McCartney, M.A and H.A. Lessios. 2004. Adaptive evolution of sperm bindin tracks egg incompatibility in neotropical sea urchins of the genus Echinometra. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:732-745

E. Bermingham and H.A. Lessios. 1993a. Rate variation of protein and mitochondrial DNA evolution as revealed by sea urchins separated by the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 90:2434-2738

H.A. Lessios. 1995a. Diadema antillarum populations ten years after mass mortality: still rare despite help from a competitor. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 259:331-337

H.A. Lessios. 2005. Diadema populations twenty years following mass mortality. Coral Reefs 24:125-127

S.R. Palumbi and H.A. Lessios. 2005. Evolutionary Animation: How do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr’s reconstruction of speciation patterns? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 102:6566-6572

Lessios, H.A., G.R. Allen,G.M. Wellington, E. Bermingham. 1995. Genetic and morphological evidence that the eastern Pacific damselfish Abudefduf declivifrons is distinct from A. concolor (Pomacentridae). Copeia, 1995:277-288

Lessios, H.A. J.D. Cubit, D.R. Robertson, M.J. Shulman, M.R. Parker, S.D. Garrity, S.C. Levings. 1984. Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Coral Reefs, 3:173-182.

Lessios, H.A. 1981. Reproductive periodicity of the echinoids Diadema and Echinometra on the two coasts of Panama. J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 50:47-61

Lessios, H.A. 1990. A program for calculating Nei's genetic distances and their jackknifed confidence intervals. Joural of Heredity, 81: 490

Lessios, H.A. 1988. Population dynamics of Diadema antillarum (EchinodermataL Echinoidea) following mass mortality in Panama. Marine Biology, 99:515-526