John E. McCormack, Ph.D. - Publications

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2007 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

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2024 Tsai WLE, Escalona M, Garrett KL, Terrill RS, Sahasrabudhe R, Nguyen O, Beraut E, Seligmann W, Fairbairn CW, Harrigan RJ, McCormack JE, Alfaro ME, Smith TB, Bay RA. A highly contiguous genome assembly for the Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia). The Journal of Heredity. PMID 38401156 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esae008  0.473
2023 McCormack JE, Hill MM, DeRaad DA, Kirsch EJ, Reckling KR, Mutchler MJ, Ramirez BR, Campbell RML, Salter JF, Pizarro AK, Tsai WLE, Bonaccorso E. An elevational shift facilitated the Mesoamerican diversification of Azure-hooded Jays () during the Great American Biotic Interchange. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e10411. PMID 37589041 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10411  0.355
2023 Benham PM, Cicero C, DeRaad DA, McCormack JE, Wayne RK, Escalona M, Beraut E, Marimuthu MPA, Nguyen O, Nachman MW, Bowie RCK. A highly contiguous reference genome for the Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri). The Journal of Heredity. PMID 37395718 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esad042  0.303
2023 Pizarro AK, DeRaad DA, McCormack JE. Temporal stability of the hybrid zone between magpie-jays revealed through comparison of museum specimens and iNaturalist photos. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e9863. PMID 36937059 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9863  0.318
2022 DeRaad DA, Applewhite EE, Tsai WLE, Terrill RS, Kingston SE, Braun MJ, McCormack JE. Hybrid zone or hybrid lineage: a genomic reevaluation of Sibley's classic species conundrum in Pipilo towhees. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 36626801 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpac068  0.393
2022 Salter JF, Hosner PA, L E Tsai W, McCormack JE, Braun EL, Kimball RT, Brumfield RT, Faircloth BC. Historical specimens and the limits of subspecies phylogenomics in the New World quails (Odontophoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107559. PMID 35803448 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107559  0.345
2022 DeRaad DA, McCormack JE, Chen N, Peterson AT, Moyle RG. Combining Species Delimitation, Species Trees, and Tests for Gene Flow Clarifies Complex Speciation in Scrub-Jays. Systematic Biology. PMID 35552760 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac034  0.374
2021 Bryson RW, Grummer JA, Connors EM, Tirpak J, McCormack JE, Klicka J. Cryptic diversity across the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of Mexico in the montane bunchgrass lizard Sceloporus subniger/ (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Zootaxa. 4963: zootaxa.4963.2.5. PMID 33903554 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.2.5  0.431
2019 Pie MR, Bornschein MR, Ribeiro LF, Faircloth BC, Mccormack JE. Phylogenomic species delimitation in microendemic frogs of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 106627. PMID 31539606 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2019.106627  0.476
2019 Vinciguerra NT, Tsai WLE, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE. Comparison of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) to microsatellite markers for the study of avian hybrid zones: a test in Aphelocoma jays. Bmc Research Notes. 12: 456. PMID 31340859 DOI: 10.1186/S13104-019-4481-Z  0.452
2019 Linck E, Epperly K, Van Els P, Spellman GM, Bryson RW, McCormack JE, Canales-Del-Castillo R, Klicka J. Dense Geographic and Genomic Sampling Reveals Paraphyly and a Cryptic Lineage in a Classic Sibling Species Complex. Systematic Biology. PMID 31135028 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syz027  0.497
2019 Tsai WLE, Mota-Vargas C, Rojas-Soto O, Bhowmik R, Liang EY, Maley JM, Zarza E, McCormack JE. Museum genomics reveals the speciation history of Dendrortyx wood-partridges in the Mesoamerican highlands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 30930236 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2019.03.017  0.505
2019 Palacios C, García-R S, Parra JL, Cuervo AM, Stiles FG, McCormack JE, Cadena CD. Shallow genetic divergence and distinct phenotypic differences between two Andean hummingbirds: Speciation with gene flow? The Auk. 136. DOI: 10.1093/Auk/Ukz046  0.477
2019 DeRaad DA, Maley JM, Tsai WLE, McCormack JE. Phenotypic clines across an unstudied hybrid zone in Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii) The Auk. 136. DOI: 10.1093/Auk/Uky018  0.376
2019 Ströher PR, Meyer ALS, Zarza E, Tsai WLE, McCormack JE, Pie MR. Phylogeography of ants from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19: 435-445. DOI: 10.1007/S13127-019-00409-Z  0.511
