Lee A. Weigt

Journal Article

• Brandl, Simon J., Weigt, Lee A., Pitassy, Diane E., Coker, Darren J., Patrick, Christopher J., Luchese, Matheus H., Berumen, Michael L., Buskey, Edward J., Casey, Jordan M., Di Domenico, Maikon, Soeth, Marcelo, Topor, Zachary M., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baldwin, Carole C., Hagedorn, Mary, and Parenti, Lynne R. 2023. "Using standardized fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14085.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth S., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. "Biodiversity of Philippine marine fishes: A DNA barcode reference library based on voucher specimens." Scientific Data, 10, (1) 411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02306-9.
• de Queiroz, Victor, Silva, Priscilla Caroline, Malabarba, Maria Claudia, Weigt, Lee A., Dergam, Jorge Abdala, and Malabarba, Luiz R. 2023. "DNA extracted from museum specimens of the 19^th century provides a taxonomic resolution on the identity of the characid fish Psalidodon jequitinhonhae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)." Neotropical Ichthyology, 21, (4). https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0094.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee, and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2020. "Misidentification of Bellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892) as Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae)." Zootaxa, 4852, (1) 142. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.8.
• Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan, Williams, Jeffrey T., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Hubert, Nicolas, Viviani, Jérémie, Cribb, Thomas H., Espiau, Benoit, Galzin, René, Kulbicki, Michel, Lison, de Loma, Meyer, Christopher, Mourier, Johann, Mou-Tham, Gérard, Parravicini, Valeriano, Plantard, Patrick, Sasal, Pierre, Siu, Gilles, Tolou, Nathalie, Veuille, Michel, Weigt, Lee, and Planes, Serge. 2019. "A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes." Scientific Data, 6, (1) 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0123-5.
• Aguilar, Robert, Ogburn, Matthew Bryan, Driskell, Amy C., Weigt, Lee A., Groves, Mary C., and Hines, Anson H. 2017. "Gutsy genetics: identification of digested piscine prey items in the stomach contents of sympatric native and introduced warmwater catfishes via DNA barcoding." Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100, (4) 235–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-016-0523-8.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee A., and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2017. "Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist." Zootaxa, 4348, (1) 1–125. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4348.1.1.
• Rocha, Luiz A., Rocha, Claudia R., Baldwin, Carole C., Weigt, Lee A., and McField, Melanie D. 2015. "Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish - Springer." Coral Reefs, 34, (3) 803–806. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-015-1293-z.
• Deeds, J. R., Handy, S. M., Fry, Jr, F., Granade, H., Williams, Jeffrey T., Powers, M., Shipp, R., and Weigt, Lee A. 2014. "Protocol for Building a Reference Standard Sequence Library." Journal of AOAC International, 97, (6) 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5740/jaoacint.14-111.
• Baker, David M., Weigt, Lee A., Fogel, Marilyn, and Knowlton, Nancy. 2013. "Ancient DNA from Coral-Hosted Symbiodinium Reveal a Static Mutualism over the Last 172 Years." PLoS ONE, 8, (2) e55057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055057.
• Frable, Benjamin W., Baldwin, Carole C., Luther, Brendan M., and Weigt, Lee A. 2013. "A new species of western Atlantic lizardfish (Teleostei: Synodontidae: Synodus) and resurrection of Synodus bondi Fowler, 1939, as a valid species from the Caribbean with redescriptions of S. bondi, S. foetens (Linnaeus, 1766), and S. intermedius (Agassiz, 1829)." Fishery Bulletin, 111, (2) 122–146. https://doi.org/10.7755/FB.111.2.2.
• Baldwin, Carole C. and Weigt, Lee A. 2012. "A New Species of Soapfish (Teleostei: Serranidae: Rypticus), with Redescription of R. subbifrenatus and Comments on the Use of DNA Barcoding in Systematic Studies." Copeia, 2012, (1) 23–36. https://doi.org/10.1643/CG-11-035.
