Christopher C. Witt, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2007- Biology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States 
Area:
Avian systematics and evolution
Website:
http://www.unmornithology.org

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2023 Nachman MW, Beckman EJ, Bowie RC, Cicero C, Conroy CJ, Dudley R, Hayes TB, Koo MS, Lacey EA, Martin CH, McGuire JA, Patton JL, Spencer CL, Tarvin RD, Wake MH, ... ... Witt C, et al. Specimen collection is essential for modern science. Plos Biology. 21: e3002318. PMID 37992027 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318  0.723
2023 Williamson JL, Linck EB, Bautista E, Smiley A, McGuire JA, Dudley R, Witt CC. Hummingbird blood traits track oxygen availability across space and time. Ecology Letters. PMID 37178017 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14235  0.814
2023 Linck EB, Williamson JL, Bautista E, Beckman EJ, Benham PM, DuBay SG, Flores LM, Gadek CR, Johnson AB, Jones MR, Núñez-Zapata J, Quiñonez A, Schmitt CJ, Susanibar D, Tiravanti C J, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Blood Variation Implicates Respiratory Limits on Elevational Ranges of Andean Birds. The American Naturalist. 201: 741-754. PMID 37130238 DOI: 10.1086/723222  0.767
2022 Cowles SA, Witt CC, Bonaccorso E, Grewe F, Uy JAC. Early stages of speciation with gene flow in the Amazilia Hummingbird () subspecies complex of Western South America. Ecology and Evolution. 12: e8895. PMID 35592064 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8895  0.368
2021 Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Author Correction: Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature. PMID 33833441 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8  0.769
2021 McNew SM, Barrow LN, Williamson JL, Galen SC, Skeen HR, DuBay SG, Gaffney AM, Johnson AB, Bautista E, Ordoñez P, Schmitt CJ, Smiley A, Valqui T, Bates JM, Hackett SJ, ... Witt CC, et al. Contrasting drivers of diversity in hosts and parasites across the tropical Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 33731475 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010714118  0.774
2021 Barrow LN, Bauernfeind SM, Cruz PA, Williamson JL, Wiley DL, Ford JE, Baumann MJ, Brady SS, Chavez AN, Gadek CR, Galen SC, Johnson AB, Mapel XM, Marroquin-Flores RA, Martinez TE, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Detecting turnover among complex communities using null models: a case study with sky-island haemosporidian parasites. Oecologia. PMID 33484348 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-04854-6  0.814
2020 Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature. 587: 252-257. PMID 33177665 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9  0.792
2020 Wolf BO, McKechnie AE, Schmitt CJ, Czenze ZJ, Johnson AB, Witt CC. Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species. Biology Letters. 16: 20200428. PMID 32898456 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2020.0428  0.534
2020 Trujillo-Arias N, Rodríguez-Cajarville MJ, Sari E, Miyaki CY, Santos FR, Witt CC, Barreira AS, Gómez I, Naoki K, Tubaro PL, Cabanne GS. Evolution between forest macrorefugia is linked to discordance between genetic and morphological variation in Neotropical passerines. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 149: 106849. PMID 32387290 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2020.106849  0.402
2020 Sweazea KL, Tsosie K, Beckman EJ, Benham PM, Witt CC. Seasonal and elevational variation in glucose and glycogen in two songbird species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part a, Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 110703. PMID 32283178 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cbpa.2020.110703  0.757
2019 Galen SC, Borner J, Williamson JL, Witt CC, Perkins SL. Metatranscriptomics yields new genomic resources and sensitive detection of infections for diverse blood parasites. Molecular Ecology Resources. PMID 31507097 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13091  0.784
2019 Cho YS, Jun JH, Kim JA, Kim HM, Chung O, Kang SG, Park JY, Kim HJ, Kim S, Kim HJ, Jang JH, Na KJ, Kim J, Park SG, Lee HY, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Raptor genomes reveal evolutionary signatures of predatory and nocturnal lifestyles. Genome Biology. 20: 181. PMID 31464627 DOI: 10.1186/S13059-019-1793-1  0.354
2019 Lim MCW, Witt CC, Graham CH, Dávalos LM. Parallel molecular evolution in pathways, genes, and sites in high-elevation hummingbirds revealed by comparative transcriptomics. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 31114863 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evz101  0.375
2019 Barrow LN, McNew SM, Mitchell N, Galen SC, Lutz HL, Skeen H, Valqui T, Weckstein JD, Witt CC. Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi-host, multi-parasite system. Ecology Letters. PMID 30912262 DOI: 10.1111/Ele.13263  0.789
