First Name: Melissa T.R.Last Name: HawkinsPublications: YearPublication 2015"The Taxonomic Status of <I>Mazama bricenii</I> and the Significance of the Táchira Depression for Mammalian Endemism in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela" in PloS One 2015"Phylogeography of vertebrates on the Sunda Shelf: a multi-species comparison" in Journal of Biogeography 2015"Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest Rapid Evolution of Dwarf California Channel Islands Foxes (Urocyon littoralis)" in PloS One 2015"Corrected placement of Mus-Rattus fossil calibration forces precision in the molecular tree of rodents" in Scientific Reports 2016"Simultaneous identification of host, ectoparasite and pathogen DNA via in-solution capture" in Molecular Ecology Resources 2016"Phylogeny, biogeography and systematic revision of plain long-nosed squirrels (genus Dremomys, Nannosciurinae)" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2016"In-Solution Hybridization for Mammalian Mitogenome enrichment: Pros, Cons, and Challenges Associated with Multiplexing Degraded DNA" in Molecular Ecology Resources 2016"Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)" in BMC Genomics 2016"Evolutionary history of endemic Sulawesi squirrels constructed from UCEs and mitogenomes sequenced from museum specimens" in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017"A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling" in Zookeys 2018"Genome sequence and population declines in the critically endangered greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) and implications for conservation" in BMC Genomics 2018"Interglacial refugia on tropical mountains: Novel insights from the summit rat (Rattus baluensis), a Borneo mountain endemic" in Diversity and Distributions 2019"Endemism and diversity of small mammals along two neighboring Bornean mountains" in PeerJ 2020"Ancient Divergence Driven by Geographic Isolation and Ecological Adaptation in Forest Dependent Sundaland Tree Squirrels" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2020"Little genetic structure in a Bornean endemic small mammal across a steep ecological gradient" in Molecular Ecology 2020"Folding Stability of Pax9 Intronic G-quadruplex Correlates with Relative Molar Size in Eutherians" in Molecular Biology and Evolution 2021"Assessing genotyping errors in mammalian museum study skins using high-throughput genotyping-by-sequencing" in Conservation Genetics Resources 2021"SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States" in Ecology 2021"Assessing Biodiversity in the Phylogenomic Era" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022"Population genetic analysis of the Humboldt’s flying squirrel using high-throughput sequencing" in Journal of Mammalogy 2022"Evolutionary history of Sundaland shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidura) with a focus on Borneo" in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2022"Nuclear and Mitochondrial Phylogenomics of the Sifakas Reveal Cryptic Variation in the Diademed Sifaka" in Genes 2022"Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?" in Journal of Mammalogy 2022"Museomics and the holotype of a critically endangered cricetid rodent provide key evidence of an undescribed genus" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022"Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities" in Journal of Biogeography 2022"Challenging ecogeographical rules: Phenotypic variation in the Mountain Treeshrew (Tupaia montana) along tropical elevational gradients" in PLOS ONE 2022"A comparative study of RNA yields from museum specimens, including an optimized protocol for extracting RNA from formalin-fixed specimens" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022"A comparative analysis of extraction protocol performance on degraded mammalian museum specimens" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2023"Novel genomic resources contribute to the systematics of threatened arboreal deer mice of the genus Habromys Hooper & Musser, 1964 (Cricetidae, Neotominae) within a neotomine–peromyscine phylogeny" in ZooKeys 2023"The history of Coast Salish “woolly dogs” revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge" in Science 2023"Specimen collection is essential for modern science" in PLOS Biology 2023"Evolutionary history and patterns of divergence in three tropical east Asian squirrels across the Isthmus of Kra" in Journal of Biogeography 2023"An 1896 specimen helps clarify the phylogenetic placement of the Mexican endemic Hooper’s deer mouse" in Therya 2024"An integrative taxonomic revision of lesser gymnures (Eulipotyphla: Hylomys) reveals five new species and emerging patterns of local endemism in Tropical East Asia" in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2024"Lost in synonymy: Integrative species delimitation reveals two unrecognized species of Southern Asian tree squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae: Callosciurinae)" in Vertebrate Zoology 2024"Unveiling hidden diversity: Phylogenomics of neotomine rodents and taxonomic implications for the genus Peromyscus" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2024"Epigenetic changes to gene pathways linked to male fertility in ex situ black-footed ferrets" in Evolutionary Applications 2024"Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States" in Diversity and Distributions 2024"A Morphological Assessment of Osgood's 1918 Application of <i>Otognosis longimembris</i> Coues, 1875 (Rodentia, Heteromyidae), with the Proposal of a Neotype" in American Museum Novitates 2025"Uncovering new lineages in the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) with museum mitogenomics" in Biology Letters