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H.A. Lessios and D. R. Robertson. 2006. Crossing the impassable: genetic connections in 20 reef fishes across the Eastern Pacific Barrier.

H.A. Lessios. 2007. Reproductive isolation between species of sea urchins. Bulletin of Marine Science, 81: 191–208.

H.A. Lessios. 2007. Admission that intelligent design is a religious view. Nature, 448:22

G.G. Mittelbach, D. Schemske, H. V. Cornell, A. P. Allen, J. Brown, M. Bush, S. P. Harrison, A. Hurlbert, N. Knowlton, H. A. Lessios, C. M. McCain, A. R. McCune, Lucinda A. McDade, M. A. McPeek, T. J. Near, T. D. Price, R. E. Ricklefs, K. Roy, D. F. Sax, D. Schluter, J. M. Sobel, M. Turelli. 2007. Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: Speciation, extinction, and biogeography. Ecology Letters, 10:315-331

Luiz A. Rocha, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Claudia R. Rocha, H.A. Lessios. 2008. Historical biogeography and speciation in the reef fish genus Haemulon (Teleostei: Haemulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48: 918–928

Kirk S. Zigler, H. A. Lessios and Rudolf A. Raff. 2008. Egg Energetics, Fertilization Kinetics, and Population Structure in Echinoids With Facultatively Feeding Larvae. Biol. Bull. 215: 191-199.

C. Vogler, J. Benzie, H.A. Lessios, P. Barber and G. Wörheide. 2008. A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish. Biol. Lett. 4: 696-699.

M.J. Hickerson, E.A. Stahl, H.A. Lessios. 2006. Test for simultaneous divergence using approximate Bayesian Computation. Evolution 60: 2435-2453

Lessios, H. A. 2008 The Great American Schism: Divergence of marine organisms after the rise of the Central American Isthmus Annual Reviews of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 39 63–91