Robb Thomas Brumfield

The paper examines genetic differentiation and hybridization in three closely related bird taxa at contact zones using RADSeq data, finding weak genetic differentiation and evidence of introgressive hybridization in one zone.

This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic models to analyze song complexity in suboscine birds, finding that sexual selection reduces complexity while territoriality increases it, challenging the dominance of sexual selection as the primary driver.

The paper quantifies introgression in tinamou species, showing asymmetric patterns linked to chromosomal features and resolving their species tree through genome-architecture-aware phylogenomics.

This study evaluates methods for inferring large-scale avian phylogenies, finding that fast tree search approaches balance computational efficiency and accuracy.

The paper uses whole-genome data from tinamous to reconstruct their phylogeny, estimate divergence times, and assess the impact of incomplete lineage sorting and introgression on genome evolution.

The paper compares phylogenomic methods using a well-resolved bird species tree, finding that ML concatenation performs best, while METAL shows promise with large datasets.

The paper presents a highly contiguous reference genome for Northern Bobwhite using HiRise assembly and HiC libraries, improving contiguity and completeness compared to existing genomes.