Postdoc at Nat. Hist. Mus. of LA Co. & UCLA. #ornithology, phylogenetics, biogeography | account is no longer active, see website for email for contact
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The first chapter of my dissertation is available on @biorxivpreprint. We resequenced genomes of all species (& subspecies) of rapidly radiating genus of Indo-pacific kingfishers.
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Explicit tests of gene flow with ABBA-BABA support this. Moreover, across the whole tree, we see signatures of ancient introgression between clades earlier in the evolution of the group.
These results suggest a potential historical hybrid zone between these two species as islands were successively colonized, which parallels a hypothesis for whistlers in Fiji by Ernst Mayr in 1932.
@ethanofthegulls addressed this w/ whistler 🧬
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Jenna McCullough retweeted
For the past few years I've been obsessed with the question of where Cuban bobwhites came - are they native or introduced, where did they come from, and when did they get there? Super excited to share our findings, out now in Molecular Ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Out in @AmOrnith, we show with thousands of genomic loci that Eurocephalus, a long questioned shrike genus, is more closely related to crows than "true shrikes"
Read why Eurocephalus shrikes should comprise their own separate family: Eurocephalidae
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When first described as a member of Corvidae, Smith (1836) noted ―[Eurocephalus anguitimens] true place may be found in another family, and the resemblances, particularly as regards its habits, may be those of analogy and not affinity."