• Weigt, Lee A., Baldwin, Carole C., Driskell, Amy C., Smith, David G., Ormos, Andrea, and Reyier, Eric A. 2012. "Using DNA Barcoding to Assess Caribbean Reef Fish Biodiversity: Expanding Taxonomic and Geographic Coverage." PLoS ONE, 7, (7) 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041059.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Brito, Balam J., Smith, David G., Weigt, Lee A., and Escobar-Briones, Elva. 2011. "Identification of early life-history stages of Caribbean Apogon (Perciformes: Apogonidae) through DNA Barcoding." Zootaxa, (3133) 1–36.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Castillo, Cristina I., Weigt, Lee A., and Victor, Benjamin C. 2011. "Seven new species within western Atlantic Starksia atlantica, S. lepicoelia, and S. sluiteri (Teleostei, Labrisomidae), with comments on congruence of DNA barcodes and species." Zookeys, (79) 21–72. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.79.1045.
• de la Parra Venegas, Rafael, Hueter, Robert, Gonzalez Cano, Jaime, Tyminski, John, Gregorio Remolina, Jose, Maslanka, Michael, Ormos, Andrea, Weigt, Lee A., Carlson, Bruce, and Dove, Alistair. 2011. "An Unprecedented Aggregation of Whale Sharks, Rhincodon typus, in Mexican Coastal Waters of the Caribbean Sea." PLoS One, 6, (4) 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018994.
• Handy, Sara M., Deeds, Jonathan R., Ivanova, Natalia V., Hebert, Paul D. N., Hanner, Robert H., Ormos, Andrea, Weigt, Lee A., Moore, Michelle M., and Yancy, Haile F. 2011. "A Single-Laboratory Validated Method for the Generation of DNA Barcodes for the Identification of Fish for Regulatory Compliance." Journal of AOAC International, 94, (1) 201–210.
• Keel, William G., Moser, William, Giaccai, Jennifer, Ormos, Andrea, Tanner, Jackson, and Weight, Lee A. 2011. "Alcohol recycling at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)." Collection Forum, 25, (1) 10–21.
• Keel, William, Moser, William E., Giaccai, Jennifer A., Ormos, Andrea, Tanner, Jackson, and Weight, Lee. 2011. "Alcohol Recycling at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)." Collection Forum, 25, (1) 10–21.
• Pilgrim, Erik M., Jackson, Suzanne A., Swenson, Stephanie, Turcsanyi, Istvan, Friedman, Ellen, Weigt, Lee A., and Bagley, Mark J. 2011. "Incorporation of DNA barcoding into a large-scale biomonitoring program: opportunities and pitfalls." Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 30, (1) 217–231. https://doi.org/10.1899/10-012.1.
• Weigt, Lee A. 2011. "CONGEN-2010: A Semester in a Fortnight." The Journal of Heredity, 102, (4) 494–495. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esr057.
• Tornabene, Luke, Baldwin, Carole C., Weigt, Lee A., and Pezold, Frank L. 2010. "Exploring the diversity of western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) with cytochrome c oxidase-I, with descriptions of two new species." Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology, 16, (4) 141–170.
• Whichard, Jean M., Weigt, Lee A., Borris, Douglas J., Li, Ling Ling, Zhang, Qing, Kapur, Vivek, Pierson, F. William, Lingohr, Erika J., She, Yi-Min, Kropinski, Andrew M., and Sriranganathan, Nammalwar. 2010. "Complete Genomic Sequence of Bacteriophage Felix O1." Viruses, 2, (3) 710–730. https://doi.org/10.3390/v2030710.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Mounts, Julie H., Smith, David G., and Weigt, Lee A. 2009. "Genetic identification and color descriptions of early life-history stages of Belizean Phaeoptyx and Astrapogon (Teleostei: Apogonidae) with Comments on identification of adult Phaeoptyx." Zootaxa, (2008) 1–22.
• Dove, Carla J., Rotzel, Nancy C., Heacker, Marcy, and Weigt, Lee A. 2008. "Using DNA Barcodes to Identify Birds Involved in Birdstrikes." Journal of Wildlife Management, 72, (5) 1231–1236. https://doi.org/10.2193/2007-272.
• Erickson, David L., Spouge, John, Resch, Alissa, Weigt, Lee A., and Kress, W. John. 2008. "DNA barcoding in land plants: developing standards to quantify and maximize success." Taxon, 57, (4) 1304–1316.
• Yancy, Haile F., Fry, S. F., Randolph, S. C., Deeds, J., Ivanova, Natalia V., Grainger, C. M., Hanner, R., Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy, Hunt, Jeffrey, Ormos, Andrea, and Hebert, P. D. N. 2008. "A protocol for validation of DNA-barcoding for the species identification of fish for FDA regulatory compliance." FDA Laboratory Information Bulletin, (4420).
