John Bates | Committee on Evolutionary Biology

Research Summary

Our lab studies the evolution of birds at the level of species and populations using comparative genetic and morphologic approaches based on extended museum specimens and places that evolution in the context of landscape and climate change.

Keywords

Phylogeography, Biological Evolution, Population Genetics, Speciation, Genetics

Education

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Ph.D. Zoology 12/1993
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, M.S. Evol. and Evol. Biology 05/1987
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, B.S. Biology 06/1983

Biosciences Graduate Program Association

Committee on Evolutionary Biology

Publications

Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network. PLoS Pathog. 2021 06; 17(6):e1009583. View in: PubMed
Life history predicts flight muscle phenotype and function in birds. J Anim Ecol. 2020 05; 89(5):1262-1276. View in: PubMed
Andean Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics as a Pervasive Influence on Amazonian Ecosystem. Sci Rep. 2019 11 14; 9(1):16879. View in: PubMed
Divergence at the edges: peripatric isolation in the montane spiny throated reed frog complex. BMC Evol Biol. 2015 Jul 01; 15:128. View in: PubMed
The tempo of trait divergence in geographic isolation: avian speciation across the Mara?on Valley of Peru. Evolution. 2015 Mar; 69(3):772-87. View in: PubMed