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Jimmy A. McGuire is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial number of publications in these fields. Their subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, especially focusing on Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

McGuire has contributed to multiple research articles, including the following recent publications:

  • Species Delimitation, Phylogenomics, and Biogeography of Sulawesi Flying Lizards: A Diversification History Complicated by Ancient Hybridization, Cryptic Species, and Arrested Speciation (2023, Systematic Biology)
  • State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources (2022, Ichthyology & Herpetology)
  • Geography and Elevation as Drivers of Cloacal Microbiome Assemblages of a Passerine Bird Distributed Across Sulawesi, Indonesia (2023, Animal Microbiome)

Alongside these, McGuire's coauthors frequently include Djoko T. Iskandar, Evy Arida, Benjamin R. Karin, Umilaela Arifin, and Alexander L. Stubbs, each collaborating extensively over several projects.

Publication venues that regularly feature McGuire's work include Zootaxa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Systematic Biology, Journal of Heredity, and Research Square.

The scientist has also authored a book titled Recent Advances in Museomics: Revolutionizing Biodiversity Research published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

This profile reflects Jimmy A. McGuire's contributions to advancing understanding in ecological and molecular biology research, emphasizing biodiversity, evolutionary processes, and species conservation.

Best Publications

  • Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

    Matthew K. Fujita;Adam D. Leaché;Frank T. Burbrink;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Increased taxon sampling is advantageous for phylogenetic inference.

    David D. Pollock;Derrick J. Zwickl;Jimmy A. McGuire;David M. Hillis

  • Molecular Phylogenetics and the Diversification of Hummingbirds

    Jimmy A. McGuire;Christopher C. Witt;J.V. Remsen;Ammon Corl

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

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

  • Phylogenetic structure in tropical hummingbird communities

    Catherine H. Graham;Juan L. Parra;Carsten Rahbek;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Is sparse taxon sampling a problem for phylogenetic inference

    David M. Hillis;David D. Pollock;Jimmy A. McGuire;Derrick J. Zwickl

  • Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy.

    Jimmy A. McGuire;Christopher C. Witt;Douglas L. Altshuler;J. V. Remsen

  • MITOCHONDRIAL INTROGRESSION AND INCOMPLETE LINEAGE SORTING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME: PHYLOGENETICS OF CROTAPHYTID LIZARDS

    Jimmy A. McGuire;Charles W. Linkem;Michelle S. Koo;Delbert W. Hutchison

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Phylogenetics of Fanged Frogs:Testing Biogeographical Hypotheses at the Interface of the Asian and Australian Faunal Zones

    Ben J. Evans;Rafe M. Brown;Jimmy A. McGuire;Jatna Supriatna;Jatna Supriatna

  • Quantifying ecological, morphological, and genetic variation to delimit species in the coast horned lizard species complex (Phrynosoma).

    Adam D. Leaché;Michelle S. Koo;Carol L. Spencer;Theodore J. Papenfuss

  • Morphology, molecules, and the phylogenetics of cetaceans.

    Sharon L. Messenger;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds.

    Joana Projecto-Garcia;Chandrasekhar Natarajan;Hideaki Moriyama;Roy E. Weber

  • Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes.

    Alison R. Davis Rabosky;Alison R. Davis Rabosky;Christian L. Cox;Christian L. Cox;Daniel L. Rabosky;Pascal O. Title

  • Phylogenetic relationships of horned lizards (Phrynosoma) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data: evidence for a misleading mitochondrial gene tree.

    Adam D. Leaché;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity?

    Robert Dudley;Greg Byrnes;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Brendan Borrell

  • Resolution of a paradox: Hummingbird flight at high elevation does not come without a cost

    Douglas L. Altshuler;Robert Dudley;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Fixing Formalin: A Method to Recover Genomic-Scale DNA Sequence Data from Formalin-Fixed Museum Specimens Using High-Throughput Sequencing

    Sarah M. Hykin;Ke Bi;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • DIVERSIFICATION AND PERSISTENCE AT THE ARID–MONSOONAL INTERFACE: AUSTRALIA‐WIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE BYNOE'S GECKO (HETERONOTIA BINOEI; GEKKONIDAE)

    Matthew K. Fujita;Jimmy A. McGuire;Stephen C. Donnellan;Craig Moritz

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
Jatna Supriatna
Jatna Supriatna University of Indonesia
Robert Dudley
Robert Dudley University of California, Berkeley
L. Lee Grismer
L. Lee Grismer La Sierra University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Arvin C. Diesmos
Arvin C. Diesmos National Museum of Natural History
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Catherine H. Graham
Catherine H. Graham Stony Brook University
Adam D. Leaché
Adam D. Leaché University of Washington
Cameron D. Siler
Cameron D. Siler University of Oklahoma

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