2018 Zarza E, Connors EM, Maley JM, Tsai WLE, Heimes P, Kaplan M, McCormack JE. Combining ultraconserved elements and mtDNA data to uncover lineage diversity in a Mexican highland frog (; Hylidae). Peerj. 6: e6045. PMID 30581665 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.6045  0.5
2018 Blair C, Bryson RW, Linkem CW, Lazcano D, Klicka J, McCormack JE. Cryptic diversity in the Mexican highlands: Thousands of UCE loci help illuminate phylogenetic relationships, species limits and divergence times of montane rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus). Molecular Ecology Resources. PMID 30565862 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12970  0.483
2018 Friis G, Fandos G, Zellmer AJ, McCormack JE, Faircloth BC, Milá B. Genome-wide signals of drift and local adaptation during rapid lineage divergence in a songbird. Molecular Ecology. 27: 5137-5153. PMID 30451354 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14946  0.436
2018 Michel AJ, Ward LM, Goffredi SK, Dawson KS, Baldassarre DT, Brenner A, Gotanda KM, McCormack JE, Mullin SW, O'Neill A, Tender GS, Uy JAC, Yu K, Orphan VJ, Chaves JA. The gut of the finch: uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch. Microbiome. 6: 167. PMID 30231937 DOI: 10.1186/S40168-018-0555-8  0.635
2018 Jr RWB, Wood DA, Graham MR, Soleglad ME, McCormack JE. Genome-wide SNP data and morphology support the distinction of two new species of Soleglad, Fet & Graham, 2014 endemic to California (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae). Zookeys. 79-106. PMID 29674883 DOI: 10.3897/Zookeys.739.20628  0.516
2018 Bryson RW, Zarza E, Grummer JA, Parra-Olea G, Flores-Villela O, Klicka J, McCormack JE. Phylogenomic insights into the diversification of salamanders in the Isthmura bellii group across the Mexican highlands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 125: 78-84. PMID 29555294 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2018.03.024  0.371
2018 Miller ET, McCormack JE, Levandoski G, McKinney BR. Sixty years on: birds of the Sierra del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico, revisited Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. 138: 318. DOI: 10.25226/Bboc.V138I4.2018.A4  0.427
2017 Pie MR, Ströher PR, Belmonte-Lopes R, Bornschein MR, Ribeiro LF, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE. Phylogenetic relationships of diurnal, phytotelm-breeding Melanophryniscus (Anura: Bufonidae) based on mitogenomic data. Gene. PMID 28720533 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gene.2017.07.048  0.482
2017 Lacey EA, Hammond TT, Walsh RE, Bell KC, Edwards SV, Ellwood ER, Guralnick R, Ickert-Bond SM, Mast AR, McCormack JE, Monfils AK, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Cook JA. Climate change, collections and the classroom: using big data to tackle big problems Evolution: Education and Outreach. 10. DOI: 10.1186/S12052-017-0065-3  0.323
2017 Pie MR, Ströher PR, Bornschein MR, Ribeiro LF, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE. The mitochondrial genome of Brachycephalus brunneus (Anura: Brachycephalidae), with comments on the phylogenetic position of Brachycephalidae Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 71: 26-31. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bse.2016.12.009  0.343
2016 Starrett J, Derkarabetian S, Hedin M, Bryson RW, McCormack JE, Faircloth BC. High Phylogenetic Utility of an Ultraconserved Element Probe Set Designed for Arachnida. Molecular Ecology Resources. PMID 27768256 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12621  0.51
2016 Zarza E, Faircloth BC, Tsai WL, Bryson RW, Klicka J, McCormack JE. Hidden histories of gene flow in highland birds revealed with genomic markers. Molecular Ecology. PMID 27543758 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.13813  0.392
2016 Bryson RW, Savary WE, Zellmer AJ, Bury BR, McCormack JE. Genomic data reveal ancient microendemism in forest scorpions across the California Floristic Province. Molecular Ecology. PMID 27238387 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.13707  0.503
2016 Bryson RW, Faircloth BC, Tsai WLE, McCormack JE, Klicka J. Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae) Auk. 133: 451-458. DOI: 10.1642/Auk-16-26.1  0.444
2016 Kaplan M, Heimes P, Zarza E, McCormack J. On the morphology of Plectrohyla chryses (Anura: Hylidae; Hylini), with comments on some controversial characters, phylogenetic relationships, and diagnosis of this species Caldasia. 38: 257. DOI: 10.15446/Caldasia.V38N2.60921  0.312
2016 Ströher PR, Zarza E, Tsai WLE, McCormack JE, Feitosa RM, Pie MR. The mitochondrial genome of Octostruma stenognatha and its phylogenetic implications Insectes Sociaux. 64: 149-154. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-016-0525-8  0.39
