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Sonya M. Clegg is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, they have contributed to subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work focuses on several key research topics. These include genetic diversity and population structure, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, avian ecology and behavior, bird parasitology and diseases, and evolution and paleontology studies.

Sonya M. Clegg has frequently published in several venues. Prominent among these are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Scientific Reports, Nature, and the Journal of Biogeography.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Sonya M. Clegg include:

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide, 2020, Nature
  • An island-hopping bird reveals how founder events shape genome-wide divergence, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Rapid morphological divergence following a human-mediated introduction: the role of drift and directional selection, 2020, Heredity
  • The Genomic Landscape of Divergence Across the Speciation Continuum in Island-Colonising Silvereyes ( Zosterops lateralis ), 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Life-history strategy varies with the strength of competition in a food-limited ungulate population, 2020, Ecology Letters

Throughout their publishing career, Sonya M. Clegg has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. These include Ashley T. Sendell-Price, Tim Coulson, Bruce C. Robertson, Michał T. Jezierski, and W. J. Bernhard Smith. Notably, Ashley T. Sendell-Price has co-authored the largest number of publications alongside Clegg.

Best Publications

  • Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection.

    Adam M. Siepielski;Michael B. Morrissey;Mathieu Buoro;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Genetic consequences of sequential founder events by an island-colonizing bird

    Sonya M. Clegg;Sandie M. Degnan;Jiro Kikkawa;Craig Moritz

  • A review of global diversity in avian haemosporidians (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus: Haemosporida): new insights from molecular data

    Nicholas J. Clark;Nicholas J. Clark;Sonya M. Clegg;Marcos R. Lima

  • The ‘island rule’ in birds: medium body size and its ecological explanation

    Sonya M Clegg;Ian P F Owens

  • MICROEVOLUTION IN ISLAND FORMS: THE ROLES OF DRIFT AND DIRECTIONAL SELECTION IN MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE OF A PASSERINE BIRD

    Sonya M. Clegg;Sandie M. Degnan;Craig Moritz;Arnaud Estoup

  • Combining genetic markers and stable isotopes to reveal population connectivity and migration patterns in a neotropical migrant, Wilson's warbler (Wilsonia pusilla).

    Sonya M. Clegg;Jeffrey F. Kelly;Mari Kimura;Thomas B. Smith;Thomas B. Smith

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide.

    Luis Valente;Albert B. Phillimore;Martim Melo;Martim Melo;Ben H. Warren

  • Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites

    Alan Fecchio;Konstans Wells;Jeffrey A. Bell;Vasyl V. Tkach

  • MORPHOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN ISLAND-DWELLING BIRDS: THE ROLES OF GENERALIST FORAGING AND NICHE EXPANSION

    Susan Scott;Sonya Clegg;Sonya Clegg;Simon Phillip Blomberg;Simon Phillip Blomberg;Jiro Kikkawa

  • Phylogeographical approaches to assessing demographic connectivity between breeding and overwintering regions in a Nearctic-Neotropical warbler (Wilsonia pusilla).

    Mari Kimura;Sonya Clegg;Irby J. Lovette;Irby J. Lovette;Karen R. Holder

  • Avian haematozoan parasites and their associations with mosquitoes across Southwest Pacific Islands

    F. Ishtiaq;L. Guillaumot;Sonya Clegg;A. B. Phillimore

  • Direct versus indirect sexual selection: genetic basis of colour, size and recruitment in a wild bird

    Jarrod D Hadfield;Malcolm D Burgess;Alex Lord;Albert B Phillimore

  • Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds

    Nicholas J. Clark;Nicholas J. Clark;Konstans Wells;Dimitar Dimitrov;Sonya M. Clegg;Sonya M. Clegg

  • Divergence in mating signals correlates with ecological variation in the migratory songbird, Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus).

    Kristen C. Ruegg;Hans Slabbekoorn;Sonya M. Clegg;Thomas B. Smith

  • Limited utility of mtDNA markers for determining connectivity among breeding and overwintering locations in three neotropical migrant birds

    Irby J. Lovette;Sonya M. Clegg;Thomas B. Smith

  • Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala).

    Knud Andreas Jønsson;Martin Irestedt;Les Christidis;Sonya M. Clegg

  • Integrating phylogenetic and ecological distances reveals new insights into parasite host specificity.

    Nicholas J. Clark;Nicholas J. Clark;Sonya M. Clegg

  • Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly

    Nicholas J. Clark;Sonya M. Clegg;Katerina Sam;William Goulding;William Goulding

  • 4000 YEARS OF PHENOTYPIC CHANGE IN AN ISLAND BIRD: HETEROGENEITY OF SELECTION OVER THREE MICROEVOLUTIONARY TIMESCALES

    Sonya M. Clegg;Francesca D. Frentiu;Jiro Kikkawa;Giacomo Tavecchia

  • Bayesian inferences on the recent island colonization history by the bird Zosterops lateralis lateralis.

    Arnaud Estoup;Sonya Clegg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian P. F. Owens
Ian P. F. Owens Cornell University
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Thomas B. Smith
Thomas B. Smith University of California, Los Angeles
Albert B. Phillimore
Albert B. Phillimore University of Edinburgh
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council
Robert D. Adlard
Robert D. Adlard Queensland Museum
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of California, Berkeley

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