• Kerr, Kevin C., Stoeckle, M. Y., Dove, Carla J., Weigt, Lee A., Francis, C. M., and Hebert, D. N. 2007. "Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds." Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, (4) 535–543. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01670.x.
• Kress, W. John, Wurdack, Kenneth J., Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne, Weigt, Lee A., and Janzen, Daniel H. 2005. "Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102 8369–8374.
• Orrell, Thomas M. and Weigt, Lee A. 2005. "The northern snakehead Channa argus (Anabantomorpha : Channidae), a non-indigenous fish species in the Potomac River, USA." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 118, (2) 407–415.
• Weigt, Lee A., Crawford, Andrew J., Rand, Austin Stanley, and Ryan, Michael J. 2005. "Biogeography of the Túngara Frog, Physalaemus Pustulosus: a Molecular Perspective." Molecular Ecology, (12) 3857–3876.
• Williams, Suzanne T., Knowlton, Nancy, Weigt, Lee A., and Jara, Javier A. 2001. "Evidence for Three Major Clades within the Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus Inferred from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene Sequence Data." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 20, (3) 375–389. https://doi.org/10.1006/mpev.2001.0976.
• McMillan, W. O., Weigt, Lee A., and Palumbi, Stephen R. 1999. "Color Pattern Evolution, Assortative Mating, and Genetic Differentiation in Brightly Colored Butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae)." Evolution, 53, (1) 247. https://doi.org/10.2307/2640937.
• Summers, Kyle, Weigt, Lee A., Boag, Peter, and Bermingham, Eldredge. 1999. "The Evolution of Female Parental Care in Poison Frogs of the Genus Dendrobates: Evidence From Mitochondrial DNA Sequences." Herpetologica, (2) 254–270.
• Cannatella, David C., Hillis, David M., Chippindale, Paul T., Weigt, Lee A., Rand, Austin Stanley, and Ryan, Michael J. 1998. "Phylogeny of Frogs of the Physalaemus Pustulosus Species Group, With an Examination of Data Incongruence." Systematic Biology, (2) 311–335.
• Knowlton, Nancy and Weigt, Lee A. 1998. "New Dates and New Rates for Divergence Across the Isthmus of Panamá." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (1412) 2257–2263.
• Barnes, Penelope A. G. and Weight, Lee A. 1997. "Species boundaries in lucinid bivalves from the Caribbean: a comparison of molecular and morphometric analyses (Abstract)." American Zoologist, 37, (5) 196.
• Summers, Kyle, Bermingham, Eldredge, Weight, Lee A., McCafferty, S. S., and Dahlstrom, L. 1997. "Phenotypic and genetic divergence in three species of dart-poison frogs with contrasting parental behavior." The Journal of Heredity, 88, (1) 8–13.
• Roubik, David Ward, Weigt, Lee A., and Bonilla, M. A. 1996. "Population genetics, diploid males, and limits to social evolution of euglossine bees." Evolution, 50, (2) 931–935.
• Ryan, Michael J., Rand, Austin Stanley, and Weigt, Lee A. 1996. "Allozyme and advertisement call variation in the Tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus." Evolution, 50, (6) 2435–2453, illustr.
• Weil, Ernesto and Weigt, Lee A. 1996. "Protein starch gel electrophoresis in scleractinian corals: a report on techniques and troubleshooting." Caribbean Marine Research Center, Technical Report Series, 96-13, (13).
• Knowlton, Nancy, Weight, Lee A., Solorzano, Luis Anibal, Mills, DeEtta K., and Bermingham, Eldredge. 1993. "Divergence in proteins, mitochondrial DNA, and reproductive compatibility across the Isthmus of Panamá." Science, 260, (5114) 1629–1632. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8503007.
• Knowlton, Nancy, Weil, E., Weigt, Lee A., and Guzmán, Héctor M. 1992. "Sibling species in Montastraea annularis, coral bleaching, and the coral climate record." Science, 255 330–333.
• Chechowitz, N., Chappell, D. M., Guttman, S. I., and Weigt, Lee A. 1990. "Morphological, electrophoretic, and ecological analysis of Quercus macrocarpa populations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming (USA)." Canadian Journal of Botany, 68, (10) 2185–2194.

