Kevin Winker

Professor and Curator

University of Alaska Fairbanks

United States

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Kevin Winker is a Professor and Curator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. His research focuses on evolutionary biology, particularly in avian species, with recent articles exploring gene flow, population structure, and speciation in birds of Beringia and other regions. His work also investigates the genetic characteristics of migratory versus resident songbirds, and the cultural significance of bird nomenclature.

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Travis Glenn

University of Georgia

UNITED STATES

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Justin Touchon

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Vassar College

UNITED STATES

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Christin Pruett

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Ouachita Baptist University

UNITED STATES

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Kevin McCracken

University of Miami

UNITED STATES

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Teresa Pegan

Harvard University

UNITED STATES

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Abigail Kimmitt

Assistant Professor

Hofstra University

UNITED STATES

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Jeffrey DaCosta

Boston College

UNITED STATES

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Neal J. Dawson

University of Glasgow

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Jessica McLaughlin

Assistant Professor

University of Alaska Anchorage

UNITED STATES

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David Ray

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Texas Tech University

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Articles (16)

Gene Flow Accompanies Divergence in Beringian Birds

Last Glacial Maximum diversification implicated by continent-wide population structure in an avian top predator, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)

Seasonally migratory songbirds have different historic population size characteristics than resident relatives

Seasonally migratory songbirds have different historic population size characteristics than resident relatives

Thrushes in Love: Extensive Gene Flow, With Differential Resistance and Selection, Obscures and Reveals the Evolutionary History of a Songbird Clade

Consistent changes in muscle phenotype and mitochondrial abundance underlie dive performance across multiple lineages of diving ducks

Bird names as critical communication infrastructure in the contexts of history, language, and culture

How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird

The inordinate unpopularity of changing all eponymous bird and other organismal names

Beringia as a high‐latitude engine of avian speciation

Replicate contact zones suggest a limited role of plumage in reproductive isolation among subspecies of the variable seedeater (Sporophila corvina)

The genetic basis of plumage coloration and elevation adaptation in a clade of recently diverged alpine and arctic songbirds

A brief history of English bird names and the American Ornithologists’ Union (now American Ornithological Society)

Demographic consequences of foraging ecology explain genetic diversification in Neotropical bird species

Divergence, gene flow, and speciation in eight lineages of trans‐Beringian birds

A High-Quality Genome Assembly of the North American Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia

Collaborators (10)

Travis Glenn

Justin Touchon

Christin Pruett

Kevin McCracken

Teresa Pegan

Abigail Kimmitt

Jeffrey DaCosta

Neal J. Dawson

Jessica McLaughlin

David Ray

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