McMillan, Owen
Fellowship Advisor
Staff of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Background And Education
Research And Grants
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- Towards an Integrative Genomic Understanding of Morphological Diversity awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- Towards an Integrative Genomic Understanding of Morphological Diversity awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- DEB: RoL: Collaborative Proposal: Integrating responses to environmental change across the biological hierarchy: interactions between behavior, plasti awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 -
- Collaborative Research: Genomics across the Speciation Continuum in Heliconius Butterflies awarded by National Science Foundation
- IGERT: Vertically Integrated Training with Genomics awarded by University of Illinois
- Identity and Function of Heliconius Mimicry Genes awarded by University of California
- Identity and Function of Heliconius Mimicry Genes awarded by University of California
- The Behavioral Architecture of Incipient Speciation in Heliconius awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- The Behavioral Architecture of Incipient Speciation in Heliconius awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- Using Experimental Islands to Explore Adaptive Responses to Rapid Environmental Change awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
Publications
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- A novel terpene synthase controls differences in anti-aphrodisiac pheromone production between closely related Heliconius butterflies 2021
- Clustering of loci controlling species differences in male chemical bouquets of sympatric Heliconius butterflies 2021
- Cortex cis-regulatory switches establish scale colour identity and pattern diversity in Heliconius 2021
- Effect of the Central American Isthmus on gene flow and divergence of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) 2021
- Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimetic Heliconius butterfly 2021
- Haplotype tagging reveals parallel formation of hybrid races in two butterfly species 2021
- Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host-microbe ecology and evolution 2021
- Neural divergence and hybrid disruption between ecologically isolated Heliconius butterflies 2021
- Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence of butterflies allows usage of diverse host plants 2021
- Rampant genome-wide admixture across the Heliconius radiation 2021
- Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies 2021
- The genomic signal of local environmental adaptation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes 2021
- A major locus controls a biologically active pheromone component in Heliconius melpomene 2020
- Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey's view 2020
- Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies 2020
- Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee 2020
- Divergence of chemosensing during the early stages of speciation 2020
- Ectoparasite extinction in simplified lizard assemblages during experimental island invasion 2020
- Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape 2020
- Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations 2020
- Sex-biased parasitism and expression of a sexual signal 2020
- Species specificity and intraspecific variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies across a large geographic range 2020
- The visual ecology of a color polymorphic reef fish: the role of aggressive mimicry 2020
- Visual mate preference evolution during butterfly speciation is linked to neural processing genes 2020
- Aedes Mosquito Infestation in Socioeconomically Contrasting Neighborhoods of Panama City 2019
- Comparative transcriptomics provides insights into reticulate and adaptive evolution of a butterfly radiation 2019
- Conservation and flexibility in the gene regulatory landscape of heliconiine butterfly wings 2019
- Dynamics and diversity of bacteria associated with the disease vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus 2019
- Genetic dissection of assortative mating behavior 2019
- Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation 2019
- Habitat disturbance and the organization of bacterial communities in Neotropical hematophagous arthropods 2019
- High infestation of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in used tires along the local transport network of Panama 2019
- Inheritance, distribution and genetic differentiation of a color polymorphism in Panamanian populations of the tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) 2019
- Inter-chromosomal coupling between vision and pigmentation genes during genomic divergence 2019
- Interplay between Developmental Flexibility and Determinism in the Evolution of Mimetic Heliconius Wing Patterns 2019
- Movement of a Heliconius hybrid zone over 30 years: A Bayesian approach 2019
- Specific Gene Disruption in the Major Livestock Pests Cochliomyia hominivorax and Lucilia cuprina Using CRISPR/Cas9 2019
- The evolution of microendemism in a reef fish (Hypoplectrus maya) 2019
- Comparative Genomics Reveals Accelerated Evolution in Conserved Pathways during the Diversification of Anole Lizards 2018
- Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species 2018