2019 Williamson JL, Wolf CJ, Barrow LN, Baumann MJ, Galen SC, Jonathan Schmitt C, Schmitt DC, Winter AS, Witt CC. Ecology, not distance, explains community composition in parasites of sky-island Audubon's Warblers. International Journal For Parasitology. PMID 30910465 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijpara.2018.11.012  0.811
2018 Barrow LN, Allen JM, Huang X, Bensch S, Witt CC. Genomic sequence capture of haemosporidian parasites: Methods and prospects for enhanced study of host-parasite evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources. PMID 30554480 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12977  0.751
2018 PÉrez-emÁn JL, Ferreira JP, GutiÉrrez-Pinto N, Cuervo AM, CÉspedes LN, Witt CC, Cadena CD. An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics. Zootaxa. 4442: 491-497. PMID 30313979 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4442.3.11  0.469
2018 Trujillo-Arias N, Calderón L, Santos FR, Miyaki CY, Aleixo A, Witt CC, Tubaro PL, Cabanne GS. Forest corridors between the central Andes and the southern Atlantic Forest enabled dispersal and peripatric diversification without niche divergence in a passerine. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 30092357 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2018.08.005  0.627
2018 Beckman EJ, Benham PM, Cheviron ZA, Witt CC. Detecting introgression despite phylogenetic uncertainty: the case of the South American siskins. Molecular Ecology. PMID 30014549 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14795  0.813
2017 Gadek CR, Newsome SD, Beckman EJ, Chavez AN, Galen SC, Bautista E, Witt CC. Why are tropical mountain passes 'low' for some species? Genetic and stable-isotope tests for differentiation, migration, and expansion in elevational generalist songbirds. The Journal of Animal Ecology. PMID 29105758 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12779  0.818
2017 Skandalis DA, Segre PS, Bahlman JW, Groom DJE, Welch KC, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Dudley R, Lentink D, Altshuler DL. The biomechanical origin of extreme wing allometry in hummingbirds. Nature Communications. 8: 1047. PMID 29051535 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-017-01223-X  0.569
2017 Marroquin-Flores RA, Williamson JL, Chavez AN, Bauernfeind SM, Baumann MJ, Gadek CR, Johnson AB, McCullough JM, Witt CC, Barrow LN. Diversity, abundance, and host relationships of avian malaria and related haemosporidians in New Mexico pine forests. Peerj. 5: e3700. PMID 28828279 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.3700  0.774
2017 Reddy S, Kimball RT, Pandey A, Hosner PA, Braun MJ, Hackett SJ, Han KL, Harshman J, Huddleston CJ, Kingston S, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, Sheldon FH, Witt CC, et al. Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling. Systematic Biology. PMID 28369655 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syx041  0.654
2017 Fecchio A, Svensson-Coelho M, Bell J, Ellis VA, Medeiros MC, Trisos CH, Blake JG, Loiselle BA, Tobias JA, Fanti R, Coffey ED, DE Faria IP, Pinho JB, Felix G, Braga EM, ... ... Witt C, et al. Host associations and turnover of haemosporidian parasites in manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Parasitology. 1-10. PMID 28290270 DOI: 10.1017/S0031182017000208  0.716
2017 Clark WS, Galen SC, Hull JM, Mayo MA, Witt CC. Contrasting molecular and morphological evidence for the identification of an anomalous Buteo: a cautionary tale for hybrid diagnosis. Peerj. 5: e2850. PMID 28097061 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.2850  0.755
2016 Natarajan C, Hoffmann FG, Weber RE, Fago A, Witt CC, Storz JF. Predictable convergence in hemoglobin function has unpredictable molecular underpinnings. Science (New York, N.Y.). 354: 336-339. PMID 27846568 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaf9070  0.372
2016 Carmi O, Witt CC, Jaramillo A, Dumbacher JP. Phylogeography of the Vermilion Flycatcher species complex: multiple speciation events, shifts in migratory behavior, and an apparent extinction of a Galápagos-endemic bird species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 27233443 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2016.05.029  0.475
2016 Suh A, Witt CC, Menger J, Sadanandan KR, Podsiadlowski L, Gerth M, Weigert A, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Edwards SV, Rheindt FE. Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes. Nature Communications. 7: 11396. PMID 27097561 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms11396  0.66
2016 Wright NA, Steadman DW, Witt CC. Predictable evolution toward flightlessness in volant island birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27071105 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1522931113  0.749
2016 Benham PM, Witt CC. The dual role of Andean topography in primary divergence: functional and neutral variation among populations of the hummingbird, Metallura tyrianthina. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 16: 22. PMID 26801894 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-016-0595-2  0.77