2015 Edwards SV, Xi Z, Janke A, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE, Glenn TC, Zhong B, Wu S, Lemmon EM, Lemmon AR, Leaché AD, Liu L, Davis CC. Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: A valuable paradigm for phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 26518740 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2015.10.027  0.32
2015 McCormack JE, Tsai WL, Faircloth BC. Sequence capture of ultraconserved elements from bird museum specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources. PMID 26391430 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12466  0.413
2015 Toews DPL, Campagna L, Taylor SA, Balakrishnan CN, Baldassarre DT, Deane-Coe PE, Harvey MG, Hooper DM, Irwin DE, Judy CD, Mason NA, McCormack JE, McCracken KG, Oliveros CH, Safran RJ, et al. Genomic approaches to understanding population divergence and speciation in birds Auk. 133: 13-30. DOI: 10.1642/Auk-15-51.1  0.372
2015 McCormack JE, Maley JM. Interpreting negative results with taxonomic and conservation implications: Another look at the distinctness of coastal California Gnatcatchers Auk. 132: 380-388. DOI: 10.1642/Auk-14-184.1  0.423
2015 Kaplan M, Heimes P, McCormack J. Contributions to the Morphology of Plectrohyla mykter (Anura: Hylidae), with Comments on Some Controversial Characters and the Diagnosis of this Species Caldasia. 37: 211. DOI: 10.15446/Caldasia.V37N1.50807  0.348
2015 Alvarez S, Salter JF, Mccormack JE, Milá B. Speciation in mountain refugia: Phylogeography and demographic history of the pine siskin and black-capped siskin complex Journal of Avian Biology. DOI: 10.1111/Jav.00814  0.431
2015 Ribeiro RD, Mccormack JE, Álvarez HG, Carrasco L, Grether GF, Mena-Olmedo P, Sedano R, Smith TB, Karubian J. Loss of sexual dimorphism is associated with loss of lekking behavior in the green manakin Xenopipo holochora Journal of Avian Biology. 46: 307-314. DOI: 10.1111/Jav.00545  0.463
2014 Green RE, Braun EL, Armstrong J, Earl D, Nguyen N, Hickey G, Vandewege MW, St John JA, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Castoe TA, Kern C, Fujita MK, Opazo JC, Jurka J, Kojima KK, ... ... McCormack J, et al. Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs. Science (New York, N.Y.). 346: 1254449. PMID 25504731 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1254449  0.417
2014 Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, Aberer AJ, Li B, Houde P, Li C, Ho SY, Faircloth BC, Nabholz B, Howard JT, Suh A, Weber CC, da Fonseca RR, Li J, Zhang F, ... ... McCormack J, et al. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science (New York, N.Y.). 346: 1320-31. PMID 25504713 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1253451  0.458
2014 Smith BT, McCormack JE, Cuervo AM, Hickerson MJ, Aleixo A, Cadena CD, Pérez-Emán J, Burney CW, Xie X, Harvey MG, Faircloth BC, Glenn TC, Derryberry EP, Prejean J, Fields S, et al. The drivers of tropical speciation. Nature. 515: 406-9. PMID 25209666 DOI: 10.1038/Nature13687  0.458
2014 Gowen FC, Maley JM, Cicero C, Peterson AT, Faircloth BC, Warr TC, McCormack JE. Speciation in Western Scrub-Jays, Haldane's rule, and genetic clines in secondary contact. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 14: 135. PMID 24938753 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-135  0.449
2013 McCormack JE, Faircloth BC. Next-generation phylogenetics takes root. Molecular Ecology. 22: 19-20. PMID 23383410 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12050  0.312
2013 McCormack JE, Harvey MG, Faircloth BC, Crawford NG, Glenn TC, Brumfield RT. A phylogeny of birds based on over 1,500 loci collected by target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing. Plos One. 8: e54848. PMID 23382987 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0054848  0.444
2013 McCormack JE, Hird SM, Zellmer AJ, Carstens BC, Brumfield RT. Applications of next-generation sequencing to phylogeography and phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 526-38. PMID 22197804 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2011.12.007  0.374
2013 McCormack JE, Venkatraman MX. A distinctive genetic footprint of ancient hybridization Auk. 130: 469-475. DOI: 10.1525/Auk.2013.12208  0.397
2012 Crawford NG, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE, Brumfield RT, Winker K, Glenn TC. More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs. Biology Letters. 8: 783-6. PMID 22593086 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2012.0331  0.441
2012 St John JA, Braun EL, Isberg SR, Miles LG, Chong AY, Gongora J, Dalzell P, Moran C, Bed'hom B, Abzhanov A, Burgess SC, Cooksey AM, Castoe TA, Crawford NG, Densmore LD, ... ... McCormack JE, et al. Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes. Genome Biology. 13: 415. PMID 22293439 DOI: 10.1186/Gb-2012-13-1-415  0.313
2012 Faircloth BC, McCormack JE, Crawford NG, Harvey MG, Brumfield RT, Glenn TC. Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales. Systematic Biology. 61: 717-26. PMID 22232343 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Sys004  0.48
