Devon DeRaad
@devonderaad.bsky.social
Postdoc at UCLA. Evolutionary genomics (usually) of birds! devonderaad.github.io
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Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.
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Check out the latest paper from the CCGP on California Quail and the ecological and anthropogenic factors that impact genomic variation. Led by Phred Benham and the Bowie group: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Patterns of Genetic Diversity Within Three California Quail Species Are Best Explained by Climate and Landscape Changes
Many North American game animals experienced severe population declines during the 19th century due to market hunting. However, estimates of the timing and magnitude of these declines often rely on a...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Check out the latest paper from the CCGP on California Quail and the ecological and anthropogenic factors that impact genomic variation. Led by Phred Benham and the Bowie group: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
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October 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🥳 My latest digest for Evolution is now available online!
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🥳 My latest digest for Evolution is now available online!
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
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So great to have this work led by @devonderaad.bsky.social covered by an Evolution Digest!
🥳 My latest digest for Evolution is now available online!
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#ornithology
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So great to have this work led by @devonderaad.bsky.social covered by an Evolution Digest!
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Happy to share that our paper on the #evolution and #genomics of the most common #color polymorphism in #frogs is now out in @pnas.org! My favorite frogs even made the cover of this week’s issue! 🎉🐸🎉
Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy to share that our paper on the #evolution and #genomics of the most common #color polymorphism in #frogs is now out in @pnas.org! My favorite frogs even made the cover of this week’s issue! 🎉🐸🎉
Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Some species had an outsized role in shaping evolutionary theory. The Fiji Whistlers featured heavily in Ernst Mayr's development of the biological species concept and its application to allopatric taxa. In our new paper, we revisited this system with genomic data 🧵
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Some species had an outsized role in shaping evolutionary theory. The Fiji Whistlers featured heavily in Ernst Mayr's development of the biological species concept and its application to allopatric taxa. In our new paper, we revisited this system with genomic data 🧵
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Like woodpeckers? Or population genomics? Or three-species hybridization? Or selective sweeps?
Then this is for you!
The typeset version of "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" is published today:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Then this is for you!
The typeset version of "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" is published today:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like woodpeckers? Or population genomics? Or three-species hybridization? Or selective sweeps?
Then this is for you!
The typeset version of "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" is published today:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Then this is for you!
The typeset version of "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" is published today:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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The paper for my R package is published! This has been a fun process learning more about hybrid zones and triangle plots. Thanks everyone who has contributed and tested it out already!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones - Heredity
Heredity - triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The paper for my R package is published! This has been a fun process learning more about hybrid zones and triangle plots. Thanks everyone who has contributed and tested it out already!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After a brief hiatus, the R package SNPfiltR is back on CRAN for easy installation (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...). Be sure to check out the documentation (devonderaad.github.io/SNPfiltR/ind...) to get ideas for the visualizations and filters you can use to better understand your SNP datasets!
SNPfiltR: Interactively Filter SNP Datasets
Is designed to interactively and reproducibly visualize and filter SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) datasets. This R-based implementation of SNP and genotype filters facilitates an interactive and...
cran.r-project.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
After a brief hiatus, the R package SNPfiltR is back on CRAN for easy installation (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...). Be sure to check out the documentation (devonderaad.github.io/SNPfiltR/ind...) to get ideas for the visualizations and filters you can use to better understand your SNP datasets!