Devon DeRaad

Postdoc at UCLA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Happy to share a new publication @BioInvasions using genomic data to reveal the sources of introduced white-eye populations in Hawaii and southern California. We show that these introduced pops are totally independent, with no evidence of admixture https://t.co/DPcFCtiHgW

[Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr]

UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: https://t.co/nP5zwO5aP0 Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

✍️New story on the #AvianHybrids blog!

Why are there only three species of Emerald Doves?
https://t.co/jfzex8yMsx

Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution paper by @Dev_Der et al. | #ornithology

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

@Eliphaleth @Jente_O @LHDeCicco @ssbbulletin Wonderful! :)

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Brand new manuscript, led by @LHDeCicco "Phylogeography of the Island Leaf Warbler Reveals Rapid Secondary Sympatry or Ecological Speciation". Totally open access in @ssbbulletin, learn more about the complex evolutionary history of this iconic group: https://t.co/bEsWubNXD1

[Jenna McCullough @Jenna_Merle]

The first chapter of my dissertation is available on @biorxivpreprint. We resequenced genomes of all species (& subspecies) of rapidly radiating genus of Indo-pacific kingfishers.

https://t.co/jCoKPInavK

[KU Libraries @kulibraries]

Island chains offer a laboratory for observing changes over time as species adapt to environmental differences ... great read on dwarf kingfishers from @Dev_Der and the ornithology team at @kunhm, viewable for free thanks to #OpenAccess deals.

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Thanks so much to @kulibraries for the funding assist to get this paper published open access! @kunhm @KUnews

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

New paper in @EvolLetters (open access: https://t.co/DzdX1njad7). Using dwarf kingfishers as a model, we believe we've constructed the most complete and explicit published framework explaining the underlying mechanistic causes of the classic "paradox of the great speciators".

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Excited to share this new paper led by Moyle Lab postdoc @StephenMBaca out now in @Systematic_Ent titled "A shallow-scale phylogenomics approach reveals repeated patterns of diversification among sympatric lineages of cryptic Neotropical aquatic beetles" https://t.co/ST5touTNcu

[Jonathan Chase @Jon_Chase03]

I agree with every word Brian McGill writes. Academic publishing is a mess, we are publishing too much, and letting for-profit publishers drive us into the ground. And we’re all complicit in this!

[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

Congrats to former KU postdoctoral researcher Tyrone Lavery and members of the KU Ornithology Division - Robert Moyle, Devon DeRaad, & Lucas DeCicco, on releasing a journal article about a rare evolutionary phenomenon occurring in bats.🦇 https://t.co/LYYv2txg9q via @physorg_com

[Mark E. Hauber @cowbirdlab]

A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds | Nature Communications https://t.co/YB58KCifWM

[Faye Romero @fayegromero]

Excited to share our pre-print for a shiny new Florida-Scrub Jay genome assembly and annotation! Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mb of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies. @popgenchen ✨🧬
https://t.co/UiBXCU6Bs1

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Reduced hybrid survival in a migratory divide between songbirds | Ecology Letters
https://t.co/Wienx01dHl

#ornithology

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Exciting new R package from @omys_omics with simple and clearly defined functions for building triangle plots from empirical genomic datasets. If you are interested in descriptive popgen approaches for quantifying hybridization, check this out!

[Ben Wiens @omys_omics]

Check out triangulaR, my new R package for building triangle plots! I explore how sample size of parental pops and allele frequency difference thresholds influence hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity estimates, see more here:
https://t.co/GNaf3VDxy6
https://t.co/vTaiwMqQpO

[Ben Wiens @omys_omics]

Check out triangulaR, my new R package for building triangle plots! I explore how sample size of parental pops and allele frequency difference thresholds influence hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity estimates, see more here:
https://t.co/GNaf3VDxy6
https://t.co/vTaiwMqQpO

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Thanks to lead-author @TyroneLavery for introducing me to this extraordinarily cool group of bats, and for being a great collaborator on this exciting project!

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Out now in @journal_evo, we use morphology and genomics to document repeated, convergent body size shifts (which have misled taxonomy for decades) within a radiation of leaf-nosed bats in the Solomon Islands https://t.co/LPLYqVyTDn

[Justin Bernstein @JustBernstein]

And here it is! Our study identifies both inland tectonic and environmental factors that were the likely drivers of diversification in rice paddy #snakes.
Now in @SciReports
https://t.co/AHpzRAzZQu
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[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Link to the manuscript here: https://t.co/DPcFCtiHgW

[Devon DeRaad @Dev_Der]

Thanks @JacobMargolis for this great write up in @LAist on our recent work documenting the rapidly expanding white-eye population in southern California https://t.co/bSQe29IzwP