News:

NY Times: When a Hybrid Takes Hold, the Outcome Can Be Bad UTK.edu: Congrats to Ben Fitzpatrick for his recent paper in BMC Ecology, co-authored with a team of high school students PHYSORG.com: Predators ignore peculiar prey Science Daily: Predators Ignore Peculiar Prey, Bird And Salamander Study Finds San Diego Zoo: Boas in the Caribbean San Diego Zoo: Colorful Conservation for the Rainbow Boa TCI Sun: Study of Turks Island Rainbow Boa to be conducted on Ambergris Cay TCI Weekly News: Protecting the Rainbow Boa The Economic Times: Salamanders need no isolation to evolve into species The New Scientist: Salamanders formed new species despite interbreeding Knoxville News Sentinel: Quarry Found Below Ground Knoxville News Sentinel: Photos NSF News: Interbreeding Between Invasive and Native Salamander Species Creates Hardy Hybrids... LiveScience: Slimy Salamanders Caught Crossbreeding Eureka Alert: UT researcher sheds new light on hybrid animals Tennessee Journalist: Hybrid salamanders raise questions about the future of hybridization Earth News: Salamander study challenges conservation logic Science Centric: Thriving hybrid salamanders contradict common wisdom Science Daily: Thriving Hybrid Salamanders Contradict Common Wisdom Scientia: UT Biologist Finds New Evidence of Hybrid Animal Success Bio-Medicine: UT researcher sheds new light on hybrid animals Science News 09/22/07: Hybrid power: salamander invader ups survival of rare cousin Dateline UCDAVIS: Surprise: Hybrid salamander species thriving Biology Blog.com: Interbreeding Between Invasive and Native Salamander Species
Figure 1 from Niemiller,          Fitzpatrick, and Miller 2008.	Figure 1 from Miller and Niemiller 2008.
Figure 1 from Reynolds          and Fitzpatrick 2007.	Barred Tiger Salamander larva Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium Photo Credit: Brad Shaffer (Click to link to photos)

Recent Publications:

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	Ryan, M. E., J. R. Johnson, and B. M. Fitzpatrick. 2009. Invasive hybrid tiger          salamander genotypes impact native amphibians. Proceedings of the          National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106: 11166-11171.          PDF
	Fitzpatrick, B. M., J. A. Fordyce, and S. Gavrilets. 2008. What, if anything, is          sympatric speciation? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1452-1459.          PDF
	Fitzpatrick, B.M., J.S. Placyk JR, M.L. Niemiller, G.S. Casper, and G.M.          Burghardt. 2008. Distinctiveness in the face of gene flow: hybridization          between specialist and generalist gartersnakes. Molecular Ecology 17:          4107-4117.          PDF
	Niemiller, M. L., Fitzpatrick, B. M. and B. T. Miller. 2008. Recent divergence          with gene flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae:          Gyrinophilus) inferred from gene genealogies. Molecular Ecology 17:          2258-2275.          PDF
	Fitzpatrick, B. M. 2008. Dobzhansky–Muller model of hybrid dysfunction          supported by poor burst-speed performance in hybrid tiger salamanders          Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 342-351.          PDF
	Bolnick, D. I. and B. M. Fitzpatrick 2007. Sympatric speciation: models and          empirical evidence. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and          Systematics 38: 459-487.          PDF
	Fitzpatrick, B. M. and H. B. Shaffer. 2007. Hybrid vigor between native and          introduced salamanders raises new challenges for conservation.          Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 15793-15798.           PDF
	Reynolds, R. Graham and B. M. Fitzpatrick. 2007. Assortative mating in          poison-dart frogs based on an ecologically important trait. Evolution.          61: 2253-2259.          PDF
	Fitzpatrick, B. M. and H. B. Shaffer. 2007. Introduction history and habitat          variation explain the landscape genetics of hybrid tiger salamanders.          Ecological Applications. 17: 598-608.          PDF