McDonough, Molly M.
Inactive
National Museum of Natural History staff
Selected Publications
Article
Paul, Deborah L., Thompson, Cody W., Arroyo, Lizette, Nuñez, Germán Botto, Castro-Arellano, Ivan, Colella, Jocelyn P., Cook, Joseph A., Cove,Michael, V., Dearborn, Jacqueline, de la Sancha, Noé U., Derieg, Katrina, Dunnum, Jonathan L., Ferguson, Adam W., Fitzgerald, Kendall, Foat, Courtney, Frank, Lexi E., Galbreath, Kurt, Gonzalez, Destiny F., Hawkins, Rebecca K., Herrera, Tommy, Hey, Alexander, Hope, Andrew G., Hornsby, Angela D., Ibanez, Daniel, Keller, Oliver et al. 2025. "Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness." Bioscience , https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf035 .
2025
Tavares, Valéria da C., Gardner, Alfred L., McDonough, Molly M., Maldonado, Jesús E., Gutiérrez, Eliécer E., Velazco, Paúl M., and Garbino, Guilherme S. T. 2022. "Historical DNA of rare yellow-eared bats Vampyressa Thomas, 1900 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) clarifies phylogeny and species boundaries within the genus ." Systematics and Biodiversity , 20, (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2022.2117247 .
2022
McDonough, Molly M., Ferguson, Adam W., Dowler, Robert C., Gompper, Matthew E., and Maldonado, Jesus E. 2022. "Phylogenomic systematics of the spotted skunks (Carnivora, Mephitidae, Spilogale): Additional species diversity and Pleistocene climate change as a major driver of diversification ." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution , 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107266 .
2022
Dommain, René, Andama, Morgan, McDonough, Molly M., Prado, Natalia A., Goldhammer, Tobias, Potts, Richard, Maldonado, Jesús E., Nkurunungi, John Bosco, and Campana, Michael G. 2020. "The Challenges of Reconstructing Tropical Biodiversity With Sedimentary Ancient DNA: A 2200-Year-Long Metagenomic Record From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda ." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 8 Article 218. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00218 .
2020
Ferguson, Adam W., Roble, Houssein R., and McDonough, Molly M. 2019. "Noteworthy record of the Ethiopian genet, Genetta abyssinica, (Carnivora, Viverridae) from Djibouti informs its phylogenetic position within Genetta ." Mammalia , 83, (2) 180–189. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0081 .
2019
Shaffer, Alexandra A., Dowler, Robert C., Perkins, J. C., Ferguson, Adam W., McDonough, Molly M., and Ammerman, Loren K. 2018. "Genetic variation in the eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius ) with emphasis on the plains spotted skunk (S. p. interrupta ) ." Journal of Mammalogy , 99, (5) 1237–1248. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy098 .
2018
McDonough, Molly M., Parker, Lillian D., McInerney, Nancy Rotzel, Campana, Michael G., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2018. "Performance of commonly requested destructive museum samples for mammalian genomic studies ." Journal of mammalogy , 99, (4) 789–802. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy080 .
2018
Thomson, Scott A., Pyle, Richard L., Ahyong, Shane T, Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel, Ammirati, Joe, Araya, Juan Francisco, Ascher, John S., Audisio, Tracy Lynn, Azevedo-Santos, Valter, Bailly, Nicolas, Baker, William J., Balke, Michael, Barclay, Maxwell V. L., Barrett, Russell L., Benine, Ricardo C., Bickerstaff, James R. M., Bouchard, Patrice, Bour, Roger, Bourgoin, Thierry, Boyko, Christopher B., Breure, Abraham S. H., Brothers, Denis J., Byng, James W., Campbell, David, Ceríaco, Luis M. P. et al. 2018. "Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation ." PLOS Biology , 16, (3) 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 .
