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Publications
Corbett, E.C., R.T. Brumfield, B.C. Faircloth. Phylogenetic Relationships, Hybridization, and Genetic Structuring in “Cassidix” Grackles. In revision at Ornithology.
8) Macedo, G., Y. Chen, E.C. Corbett, R.S. Marcondes, G.A. Bravo, C. Biondo, S.E. Lipshutz. 2025. Evaluating the roles of signaling and camouflage in the evolution of iris color in Tyranni passerines. Evolution qpaf228. Download
7) Corbett, E.C., A.E. Moncrieff, R.T. Brumfield, B.C. Faircloth. 2025. A Reference Genome for Boat-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major). Journal of Heredity 116(4): 540-547. Download
6) Corbett, E.C., N. Kase, W.C. Milstein, T. M. Ambiel. 2024. Aberrant white eye coloration in two Red-bellied Woodpeckers (Picidae: Melanerpes carolinus) from Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 23(3):N24-N28. Download
-Media Coverage in Brazil: Globo-G1
5) Corbett, E.C., R.T. Brumfield, B.C. Faircloth. 2024. The mechanistic, genetic and evolutionary causes of bird eye colour variation. Ibis 166(2):560-589. Download | Download Appendices
-Selected by Ibis as the Best Early Career Researcher Paper of 2023
-Named one of the five most downloaded Ibis papers of 2023
-Media coverage in Audubon Magazine and New Scientist
-See post on the British Ornithological Union Blog
4) Ludt, B.W., E.C. Corbett, J. Kattawar, P. Chakrabarty, B.C. Faircloth. 2023. A reference genome for Bluegill (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 13(3): jkad019. Download
3) Estrada-Villegas, S., L.D. Rivas, J.F. Barrera, S. Barrera Rivas, D.F. Correa, S. Arguello, A.M. Aldana, L.F. Casas, A. Lozano-Balcázar, V. Gómez-Bahamón, C. Gómez, N. Bayly, A. Jahn, A. Quiñones, E.C. Corbett, F. Castro, P. Stevenson. 2022. Plant, bird and mammal diversity of the TomoGrande field station, Vichada, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 23(2):e1027. Download
2) Moncrieff A.E., O. Johnson, C. Felix, A.E. Hiller, E.C. Corbett, M.L. Brady, G.F. Seeholzer, E. Bautista, D.F. Lane, M.G. Harvey. 2020. Avifaunal surveys in the central Peruvian Amazon clarify range limits and highlight links between avian and habitat diversity. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132(4):934-951. Download
1) Corbett, E.C., G.A. Bravo, F. Schunck, L.N. Naka, L.F. Silveira, S.V. Edwards. 2020. Evidence for the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis from genome-wide SNPs in a Neotropical dry forest specialist, the Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Furnariidae: Phacellodomus rufifrons). Molecular Ecology 29:4457–4472. Download