Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biology
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2025 - Present
Biology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Ancient DNA reveals twenty million years of aquatic life in beavers.
Journal Article Current biology : CB · February 2020 Xenikoudakis et al. report a partial mitochondrial genome of the extinct giant beaver Castoroides and estimate the origin of aquatic behavior in beavers to approximately 20 million years. This time estimate coincides with the extinction of terrestrial beav ... Full text CitePhylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae).
Journal Article Zootaxa · January 2017 We present a phylogeny of all booted eagles (38 extant and one extinct species) based on analysis of published sequences from seven loci. We find molecular support for five major clades within the booted eagles: Nisaetus (10 species), Spizaetus (4 species) ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
2023
D.R.