Edward Louis Braun

Edward Louis Braun, U.S. ornithologist

• Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Harshman, J., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Huddleston, C.J., Bowie, R.C.K., Chojnowski, J.L., Hackett, S.J., Han, K.-L., Kimball, R.T., Marks, B.D., Miglia, K.J., Moore, W.S., Reddy, S., Sheldon, F.H., Steadman, D.W., Steppan, S.J., Witt, C.C. & Yuri, T. 2008. Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds. PNAS 105(36): 13462–13467. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803242105 Reference page. 

2011

• Kimball, R.T., St. Mary, C.M. & Braun, E.L. 2011. A Macroevolutionary Perspective on Multiple Sexual Traits in the Phasianidae (Galliformes). International Journal of Evolutionary Biology 11: 423938. DOI: 10.4061/2011/423938 Reference page. 

2013

• Yuri, T., Kimball, R.T., Harshman, J., Bowie, R.C.K., Braun, M.J., Chojnowski, J.L., Han, K.-L., Hackett, S.J., Huddleston, C.J., Moore, W.S., Reddy, S., Sheldon, F.H., Steadman, D.W., Witt, C.C. & Braun, E.L. 2013. Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals. Biology 2(1): 419–444. DOI: 10.3390/biology2010419 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2014

• Jarvis, E.D., Mirarab, S, Aberer, A.J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S.Y.W., Faircloth, B.C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J.T., Suh, A., Weber, C.C., da Fonseca, R.R., Li, J., Zhang, F., Li, H., Zhou, L., Narula, N., Liu, L., Ganapathy, G., Boussau, B., Bayzid, S., Zavidovych, V., Subramanian, S., Gabaldón, T., Capella-Gutiérrez, S., Huerta-Cepas, J., Rekepalli, B., Munch, K., Schierup, M., Lindow, B., Warren, W.C., Ray, D., Green, R.E., Bruford, M.W., Zhan, X., Dixon, A., Li, S., Li, N., Huang, Y., Derryberry, E.P., Bertelsen, M.F., Sheldon, F.H., Brumfield, R.T., Mello, C.V., Lovell, P.V., Wirthlin, M., Schneider, M.P.C., Prosdocimi, F., Samaniego, J.A., Vargas Velazquez, A.M., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Campos, P.F., Petersen, B., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Pas, A., Bailey, T., Scofield, P., Bunce, M., Lambert, D.M., Zhou, Q., Perelman, P., Driskell, A.C., Shapiro, B., Xiong, Z., Zeng, Y., Liu, S., Li, Z., Liu, B., Wu, K., Xiao, J., Yinqi, X., Zheng, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Smeds, L., Rheindt, F.E., Braun, M., Fjeldså, J., Orlando, L., Barker, F.K., Jønsson, K.A., Johnson, W., Koepfli, K.-P., O’Brien, S.J., Haussler, D., Ryder, O.A., Rahbek, C., Willerslev, E., Graves, G.R., Glenn, T.C., McCormack, J., Burt, D., Ellegren, H., Alström, P., Edwards, S.V., Stamatakis, A., Mindell, D.P., Cracraft, J., Braun, E.L., Warnow, T., Jun, W., Gilbert, M.T.P. & Zhang, G. 2014. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346 (6215): 1320–1331. DOI: 10.1126/science.1253451 ResearchGate. Supplementary materials: PDF Reference page. 

2016

• Persons, N.W., Hosner, P.A., Meiklejohn, K.A., Braun, E.L. & Kimball, R.T. 2016. Sorting out relationships among the grouse and ptarmigan using intron, mitochondrial, and ultra-conserved element sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 123–132. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.003 Reference page. 

2017

• Reddy, S., Kimball, R.T., Pandey, A., Hosner, P.A., Braun, M.J., Hackett, S.J., Han, K.-L., Harshman, J., Huddleston, C.J., Kingston, S., Marks, B.D., Miglia, K.J., Moore, W.S., Sheldon, F.H., Witt, C.C., Yuri, T. & Braun, E.L. 2017. Why Do Phylogenomic Data Sets Yield Conflicting Trees? Data Type Influences the Avian Tree of Life more than Taxon Sampling. Systematic Biology 66(4): 857–879. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syx041 Reference page. 
• Hosner, P.A., Tobias, J.A., Braun, E.L. & Kimball, R.T. 2017. How do seemingly non-vagile clades accomplish trans-marine dispersal? Trait and dispersal evolution in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1854): 20170210 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0210 Reference page. 

2018

• Chen, D., Braun, E.L., Forthman, M., Kimball, R.T. & Zhang, Z-W. 2018. A simple strategy for recovering ultraconserved elements, exons, and introns from low coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens: Placement of the partridge genus Tropicoperdix within the Galliformes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 304–314 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.005 Reference page. 

2019

• Houde, P., Braun, E.L., Narula, N., Minjares, U. & Mirarab, S. 2019. Phylogenetic Signal of Indels and the Neoavian Radiation. Diversity 11(7): 108. DOI: 10.3390/d11070108 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Oliveros, C.H., Field, D.J., Ksepka, D.T., Barker, F.K., Aleixo, A., Andersen, M.J., Alström, P., Benz, B.W., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Bravo, G.A., Brumfield, R.T., Chesser, R.T., Claramunt, S., Cracraft, J., Cuervo, A.M., Derryberry, E.P., Glenn, T.C., Harvey, M.G., Hosner, P.A., Joseph, L., Kimball, R.T., Mack, A.L., Miskelly, C.M., Peterson A.T., Robbins, M.B., Sheldon, F.H., Silveira, L.F., Smith, B.T., White, N.D., Moyle, R.G. & Faircloth, B.C. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116(16): 7916–7925 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813206116 PDF. Reference page. 

2021

• Braun, E.L. & Kimball, R.T. 2021. Data Types and the Phylogeny of Neoaves. Birds 2(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.3390/birds2010001 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Kimball, R.T., Hosner, P.A. & Braun, E.L. 2021. A phylogenomic supermatrix of Galliformes (Landfowl) reveals biased branch lengths. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158: 107091. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107091 Reference page. 
• Leite, R.N., Kimball, R.T., Braun, E.L., Derryberry, E.P., Hosner, P.A., Derryberry, G.E., Anciães, M., McKay, J.S., Aleixo, A., Ribas, C.C., Brumfield, R.T. & Cracraft, J. 2021. Phylogenomics of manakins (Aves: Pipridae) using alternative locus filtering strategies based on informativeness. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 155: 107013. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107013 Reference page. 

2022

• Zhao, M., Kurtis, S.M., White, N.D., Moncrieff, A.E., Leite, R.N., Brumfield, R.T., Braun, E.L. & Kimball, R.T. 2022. Exploring Conflicts in Whole Genome Phylogenetics: A Case Study Within Manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Systematic Biology 72(1): 161–178 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac062 Reference page.