Robb T. Brumfield

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• Phylogenetic relationships, hybridization, and genetic structuring in <i>“Cassidix”</i> grackles

  The Auk · 2026-06-10

• Sex differences in avian plumage evolution: stronger effects of natural selection and social competition on females

  2026-04-01

• Data and code from: Song complexity in suboscine birds: Evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints

  DRYAD · 2026-03-29

• The Influence of Rivers and the Environment on Avian Taxon Composition Across Lowland Amazonia

  Journal of Biogeography · 2026-03-01

• Geocerthia, a new genus of terrestrial ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-17

• Pseudasthenes, a new genus of ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Geocerthia, a new genus of terrestrial ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Draft assemblies for 177 bird species enhance genus-level coverage.

  Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern · 2026-01-21

• Super black plumage is prevalent among <i>Lepidothrix</i> manakins

  The Auk · 2026-01-13

• Draft assemblies for 177 bird species enhance genus-level coverage

  GigaScience · 2026-01-01

• The genomic landscape of asymmetric introgression tracks chromosomal characteristics in tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae)Preprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-29

• Efficient Inference of Macrophylogenies: Insights from the Avian Tree of Life

  Systematic Biology · 2025-11-08 · 2 citations

• Whole Genomes Illuminate the Drivers of Gene Tree Discordance and the Tempo of Tinamou Diversification (Aves: Tinamidae)

  Systematic Biology · 2025-11-02 · 1 citations

• Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraintsPreprint

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2025-10-15

• Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia

  The Auk · 2025-10-04 · 2 citations

• Geographic variation, population genetic structure, and taxonomy of the Variable Antshrike (<i>Thamnophilus caerulescens</i>)

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2025-10-01

• Impact of a putative riverine barrier on genomic population structure and gene flow in the presence of sexual selection

  Evolution · 2025-07-08 · 1 citations

• A reference genome for boat-tailed grackles (<i>Quiscalus major</i>)

  Journal of Heredity · 2025-04-24

• Speciation with gene flow in an island endemic hummingbird

  PNAS Nexus · 2025-03-27 · 2 citations