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John E. McCormack
Researcher at Occidental College
Publications - 91
Citations - 8263
John E. McCormack is an academic researcher from Occidental College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Coalescent theory. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 86 publications receiving 7065 citations. Previous affiliations of John E. McCormack include University of Arizona & University of Michigan.
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More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs
Nicholas G. Crawford,Brant C. Faircloth,John E. McCormack,Robb T. Brumfield,Kevin Winker,Travis C. Glenn +5 more
TL;DR: The resulting phylogeny provides overwhelming support for the hypothesis that turtles evolved from a common ancestor of birds and crocodilians, rejecting the hypothesized relationship between turtles and lepidosaurs.
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A phylogeny of birds based on over 1,500 loci collected by target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing.
John E. McCormack,Michael G. Harvey,Brant C. Faircloth,Nicholas G. Crawford,Travis C. Glenn,Robb T. Brumfield +5 more
TL;DR: This phylogeny bolsters support for monophyletic waterbird and landbird clades and also strongly supports controversial results from previous studies, including the sister relationship between passerines and parrots and the non-monophyly of raptorial birds in the hawk and falcon families.
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Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: A valuable paradigm for phylogenomics
Scott V. Edwards,Zhenxiang Xi,Axel Janke,Brant C. Faircloth,John E. McCormack,Travis C. Glenn,Bojian Zhong,Shaoyuan Wu,Emily Moriarty Lemmon,Alan R. Lemmon,Adam D. Leaché,Liang Liu,Charles C. Davis +12 more
TL;DR: Many of S&G's criticisms of MSC models are invalidated when concatenation is appropriately viewed as a special case of the MSC, which in turn is aSpecial case of emerging network models in phylogenomics.
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Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs
Richard E. Green,Edward L. Braun,Joel Armstrong,Dent Earl,Ngan Nguyen,Glenn Hickey,Michael W. Vandewege,John St. John,Salvador Capella-Gutierrez,Todd A. Castoe,Todd A. Castoe,Colin Kern,Matthew K. Fujita,Juan C. Opazo,Jerzy Jurka,Kenji K. Kojima,Juan Caballero,Robert Hubley,Arian F.A. Smit,Roy N. Platt,Christine A. Lavoie,Meganathan P. Ramakodi,John W. Finger,Alexander Suh,Alexander Suh,Sally R. Isberg,Lee G. Miles,Amanda Y. Chong,Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri,Jaime Gongora,Chris Moran,Andrés Iriarte,John E. McCormack,Shane C. Burgess,Scott V. Edwards,Eric Lyons,Christina L. Williams,Matthew Breen,Jason T. Howard,Cathy R. Gresham,Daniel G. Peterson,Juergen Schmitz,David D. Pollock,David Haussler,David Haussler,Eric W. Triplett,Guojie Zhang,Naoki Irie,Erich D. Jarvis,Christopher A. Brochu,Carl J. Schmidt,Fiona M. McCarthy,Brant C. Faircloth,Brant C. Faircloth,Federico G. Hoffmann,Travis C. Glenn,Toni Gabaldón,Toni Gabaldón,Benedict Paten,David A. Ray,David A. Ray +60 more
TL;DR: An exceptionally slow rate of genome evolution within crocodilians at all levels is observed, consistent with a single underlying cause of a reduced rate of evolutionary change rather than intrinsic differences in base repair machinery.
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Does niche divergence accompany allopatric divergence in Aphelocoma jays as predicted under ecological speciation? Insights from tests with niche models.
TL;DR: The results do not support an ecological speciation model for Mexican Jay lineages because, in most cases, the allopatric environments they occupy are not significantly more divergent than expected under a null model.