Dataset

• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] Color field photographs of voucher specimens. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23185373.V1.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] DNA sequences. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23284901.V1.

Book Chapter

• Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Baldwin, Carole C., and Ormos, Andrea. 2012. "DNA barcoding fishes." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 109–126. Humana Press. 858 in Methods in molecular biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_6.
• Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Ormos, Andrea, Meyer, Christopher P., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2012. "Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 11–16. In Methods in molecular biology, 858. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_2.
• Gemeinholzer, Birgit, Rey, Isabel, Weising, K., Grundman, M., Muellner, A. N., Zetzsche, H., Droege, G., Seberg, O., Petersen, G., Rawson, D., and Weigt, Lee. 2010. "Organizing specimen and tissue preservation in the field for subsequent molecular analyses." In Manual on Field Recording Techniques and Protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories. Eymann, J., Degreef, J., Hauser, C., Monje, J. C., Samyn, Y., and VandenSpiegel, D., editors. Edgewater: ABCTaxa.
• Leponce, M., Meyer, C., Häuser, C., Bouchet, P., Delabie, J., Weigt, Lee A., and Basset, Yves. 2010. "Challenges and solutions for planning and implementing large-scale biotic inventories." In Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Eymann, J., Degreef F., Häuser, C., Monje, J. C., Samyn, Y., and VandenSpiegel, D., editors. 18–48. Brussels: Abc Taxa.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Weight, Lee, Smith, David G., and Mounts, Julie H. 2009. "Reconciling genetic lineages with species in western Atlantic Coryphopterus (Teleostei: Gobiidae)." In Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. 111–138. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.111.
• Knowlton, Nancy, Weight, Lee A., Solorzano, Luis Anibal, Mill, DeEtta K., and Bermingham, Eldredge. 2007. "Diferenciación de proteínas, ADN mitocondrial y compatibilidad reproductora a través del istmo de Panamá." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando, editors. 402–406. Panama: Editora Nova Art.
• Williams, S. T., Knowlton, Nancy, and Weigt, Lee A. 1999. "Indo-Pacific molecular biogeography of the coral-dwelling snapping shrimp Alpheus lottini (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)." In Ecology of the Chagos Archipelago, Occassional Publications of the Linnean Society. Sheppard, C. R. C. and Seaward, M. R. D., editors. 195–206. London: Linnean Society.
• Barnes, Penelope A. G. and Weigt, Lee A. 1998. "Species Boundaries Within Lucinidae (Bivalvia): Application of Morphometric and Molecular Analyses. [Abstract]." In Abstracts, World Congress of Malacology, Washington, D.C.. Bieler, Rüdiger and Mikkelsen, P. M., editors. 26.
• Knowlton, Nancy and Weigt, Lee A. 1997. "Species of marine invertebrates: a comparison of the biological and phylogenetic species concepts." In Species: the Units of Biodiversity, Systematics Association (UK) Special Volume Series 54. Claridge, M. F., Dawah, H. A., and Wilson, M. R., editors. 199–219. Chapman and Hall.

Web Page / Electronic Publication

• Handy, Sara M., Deeds, Jonathan R., Ivanova, Natalia V., Hebert, Paul D. N., Hanner, Robert, Ormos, Andrea, Weigt, Lee A., Moore, Michelle M., Hellberg, Rosalee S., and Yancy, Haile F. 2011. Single Laboratory Validated Method for DNA-Barcoding for the Species Identification of Fish for FDA Regulatory Compliance. FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration Protecting and Promoting Your Health. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.