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Richard O. Prum

Richard O. Prum

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
25282
World Ranking
8061
National Ranking
3651

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2007 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard O. Prum is affiliated with Yale University in the United States; their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers the fields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Several recent publications highlight Prum's research contributions:

  • "Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers" (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genomic phylogeography of the White-crowned Manakin Pseudopipra pipra (Aves: Pipridae) illuminates a continental-scale radiation out of the Andes" (2021) in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Recent divergence and lack of shared phylogeographic history characterize the diversification of neotropical savanna birds" (2021) in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Expanding the eggshell colour gamut: uroerythrin and bilirubin from tinamou (Tinamidae) eggshells" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Hummingbird plumage color diversity exceeds the known gamut of all other birds" (2022) in Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Prum include Liam U. Taylor, Vinodkumar Saranathan, Eric R. Dufresne, Jacob S. Berv, and Samuel S. Snow.

The scientist's work appears consistently across several publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Science Advances

Prum has been recognized as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation since 2009 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 2007.

Best Publications

  • Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers

    Dakota E. McCoy;Teresa Feo;Todd Alan Harvey;Richard O. Prum

  • A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

    Richard O. Prum;Richard O. Prum;Jacob S. Berv;Alex Dornburg;Alex Dornburg;Alex Dornburg;Daniel J. Field;Daniel J. Field

  • The biology of color

    Innes C. Cuthill;William L. Allen;Kevin Arbuckle;Barbara Caspers

  • Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales

    Vinodkumar Saranathan;Chinedum O. Osuji;Simon G. J. Mochrie;Heeso Noh

  • Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Buntings

    Mary Caswell Stoddard;Richard O. Prum

  • Development and evolutionary origin of feathers.

    Richard O. Prum

  • Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration.

    Jason D. Forster;Heeso Noh;Seng Fatt Liew;Vinodkumar Saranathan

  • PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF DIVERSIFICATION: SPECIATION AND HISTORICAL CONGRUENCE IN SOME NEOTROPICAL BIRDS.

    Joel Cracraft;Joel Cracraft;Richard O. Prum

  • Coherent light scattering by blue feather barbs

    Richard O. Prum;Rodolfo H. Torres;Scott Williamson;Jan Dyck

  • The evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers.

    Richard O. Prum;Alan H. Brush

  • Structural colouration of avian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays

    Richard O. Prum;Rodolfo Torres

  • Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

    Quanguo Li;Ke-Qin Gao;Jakob Vinther;Matthew D. Shawkey

  • Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering

    Richard O. Prum;Tim Quinn;Rodolfo H. Torres

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Display Behavior in the Neotropical Manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

    Richard O. Prum

  • How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi‐ordered Structures of Bird Feathers

    Heeso Noh;Seng Fatt Liew;Vinodkumar Saranathan;Simon G. J. Mochrie

  • Self-assembly of amorphous biophotonic nanostructures by phase separation

    Eric R. Dufresne;Heeso Noh;Vinodkumar Saranathan;Simon G. J. Mochrie

  • THE LANDE–KIRKPATRICK MECHANISM IS THE NULL MODEL OF EVOLUTION BY INTERSEXUAL SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEANING, HONESTY, AND DESIGN IN INTERSEXUAL SIGNALS

    Richard O. Prum

  • How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

    Mary Caswell Stoddard;Richard O. Prum

  • Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers

    Xing Xu;Zhong-he Zhou;Richard O. Prum

  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE NEST ARCHITECTURE OF NEOTROPICAL OVENBIRDS (FURNARIIDAE)

    Krzysztof Zyskowski;Richard O. Prum

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Cao
Hui Cao Yale University
Simon G. J. Mochrie
Simon G. J. Mochrie Yale University
Rodolfo H. Torres
Rodolfo H. Torres University of California, Riverside
Günter P. Wagner
Günter P. Wagner Yale University
Jakob Vinther
Jakob Vinther University of Bristol
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
Joel Cracraft
Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History
Julia A. Clarke
Julia A. Clarke The University of Texas at Austin
Chinedum O. Osuji
Chinedum O. Osuji University of Pennsylvania

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