Lacey Knowles
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Lacey Knowles's Degrees
- PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona
- Masters Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, L. Lacey Knowles is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist known for her work with speciation, sexual selection, phylogeography, and evolutionary radiation. As of 2012, she is a professor at the University of Michigan and the curator of insects at the university's museum of zoology. She has been an elected member of the councils for the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biology. Knowles received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and had a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Knowles has also served as an associate editor of scientific journals such as Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Systematic Biology, and Heredity. She is the author of Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects.
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Published Works
- Inferring phylogeny despite incomplete lineage sorting. (2006) (1041)
- Statistical phylogeography. (2002) (803)
- Delimiting species without monophyletic gene trees. (2007) (694)
- Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species (2017) (567)
- STEM: species tree estimation using maximum likelihood for gene trees under coalescence (2009) (443)
- Estimating species phylogeny from gene-tree probabilities despite incomplete lineage sorting: an example from Melanoplus grasshoppers. (2007) (346)
- DOES NICHE DIVERGENCE ACCOMPANY ALLOPATRIC DIVERGENCE IN APHELOCOMA JAYS AS PREDICTED UNDER ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION?: INSIGHTS FROM TESTS WITH NICHE MODELS (2009) (288)
- Distribution modelling and statistical phylogeography: an integrative framework for generating and testing alternative biogeographical hypotheses (2007) (286)
- Unforeseen Consequences of Excluding Missing Data from Next-Generation Sequences: Simulation Study of RAD Sequences. (2016) (255)
- TESTS OF PLEISTOCENE SPECIATION IN MONTANE GRASSHOPPERS (GENUS MELANOPLUS) FROM THE SKY ISLANDS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (2000) (254)
- CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS (2011) (250)
- The burgeoning field of statistical phylogeography (2003) (236)
- Ecological niche models in phylogeographic studies: applications, advances and precautions (2014) (218)
- Shifting distributions and speciation: species divergence during rapid climate change (2006) (192)
- In defence of model‐based inference in phylogeography (2010) (170)
- Estimating species trees: methods of phylogenetic analysis when there is incongruence across genes. (2009) (168)
- Estimating species trees : practical and theoretical aspects (2010) (167)
- Coupling Genetic and Ecological-Niche Models to Examine How Past Population Distributions Contribute to Divergence (2007) (164)
- Intergenomic conflict revealed by patterns of sex-biased gene expression. (2005) (157)
- Toward a paradigm shift in comparative phylogeography driven by trait-based hypotheses (2016) (156)
- Bayesian species delimitation combining multiple genes and traits in a unified framework (2015) (155)
- Sources of error inherent in species-tree estimation: impact of mutational and coalescent effects on accuracy and implications for choosing among different methods. (2010) (149)
- Species detection and individual assignment in species delimitation: can integrative data increase efficacy? (2014) (139)
- Is recombination a problem for species-tree analyses? (2012) (131)
- Disentangling the effects of historic vs. contemporary landscape structure on population genetic divergence (2009) (125)
- Sexually antagonistic coevolution of a postmating-prezygotic reproductive character in desert Drosophila (2001) (120)
- Importance of genetic drift during Pleistocene divergence as revealed by analyses of genomic variation (2005) (118)
- Maximum likelihood estimates of species trees: how accuracy of phylogenetic inference depends upon the divergence history and sampling design. (2009) (118)
- ESTIMATING A GEOGRAPHICALLY EXPLICIT MODEL OF POPULATION DIVERGENCE (2007) (109)
- Exploring the population genetic consequences of the colonization process with spatio‐temporally explicit models: insights from coupled ecological, demographic and genetic models in montane grasshoppers (2010) (109)
- What is the danger of the anomaly zone for empirical phylogenetics? (2009) (106)
- INTEGRATIVE TESTING OF HOW ENVIRONMENTS FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT SHAPE GENETIC STRUCTURE ACROSS LANDSCAPES (2013) (105)
