Publications

(most publications are listed in my maiden name, Lisa C. Rania)

Sever, D. M., Rania, L. C., and R. Brizzi. 2003. Sperm storage in the class Amphibia. Pp. 414-421. In Legakis, A., Sfenthourakis, S., Polymeni, R., and M. Thessalou-Legaki (eds), The New Panorama of Animal Evolution. Proc. 18th Int. Congr. Zoology, Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow.

Rania Ganser L., W.A. Hopkins, L. O‚Neil, S. Hasse, J.H. Roe, and D.M. Sever. Histopathology of the liver of the southern water snake, Nerodia fasciata, following chronic exposure to trace element-contaminated prey from a coal ash disposal site. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Herpetology March 2002.

Sever, D.M., E.C. Moriarty, L.C. Rania, L.V. Diller, and W.C. Hamlett. 2001. Reproductive biology of the internal fertilizing frog Ascaphus truei (Anura: Leiopelmatidae). J. Morph. 248: 1-21.

Sever, D.M., L.C. Rania, and J.D. Krenz. 1996. Reproduction of the salamander, Siren intermedia Le Conte with especial reference to oviducal anatomy and modeof fertilization. J. Morph.227: 335-348.

Sever, D.M., L.C. Rania, and J.D. Krenz. 1996. The annual cycle of spermstorage in the spermathecae of the Red-Spotted Newt, Notopthalamus viridescens (Amphibia:Salamandridae). J. Morph.227:1-16

Sever, D.M., J.D. Krenz, K.M. Johnson, and L.C. Rania. 1994. Morphology and evolutionary implications of the annual cycle of secretion and sperm storage inspermathecae of the salamander Ambystoma opacum (Amphibia: Ambystomatidae). J. Morph. 222: 1-12.