New Graduate Students
The 2021-22 academic year welcomes the first cohort of graduate students to the lab! Three doctoral students ~ Sneha Dharwadkar, Calvin Schaefer, and Desi Wilson …
New paper on Myanmar’s frogs!
Our study investigating the diversity of Micryletta frogs in Myanmar was just published in the first issue of the newly named journal, Ichthyology and Herpetology. …
Phylogenomics and biogeography of the White-eye radiation!
I am excited that this paper is now out in elife! We used target capture of 700+ loci to infer the phylogenomic and biogeographic patterns …
Cape Robin-chats & Biome Structure in Southern Africa
Cape Robin-chats (Cossypha caffra) are found throughout southern Africa, and are generalist species found in most aridland biomes. We used genetic information (highly informative msats …
aDNA -sequencing a very old lizard holotype
Sometimes taxonomic issues can be intractable without genetic data, yet since old herp holotypes have been formalin-fixed or preserved in ethanol for long periods if …
Asian Spiny toads invade Wallacea
We just published a paper in Global Change Biology calling attention to the invasion of the Wallacea bioregion by the Asian spiny toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus). …
More on toad invasions
We just published a new paper on the invasion of the Spiny Asian toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) to Madagascar. This new paper expanded sampling of toads …
Recent publications -now with graphical abstracts!
Recent publications -now with graphical abstracts! It has been a busy couple of months, here are some quick summaries of recent publications on which I …
exciting week
New papers came out! The First is about the Asian Common Toad, Duttaphynus melanostictus. Published in Biology Letters. Below is a nice summary of this …
Hello world!
Welcome to my new and improved website! I will be posting news and discussing new tools for generating and analyzing genetic data if they fall …