Photo: Kearns et al. (2015) featured on the cover of Emu!
Photo: At home in Brisbane, Australia a Grey Butcherbird supervises final revisions of in prep manuscript about the phylogeography of it's northern cousin the Black Butcherbird (Kearns et al. 2011 published in Molecular Ecology).
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PublicationsKearns, A.M., Campana, M.G., Cibois, A., Saitoh, T., Berry, L., & Fleischer, R.C. (2022) Conservation genomics and systematics of critically endangered and extinct species of reedwarblers from the Mariana Islands. Molecular Ecology, 31: 1995–2012.
Taylor H.R. & Kearns A.M. (2021) Showcasing the application of genetics for the conservation management of Austral birds. Emu Austral Ornithology 121: 1-9. Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., Austin, J., Driskell, A.C., & Omland, K.E. (2020) Complex mosaic of sexual dichromatism and monochromatism in Pacific robins results from both gains and losses of elaborate coloration. Journal of Avian Biology 51: 1-19. Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., Thierry, A., Malloy, J.F.+, Cortes-Rodriguez, M.N., & Omland, K.E. (2019) Diversification of Petroica robins across the Australo-Pacific region: first insights into the phylogenetic affinities of New Guinea’s highland robin species. Special issue: Ornithology of New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific Islands. Emu Austral Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2018.1498744 Kearns, A.M., Malloy, J.F.+, Gobbert, M.K., Thierry, A., Joseph, L., Driskell, A.C., & Omland, K.E. (2019) Nuclear introns help unravel the diversification history of the Australo-Pacific Petroica robins. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131: 48-54. Kearns, A.M., Restani, M., Szabo, I., Schrøder-Nielsen, A., Kim, J.A.+, Richardson, H.M.+, Marzluff, J.M., Fleischer, R.C., Johnsen, A., and Omland, K.E. (2018) Genomic evidence of speciation reversal in ravens. Nature Communications 9: 906. doi: 0.1038/s41467-018-03294-w Johnsen, A., Kearns, A.M., Omland, K.E., Anmarkrud, J.A. (2017) Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the common raven Corvus corax (Aves: Corvidae) confirms mitogenome-wide deep lineages and a paraphyletic relationship with the Chihuahuan raven C. cryptoleucus. PLOS ONE 12(10): e0187316. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187316 Lifjeld, J.T., Anmarkrud, J.A., Calabuig, P., Cooper, J.E.J., Johannessen, L.E., Johnsen, A., Kearns, A.M., Lachlan, R.F., Laskemoen, T., Marthinsen, G., Stensrud, E., and Garcia-del-Rey, E. (2016) Species-level divergences in multiple functional traits between the two endemic subspecies of Blue Chaffinches Fringilla teydea in Canary Islands. BMC Zoology 1:4. https://bmczool.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40850-016-0008-4 Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., White, L., Austin, J., Baker, C., Driskell, A.C., Malloy, J.F., & Omland, K.E. (2016) Norfolk Island Robins are a distinct endangered species: ancient DNA unlocks surprising relationships and phenotypic discordance within the Australo-Pacific Robins. Conservation Genetics. doi 10.1007/s10592-015-0783-4 Kearns, A.M., White, L., Austin, J. & Omland, K.E. (2015) Distinctiveness of Pacific Robin subspecies in Vanuatu revealed from disparate patterns of sexual dichromatism, plumage colour, morphometrics and ancient DNA. Emu Austral Ornithology. 115: 89–98. Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., Toon, A., Cook, L.G. (2014) Australia’s arid-adapted butcherbirds experienced range expansions during Pleistocene glacial maxima. Nature Communications. 5: 3994. doi:10.1038/ncomms4994 Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., Cook, L.G. (2013) A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 941–952. Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L., Omland, K.E., Cook, L.G. (2011) Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird?. Molecular Ecology. 20: 5042–5059. Kearns, A.M., Joseph, J., Cook, L.G. (2010) The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis). Emu Austral Ornithology. 110: 285-295. Kearns, A. M., Joseph, J., Edwards S.V., Double, M. C. (2009) Inferring the phylogeography and evolutionary history of the splendid fairy-wren Malurus splendens from mitochondrial DNA and spectrophotometry. Journal of Avian Biology. 40: 7-17. |