Naim M. Bautista

This study shows that allostery in vertebrate hemoglobin evolved from a non-allosteric dimer through three key substitutions, leveraging inherent conformational flexibility of the globin fold.

The paper examines climatic niche differentiation in the Phyllotis darwini species group, finding low niche overlap and no significant phylogenetic signal in niche differences.

The paper examines elevational variation in heart mass and RV hypertrophy in Andean leaf-eared mice, finding that suppression of RV hypertrophy is linked to differential gene expression in high-altitude populations.

This study uses mitochondrial DNA and whole-genome sequence data to analyze species boundaries, diversification times, and hybridization in Andean leaf-eared mice, finding that diversification coincided with Pleistocene climate changes and ongoing hybridization between two species.

This study compares the thermogenic capacity of highland and lowland deer mice under increasing hypoxia to assess the roles of local adaptation and plasticity in high-altitude tolerance.