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Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

Gaubert P, Veron G, Tranier M. 2002. Genets and “genet-like” taxa (Carnivora, Viverrinae): Phylogenetic analysis, systematics and biogeographic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134: 317-334. [link]

Gaubert P, Veron G, Colyn M, Dunham A, Shultz S, Tranier M. 2002. A reassessment of the distributional range of the rare Genetta johnstoni (Viverridae, Carnivora), with some newly discovered specimens. Mammal Review 32: 132-144. [link]

Gaubert P. 2003. Description of a new species of genet (Carnivora, Viverridae, genus Genetta) and taxonomic revision of forest forms related to the Large-spotted Genet complex. Mammalia 67: 85-108. [journal cover] [link]

Gaubert P, Tranier M, Veron G, Kock D, Dunham AE, Taylor PJ, Stuart C, Stuart T, Wozencraft WC. 2003. Nomenclatural comments on the Rusty-spotted Genet (Carnivora, Viverridae) and designation of a neotype. Zootaxa 160: 1-14. [link]

Gaubert P, Tranier M, Veron G, Kock D, Dunham AE, Taylor PJ, Stuart C, Stuart T, Wozencraft WC. 2003. Case 3204. Viverra maculata Gray, 1830 (currently Genetta maculata; Mammalia, Carnivora): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 60: 45-47. [link]

Gaubert P, Veron G. 2003. Exhaustive sample set among Viverridae reveals the sister-group of felids: the Linsangs as a case of extreme morphological convergence within Feliformia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences 270: 2523-2530. [link]

Gaubert P, Tranier M, Delmas A-S., Colyn M, Veron G. 2004. First molecular evidence for reassessing phylogenetic affinities between genets (Genetta) and the enigmatic genet-like taxa Osbornictis, Poiana and Prionodon (Carnivora, Viverridae). Zoologica Scripta 33: 117-129.  [link]

Gaubert P, Fernandes CA, Bruford MW, Veron G. 2004. Genets in Africa: an evolutionary synthesis based on cytochrome b sequences and morphological characters. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81: 589-610. [link]

Veron G, Colyn C, Dunham AE, Taylor PJ, Gaubert P. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the mongooses (Carnivora, Herpestidae) and origin of the sociality in this family. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 582-598. [link]

Gaubert P, Aniskin VM, Dunham AE, Crémière C, Volobouev VT. 2004. Karyotype of the rare Johnston’s genet Genetta johnstoni (Viverridae) and a reassessment of chromosomal characterization among congeneric species. Acta Theriologica 49: 457-464. [link]

Gaubert P, Taylor PJ, Fernandes CA, Bruford MW, Veron G. 2005. Patterns of cryptic hybridization revealed using an integrative approach: a case study on genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genetta spp.) from the southern African subregion. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 11-33. [link]

Gaubert P, Wozencraft WC, Cordeiro-Estrela P, Veron G. 2005. Mosaic of convergences, noise and misleading morphological phylogenies: what’s in a viverrid-like carnivoran? Systematic Biology 54: 865-894. [link]

Gaubert P, Antunes A. 2005. Assessing the taxonomic status of the Palawan pangolin Manis culionensis (Pholidota) using discrete morphological characters. Journal of Mammalogy 86: 1068-1074. [journal cover] [link]

Gaubert P, Wozencraft WC. 2005. Comment on the proposed conservation of Viverra maculata Gray, 1830 (currently Genetta maculata; Mammalia, Carnivora). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62: 242-244. [link]

Veron G, Gaubert P, Franklin N, Jennings A, and Grassman L Jr. 2006. A reassessment of the distribution and taxonomy of the Endangered otter civet Cynogale bennettii (Carnivora, Viverridae). Oryx 40: 1-8. [link]

Gaubert P, Papes M, Peterson AT. 2006. Natural history collections and the conservation of poorly known taxa: ecological niche modeling in central African rainforest genets (Genetta spp.). Biological Conservation 130: 106-117. [link]

Gaubert P, Cordeiro-Estrela P. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics and tempo of evolution of the Viverrinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae) within feliformians: implications for faunal exchanges between Asia and Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 266-278. [link]

Luo S, Cai Q-X, David VA, Zhang L, Martelli P, Lim N, Ferrand N, Chin S-C, Gaubert P, O’Brien SJ, Antunes A, Johnson WE. 2007. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the Pangolins (Manis spp.). Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 269-272. [link]

Gaubert P, Begg CM. 2007. Re-assessed molecular phylogeny and evolutionary scenario within genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genettinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 920-927. [link]

Papes M, Gaubert P. 2007. Modeling ecological niches from low number of occurrences: assessment of conservation status of viverrids (Mammalia, Carnivora) across two continents. Diversity and Distributions 13: 890-902. [link]

Bichain J-M, Gaubert P, Samadi S, Boisselier-Dubayle M-C. 2007. A gleam in the dark: Phylogenetic species delimitation in the confusing spring-snail genus Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (Gastropoda: Rissooidea: Amnicolidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 927-941. [link]

Gaubert P, Jiguet F, Bayle P, Angelici FM. 2008. Has the common genet (Genetta genetta) spread into south-eastern France and Italy? Italian Journal of Zoology 75: 43-57. [link]

Gaubert P, Chalubert A, Dubus G. 2008. An interactive identification key for genets and oyans (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genettinae, Genetta spp. and Poiana spp.) using Xper². Zootaxa 1717: 39-50. [link]

Gaubert P, Del Cerro I, Palomares F, Godoy JA. 2008. Development and characterization of 11 microsatellite loci in a historically introduced carnivoran, the common genet (Genetta genetta). Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1375-1377. [link]

Gaubert P, Del Cerro I, Godoy JA, Palomares F. 2009. Early phases of a successful invasion: mitochondrial phylogeography of the common genet (Genetta genetta) within the Mediterranean Basin. Biological Invasions 11: 523-546. [link]

Djagoun SCAM, Gaubert P. 2009. Small carnivorans from southern Benin: a preliminary assessment of diversity and hunting pressure. Small Carnivore Conservation 40: 1-10.