2018
Gutierrez, Eliecer E., Helgen, Kristofer M., McDonough, Molly M., Bauer, Franziska, Hawkins, Melissa T. R., Escobedo-Morales, Luis A., Patterson, Bruce D., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2017. "A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling ." Zookeys , (697) 87–131. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.697.15124 .
2017
Lissovsky, Andrey A., McDonough, Molly M., Dahal, Nishma, Jin, Wei, Liu, Shaoying, and Ruedas, Luis A. 2017. "A new subspecies of large-eared pika, Ochotona macrotis (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae), from the Eastern Himalaya ." Russian Journal of Theriology , 16, (1) 30–42. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.16.1.03 .
2017
Aghová, Tatiana, Sumbera, Radim, Piálek, Lubomír, Mikula, Ondrej, McDonough, Molly M., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Meheretu, Yonas, Mbau, Judith S., and Bryja, Josef. 2017. "Multilocus phylogeny of East African gerbils (Rodentia, Gerbilliscus ) illuminates the history of the Somali-Masai savanna." Journal of Biogeography , 44, (10) 2295–2307. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13017 .
2017
Ferguson, Adam W., McDonough, Molly M., Guerra, Gema I., Rheude, Margaret, Dragoo, Jerry W., Ammerman, Loren K., and Dowler, Robert C. 2017. "Phylogeography of a widespread small carnivore, the western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis) reveals temporally variable signatures of isolation across western North America ." Ecology and Evolution , 7, (12) 4229–4240. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2931 .
2017
Hawkins, Melissa T. R., Leonard, Jennifer A., Helgen, Kristofer M., McDonough, Molly M., Rockwood, Larry L., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2016. "Evolutionary history of endemic Sulawesi squirrels constructed from UCEs and mitogenomes sequenced from museum specimens ." BMC Evolutionary Biology , 16, (1) 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0650-z .
2016
Hawkins, Melissa T. R., Hofman, Courtney A., Callicrate, Taylor, McDonough, Molly M., Tsuchiya, Mirian T. N., Gutiérrez, Eliécer E., Helgen, Kristofer M., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2016. "In-Solution Hybridization for Mammalian Mitogenome enrichment: Pros, Cons, and Challenges Associated with Multiplexing Degraded DNA ." Molecular Ecology Resources , 16, (5) 1173–1188. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12448 .
2016
Young, Hillary S., McCauley, Douglas J., Dirzo, Rodolfo, Goheen, Jacob R., Agwanda, Bernard, Brook, Cara, Otarola-Castillo, Erik, Ferguson, Adam W., Kinyua, Stephen N., McDonough, Molly M., Palmer, Todd M., Pringle, Robert M., Young, Truman P., and Helgen, Kristofer M. 2015. "Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya ." Ecological Applications , 25, (2) 348–360. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0995.1 .
2015
Kimura, Yuri, Hawkins, Melissa T. R., McDonough, Molly M., Jacobs, Louis L., and Flynn, Lawrence J. 2015. "Corrected placement of Mus-Rattus fossil calibration forces precision in the molecular tree of rodents ." Scientific Reports , 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14444 .
2015
McDonough, Molly M., Sumbera, Radim, Mazoch, Vladimír, Ferguson, Adam W., Phillips, Caleb D., and Bryja, Josef. 2015. "Multilocus phylogeography of a widespread savanna-woodland adapted rodent reveals the influence of Pleistocene geomorphology and climate change in Africa's Zambezi region ." Molecular ecology , 24, (20) 5248–5266. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13374 .
2015
Dataset
Dommain, René, Andama, Morgan, McDonough, Molly M., Prado-Oviedo, Natalia A., Goldhammer, Tobias, Potts, Richard, Maldonado, Jesús E., Nkurunungi, John Bosco, and Campana, Michael. 2020. [Dataset] Supporting data for "The challenges of reconstructing tropical biodiversity with sedimentary ancient DNA: a 2200-year-long metagenomic record from Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda" . Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.10072625.V2 .
2020
Review
