Jennings Lab of Biodiversity Research
@ University of California, Riverside
Department of Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology
Lab News (selected papers shown)
November 29, 2023
Sam McCarthy-Potter's paper describing new Python-based software for filtering out recombined DNA segments from phylogenomic loci was published in Bioinformatics Advances. Sam began this work while he was still an undergraduate student. Congratulation's Sam on your first scientific paper!
January 29, 2023
A review paper on non-avian reptile genomes and phylogenomics was published in Animals. This effort was led by Daren Card and included Scott Edwards and Bryan as collaborators.
March 7, 2022
Igor Souto-Santos' paper about the sinistral Phalloceros species group and their biogeographical history was published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Igor completed this work as a doctoral student in zoology at the National Museum of Brazil working with Paulo Buckup and Bryan.
June 29, 2021
Bryan's review paper about the phylogenetic relationships among species of pygopodid lizards was published in Peerj.
November 4, 2020
Paulo Melo-Sampaio's paper about the re-classification of Philodryadini rear-fanged snakes--including the description of a new species--was published in Zoologischer Anzeiger.
July 28, 2017
Bryan's paper about the independent gene trees assumption in phylogenomics was published in Molecular Ecology.
November 23, 2016
Bryan's phylogenomics book was published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis!
The book is available in hardback and ebook formats. Also, powerpoint slides for all tables and figures are available to instructors from the CRC site.
November 23, 2016
Bryan's phylogenomics book was published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
The book is available in hardback and ebook formats. Also, powerpoint slides for all tables and figures are available to instructors from the CRC site see "downloads/updates" here
September 1, 2016
Our paper on "in silico phylogenomics" was published in Genome Research. The software described in this paper was developed by Igor Costa for this masters thesis at UFRJ. Dr. Francisco Prosdocimi was Igor's co-advisor.
August 29, 2016
Presenting Dr. Piero Ruschi! Piero defended his Ph.D. dissertation on the evolutionary diversification of the Amazilia versicolor species complex, a group of hummingbirds endemic to Brazil! Dr. Marcos Raposo (left side) was Piero's co-advisor. Congratulations Piero!
February 2016
Brazilian colleague Dr. Fábio Raposo (UNFESP) takes the lead on a letter to PNAS commenting on the "Atlantis Forest Hypothesis" by Leite et al. (PNAS, 2016).
January 29, 2016
Presenting Dr. Carla Quijada! Carla defended her dissertation on the evolutionary diversification of Characidium fishes in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforests. Dr. Paulo Buckup (third from left) was Carla's co-advisor. Congratulations Carla!
September 23, 2015
Igor Rodrigues da Costa defended his masters
thesis on the development of revolutionary new software that can generate ready-to-analyze phylogenomic datasets using complete genome data! Dr. Francisco Prosdocimi (right side) was Igor's co-advisor. Congratulations Igor!
March-May 2015
Piero Ruschi travels to the USA to spend three
months as a visiting researcher in Dr. Jim McGuire's lab at U.C. Berkeley. In this photo you can see Piero with Jennings lab alumni Andy Gottscho (middle) and Sean Reilly (right).
May 2014
Andy Gottscho publishes his masters thesis from Humboldt State University in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Another author on this paper is Dr. Sharyn Marks (HSU) who was Andy's co-advisor. This study describes the historical demography of Mojave Fringe-toed Lizards, which are a species of conservation concern in California.
August 2013
Sean Reilly and collaborators publish a study dealing with genetic diversity among populations of Black Salamanders in the Klamath Mountains in the journal Diversity. This study was a spin-off of Reilly's masters thesis work done at Humboldt State University.
April 2013
Dr. Amy Vandergast (USGS) leads a study describing evolutionary hotspots in the Mojave Desert. This research was published in the journal Diversity.
October 2012
Sean Reilly publishes his masters thesis from Humboldt State University in the journal Molecular Ecology. Another author on this paper is Dr. Sharyn Marks (HSU) who was Sean's co-advisor. This study was a multilocus-based phylogeographic study of the Black Salamanders species complex (Aneides flavipunctatus) in northwestern California.
December 2010
Sean Reilly takes the lead on our "salamander CSI" paper, which was published in Herpetological Conservation and Biology. This project, which was undertaken at Humboldt State University, began when Justin Garwood discovered some unidentifiable salamander remains in the stomachs of the garter snakes he was studying in the Klamath Mountains of California. We used DNA-based methods to identify these mystery salamanders to species.
Febuary 2010
Luke Harmon (University of Idaho) was the lead on a large-scale collaborative study of adaptive radiation published in the journal Evolution.