- Why Does a Method That Fails Continue to be Used? (2008) (97)
- Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics (2019) (92)
- Upstream analyses create problems with DNA-based species delimitation. (2014) (77)
- Genomic tests of the species‐pump hypothesis: Recent island connectivity cycles drive population divergence but not speciation in Caribbean crickets across the Virgin Islands (2015) (75)
- The Species versus Subspecies Conundrum: Quantitative Delimitation from Integrating Multiple Data Types within a Single Bayesian Approach in Hercules Beetles. (2016) (72)
- Testing the effect of palaeodrainages versus habitat stability on genetic divergence in riverine systems: study of a Neotropical fish of the Brazilian coastal Atlantic Forest (2015) (70)
- Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns (2015) (68)
- Spatially explicit models of dynamic histories: examination of the genetic consequences of Pleistocene glaciation and recent climate change on the American Pika (2012) (68)
- Effects of missing data on species tree estimation under the coalescent. (2013) (67)
- The architecture of river networks can drive the evolutionary dynamics of aquatic populations (2016) (65)
- MICROHABITAT DIFFERENCES IMPACT PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC CONCORDANCE OF CODISTRIBUTED SPECIES: GENOMIC EVIDENCE IN MONTANE SEDGES (CAREX L.) FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (2014) (65)
- Species‐specific responses to island connectivity cycles: refined models for testing phylogeographic concordance across a Mediterranean Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complex (2015) (64)
- How low can you go? The effects of mutation rate on the accuracy of species-tree estimation. (2014) (60)
- Habitat corridors facilitate genetic resilience irrespective of species dispersal abilities or population sizes (2015) (59)
- Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in Collared Pikas (Ochotona collaris) (2015) (58)
- Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole (2015) (55)
- Contrasting support for alternative models of genomic variation based on microhabitat preference: species‐specific effects of climate change in alpine sedges (2016) (55)
- Population genetics of the swimming crab Callinectes bellicosus (Brachyura: Portunidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean (2005) (50)
- Genealogical portraits of speciation in montane grasshoppers (genus Melanoplus) from the sky islands of the Rocky Mountains. (2001) (50)
- Distributional shifts – not geographic isolation – as a probable driver of montane species divergence (2017) (49)
- Utilizing RADseq data for phylogenetic analysis of challenging taxonomic groups: A case study in Carex sect. Racemosae. (2016) (48)
- Resolving Species Phylogenies of Recent Evolutionary Radiations1 (2008) (48)
- INSIGHT INTO SPECIATION FROM HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN THE PHYTOPHAGOUS BEETLE GENUS OPHRAELLA (1999) (48)
- Machine Learning Biogeographic Processes from Biotic Patterns: A New Trait-Dependent Dispersal and Diversification Model with Model Choice By Simulation-Trained Discriminant Analysis. (2016) (45)
- Effects of vicariant barriers, habitat stability, population isolation and environmental features on species divergence in the south‐western Australian coastal reptile community (2012) (44)
- The influence of habitat structure in faunal-habitat associations in a Tampa Bay seagrass system, Florida (1998) (43)
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Montane Grasshoppers from Western North America (Genus Melanoplus, Acrididae: Melanoplinae) (2000) (41)
- Full modeling versus summarizing gene-tree uncertainty: method choice and species-tree accuracy. (2012) (40)
- Genomic signatures of paleodrainages in a freshwater fish along the southeastern coast of Brazil: genetic structure reflects past riverine properties (2017) (37)
- Applying species-tree analyses to deep phylogenetic histories: challenges and potential suggested from a survey of empirical phylogenetic studies. (2015) (37)
- Glacial refugia, recolonization patterns and diversification forces in Alpine‐endemic Megabunus harvestmen (2016) (34)
- Trait-Dependent Biogeography: (Re)Integrating Biology into Probabilistic Historical Biogeographical Models. (2018) (34)
- Testing for biogeographic mechanisms promoting divergence in Caribbean crickets (genus Amphiacusta) (2010) (34)
- Genomic evidence of survival near ice sheet margins for some, but not all, North American trees (2019) (33)
