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Gary Voelker is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily spans across Environmental Science, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work focuses on several subfields including Parasitology, Ecology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as genetic diversity and population structure, bird parasitology and diseases, vector-borne infectious diseases, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, viral infections and vectors, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Gary Voelker has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Diversity
  • Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

This researcher has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Irene Pellegrino
  • Sergei V. Drovetski
  • Giovanni Boano
  • Marco Pavia
  • Luca Ilahiane

Significant publications in their recent body of work include:

  • Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Robust geographical determinants of infection prevalence and a contrasting latitudinal diversity gradient for haemosporidian parasites in Western Palearctic birds, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus), 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Molecular Phylogenetics of the Clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae)-Implications for Classification, 2020, Copeia
  • Adaptive genetic diversity and evidence of population genetic structure in the endangered Sierra Madre Sparrow (Xenospiza baileyi), 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Dispersal, vicariance, and clocks : Historical biogeography and speciation in a cosmopolitan passerine genus (Anthus : Motacillidae)

    Gary Voelker

  • Molecular systematics of a speciose, cosmopolitan songbird genus: defining the limits of, and relationships among, the Turdus thrushes.

    Gary Voelker;Sievert Rohwer;Rauri C.K. Bowie;Diana C. Outlaw

  • Does the niche breadth or trade‐off hypothesis explain the abundance–occupancy relationship in avian Haemosporidia?

    Sergei V. Drovetski;Sargis A. Aghayan;Vanessa A. Mata;Ricardo J. Lopes

  • Pliocene forest dynamics as a primary driver of African bird speciation.

    Gary Voelker;Robert K. Outlaw;Rauri C. K. Bowie

  • 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

  • A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the "true thrushes" (Aves: Turdinae).

    John Klicka;Gary Voelker;Garth M. Spellman

  • Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA evidence of polyphyly in the avian superfamily Muscicapoidea

    Gary Voelker;Garth M Spellman

  • Environmental filtering improves ecological niche models across multiple scales

    Adrian A. Castellanos;Jerry W. Huntley;Jerry W. Huntley;Gary Voelker;A. Michelle Lawing

  • Molecular evolutionary relationships in the avian genus Anthus (Pipits: Motacillidae).

    Gary Voelker

  • SYSTEMATICS AND HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF WAGTAILS: DISPERSAL VERSUS VICARIANCE REVISITED

    Gary Voelker

  • The african warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree : Molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida

    Jérôme Fuchs;Jon Fjeldså;Rauri C.K. Bowie;Gary Voelker

  • Contrasts in Scheduling of Molt and Migration in Eastern and Western Warbling-Vireos

    Gary Voelker;Sievert Rohwer

  • Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions

    Alan Fecchio;Nicholas J. Clark;Jeffrey A Bell;Heather Skeen;Heather Skeen

  • River barriers and cryptic biodiversity in an evolutionary museum

    G. Voelker;B. D. Marks;C. Kahindo;U. A'genonga

  • Pliocene climatic change in insular Southeast Asia as an engine of diversification in Ficedula flycatchers

    Diana Cumings Outlaw;Gary Voelker

  • Dispersal, Vicariance, and Clocks: Historical Biogeography and Speciation in a Cosmopolitan Passerine Genus (Anthus: Motacillidae)

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  • The Rediscovery of a Long Described Species Reveals Additional Complexity in Speciation Patterns of Poeciliid Fishes in Sulfide Springs

    Maura Palacios;Lenin Arias-Rodriguez;Martin Plath;Constanze Eifert

  • Morphological correlates of migratory distance and flight display in the avian genus Anthus

    G. Voelker

  • Can weighting improve bushy trees? Models of cytochrome b evolution and the molecular systematics of pipits and wagtails (Aves: Motacillidae).

    Gary Voelker;Scott V. Edwards

  • PHYLOGENETIC TESTS OF HYPOTHESES FOR THE EVOLUTION OF AVIAN MIGRATION: A CASE STUDY USING THE MOTACILLIDAE

    Diana C. Outlaw;Gary Voelker

  • Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in Sylvia warblers.

    Gary Voelker;Jessica E Light

  • Gene trees, species trees and Earth history combine to shed light on the evolution of migration in a model avian system

    Gary Voelker;Rauri C. K. Bowie;John Klicka

  • Southeast Asia as an engine of diversification in Ficedula flycatchers

    Diana Cumings Outlaw;Gary Voelker

Frequent Co-Authors

Rauri C. K. Bowie
Rauri C. K. Bowie University of California, Berkeley
John Klicka
John Klicka University of Washington
Sievert Rohwer
Sievert Rohwer University of Washington
Michael Tobler
Michael Tobler Kansas State University
John M. Bates
John M. Bates Field Museum of Natural History
Kevin A. Feldheim
Kevin A. Feldheim Field Museum of Natural History
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
Jason D. Weckstein
Jason D. Weckstein Drexel University
Vasyl V. Tkach
Vasyl V. Tkach University of North Dakota
Petra Quillfeldt
Petra Quillfeldt University of Giessen

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