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Borja Milá is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their scientific work spans multiple areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. The primary research focuses on Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work addresses a range of topics including genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, as well as evolution and paleontology studies.

Among the recent publications authored or coauthored by Borja Milá are:

  • The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations (2021, Current Biology)
  • Comparative Metagenomics of Palearctic and Neotropical Avian Cloacal Viromes Reveal Geographic Bias in Virus Discovery (2020, Microorganisms)
  • Sequential colonization of oceanic archipelagos led to a species-level radiation in the common chaffinch complex (Aves: Fringilla coelebs) (2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution)
  • Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent coauthors working with Borja Milá include Christophe Thébaud, María Recuerda, Guillermo Blanco, Benoît Nabholz, and Thibault Leroy.

Regular publication venues for this author include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Current Biology.

Best Publications

  • Manual de métodos de campo para el monitoreo de aves terrestres

    C. John Ralph;Geoffrey R. Geupel;Peter Pyle;Thomas E. Martin

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data

    Wolfgang Buermann;Sassan Saatchi;Sassan Saatchi;Thomas B. Smith;Brian R. Zutta

  • Extensive population genetic structure in the giraffe

    David M. Brown;Rick A. Brenneman;Klaus Peter Koepfli;John P. Pollinger

  • Genetic evidence for the effect of a postglacial population expansion on the phylogeography of a North American songbird

    Borja Mila;Derek J. Girman;Mari Kimura;Thomas B. Smith;Thomas B. Smith

  • Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genus Junco

    Borja Milá;John E McCormack;Gabriela Castañeda;Robert K Wayne

  • Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community

    Keith A. Hobson;Len I. Wassenaar;Borja Milá;Irby Lovette

  • The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates.

    Ana Benítez-López;Ana Benítez-López;Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Juan Gallego-Zamorano;Borja Milá

  • Speciation and rapid phenotypic differentiation in the yellow-rumped warbler Dendroica coronata complex

    Borja Milá;Thomas B. Smith;Robert K. Wayne

  • Hybrid origin of Audubon's warbler.

    Alan Brelsford;Borja Milá;Darren E. Irwin

  • A comparison of genomic islands of differentiation across three young avian species pairs

    Darren E. Irwin;Borja Milá;David P. L. Toews;David P. L. Toews;Alan Brelsford;Alan Brelsford

  • Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogeographical structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper, Glyphorynchus spirurus, a Neotropical rainforest bird.

    B. Milá;R. K. Wayne;P. Fitze;T. B. Smith

  • Phylogeographical approaches to assessing demographic connectivity between breeding and overwintering regions in a Nearctic-Neotropical warbler (Wilsonia pusilla).

    Mari Kimura;Sonya Clegg;Irby J. Lovette;Irby J. Lovette;Karen R. Holder

  • Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird.

    Borja Milá;Thomas B. Smith;Robert K. Wayne

  • Evolution of long-distance migration in and historical biogeography of Catharus thrushes: a molecular phylogenetic approach

    Diana C. Outlaw;Gary Voelker;Borja Mila;Derek J. Girman

  • Mapping evolutionary process: a multi‐taxa approach to conservation prioritization

    Henri A. Thomassen;Trevon Fuller;Wolfgang Buermann;Borja Milá;Borja Milá

  • Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations.

    Thibault Leroy;Thibault Leroy;Marjolaine Rousselle;Marjolaine Rousselle;Marie-Ka Tilak;Aude E. Caizergues

  • The geographic scale of diversification on islands: genetic and morphological divergence at a very small spatial scale in the Mascarene grey white-eye (Aves: Zosterops borbonicus )

    Borja Milá;Ben H Warren;Philipp Heeb;Christophe Thébaud

  • The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon

    Camille Bonneaud;Irem Sepil;Borja Milá;Wolfgang Buermann

  • POSTGLACIAL POPULATION EXPANSION DRIVES THE EVOLUTION OF LONG‐DISTANCE MIGRATION IN A SONGBIRD

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  • Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Commentary

    Bethany A. Bradley;Erica Fleishman;Wolfgang Buermann;Sassan Saatchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Thébaud
Christophe Thébaud Paul Sabatier University
Thomas B. Smith
Thomas B. Smith University of California, Los Angeles
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles
Wolfgang Buermann
Wolfgang Buermann University of Augsburg
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Guillermo Blanco
Guillermo Blanco Spanish National Research Council
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Ellen D. Ketterson
Ellen D. Ketterson Indiana University
Luca Santini
Luca Santini Sapienza University of Rome

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