- Quantifying the similarity between genes and geography across Alaska's alpine small mammals (2016) (32)
- Incorporating the speciation process into species delimitation (2021) (31)
- Correlated evolution of multivariate traits: detecting co‐divergence across multiple dimensions (2007) (31)
- Tests of species‐specific models reveal the importance of drought in postglacial range shifts of a Mediterranean‐climate tree: insights from integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modelling and ABC model selection (2016) (31)
- Phylogenetic structure of vertebrate communities across the Australian arid zone (2013) (30)
- Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change (2020) (30)
- Flowing into the unknown: inferred paleodrainages for studying the ichthyofauna of Brazilian coastal rivers (2018) (29)
- Widespread geographical distribution of mitochondrial haplotypes in rock‐dwelling cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika (1996) (29)
- Ecological selection as the cause and sexual differentiation as the consequence of species divergence? (2013) (29)
- Widespread geographical distribution of mitochondrial haplotypes in rock-dwelling cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. (1996) (28)
- Tests of phenotypic and genetic concordance and their application to the conservation of Panamanian golden frogs (Anura, Bufonidae) (2007) (27)
- The mechanisms of morph determination in the amphipod Jassa: implications for the evolution of alternative male phenotypes (2002) (27)
- Estimating phylogenetic relationships despite discordant gene trees across loci: the species tree of a diverse species group of feather mites (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) (2011) (26)
- Microevolutionary processes impact macroevolutionary patterns (2018) (26)
- A matter of phylogenetic scale: Distinguishing incomplete lineage sorting from lateral gene transfer as the cause of gene tree discord in recent versus deep diversification histories. (2018) (26)
- Conflict between direct and indirect benefits of female choice in desert Drosophila (2007) (25)
- Exploring the consequences of postmating–prezygotic interactions between the sexes (2004) (25)
- MUSEUM SPECIMENS AND PHYLOGENIES ELUCIDATE ECOLOGY'S ROLE IN COEVOLUTIONARY ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN MITES AND THEIR BEE HOSTS (2007) (24)
- Nonantagonistic interactions between the sexes revealed by the ecological consequences of reproductive traits (2005) (24)
- Testing main Amazonian rivers as barriers across time and space within widespread taxa (2019) (23)
- Inferring the geographic origin of a range expansion: Latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates inferred from genomic data in an ABC framework with the program x‐origin (2017) (23)
- Molecular evidence of a peripatric origin for two sympatric species of field crickets (Gryllus rubens and G. texensis) revealed from coalescent simulations and population genetic tests (2008) (22)
- Recombination rate and protein evolution in yeast (2007) (20)
- Paraphyletic species no more – genomic data resolve a Pleistocene radiation and validate morphological species of the Melanoplus scudderi complex (Insecta: Orthoptera) (2020) (20)
- Linking micro‐ and macroevolutionary perspectives to evaluate the role of Quaternary sea‐level oscillations in island diversification (2017) (20)
- Diversification History of Clown Tree Frogs in Neotropical Rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group). (2020) (19)
- Localized versus generalist phenotypes in a broadly distributed tropical mammal: how is intraspecific variation distributed across disparate environments? (2013) (19)
- Variable nuclear markers for Melanoplus oregonensis identified from the screening of a genomic library (2006) (18)
- Conservation biology of the succulent shrub, Euphorbia barnardii, a serpentine endemic of the Northern Province, South Africa (2000) (18)
- Common barriers, but temporal dissonance: Genomic tests suggest ecological and paleo‐landscape sieves structure a coastal riverine fish community (2020) (18)
- Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genusPheidole (2019) (18)
- Evolving in isolation: Genetic tests reject recent connections of Amazonian savannas with the central Cerrado (2018) (18)
- Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole (2018) (17)
- Terrestrial species adapted to sea dispersal: Differences in propagule dispersal of two Caribbean mangroves (2018) (17)
- The historical context of contemporary climatic adaptation: a case study in the climatically dynamic and environmentally complex southwestern United States (2020) (15)
