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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robb T. Brumfield is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States and has a research profile centered on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their body of work includes 74 publications in these core fields, supplemented by contributions to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their research focuses on several interconnected topics, primarily genetic diversity and population structure, with 84 publications addressing these areas. Other significant themes include genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant and animal studies, evolution and paleontology studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Frequent publication venues reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their research. They have 12 publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 8 in The Auk, 8 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 6 in Systematic Biology, and 3 in Evolution.

Robb T. Brumfield collaborates extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Brant C. Faircloth (19 collaborations), Elizabeth P. Derryberry (16), Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo (13), Gustavo A. Bravo (12), and Edward L. Braun (11).

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
  • The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot, 2020, Science
  • Phylogenomic Analysis of the Parrots of the World Distinguishes Artifactual from Biological Sources of Gene Tree Discordance, 2022, Systematic Biology
  • River network rearrangements promote speciation in lowland Amazonian birds, 2022, Science Advances
  • Systematics, biogeography, and diversification of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), an enigmatic radiation of Neotropical montane birds, 2020, The Auk

Robb T. Brumfield was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales.

    Brant C. Faircloth;John E. McCormack;Nicholas G. Crawford;Michael G. Harvey

  • The utility of single nucleotide polymorphisms in inferences of population history

    Robb T. Brumfield;Peter Beerli;Deborah A. Nickerson;Scott V. Edwards

  • Applications of next-generation sequencing to phylogeography and phylogenetics

    John E. McCormack;Sarah M. Hird;Amanda J. Zellmer;Bryan C. Carstens

  • The drivers of tropical speciation

    Brian Tilston Smith;John E. McCormack;Andrés M. Cuervo;Michael. J. Hickerson

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

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

  • Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: the neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (aves: Furnariidae).

    Elizabeth P. Derryberry;Santiago Claramunt;Graham Derryberry;R. Terry Chesser

  • High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds

    Santiago Claramunt;Elizabeth P. Derryberry;J. V. Remsen;Robb T. Brumfield

  • Ultraconserved elements are novel phylogenomic markers that resolve placental mammal phylogeny when combined with species-tree analysis.

    John E. McCormack;Brant C. Faircloth;Nicholas G. Crawford;Patricia Adair Gowaty

  • A phylogeny of birds based on over 1,500 loci collected by target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing.

    John E. McCormack;Michael G. Harvey;Brant C. Faircloth;Nicholas G. Crawford

  • Earth history and the passerine superradiation

    Carl H Oliveros;Daniel Jared Field;Daniel Jared Field;Daniel T Ksepka;F Keith Barker

  • More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

    Nicholas G. Crawford;Brant C. Faircloth;John E. McCormack;Robb T. Brumfield

  • The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

    Michael G. Harvey;Michael G. Harvey;Gustavo A. Bravo;Gustavo A. Bravo;Santiago Claramunt;Santiago Claramunt;Santiago Claramunt;Andrés M. Cuervo;Andrés M. Cuervo

  • hzar: hybrid zone analysis using an R software package

    Elizabeth P. Derryberry;Elizabeth P. Derryberry;Graham E. Derryberry;James M. Maley;James M. Maley;Robb T. Brumfield

  • Target Capture and Massively Parallel Sequencing of Ultraconserved Elements for Comparative Studies at Shallow Evolutionary Time Scales

    Brian Tilston Smith;Michael G. Harvey;Brant C. Faircloth;Travis C. Glenn

  • Ecology predicts levels of genetic differentiation in neotropical birds.

    Curtis W. Burney;Robb T. Brumfield

  • Comparative Gut Microbiota of 59 Neotropical Bird Species

    Sarah M. Hird;César Sánchez;Bryan C. Carstens;Robb T. Brumfield

  • Sequence Capture versus Restriction Site Associated DNA Sequencing for Shallow Systematics.

    Michael G. Harvey;Brian Tilston Smith;Travis C. Glenn;Brant C. Faircloth

  • EVOLUTION INTO AND OUT OF THE ANDES: A BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL DIVERSIFICATION IN THAMNOPHILUS ANTSHRIKES

    Robb T. Brumfield;Scott V. Edwards

  • Estimating Species Trees Using Multiple-Allele DNA Sequence Data

    Liang Liu;Dennis K. Pearl;Robb T. Brumfield;Scott V. Edwards

  • Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences.

    John E. McCormack;James M. Maley;Sarah M. Hird;Elizabeth P. Derryberry;Elizabeth P. Derryberry

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth P. Derryberry
Elizabeth P. Derryberry University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Alexandre Aleixo
Alexandre Aleixo Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Brant C. Faircloth
Brant C. Faircloth Louisiana State University
Michael J. Braun
Michael J. Braun University of Maryland, College Park
Joel Cracraft
Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Travis C. Glenn
Travis C. Glenn University of Georgia
Camila C. Ribas
Camila C. Ribas National Institute of Amazonian Research
Scott V. Edwards
Scott V. Edwards Harvard University
Zachary A. Cheviron
Zachary A. Cheviron University of Montana

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