Publications

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Pre-prints & in review

Marshall T.L., Chambers E.A., Matz M.V., Havird J.C., & Hillis D.M. (2026) At the mitonuclear crossroads: Introgression and coevolution in the Pantherophis guttatus complex. In revision at Evolution.

2025

Chambers E.A., Lara-Tufiño J.D., Campillo-García G., Cisneros-Bernal A.Y., Dudek Jr. D.J., León-Règagnon V., Townsend J.H., Flores-Villela O., & Hillis D.M. (2025) Distinguishing species boundaries from geographic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 122(19):e2423688122. link here

Chambers E.A.†, Bishop A.P.†, & Wang I.J. (2025) Individual-based landscape genomics for conservation: an analysis pipeline. Molecular Ecology Resources 25:e13884. link here

2023

Chambers E.A., Marshall T.L., & Hillis D.M. (2023) The importance of contact zones for distinguishing interspecific from intraspecific geographic variation. Systematic Biology 72(2):357–371. link here

Chambers E.A.†, Tarvin R.D.†, Santos J., Ron S., Betancourth M., Hillis D.M., Matz M.V., & Cannatella D.C. (2023) 2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is a low-cost and effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics. Ecology and Evolution 13(3):e9842. link here

Bishop A.P., Chambers E.A., & Wang I.J. (2023) Generating continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(5):1175–1181. link here

Wu Y.-H., Hou S.-B., Yuan Z.-Y., Jiang K., Wang K., Zhao H.-P., Zhang B.-L., Chen J.-M., Wang L.-J., Stuart B.L., Chambers E.A., Wang Y.-F., Gao W., Zou D.-H., Yan F., Zhou W.-W., Fu Z.-X., Zhang L., Ren J.-L., Liu X.-L., Jin J.-Q., Zhao G.-G., Ying T.-T., Li J.-T., Zhao W.-G., Murphy R.W., Guo P., Huang S., Zhang Y.-P., & Che J. (2023) DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs. Molecular Ecology Resources 23(5):1124–1141. link here

Velo-Antón G., Chambers E.A., Poyarkov Jr. N., Canestrelli D., Bisconti B., Naumov B., Benéitez M.J.F., Borisenko A., & Martínez-Solano I. (2023) COI barcoding provides reliable species identification and pinpoints cryptic diversity in Western Palearctic amphibians. Amphibia-Reptilia 44(4):399–413. link here

2022

Gao W., Yu C.-X., Zhou W.-W., Zhang B.-L., Chambers E.A., Dahn H.A., Jin J.-Q., Murphy R.W., Zhang Y.-P., & Che J. (2022) Species persistence with hybridization in toad-headed lizards driven by divergent selection and low recombination. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(4):msac064. link here

2021

Hillis D.M., Chambers E.A., & Devitt T.J. (2021) Contemporary methods and evidence for species delimitation. Ichthyology and Herpetology 109(3):895–903. link here

Marshall T.L., Chambers E.A., Matz M.V., & Hillis D.M. (2021) How mitonuclear discordance and geographic variation have confounded species boundaries in a widely studied snake. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 162:107194. link here

2020

Chambers E.A. & Hillis D.M. (2020) The multispecies coalescent over-splits species in the case of geographically widespread taxa. Systematic Biology 69(1):184–193. link here

2016

Chambers E.A. & Hebert P.D.N. (2016) Assessing DNA barcodes for species identification in North American reptiles and amphibians in natural history collections. PLOS ONE 11(4): e0154363. link here