- Incorporating interspecific interactions into phylogeographic models: A case study with Californian oaks. (2020) (15)
- By Animal, Water, or Wind: Can Dispersal Mode Predict Genetic Connectivity in Riverine Plant Species? (2021) (14)
- Museum epigenomics: characterizing cytosine methylation in historic museum specimens (2019) (14)
- Geographic distributions, phenotypes, and phylogenetic relationships of Phalloceros (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): Insights about diversification among sympatric species pools. (2019) (14)
- Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: Müllerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles? (2016) (13)
- Differences in Quaternary co-divergence reveals community-wide diversification in the mountains of southwest China varied among species (2021) (12)
- Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak (2021) (12)
- Socially Parasitic Ants Evolve a Mosaic of Host-Matching and Parasitic Morphological Traits (2020) (12)
- Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes (2019) (12)
- Integrative taxonomy of the lizards Cercosaura ocellata species complex (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) (2018) (12)
- Comparative landscape genetics of two endemic torrent salamander species, Rhyacotriton kezeri and R. variegatus: implications for forest management and species conservation (2019) (11)
- Repeated parallel evolution of minimal rRNAs revealed from detailed comparative analysis. (2011) (10)
- Similar but different: Revealing the relative roles of species‐traits versus biome properties structuring genetic variation in South American marsh rats (2019) (9)
- Do estimated and actual species phylogenies match? Evaluation of East African cichlid radiations. (2014) (9)
- Navigating the unknown: model selection in phylogeography (2010) (8)
- Testing which axes of species differentiation underlie covariance of phylogeographic similarity among montane sedge species (2021) (7)
- Cause of gene tree discord? Distinguishing incomplete lineage sorting and lateral gene transfer in phylogenetics (2017) (7)
- Identifying targets of selection in mosaic genomes with machine learning: applications in Anopheles gambiae for detecting sites within locally adapted chromosomal inversions (2016) (7)
- New species boundaries and the diversification history of marsh rat taxa clarifies historical connections among ecologically and geographically distinct wetlands of South America. (2020) (7)
- Dispersal barriers and opportunities drive multiple levels of phylogeographic concordance in the Southern Alps of New Zealand (2020) (6)
- Riverscape properties contribute to the origin and structure of a hybrid zone in a Neotropical freshwater fish (2020) (6)
- Geographical isolation versus dispersal: Relictual alpine grasshoppers support a model of interglacial diversification with limited hybridization (2021) (6)
- Genealogical portraits of speciation in montane grasshoppers (genus Melanoplus) from the sky islands of the Rocky Mountains (2001) (6)
- Individual recognition and individual identity signals in Polistes fuscatus wasps vary geographically (2021) (5)
- Paternity analyses in wild‐caught and laboratory‐reared Caribbean cricket females reveal the influence of mating environment on post‐copulatory sexual selection (2015) (5)
- EVIDENCE FOR OVERDOMINANT SELECTION MAINTAINING X‐LINKED FITNESS VARIATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2006) (5)
- Genomic insights into the origin of trans‐Mediterranean disjunct distributions (2020) (4)
- New species boundaries and the diversification history of marsh rat taxa clarifies historical connections among ecologically and geographically distinct wetlands of South America. (2020) (4)
- Functional connectivity in sympatric spiny rats reflects different dimensions of Amazonian forest‐association (2021) (3)
- Testing the impact of oceanic barriers on population subdivision, speciation and zoogeographical community assembly in Xylotrupes beetles across the Indo-Australian Archipelago (2018) (3)
- Statistical Phylogeography (2002) (2)
- Comparative landscape genetics of two endemic torrent salamander species, Rhyacotriton kezeri and R. variegatus: implications for forest management and species conservation (2019) (2)
- Tests of the Role of Sexual Selection in Genitalic Divergence with Mutiple Hybrid Clines (2016) (2)
- Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges (2022) (2)
- EVIDENCE FOR OVERDOMINANT SELECTION MAINTAINING X-LINKED FITNESS VARIATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2006) (2)
