Warmest of congratulations to Leo Campagna and Rox Razavi on the arrival of their daughter Gia! We are super-excited to have her as the newest and littlest member of our lab family.
Leo Campagna and Trevor Price review “The Ascent of Birds” by John Reilly in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. This popular book summarizes the topic of bird evolution, illustrating “how geography, ecology, and lots of time answer the question ‘How did the incredible diversity of over 10 600 extant bird…
Pablo Lavinia and Darío Lijtmaer visited the Fuller Evolutionary Biology lab in 2016 and 2018 to work on various projects. This phylogeographic study on the Large-headed Flatbill (Ramphotrigon megacephalum) and the Fawn-breasted Tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota) explores how species with different ecologies have responded to environmental barriers in the Neotropics. …
Sebastián Cabanne visited the Fuller Evolutionary Biology lab in 2014 and 2016. In this publication in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution he explores the history of connectivity between two forest biomes in the Neotropics, the Andean and Atlantic forests, through the phylogeographic patterns of the Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner (Syndactyla rufosuperciliata). This species…
Grad student Jake Berv and colleagues have published a new perspective piece as a PeerJ pre-print. Several recent studies have identified portions of the avian tree of life that are particularly hard to reconstruct — perhaps as a consequence of particularly rapid evolution after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. One issue…