2012 McCormack JE, Faircloth BC, Crawford NG, Gowaty PA, Brumfield RT, Glenn TC. Ultraconserved elements are novel phylogenomic markers that resolve placental mammal phylogeny when combined with species-tree analysis. Genome Research. 22: 746-54. PMID 22207614 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.125864.111  0.489
2012 McCormack JE, Maley JM, Hird SM, Derryberry EP, Graves GR, Brumfield RT. Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62: 397-406. PMID 22063264 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2011.10.012  0.445
2012 Berg EC, Aldredge RA, Peterson AT, McCormack JE. New phylogenetic information suggests both an increase and at least one loss of cooperative breeding during the evolutionary history of Aphelocoma jays Evolutionary Ecology. 26: 43-54. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-011-9492-8  0.427
2011 Arteaga MC, McCormack JE, Eguiarte LE, Medellín RA. Genetic admixture in multidimensional environmental space: asymmetrical niche similarity promotes gene flow in armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus). Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 65: 2470-80. PMID 21884050 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2011.01329.X  0.403
2011 McCormack JE, Heled J, Delaney KS, Peterson AT, Knowles LL. Calibrating divergence times on species trees versus gene trees: implications for speciation history of Aphelocoma jays. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 65: 184-202. PMID 20681982 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2010.01097.X  0.445
2010 McCormack JE, Zellmer AJ, Knowles LL. Does niche divergence accompany allopatric divergence in Aphelocoma jays as predicted under ecological speciation? Insights from tests with niche models. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 64: 1231-44. PMID 19922442 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2009.00900.X  0.47
2010 McCormack JE, Berg EC. Small-scale divergence in egg color along an elevation gradient in the mexican jay (aphelocoma ultramarina): A condition-dependent response? Auk. 127: 35-43. DOI: 10.1525/Auk.2009.09043  0.312
2009 McCormack JE, Huang H, Knowles LL. Maximum likelihood estimates of species trees: how accuracy of phylogenetic inference depends upon the divergence history and sampling design. Systematic Biology. 58: 501-8. PMID 20525604 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syp045  0.446
2009 Pease KM, Freedman AH, Pollinger JP, McCormack JE, Buermann W, Rodzen J, Banks J, Meredith E, Bleich VC, Schaefer RJ, Jones K, Wayne RK. Landscape genetics of California mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus): the roles of ecological and historical factors in generating differentiation. Molecular Ecology. 18: 1848-62. PMID 19302356 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04112.X  0.71
2009 Berg EC, McCormack JE, Smith TB. Test of an adaptive hypothesis for egg speckling along an elevational gradient in a population of mexican jays aphelocoma ultramarina Journal of Avian Biology. 40: 448-452. DOI: 10.1111/J.1600-048X.2008.04632.X  0.476
2008 McCormack JE, Bowen BS, Smith TB. Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos. Bmc Biology. 6: 28. PMID 18588695 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-6-28  0.601
2008 McCormack JE, Smith TB. Niche expansion leads to small-scale adaptive divergence along an elevation gradient in a medium-sized passerine bird. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 275: 2155-64. PMID 18544512 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0470  0.553
2008 McCormack JE, Peterson AT, Bonaccorso E, Smith TB. Speciation in the highlands of Mexico: genetic and phenotypic divergence in the Mexican jay (Aphelocoma ultramarina). Molecular Ecology. 17: 2505-21. PMID 18430143 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2008.03776.X  0.597
2007 Milá B, McCormack JE, Castañeda G, Wayne RK, Smith TB. Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genus Junco. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 274: 2653-60. PMID 17725978 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2007.0852  0.59
2007 McCormack JE, Jablonski PG, Brown JL. Producer-scrounger roles and joining based on dominance in a free-living group of Mexican jays (Aphelocoma ultramarina) Behaviour. 144: 967-982. DOI: 10.1163/156853907781492717  0.305
2007 McCormack JE, Castañeda-Guayasamin G, Levandoski G. Sierra Santa Rosa: An oasis of bird diversity in arid Northern Mexico Ornitologia Neotropical. 18: 369-377.  0.341
2005 McCormack JE, Guayasamin GC, Milá B, Pineda FH. Slate-throated redstarts (Myioborus miniatus) breeding in Maderas del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico Southwestern Naturalist. 50: 501-503. DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0501:Srmmbi]2.0.Co;2  0.427
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