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Overview

Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work delves into several subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Key topics explored in their research include:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick has published research in a variety of venues, with frequent publications in PeerJ and arXiv (Cornell University). Other publication venues include Systematic Biology, Functional Ecology, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Their recent papers include:

  • River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex, 2023, Systematic Biology
  • Biofluorescent sexual dimorphism revealed in a southern Appalachian endemic salamander, Plethodon metcalfi, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Geographic and Individual Determinants of Important Amphibian Pathogens in Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) in Tennessee and Arkansas, USA, 2020, Journal of Wildlife Diseases
  • Breeding behaviour predicts patterns of natural hybridization in North American minnows (Cyprinidae), 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Assessing hybrid vigour using the thermal sensitivity of physiological trade-offs in tiger salamanders, 2023, Functional Ecology

Frequent coauthors working with Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick include Todd W. Pierson, Evin T. Carter, Jonathan L. Cox, Joel B. Corush, and Rebecca J. Smith.

Best Publications

  • Sympatric Speciation: Models and Empirical Evidence

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Recent divergence with gene flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus) inferred from gene genealogies.

    Matthew L. Niemiller;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;Brian T. Miller

  • What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets

  • Rapid spread of invasive genes into a threatened native species

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;Jarrett R. Johnson;D. Kevin Kump;Jeramiah J. Smith

  • The geography of mammalian speciation: mixed signals from phylogenies and range maps.

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;Michael Turelli

  • Pattern, process and geographic modes of speciation

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets;S. Gavrilets

  • What can DNA tell us about biological invasions

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;James A. Fordyce;Matthew L. Niemiller;R. Graham Reynolds

  • Assortative mating in poison-dart frogs based on an ecologically important trait.

    R. Graham Reynolds;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Hybrid vigor between native and introduced salamanders raises new challenges for conservation

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;H. Bradley Shaffer

  • Hybridization between a rare, native tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) and its introduced congener

    Seth P. D. Riley;H. Bradley Shaffer;S. Randal Voss;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Estimating ancestry and heterozygosity of hybrids using molecular markers

    Benjamin M Fitzpatrick;Benjamin M Fitzpatrick

  • Transgressive Hybrids as Hopeful Monsters

    Dylan R. Dittrich-Reed;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • DELIMITING SPECIES USING MULTILOCUS DATA: DIAGNOSING CRYPTIC DIVERSITY IN THE SOUTHERN CAVEFISH, TYPHLICHTHYS SUBTERRANEUS (TELEOSTEI: AMBLYOPSIDAE)

    Matthew L. Niemiller;Thomas J. Near;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • RATES OF EVOLUTION OF HYBRID INVIABILITY IN BIRDS AND MAMMALS

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Underappreciated Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity for Ecological Speciation

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Invasive hybrid tiger salamander genotypes impact native amphibians

    Maureen E. Ryan;Jarrett R. Johnson;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Rapid fixation of non-native alleles revealed by genome-wide SNP analysis of hybrid tiger salamanders

    Benjamin M Fitzpatrick;Jarrett R Johnson;D Kevin Kump;H Bradley Shaffer

  • Power and sample size for nested analysis of molecular variance.

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Evidence for repeated loss of selective constraint in rhodopsin of amblyopsid cavefishes (Teleostei: Amblyopsidae).

    Matthew L. Niemiller;Matthew L. Niemiller;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;Premal Shah;Lars Schmitz

  • Alternative forms for genomic clines

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • Hybridization and the species problem in conservation

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;Maureen E. Ryan;Jarrett R. Johnson;Joel Corush

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Fordyce
James A. Fordyce University of Tennessee at Knoxville
H. Bradley Shaffer
H. Bradley Shaffer University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas J. Near
Thomas J. Near Yale University
Gordon M. Burghardt
Gordon M. Burghardt University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jennifer A. Schweitzer
Jennifer A. Schweitzer University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Sergey Gavrilets
Sergey Gavrilets University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Joseph K. Bailey
Joseph K. Bailey University of Tennessee at Knoxville
J. Joshua Smith
J. Joshua Smith Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas G. Whitham
Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University
Susan E. Riechert
Susan E. Riechert University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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