John P Dumbacher

Summary

Affiliation: California Academy of Sciences
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Melyrid beetles (Choresine): a putative source for the batrachotoxin alkaloids found in poison-dart frogs and toxic passerine birds
    John P Dumbacher
    Smithsonian Conservation Research Center, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15857-60. 2004
  2. ncbi Phylogeny of the avian genus Pitohui and the evolution of toxicity in birds
    John P Dumbacher
    Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park, and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 49:774-81. 2008
  3. ncbi Mid-Pleistocene divergence of Cuban and North American ivory-billed woodpeckers
    Robert C Fleischer
    Genetics Program, National Museum of Natural History and National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Biol Lett 2:466-9. 2006
  4. ncbi Phylogeny of the owlet-nightjars (Aves: Aegothelidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence
    John P Dumbacher
    Department of Conservation Biology, Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 29:540-9. 2003

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Melyrid beetles (Choresine): a putative source for the batrachotoxin alkaloids found in poison-dart frogs and toxic passerine birds
    John P Dumbacher
    Smithsonian Conservation Research Center, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15857-60. 2004
    ..The family Melyridae is cosmopolitan, and relatives in Colombian rain forests of South America could be the source of the batrachotoxins found in the highly toxic Phyllobates frogs of that region...
  2. ncbi Phylogeny of the avian genus Pitohui and the evolution of toxicity in birds
    John P Dumbacher
    Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park, and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 49:774-81. 2008
    ..The Morningbird of Palau, Micronesia, that has often been included in the genus Pitohui, actually belongs in the genus Pachycephala and offers an intriguing case of pronounced evolution on a remote oceanic island...
  3. ncbi Mid-Pleistocene divergence of Cuban and North American ivory-billed woodpeckers
    Robert C Fleischer
    Genetics Program, National Museum of Natural History and National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Biol Lett 2:466-9. 2006
    ..Our sequences of all three woodpeckers also provide an important DNA barcoding resource for identification of non-invasive samples or remains of these critically endangered and charismatic woodpeckers...
  4. ncbi Phylogeny of the owlet-nightjars (Aves: Aegothelidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence
    John P Dumbacher
    Department of Conservation Biology, Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 29:540-9. 2003
    ..albertisi appears paraphyletic. Our data also suggest splitting A. bennettii into two species and splitting A. insignis and A. tatei as suggested in another recent paper...