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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
18422
World Ranking
1943
National Ranking
709

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Rosemary G. Gillespie is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist has focused on various research topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Rosemary G. Gillespie has coauthored frequently with researchers such as Henrik Krehenwinkel, Susan Kennedy, Anna Holmquist, George Roderick, and José Cerca. Their collaboration network reflects overlapping interests in molecular ecology, genetics, and biodiversity.

The scientist has published prominently in several venues including:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Ecology and Evolution

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education" (2020), published in PeerJ
  • "High-throughput sequencing for community analysis: the promise of DNA barcoding to uncover diversity, relatedness, abundances and interactions in spider communities" (2020), Development Genes and Evolution
  • "Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations" (2023), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Are you what you eat? A highly transient and prey-influenced gut microbiome in the grey house spider Badumna longinqua" (2020), Molecular Ecology
  • "Chromosome-level reference genome of the European wasp spider Argiope bruennichi: a resource for studies on range expansion and evolutionary adaptation" (2021), GigaScience

Rosemary G. Gillespie was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time.

    Brent C. Emerson;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • Community assembly through adaptive radiation in Hawaiian spiders.

    Rosemary Gillespie

  • Long-distance dispersal: A framework for hypothesis testing

    Rosemary G. Gillespie;Bruce G. Baldwin;Jonathan M. Waters;Ceridwen I. Fraser

  • Arthropods on islands: colonization, speciation, and conservation.

    Rosemary G Gillespie;George K Roderick

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Richard Field;John-Arvid Grytnes;Panayiotis Trigas

  • Chelex without boiling, a rapid and easy technique to obtain stable amplifiable DNA from small amounts of ethanol-stored spiders.

    Juliane Casquet;Christophe Thebaud;Christophe Thebaud;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF SPIDER COLORATION

    G. S. Oxford;R. G. Gillespie

  • Estimating and mitigating amplification bias in qualitative and quantitative arthropod metabarcoding.

    Henrik Krehenwinkel;Madeline Wolf;Jun Ying Lim;Andrew J. Rominger

  • The black widow spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae): phylogeny, biogeography, and invasion history.

    Jessica E. Garb;Alda González;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa

    Rosemary G Gillespie;Gordon M Bennett;Luc De Meester;Jeffrey L Feder

  • Speciation and phylogeography of Hawaiian terrestrial arthropods

    G. K. Roderick;R. G. Gillespie

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders

    Hannah Marie Wood;Hannah Marie Wood;Hannah Marie Wood;Nicholas J. Matzke;Rosemary G. Gillespie;Charles E. Griswold;Charles E. Griswold;Charles E. Griswold

  • Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge

    David E.V. Harter;Severin D.H. Irl;Bumsuk Seo;Manuel J. Steinbauer

  • Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale.

    Henrik Krehenwinkel;Henrik Krehenwinkel;Henrik Krehenwinkel;Aaron Pomerantz;James B Henderson;Susan R Kennedy

  • Biodiversity dynamics in isolated island communities: interaction between natural and human-mediated processes

    Rosemary G. Gillespie;Elin M. Claridge;George K. Roderick

  • From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes

    Miquel A Arnedo;Jonathan Coddington;Ingi Agnarsson;Ingi Agnarsson;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Island Biogeography — Ecology, Evolution and Conservation

    Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Spiders in ecological webs

    Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • Endless Forms – Species and Speciation

    Rosemary G Gillespie;George K Roderick

Frequent Co-Authors

George K. Roderick
George K. Roderick University of California, Berkeley
Charles E. Griswold
Charles E. Griswold California Academy of Sciences
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Michael J. Hickerson
Michael J. Hickerson City University of New York
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Christophe Thébaud
Christophe Thébaud Paul Sabatier University
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Luke J. Harmon
Luke J. Harmon University of Idaho
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología

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