Lab news

August 2024 - Ryan Andrews joins the lab as a Master's student.
August 2024 - Post-doc Stephen Baca begins tenure track position at Louisiana State University!
Summer 2024 - Devon DeRaad defends his dissertation research (with honors); starting a postdoc position at UCLA this fall (in Stepfanie Aguillon's lab).
January 2024 - Katherine Crawford joins the lab as a PhD student.
January 2024 - recent PhD graduate Lucas DeCicco starts Collection Manager position in the bird division at KU.

Recent publications (see Google Scholar page for full list)

DeRaad, DA, AN Files, LH DeCicco, RP Martin, JM McCullough, P Holland, D Pikacha Jr, IG Tigulu, D Boseto, TH Lavery, MJ Andersen & RG Moyle. 2024. Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators. Evolution Letters qrae035. https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae035
Lavery, TH, DA DeRaad, PS Holland, KV Olson, LH DeCicco, JM Seddon, LKP Leung & RG Moyle. 2024. Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats. Evolution 78(6):1183–1192. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae039
Shogren, EH, JM Sardell, CA Muirhead, E Martí, EA Cooper, RG Moyle, DC Presgraves & JAC Uy. Recent secondary contact, genome-wide admixture, and asymmetric introgression of neo-sex chromosomes between two Pacific island bird species. PLOS Genetics 20(8): e1011360. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011360
DeRaad, DA, ME Cobos, NR Hofmeister, LH DeCicco, MX Venkatraman, I Nishiumi, B McKay, F Zou, K Kawakami, C-H Kim, R-S Lin, C-T Yao, KL Garrett, SM Aguillon, JE McCormack, HL Mays Jr, AT Peterson, RG Moyle & AJ Shultz. 2024. On the brink of explosion? Identifying the source and potential spread of introduced Zosterops white-eyes in North America. Biological Invasions 26(5):1615–1639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03268-8