2015 Galen SC, Natarajan C, Moriyama H, Weber RE, Fago A, Benham PM, Chavez AN, Cheviron ZA, Storz JF, Witt CC. Contribution of a mutational hot spot to hemoglobin adaptation in high-altitude Andean house wrens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26460028 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1507300112  0.763
2015 Beckman EJ, Witt CC. Phylogeny and biogeography of the New World siskins and goldfinches: rapid, recent diversification in the Central Andes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 87: 28-45. PMID 25796324 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2015.03.005  0.783
2015 Opazo JC, Hoffmann FG, Natarajan C, Witt CC, Berenbrink M, Storz JF. Gene turnover in the avian globin gene families and evolutionary changes in hemoglobin isoform expression. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32: 871-87. PMID 25502940 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msu341  0.331
2015 Baumann MJ, Beckman EJ, Bautista E, Witt CC. Long-distance dispersal of a sedentary Andean flycatcher species with a small geographic range, Ochthoeca piurae (Aves: Tyrannidae) Check List. 11. DOI: 10.15560/11.6.1795  0.782
2015 Benham PM, Cuervo AM, Mcguire JA, Witt CC. Biogeography of the Andean metaltail hummingbirds: Contrasting evolutionary histories of tree line and habitat-generalist clades Journal of Biogeography. 42: 763-777. DOI: 10.1111/Jbi.12452  0.815
2014 Cheviron ZA, Natarajan C, Projecto-Garcia J, Eddy DK, Jones J, Carling MD, Witt CC, Moriyama H, Weber RE, Fago A, Storz JF. Integrating evolutionary and functional tests of adaptive hypotheses: a case study of altitudinal differentiation in hemoglobin function in an Andean Sparrow, Zonotrichia capensis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31: 2948-62. PMID 25135942 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msu234  0.345
2014 DuBay SG, Witt CC. Differential high-altitude adaptation and restricted gene flow across a mid-elevation hybrid zone in Andean tit-tyrant flycatchers. Molecular Ecology. 23: 3551-65. PMID 24943893 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12836  0.791
2014 Rocha LA, Aleixo A, Allen G, Almeda F, Baldwin CC, Barclay MV, Bates JM, Bauer AM, Benzoni F, Berns CM, Berumen ML, Blackburn DC, Blum S, Bolaños F, Bowie RC, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Specimen collection: an essential tool. Science (New York, N.Y.). 344: 814-5. PMID 24855245 DOI: 10.1126/Science.344.6186.814  0.781
2014 McGuire JA, Witt CC, Remsen JV, Corl A, Rabosky DL, Altshuler DL, Dudley R. Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds. Current Biology : Cb. 24: 910-6. PMID 24704078 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.03.016  0.768
2014 Wright NA, Gregory TR, Witt CC. Metabolic 'engines' of flight drive genome size reduction in birds. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132780. PMID 24478299 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2013.2780  0.71
2014 Baumann MJ, Galen SC, Pederson ND, Witt CC. Simple technique for distinguishing yellow-bellied flycatchers from cordilleran and pacific-slope flycatchers Journal of Field Ornithology. 85: 391-396. DOI: 10.1111/Jofo.12078  0.752
2014 Galen SC, Witt CC. Diverse avian malaria and other haemosporidian parasites in Andean house wrens: Evidence for regional co-diversification by host-switching Journal of Avian Biology. 45: 374-386. DOI: 10.1111/Jav.00375  0.779
2014 McGuire JA, Witt CC, Remsen JV, Corl A, Rabosky DL, Altshuler DL, Dudley R. Erratum: Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds (Current Biology (2014) 24 (910-916)) Current Biology. 24. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.04.019  0.53
2013 Yuri T, Kimball RT, Harshman J, Bowie RC, Braun MJ, Chojnowski JL, Han KL, Hackett SJ, Huddleston CJ, Moore WS, Reddy S, Sheldon FH, Steadman DW, Witt CC, Braun EL. Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals. Biology. 2: 419-44. PMID 24832669 DOI: 10.3390/Biology2010419  0.762
2013 Projecto-Garcia J, Natarajan C, Moriyama H, Weber RE, Fago A, Cheviron ZA, Dudley R, McGuire JA, Witt CC, Storz JF. Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 20669-74. PMID 24297909 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1315456110  0.529
2013 Dickerman RW, McNew SM, Witt CC. Long-distance movement in a dusky great horned owl and limits to phylogeography for establishing provenance Western North American Naturalist. 73: 401-408. DOI: 10.3398/064.073.0409  0.808
2012 Sibly RM, Witt CC, Wright NA, Venditti C, Jetz W, Brown JH. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 10937-41. PMID 22615391 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1206512109  0.736
2012 Dubay SG, Witt CC. An improved phylogeny of the Andean tit-tyrants (Aves, Tyrannidae): more characters trump sophisticated analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 64: 285-96. PMID 22525942 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2012.04.002  0.814