- Environment-dependent attack rates of cryptic and aposematic butterflies 2018
- Facultative pupal mating in Heliconius erato: Implications for mate choice, female preference, and speciation 2018
- Maternal invasion history of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into the Isthmus of Panama: Implications for the control of emergent viral disease agents 2018
- Mitogenomic divergence between three pairs of putative geminate fishes from Panama 2018
- Multilocus molecular systematics of the circumtropical reef-fish genus Abudefduf (Pomacentridae): history, geography and ecology of speciation 2018
- Patterns of Z chromosome divergence among Heliconius species highlight the importance of historical demography 2018
- The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics 2018
- patternize: An R package for quantifying colour pattern variation 2018
- A new subspecies in a Heliconius butterfly adaptive radiation (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) 2017
- Carrion fly-derived DNA metabarcoding is an effective tool for mammal surveys: evidence from a known tropical mammal community 2017
- Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes 2017
- Estimating the age of Heliconius butterflies from calibrated photographs 2017
- Evolution of novel mimicry rings facilitated by adaptive introgression in tropical butterflies 2017
- Macroevolutionary shifts of WntA function potentiate butterfly wing-pattern diversity 2017
- No evidence for maintenance of a sympatric Heliconius species barrier by chromosomal inversions: Heliconius INVERSIONS AND SPECIATION 2017
- Temporal changes in hamlet communities (Hypoplectrus spp., Serranidae) over 17 years 2017
- A transgenic male-only strain of the New World screwworm for an improved control program using the sterile insect technique 2016
- Complete mitochondrial genomes of the New World jacanas: Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana 2016
- Evolutionary Novelty in a Butterfly Wing Pattern through Enhancer Shuffling 2016
- Extreme sequence divergence between mitochondrial genomes of two subspecies of White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucosticta, Cabanis, 1847) from western and central Panama 2016
- Genomic variation at the tips of the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches 2016
- Genomics at the evolving species boundary 2016
- Mitochondrial genome organization of the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus 2016
- Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene 2016
- Nesting Migrations and Reproductive Biology of the Mona Rhinoceros Iguana, Cyclura Stejnegeri 2016
- Population genomics of local adaptation versus speciation in coral reef fishes (Hypoplectrus spp, Serranidae) 2016
- Recombination in the eggs and sperm in a simultaneously hermaphroditic vertebrate 2016
- The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths 2016
- Conservatism and novelty in the genetic architecture of adaptation in Heliconius butterflies 2015
- Contrasting demographic history and gene flow patterns of two mangrove species on either side of the Central American Isthmus 2015
- Divergence with gene flow across a speciation continuum of Heliconius butterflies 2015
- Extreme mitogenomic divergence between two syntopic specimens of Arremon aurantiirostris (Aves: Emberizidae) in central Panama suggests possible cryptic species 2015
- Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments 2015
- Genomic atolls of differentiation in coral reef fishes (Hypoplectrus spp, Serranidae) 2014
- Metamorphosis of a Butterfly-Associated Bacterial Community 2014
- Phylogeography of Heliconius cydno and its closest relatives: disentangling their origin and diversification 2014
- Population genomics of parallel hybrid zones in the mimetic butterflies, H. melpomene and H. erato 2014
- Genomic architecture of adaptive color pattern divergence and convergence in Heliconius butterflies 2013
- Multi-allelic major effect genes interact with minor effect QTLs to control adaptive color pattern variation in Heliconius erato 2013
- Adaptive Introgression across Species Boundaries in Heliconius Butterflies 2012
- Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species 2012
- Comparative genetic structure of two mangrove species in Caribbean and Pacific estuaries of Panama 2012
- Diversification of complex butterfly wing patterns by repeated regulatory evolution of a Wnt ligand 2012
- On the spatial scale of dispersal in coral reef fishes 2012
- Partial Complementarity of the Mimetic Yellow Bar Phenotype in Heliconius Butterflies 2012
- Sharp genetic discontinuity across a unimodal Heliconius hybrid zone 2012
- Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation 2012
- Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies 2012
- Mate preference across the speciation continuum in a clade of mimetic butterflies 2011
- optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry 2011
- Genomic Hotspots for Adaptation: The Population Genetics of Mullerian Mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene Clade 2010
- Hybridization and introgression in New World red mangroves, Rhizophora (Rhizophoraceae) 2010
- Spatial Ecology of the Endangered Mona Island Iguana Cyclura Cornuta Stejnegeri: Does Territorial Behavior Regulate Density? 2010
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