati, R. B. Sartor, H. Chen, X. Wu, T. Zhang, F. J. Rohlf, W. Zhu, C. Gu, C. E. Robertson, N. R. Pace, E. C. Boedeker, N. Harpaz, J. Yuan, G. M. Weinstock, E. Sodergren, D. N. Frank. 2012. Inflammatory bowel diseases phenotype, C. difficile and NOD2 genotype are associated with shifts in human ileum associated microbial composition. PLoS ONE, 7: e26284. 10pp.
• Sibony, P.; Kupersmith, M.; Rohlf, F. J. 2011. Shape analysis of the peripapillary RPE layer in papilledema and ischemic optic neuropathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 52:7987-7995.
• Perez, S. I., J. A. Diniz-Filho, F. J. Rohlf, and S. F. dos Reis. 2009. Ecological and Evolutionary Factors in the Morphological Diversification of South American Spiny Rats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 98:646-660.
• Adams, D. C., A. Cardini, L. R. Monteiro, P. O’Higgins, and F. J. Rohlf. 2011. Morphometrics and Phylogenetics: principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters. Journal of Human Evolution, 60:240-243.
• Hsiao, H., M. Friess, B. Bradtmiller, and F. J. Rohlf. 2009. Development of sizing structure for fall arrest harness design. Ergonomics, 52:1128-1143.