Marcus R. Kronforst, PhD

Affiliations: 
Zoology University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 
Area:
Butterflies, mimicry, speciation, genomics
Website:
http://www.kronforstlab.org/kronforst/index.html
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Parents

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Lawrence E. Gilbert grad student 2004 UT Austin
 (The role of hybridization in the evolution of Heliconius butterflies: Species diversification, the evolution of reproductive isolation, and interspecific gene flow.)

Children

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Roberto Márquez grad student 2013- Chicago
Hsiang-Yu Tsai grad student 2020- Chicago (Neurotree)
Delbert André Green post-doc Chicago (FlyTree)
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Publications

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Freedman MG, Kronforst MR. (2023) Migration genetics take flight: genetic and genomic insights into monarch butterfly migration. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 101079
Bayala EX, VanKuren N, Massardo D, et al. (2023) aristaless1 has a dual role in appendage formation and wing color specification during butterfly development. Bmc Biology. 21: 100
Tenger-Trolander A, Julick CR, Lu W, et al. (2023) Seasonal plasticity in morphology and metabolism differs between migratory North American and resident Costa Rican monarch butterflies. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e9796
Grewe F, Kronforst MR, Pierce NE, et al. (2021) Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly () was a distinct species driven to extinction. Biology Letters. 17: 20210123
Ruttenberg DM, VanKuren NW, Nallu S, et al. (2021) The evolution and genetics of sexually dimorphic 'dual' mimicry in the butterfly . Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 288: 20202192
Márquez R, Linderoth TP, Mejía-Vargas D, et al. (2020) Divergence, gene flow and the origin of leapfrog geographic distributions: The history of color pattern variation in Phyllobates poison-dart frogs. Molecular Ecology
Massardo D, VanKuren NW, Nallu S, et al. (2020) The roles of hybridization and habitat fragmentation in the evolution of Brazil's enigmatic longwing butterflies, Heliconius nattereri and H. hermathena. Bmc Biology. 18: 84
Talla V, Pierce AA, Adams KL, et al. (2020) Genomic evidence for gene flow between monarchs with divergent migratory phenotypes and flight performance. Molecular Ecology
Mullen SP, VanKuren NW, Zhang W, et al. (2020) Disentangling population history and character evolution among hybridizing lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution
Palmer DH, Kronforst MR. (2020) A shared genetic basis of mimicry across swallowtail butterflies points to ancestral co-option of doublesex. Nature Communications. 11: 6
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