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Richard E. Glor is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on genetics and ecological modeling within these broader disciplines.

The scientist's published work addresses several subfields including Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their main research topics involve Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, as well as Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities. Additional interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard E. Glor include:

  • ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography, 2021, Ecography
  • Repeated evolution of underwater rebreathing in diving Anolis lizards, 2021, Current Biology
  • Transcriptomic Analysis of Skin Color in Anole Lizards, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • A morphometric assessment of species boundaries in a widespread anole lizard (Squamata: Dactyloidae), 2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • A revision of the Anolis carolinensis subgroup supports three species in Cuba, including a new cryptic species (Squamata: Anolidae), 2025, Vertebrate Zoology

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Pietro L. H. de Mello
  • Paul M. Hime
  • Tanner C. Myers
  • Javier Torres López
  • R. Graham Reynolds

Richard E. Glor's work has appeared in multiple venues, with repeated publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other frequent publication venues include Ecography, Current Biology, Genome Biology and Evolution, and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Best Publications

  • Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution.

    Dan L. Warren;Richard E. Glor;Michael Turelli

  • GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations.

    Luke J. Harmon;Jason T. Weir;Chad D. Brock;Richard E. Glor

  • ENMTools: a toolbox for comparative studies of environmental niche models

    Dan L. Warren;Richard E. Glor;Michael Turelli

  • Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard

    Jason J. Kolbe;Richard E. Glor;Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino;Ada Chamizo Lara

  • The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

    Jessica Alföldi;Federica Di Palma;Manfred Grabherr;Christina Williams

  • Phylogenetic comparative methods and the geography of speciation

    Jonathan B. Losos;Richard E. Glor

  • Ecological opportunity and the rate of morphological evolution in the diversification of Greater Antillean anoles.

    D. Luke Mahler;Liam J. Revell;Richard E. Glor;Jonathan B. Losos

  • ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography

    Dan L. Warren;Nicholas J. Matzke;Marcel Cardillo;John B. Baumgartner;John B. Baumgartner

  • Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community

    Jonathan B. Losos;Manuel Leal;Manuel Leal;Richard E. Glor;Kevin de Queiroz

  • Phylogenetic Insights on Adaptive Radiation

    Richard E. Glor

  • Quantifying the roles of ecology and geography in spatial genetic divergence

    Ian J. Wang;Richard E. Glor;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Mainland colonization by island lizards

    Kirsten E. Nicholson;Richard E. Glor;Jason J. Kolbe;Allan Larson

  • Equilibrium speciation dynamics in a model adaptive radiation of island lizards

    Daniel L. Rabosky;Richard E. Glor

  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE NICHE IN LIZARDS OF THE ANOLIS SAGREI GROUP

    Jason H. Knouft;Jonathan B. Losos;Richard E. Glor;Jason J. Kolbe

  • Multiple sources, admixture, and genetic variation in introduced anolis lizard populations.

    Jason J. Kolbe;Richard E. Glor;Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino;Ada Chamizo Lara

  • Poor statistical performance of the Mantel test in phylogenetic comparative analyses.

    Luke J. Harmon;Richard E. Glor

  • TESTING ECOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR BIOGEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES

    Richard E. Glor;Dan Warren

  • Out of Cuba: overwater dispersal and speciation among lizards in the Anolis carolinensis subgroup

    Richard E. Glor;Jonathan B. Losos;Allan Larson

  • Phylogenetic analysis of ecological and morphological diversification in Hispaniolan trunk-ground anoles (Anolis cybotes group).

    Richard E. Glor;Jason J. Kolbe;Robert Powell;Allan Larson;Allan Larson

  • Lizard diversity and agricultural disturbance in a Caribbean forest landscape

    Richard E. Glor;Alexander S. Flecker;Michael F. Benard;Alison G. Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis
Allan Larson
Allan Larson Washington University in St. Louis
Jason J. Kolbe
Jason J. Kolbe University of Rhode Island
Matthew Breen
Matthew Breen North Carolina State University
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Kevin de Queiroz
Kevin de Queiroz National Museum of Natural History
Luke J. Harmon
Luke J. Harmon University of Idaho
Euan G. Ritchie
Euan G. Ritchie Deakin University
Michael Turelli
Michael Turelli University of California, Davis
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute

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