Allison J. Shultz

Drift drives phenotypic evolution in a rapid island radiation

The paper shows that genetic drift, not selection, drives rapid phenotypic evolution in island bird populations by linking color trait evolution to genomic diversity decline.

charisma: An R package to perform reproducible color characterization of digital images for biological studies

The paper introduces the charisma R package for reproducible color characterization of digital images, demonstrating its utility in analyzing color evolution in birds.

How does Gloger's rule predict near- and mid-infrared radiation in birds?

The paper examines NIR absorption and MIR emittance in birds following or not following Gloger's rule, finding species-specific NIR variation and stable MIR emittance across populations.

AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world

The paper creates AvianLexiconAtlas, a database categorizing English bird common names into biological or cultural descriptors, finding 89% of names relate to biology/ecology.

A fast, reproducible, high-throughput variant calling workflow for evolutionary, ecological, and conservation genomics

This paper introduces snpArcher, a variant calling workflow for non-model organisms, and applies it to 26 public datasets to enable comparative population genomic analyses.