Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Genetics
Research interest
Research interests include Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Genetic diversity and population structure, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.
Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories
Harnessing iNaturalist to quantify hotspots of urban biodiversity: the Los Angeles case study
The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock
Landscape Genomics to Enable Conservation Actions: The California Conservation Genomics Project
Seizing the moment: The opportunity and relevance of the California Conservation Genomics Project to state and federal conservation policy
Applying stochastic and Bayesian integral projection modeling to amphibian population viability analysis
Genomic data reveal local endemism in Southern California Rubber Boas (Serpentes: Boidae, Charina) and the critical need for enhanced conservation actions
A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins
From Poison to Promise: The Evolution of Tetrodotoxin and Its Potential as a Therapeutic
Intended consequences statement
Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble
Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises
An empirical pipeline for choosing the optimal clustering threshold in RADseq studies
Phylogenomics of the adaptive radiation of Triturus newts supports gradual ecological niche expansion towards an incrementally aquatic lifestyle
Global Conservation Status of Turtles and Tortoises (Order Testudines)
Genomewide <scp>SNP</scp> markers breathe new life into phylogeography and species delimitation for the problematic short‐necked turtles (Chelidae: <i>Emydura</i> ) of eastern Australia
Genomic data recover previously undetectable fragmentation effects in an endangered amphibian
Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)
Hybridization and endangered species protection in the molecular era
Do Ecological Niche Models Accurately Identify Climatic Determinants of Species Ranges?
Exon capture optimization in amphibians with large genomes
Conservation Genetics and Genomics of Amphibians and Reptiles
The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage
Parallel tagged amplicon sequencing reveals major lineages and phylogenetic structure in the <scp>N</scp>orth <scp>A</scp>merican tiger salamander (<i><scp>A</scp>mbystoma tigrinum</i>) species complex
A new species of leopard frog (Anura: Ranidae) from the urban northeastern US