2011 Braun EL, Kimball RT, Han KL, Iuhasz-Velez NR, Bonilla AJ, Chojnowski JL, Smith JV, Bowie RC, Braun MJ, Hackett SJ, Harshman J, Huddleston CJ, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Homoplastic microinversions and the avian tree of life. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 11: 141. PMID 21612607 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-141  0.781
2011 Han KL, Braun EL, Kimball RT, Reddy S, Bowie RC, Braun MJ, Chojnowski JL, Hackett SJ, Harshman J, Huddleston CJ, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, Sheldon FH, Steadman DW, ... Witt CC, et al. Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life. Systematic Biology. 60: 375-86. PMID 21303823 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syq100  0.729
2011 Benham PM, Beckman EJ, DuBay SG, Flores LM, Johnson AB, Lelevier MJ, Schmitt CJ, Wright NA, Witt CC. Satellite imagery reveals new critical habitat for endangered bird species in the high Andes of Peru Endangered Species Research. 13: 145-157. DOI: 10.3354/Esr00323  0.795
2011 Engel JI, Hennen MH, Witt CC, Weckstein JD. Affinities of three Vagrant Cave Swallows from Eastern North America Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 123: 840-845. DOI: 10.1676/11-021.1  0.654
2011 Witt CC, Bautista E. Triorchidism in a Hummingbird Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 123: 632-635. DOI: 10.1676/10-180.1  0.405
2010 Kirchman JJ, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Graves GR. DNA from a 100-year-old holotype confirms the validity of a potentially extinct hummingbird species. Biology Letters. 6: 112-5. PMID 19776061 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2009.0545  0.649
2009 Gregory TR, Andrews CB, McGuire JA, Witt CC. The smallest avian genomes are found in hummingbirds. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 3753-7. PMID 19656792 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2009.1004  0.608
2009 Kimball RT, Braun EL, Barker FK, Bowie RC, Braun MJ, Chojnowski JL, Hackett SJ, Han KL, Harshman J, Heimer-Torres V, Holznagel W, Huddleston CJ, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, ... ... Witt CC, et al. A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50: 654-60. PMID 19084073 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2008.11.018  0.751
2009 DuBay SG, Witt CC, Schulenberg TS. Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes reguloides) Neotropical Birds. DOI: 10.2173/Nb.Pcttyr1.01  0.718
2009 McGuire JA, Witt CC, Remsen JV, Dudley R, Altshuler DL. A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds Journal of Ornithology. 150: 155-165. DOI: 10.1007/S10336-008-0330-X  0.749
2008 Harshman J, Braun EL, Braun MJ, Huddleston CJ, Bowie RC, Chojnowski JL, Hackett SJ, Han KL, Kimball RT, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, Reddy S, Sheldon FH, Steadman DW, ... ... Witt CC, et al. Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 13462-7. PMID 18765814 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0803242105  0.806
2008 Hackett SJ, Kimball RT, Reddy S, Bowie RC, Braun EL, Braun MJ, Chojnowski JL, Cox WA, Han KL, Harshman J, Huddleston CJ, Marks BD, Miglia KJ, Moore WS, Sheldon FH, ... ... Witt CC, et al. A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. Science (New York, N.Y.). 320: 1763-8. PMID 18583609 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1157704  0.794
2007 McGuire JA, Witt CC, Altshuler DL, Remsen JV. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy. Systematic Biology. 56: 837-56. PMID 17934998 DOI: 10.1080/10635150701656360  0.741
2007 Witt CC, Maliakal-Witt S. Why are diversity and endemism linked on islands? Ecography. 30: 331-333. DOI: 10.1111/J.0906-7590.2007.04837.X  0.46
2006 Clark WS, Witt CC. First known specimen of a hybrid Buteo: Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) x Rough-legged Hawk (B. lagopus) from Louisiana Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 118: 42-52. DOI: 10.1676/1559-4491(2006)118[0042:Fksoah]2.0.Co;2  0.326
2004 Witt CC, Brumfield RT. Comment on "Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation" (I). Science (New York, N.Y.). 303: 173; author reply 17. PMID 14715994 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1089822  0.586
2002 Johnson KP, Weckstein JD, Witt CC, Faucett RC, Moyle RG. The perils of using host relationships in parasite taxonomy: phylogeny of the Degeeriella complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 23: 150-7. PMID 12069547 DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00014-3  0.765
2001 Johnson KP, Moyle RG, Witt CC, Faucett RC, Weckstein JD. Phylogenetic relationships in the louse genus Penenirmus based on nuclear (EF-1α) and mitochondrial (COI) DNA sequences Systematic Entomology. 26: 491-497. DOI: 10.1046/J.0307-6970.2001.00164.X  0.786
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