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Gil G. Rosenthal

Gil G. Rosenthal

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Ecology and Evolution

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48
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7551
World Ranking
4281
National Ranking
76

Overview

Gil G. Rosenthal is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work spans key subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Molecular Biology. The main topics they address include genetic diversity and population structure, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, and reproductive biology with impacts on aquatic species.

Recent publications by Rosenthal include the following papers:

  • Sexual selection and the ascent of women: Mate choice research since Darwin, 2022, Science
  • Natural hybridization reveals incompatible alleles that cause melanoma in swordtail fish, 2020, Science
  • The Genetic Architecture of Variation in the Sexually Selected Sword Ornament and Its Evolution in Hybrid Populations, 2021, Current Biology
  • Evolutionary novelty in communication between the sexes, 2021, Biology Letters
  • Genomic insights into variation in thermotolerance between hybridizing swordtail fishes, 2022, Molecular Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Daniel L. Powell, Molly Schumer, Shreya M. Banerjee, Peter Andolfatto, and Cheyenne Payne.

Rosenthal publishes regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, and Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Best Publications

  • Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

    Molly Schumer;Chenling Xu;Daniel L. Powell;Arun Durvasula

  • HOW COMMON IS HOMOPLOID HYBRID SPECIATION

    Molly Schumer;Gil G. Rosenthal;Peter Andolfatto

  • Female preference for swords in Xiphophorus helleri reflects a bias for large apparent size

    Gil G. Rosenthal;Christopher S. Evans

  • Alteration of the chemical environment disrupts communication in a freshwater fish.

    Heidi S Fisher;Bob Bern Ming Wong;Gil G Rosenthal;Gil G Rosenthal

  • Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans

    Gil G. Rosenthal

  • A private ultraviolet channel in visual communication

    Molly E. Cummings;Gil G. Rosenthal;Michael J. Ryan

  • Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in Xiphophorus fishes.

    Rongfeng Cui;Molly Schumer;Karla Kruesi;Ronald Walter

  • The vocal sac as a visual cue in anuran communication: an experimental analysis using video playback

    G. I. L. G. Rosenthal;A. Stanley Rand;Michael J. Ryan;Michael J. Ryan

  • Repeated losses of PRDM9-directed recombination despite the conservation of PRDM9 across vertebrates

    Zachary Baker;Molly Schumer;Molly Schumer;Yuki Haba;Lisa Bashkirova

  • Shared preferences by predators and females for male ornaments in swordtails.

    Gil G. Rosenthal;Tania Y. Flores Martinez;Francisco J. García de León;Michael J. Ryan

  • High-resolution mapping reveals hundreds of genetic incompatibilities in hybridizing fish species

    Molly Schumer;Rongfeng Cui;Daniel L Powell;Rebecca Dresner

  • Assortative preferences for stripes in danios

    Gil G. Rosenthal;Michael J. Ryan

  • Reproductive isolation of hybrid populations driven by genetic incompatibilities.

    Molly Schumer;Rongfeng Cui;Gil G. Rosenthal;Peter Andolfatto

  • Natural hybridization reveals incompatible alleles that cause melanoma in swordtail fish

    Daniel L. Powell;Daniel L. Powell;Mateo García-Olazábal;Mackenzie Keegan;Patrick Reilly

  • Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient

    Z. W. Culumber;H. S. Fisher;M. Tobler;M. Tobler;M. Mateos

  • Female preference for dynamic traits in the green swordtail,Xiphophorus helleri

    Gil G. Rosenthal;Christopher S. Evans;William L. Miller

  • The role of sexual selection in maintaining a colour polymorphism in the pygmy swordtail, Xiphophorus pygmaeus

    Jennifer J. Kingston;Gil G. Rosenthal;Michael J. Ryan

  • The shape of things to come: linking developmental plasticity to post‐metamorphic morphology in anurans

    I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;V. L. Saccoccio;T. Iijima;E. M. Collins

  • Female swordtail fish use chemical cues to select well-fed mates

    Heidi S. Fisher;Gil G. Rosenthal

  • Species recognition by male swordtails via chemical cues

    Bob Bern Ming Wong;Heidi S Fisher;Gil G Rosenthal

  • Female disdain for swords in a swordtail fish

    Bob Bern Ming Wong;Gil G Rosenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Andolfatto
Peter Andolfatto Columbia University
Michael J. Ryan
Michael J. Ryan The University of Texas at Austin
Bob B. M. Wong
Bob B. M. Wong Monash University
Molly Przeworski
Molly Przeworski Columbia University
Michael Tobler
Michael Tobler Kansas State University
Adam Jones
Adam Jones University of Idaho
Alastair J. Wilson
Alastair J. Wilson University of Exeter
Suzanne H. Alonzo
Suzanne H. Alonzo University of California, Santa Cruz
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Ivan Gomez-Mestre
Ivan Gomez-Mestre Spanish National Research Council

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