Christopher C. Witt
- A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History
2008/06/26 by Shannon J. Hackett, Rebecca T. Kimball, Sushma Reddy +15 · 113 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Plant and animal studies
- Why Do Phylogenomic Data Sets Yield Conflicting Trees? Data Type Influences the Avian Tree of Life more than Taxon Sampling
2017/03/24 by Sushma Reddy, Rebecca T. Kimball, Akanksha Pandey +14 · 18 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure
- Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds
2008/09/02 by John Harshman, Edward L. Braun, Michael J. Braun +15 · 15 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals
2013/03/13 by Tamaki Yuri, Rebecca T. Kimball, John Harshman +12 · 10 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- The role of mutation bias in adaptive molecular evolution: insights from convergent changes in protein function
2019/06/03 by Jay F. Storz, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Anthony V. Signore +3 · 9 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Genetic diversity and population structure #Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Molecular Phylogenetics and the Diversification of Hummingbirds
2014/04/01 by Jimmy A. McGuire, Jimmy A. McGuire, Christopher C. Witt +9 · 9 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Biology #Diversification (marketing strategy) #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetics #Molecular phylogenetics #Phylogenetics #Plant and animal studies #Zoology
- Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds
2013/12/02 by Joana Projecto-Garcia, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Hideaki Moriyama +7 · 7 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Viral Infections and Vectors #Hemoglobin structure and function
- Elevational niche-shift migration: Why the degree of elevational change matters for the ecology, evolution, and physiology of migratory birds
2021/04/06 by Jessie L Williamson, Jessie L. Williamson, Christopher C Witt +1 · 12 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #High Altitude and Hypoxia #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Avian ecology and behavior
- Predictable convergence in hemoglobin function has unpredictable molecular underpinnings
2016/10/20 by Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Federico G. Hoffmann, Roy E. Weber +3 · 1 voice · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Medicine · #Computational Drug Discovery Methods #Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders #Protein Structure and Dynamics
- A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds
2008/08/04 by Jimmy A. McGuire, Christopher C. Witt, J. V. Remsen +3 · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Biology #Clade #Cladistics #Context (archaeology) #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Evolutionary biology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Hummingbird #Nomenclature #Paleontology #PhyloCode #Phylogenetic nomenclature #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Plant and animal studies #Subfamily #Taxonomy (biology) #Zoology
- Phylogenetic Systematics and Biogeography of Hummingbirds: Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Analyses of Partitioned Data and Selection of an Appropriate Partitioning Strategy
2007/10/01 by Jimmy A. McGuire, Christopher C. Witt, Douglas L. Altshuler +1 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Biology #Phylogenetic tree #Biogeography #Akaike information criterion #Bayesian probability #Clade #Evolutionary biology #Bayes' theorem #Ecology #Statistics #Zoology #Mathematics #Genetics
- The biomechanical origin of extreme wing allometry in hummingbirds
2017/10/14 by Dimitri A. Skandalis, Paolo S. Segre, Joseph W. Bahlman +7 · 3 citations
Engineering · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- DNA from a 100-year-old holotype confirms the validity of a potentially extinct hummingbird species
2009/09/23 by Jeremy J. Kirchman, Christopher C. Witt, Jimmy A. McGuire +1 · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Genetic diversity and population structure #Plant and animal studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Parallel Molecular Evolution in Pathways, Genes, and Sites in High-Elevation Hummingbirds Revealed by Comparative Transcriptomics
2019/05/12 by Marisa Lim, Christopher C. Witt, Catherine H. Graham +1 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Medicine · #High Altitude and Hypoxia #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Viral Infections and Vectors #Hummingbird #Biology #Convergent evolution #Adaptation (eye) #Parallel evolution #Elevation (ballistics) #Phylogenetics #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Molecular evolution #Transcriptome #Genetics #Ecology #Gene expression
- Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species
2020/09/08 by Blair O. Wolf, Andrew E. McKechnie, Charlotte Schmitt +3 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Climate variability and models #Torpor #Hummingbird #Biology #Ecology #Mammal #Zoology #Thermoregulation