Roberts, J.R.+, J.M. Bernstein+, C.C. Austin, T. Hains, J. Mata, M. Kieras, S. Pirro, and S. Ruane. 2024. Whole snake genomes from eighteen families of snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia) and their applications to systematics. Journal of Heredity. esae026, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae026

Roberts, J.R., F. Kraus, A. Allison, S.J. Richards, B. Iova, B. Tjaturadi, S. Ruane, and C.C. Austin.2024. Systematics and biogeography of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan, 1863). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zlae039, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae039

Roberts, J.R., B. Iova, and C.C. Austin. 2022. A New species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes: Elapidae: Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) from Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98: 399–409.

Roberts, J.R. and C.C. Austin. 2020. A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896), with comments on postfrontal bone variation based on micro-computed tomography. Journal of Herpetology. 54: 446–459.

Bullard, S.A., J.R. Roberts, M.B. Warren, H.R. Dutton, N.V. Whelan, C.F. Ruiz, T.R. Platt, V.V. Tkach, S.V. Brant, and K.M. Halanych. 2019. Neotropical turtle blood flukes: two new genera and species from the Amazon River Basin with a key to genera and comments on a marine-derived parasite lineage in South America. Journal of Parasitology. 105: 497–523.

Roberts, J.R., M.B. Warren, K.M. Halanych, and S.A. Bullard. 2019. Spirorchis spp. (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) infecting map turtles (Cryptodira: Emydidae: Graptemys spp.) in southeastern North America: a new species, molecular phylogenies, and key to species. Systematic Parasitology. 96: 51–64.

Roberts, J.R., K.M. Halanych, C.R. Arias, and S.A. Bullard. 2018. A new species of Spirorchis MacCallum, 1918 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) and Spirorchis scripta Stunkard, 1923, infecting river cooter, Pseudemys concinna (Le Conte, 1830), (Testudines: Emydidae) in Pascagoula River, Mississippi, U.S.A., including an updated phylogeny for Spirorchis spp. Comparative Parasitology. 85: 120–132.

Roberts, J.R., C.R. Arias, K.M. Halanych, B.T. Dang, and S.A. Bullard. 2018. A new genus and species of turtle blood fluke (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) from the Mekong snail-eating turtle, Malayemys subtrijuga (Schlegel & Müller) (Testudines: Geoemydidae) in Vietnam, with a reassessment of related Asiatic turtle blood flukes and molecular phylogeny. Systematic Parasitology. 95: 1–13.

Roberts, J.R., K.M. Halanych, C.R. Arias, B. Folt, J.M. Goessling, and S.A. Bullard. 2017. Emendation and new species of Hapalorhynchus Stunkard, 1922 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) from musk turtles (Kinosternidae: Sternotherus) in Alabama and Florida rivers. Parasitology International. 66: 748–760.

Ruiz, C.F., J.M. Rash, C.R. Arias, D.A. Besler, R. Orélis-Ribeiro, M.R. Womble, J.R. Roberts, M.B. Warren, C.L. Ray, S. Lafrentz, and S.A. Bullard. 2017. Morphological and molecular confirmation of Myxobolus cerebralis myxospores infecting wild‑caught and cultured trout in North Carolina (SE USA). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 126: 185–198.         

Warren, M.B., J.R. Roberts, C.R. Arias, R.P. Koenigs, and S.A. Bullard. 2017. Acipensericola glacialis n. sp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from heart of lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae) in the Great Lakes Basin, Lake Winnebago System, USA. Systematic Parasitology. 94: 875–889.

Roberts, J.R. and S.A. Bullard. 2017. Revision and new species of Vasotrema Stunkard, 1926 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea): turtle blood flukes of North American softshell turtles (Testudines: Trionychidae: Apalone spp.). Journal of Parasitology. 103: 519–540.

Ruiz, C.R., J. Rash, D. Besler, J.R. Roberts, M.B. Warren, C.R. Arias, and S.A. Bullard. 2017. Confirmation of two exotic “gill lice” species (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae: Salmincola spp.) infecting rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the Southeastern United States. Journal of Parasitology. 103: 377–389.

Roberts, J.R., R. Orélis-Ribeiro, K.M. Halanych, C.R. Arias, and S. A. Bullard. A new species of Spirorchis MacCallum, 1918 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) and Spirorchis cf. scripta from chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, (Emydidae), with an emendation and molecular phylogeny of Spirorchis. Folia Parasitologica. 63: 2016.041. doi:10.14411/fp.2016.041.

Ellis, V.A., M.C.I. Medeiros, M.D. Collins, E.H.R. Sari, E.D. Coffey, R.C. Dickerson, C. Lugarini, J.A. Stratford, D.R. Henry, L. Merrill, A.E. Matthews, A.A., Hanson, J.R. Roberts, M. Joyce, M.R. Kunkel, and R.E. Ricklefs. Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites is positively related to the abundance of host species at multiple sites within a region. Parasitology Research. 116: 73–80. doi:10.1007/s00436-016-5263-3.

Roberts, J.R., R. Orélis-Ribeiro, B.D. Thuy, K.M. Halanych, and S.A. Bullard. 2016. Blood flukes of Asiatic softshell turtles: revision of Coeuritrema Mehra, 1933 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) and a new species infecting Chinese softshell turtles, Pelodiscus sinensis, (Trionychidae) from Vietnam. Folia Parasitologica. 63: 2016.031 doi.10.14411/fp.2016.031.

Roberts, J.R., T.R. Platt, R. Orélis-Ribeiro, and S.A. Bullard. 2016. New genus of blood fluke (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) from Malaysian freshwater turtle (Geoemydidae). Journal of Parasitology. 102: 451−462.

Matthews, A.E., V.A. Ellis, A.A. Hanson, J.R. Roberts, R.E. Ricklefs, and M.D. Collins. Avian haemosporidian prevalence and its relationship to host life histories in eastern Tennessee. Journal of Ornithology. 157: 533−548.

Ellis, V.A., M.D. Collins, M.C.I. Medeiros, E.H.R. Sari, E.D. Coffey, R.C. Dickerson, C. Lugarini, J.A. Stratford, D.R. Henry, L. Merrill, A.E. Matthews, A.A. Hanson, J.R. Roberts, M. Joyce, M.R. Kunkel, and R.E. Ricklefs. 2015. Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112: 11294−11299.