Publications

Riccardi, P.R., Amorim, D.S., Bayless, K., Peñalba, J.V. (2026) "Grass fly evolution unlocked: phylogenomics and classification of worldwide Chloropidae (Diptera)" Systematic Entomology 51(2), e70046 [link] [preprint]

Wait, D.R., Peñalba, J.V. (2025) "Suture zones, speciation, and evolution" Evolution 79(3), 329–341 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Runemark, A., Meier, J.I., Singh, P., Wogan, G.O.U. et al. (2024) "The role of hybridization in species formation and persistence" Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 16(12), a041445 [link]

Ferrari, G., Esselens, L., Hart, M.L., Janssens, S., Kidner, C., Mascarello, M., Peñalba, J.V. et al. (2023) "Developing the protocol infrastructure for DNA sequencing natural history collections" Biodiversity Data Journal 11, e102317 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Peters, J.L., Joseph, L. (2022) "Sustained plumage divergence despite weak genomic differentiation and broad sympatry in sister species of Australian woodswallows (Artamus spp.)" Molecular Ecology [link]

Ramírez-Castañeda, V. et al., incl. Peñalba, J.V. (2022) "A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology" PNAS 119(34), e2122667119 [link]

McEntee, J.P., Zhelezov, G., Werema, C. et al., incl. Peñalba, J.V. (2021) "Punctuated evolution in the learned songs of African sunbirds" Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1963), 20212062 [link]

Metzler, D., Knief, U., Peñalba, J.V., Wolf, J.B.W. (2021) "Assortative mating and epistatic mating-trait architecture induce complex movement of the crow hybrid zone" Evolution 75(12), 3154–3174 [link] [preprint]

Cockburn, A., Peñalba, J.V., Jaccoud, D. et al. (2020) "HIPHOP: Improved paternity assignment among close relatives using a simple exclusion method for biallelic markers" Molecular Ecology Resources 21(6), 1850–1865 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Wolf, J.B.W. (2020) "From molecules to populations: appreciating and estimating recombination rate variation" Nature Reviews Genetics 1–17 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Deng, Y., Fang, Q., Joseph, L., Moritz, C., Cockburn, A. (2020) "Genome of an iconic Australian bird: Chromosome-scale assembly and linkage map of the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus)" Molecular Ecology Resources 20(2), 560–578 [link] [preprint]

Keighley, M.V., Langmore, N.E., Peñalba, J.V., Heinsohn, R. (2020) "Modelling dispersal in a large parrot: a comparison of landscape resistance models with population genetics and vocal dialect patterns" Landscape Ecology 35, 129–144 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Joseph, L., Moritz, C. (2019) "Current geography masks dynamic history of gene flow during speciation in northern Australian birds" Molecular Ecology [link] [preprint]

Keighley, M.V., Heinsohn, R., Langmore, N.E., Murphy, S.A., Peñalba, J.V. (2019) "Genomic population structure aligns with vocal dialects in Palm Cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus); evidence for refugial late-Quaternary distribution?" Emu – Austral Ornithology 119(1), 24–37 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Mason, I.J., Schodde, R., Moritz, C., Joseph, L. (2017) "Characterizing divergence through three adjacent Australian avian transition zones" Journal of Biogeography 44(10), 2247–2258 [link]

McEntee, J.P., Peñalba, J.V., Werema, C. et al. (2016) "Social selection parapatry in an Afrotropical sunbird" Evolution 70(6), 1307–1321 [link]

Voelker, G., Huntley, J.W., Peñalba, J.V., Bowie, R.C.K. (2016) "Resolving taxonomic uncertainty and historical biogeographic patterns in Muscicapa flycatchers and their allies" Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94, 618–625 [link]

Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L. (2015) "Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes)" Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90, 34–48 [link]

Peñalba, J.V., Smith, L.L., Tonione, M.A. et al. (2014) "Sequence capture using PCR-generated probes: a cost-effective method of targeted high-throughput sequencing for nonmodel organisms" Molecular Ecology Resources 14(5), 1000–1010 [link]

Voelker, G., Peñalba, J.V., Huntley, J.W., Bowie, R.C.K. (2014) "Diversification in an Afro-Asian songbird clade (Erythropygia–Copsychus) reveals founder-event speciation via trans-oceanic dispersals and a southern to northern colonization pattern in Africa" Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 73, 97–105 [link]