- SPART, a versatile and standardized data exchange format for species partition information. (2021) (2)
- Drainage rearrangements and in situ diversification of an endemic freshwater fish genus from north‐eastern Brazilian rivers (2022) (2)
- MELANOPLUS) FROM THE SKY ISLANDS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (2000) (1)
- Hybrid enrichment of adaptive variation revealed by genotype–environment associations in montane sedges (2022) (1)
- Late Pleistocene landscape changes and habitat specialization as promoters of population genomic divergence in Amazonian floodplain birds (2022) (1)
- Occupancy spectrum distribution: application for coalescence simulation with generic mergers (2020) (1)
- An evolutionary slant on species-area curves. (2001) (1)
- Rapid adaptation with gene flow via a reservoir of chromosomal inversion variation? (2017) (1)
- SPART, a versatile and standardized data exchange format for species partition information (2021) (1)
- A new species of South America marsh rat (Holochilus, Cricetidae) from northeastern Brazil (2022) (1)
- There Is No ‘Rule of Thumb’: Genomic Filter Settings for a Small Plant Population to Obtain Unbiased Gene Flow Estimates (2021) (1)
- Island communities in the context of global hyperdiversification (2014) (0)
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution: The Organismal Side: Selected Writings from the Avise Laboratory. Edited by John C. Avise. Hackensack (New Jersey): World Scientific. $150.00. xix + 561 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-981-4317-75-7. 2010. (2012) (0)
- Neglected Quaternary legacy on biodiversity in the Mountains of Southwest China (2020) (0)
- Machine Learning Biogeographic Processes from Biotic Patterns: A New Trait-Dependent Dispersal and Diversification Model with Model-Choice By Simulation-Trained Discriminant Analysis (2015) (0)
- Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change (2020) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Differences in quaternary co-divergence reveals community-wide diversification in the mountains of southwest China varied among species" (2021) (0)
- Deep Genomic Divergence and Phenotypic Admixture of the Treefrog Dendropsophus elegans (Hylidae: Amphibia) Coincide With Riverine Boundaries at the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2022) (0)
- Geographic isolation alone does not explain divergence of a group of orchid species across Brazil's campos rupestres sky-islands. (2023) (0)
- Landscape connectivity among coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) populations shows no association with land use, fire frequency, or river drainage but exhibits genetic signatures of potential conservation concern (2022) (0)
- Reconstructing rapid climate change from a snail's pace (2002) (0)
- Intraspecific dataset of Amphiacusta sanctaecrucis (2017) (0)
- Localized versus generalist phenotypes in a broadly distributed tropical mammal: how is intraspecific variation distributed across disparate environments? (2013) (0)
- Genome‐wide DNA and phenotypic information supports recent colonization of South American grasslands by Correndera Pipit (Aves, Motacillidae) (2021) (0)
- Data from: Microevolutionary processes impact macroevolutionary patterns (2018) (0)
- Microevolutionary processes impact macroevolutionary patterns (2018) (0)
- When species trees disagree: an approach consistent with the coalescent that quantifies phylogenomic support for contentious relationships (2020) (0)
- Examples of statistical phylogeographic approaches (2002) (0)
- Book Review:The Ice-Age History of National Parks in the Rocky Mountains. Scott A. Elias (1997) (0)
- Postglacial colonization in the Great Lakes Region by the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus): conflicts between genomic and field data (2022) (0)
- Author Correction: Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change (2020) (0)
- Book Review:The Ice-Age History of Southwestern National Parks. Scott A. Elias (1998) (0)
- Author Correction: Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change (2020) (0)
- Title Breaking out of biogeographical modules : range expansion andtaxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole (2015) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: Müllerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?" (2016) (0)
- Seascape genetics of the Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) based on mitochondrial DNA. (2021) (0)
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