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E. J. McTavish

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Datelife: leveraging databases and analytical tools to reveal the dated Tree of Life.

L. L. Sanchez Reyes, E. J. McTavish, B. C. O'Meara

DateLife provides tools to find, summarize, and reanalyze peer-reviewed evolutionary chronograms, enabling exploration of alternative evolutionary timing hypotheses.

bioRxiv · Jul 6, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Leveraging shared ancestral variation to detect local introgression

L. Lopez Fang, D. Ortega-Del Vecchyo, E. J. McTavish, E. Huerta-Sanchez

The paper introduces a new statistic, D+, to detect local introgression by incorporating both shared ancestral and derived alleles, showing improved precision over existing methods.

bioRxiv · Mar 21, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Color polymorphism is a driver of diversification in the lizard family Lacertidae

K. M. Brock, E. J. McTavish, D. L. Edwards

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary history of color polymorphism in Lacertidae lizards and finds it drives increased diversification rates.

bioRxiv · Aug 27, 2020Evolutionary Biology

A Biodiversity Composition Map of California Derived from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Earth Observation

M. Lin, A. L. Simons, E. E. Curd, R. J. Harrigan, F. D. Schneider, D. V. Ruiz-Ramos, Z. Gold, M. G. Osborne, S. Shirazi, T. M. Schweizer, T. N. Moore, E. A. Fox, R. Turba, A. E. Garcia-Vedrenne, S. K. Helman, , R. S. Meyer

The paper integrates environmental DNA and Earth observation to create a biodiversity map of California, showing strong community-environment correlations and environmental filtering effects.

bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2020Ecology