Joseph D. Manthey

This study investigates the phylogeographic patterns of codiversification between Camponotus laevigatus and its endosymbiont Blochmaniella, identifying three clusters and a role for Quaternary climate in shaping their population structure.

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

The paper generates genome assemblies for ten brood parasitic bird species and their outgroups, enabling comparative genomic analyses of obligate brood parasitism evolution.

The paper studies secondary contact and gene flow in whistler birds in Fiji, identifying a genomic region linked to phenotypic differences and proposing rapid plumage evolution and post-divergence gene flow as key factors.

The paper evaluates library preparation methods and DNA sources for improving WGS of historical DNA from avian museum specimens, finding a multi-tube ssDNA method increases sequencing efficiency.

This paper presents a chromosome-scale genome assembly for the northern flicker, along with gene annotations and mutation rate estimation.