Gaubert P, Balakrishnan M, Bekele A. 2009. Corrigendum - "A road kill of the Ethiopian Genet Genetta abyssinica along the Addis Ababa-Dira Dewa Highway, Ethiopia" by Mundanthra Balakrishnan and Afework Bekele (2008, Small Carnivore Conservation 39: 37-38). Small Carnivore Conservation 40: 40.

    Gaubert P, Denys G, Oberdorff T. 2009. Genus-level supertree of Cyprinidae (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes), partitioned qualitative clade support and test of macro-evolutionary scenarios. Biological Reviews 84: 653-689. [link]

    Gaubert P, Zenatello M. 2009. Ancient DNA perspective on the failed introduction of mongooses in Italy during the XXth century. Journal of Zoology 279: 262-269. [link]    

   Genome 10K Community of Scientists. (2009). Genome 10K: A proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10 000 vertebrate species. Journal of Heredity 100: 659-674. [link]

    Gaubert P, Mézan-Muxart V. (2010). Where have the 'black genets' gone? A likely restriction of melanistic cases of the common genet (Genetta genetta) to its introduced range. Mammalian Biology 75: 353-357. [link]

    Patou M-L, Wilting A, Gaubert P, Esselstyn JA, Cruaud C, Jenning AP, Fickel J, Veron G. 2010. Evolutionary history of the Paradoxurus palm civets - a new model for Asian biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 37, 2077-2097. [link]

    Fechner LC, Vincent-Hubert F, Gaubert P, Bouchez T, Gourlay-Francé C, Tusseau-Vuillemin M-H. 2010. Combined eukaryotic and bacterial community fingerprinting of natural freshwater biofilms using automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 74: 542-553. [link]

    Esquer Garrigos Y, Lambourdière J, Ibañez C, Gaubert P. 2011. Characterization of ten polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Andean pupfish Orestias agassizii, with cross-amplification in the sympatric O. luteus. Conservation Genetics Resources 3: 17-19. [link]

    Gaubert P, Machordom A, Morales A, López-Bao JV, Veron G, Amin M, Barros T, Basuony M, Djagoun CAMS, Do Linh San E, Fonseca C, Geffen E, Ozkurt SO, Cruaud C, Couloux A, Palomares F. 2011. Comparative phylogeography of two African carnivorans presumably introduced into Europe: disentangling natural versus human-mediated dispersal across the Strait of Gibraltar. Journal of Biogeography 38: 341-358. [link]

Conference proceedings:

Gaubert P, Veron G, Tranier M. 2001. An investigation of morpho-anatomical characters within the genus Genetta (Carnivora, Viverridae), with a remark on Osbornictis, the aquatic genet. In African Small Mammals (Denys C, Granjon L & Poulet A, eds.), IRD ed., Collection Colloques et Séminaires, Paris: pp. 81-89. [link]

Gaubert P, Veron G, Tranier M. 2002. Collections, phylogénie et conservation: l’exemple des genettes du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. In L’étude et la conservation des Carnivores (Chapron G & Moutou F, eds.), Société Française pour l’Etude et la Protection des Mammifères, Paris: 140-142.

Veron G, Gaubert P. 2004. L’ADN dans les collections des muséums d’histoire naturelle. Arvicola 16: 15-17. [Comptes-Rendus du XXVIème Colloque Francophone de Mammalogie. Société Française d’Etude et de Protection des Mammifères]

Gaubert P, Taylor PJ, Veron G. 2005. Integrative taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics of the genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, genus Genetta): a new classification of the most speciose carnivoran genus in Africa. In African Biodiversity: Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems (Huber BA, Sinclair BJ & Lampe KH, eds.), Springer, New York: 371-383. [link]

Luo S-J, Antunes A, Yang FF, Cai Q-X, Zhang L, Yang CW, Chin S-C, Martelli P, Lim NT-L, Gaubert P, Ferrand N, O’Brien SJ, Johnson WE. 2009.  A pilot study of genetic surveillance of illegal pangolin trade in Asia. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Trade and Conservation of Pangolins Native to South and Southeast Asia - 30 June-2 July 2008, Singapore Zoo, Singapore (Pantel S & Chin SY, eds.), TRAFFIC Southeast Asia: 194. [link]

Collective volumes:

  Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. Carnivores (Wilson DE & Mittermeier RA, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. 2009.
(i) Gaubert P. Nandiniidae. Pp. 50-53; (ii) Gaubert P. Prionodontidae. Pp. 170-173.

  Olayemi A, Nicolas V, Gaubert P, Leirs H, Verheyen E. (2010). Small mammals, morphology and molecules: tale-bearing tenants of the Nigerian southwestern forest block. Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY. 41 p. [link]

    The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 5. Carnivores, Pangolins, Rhinos, and Equids. (Kingdon JS & Hoffmann M, eds.). Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In press.

 Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 2. Hoofed mammals (Wilson DE & Mittermeier RA, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. In press. Gaubert P. Manidae and Manis spp.