Christopher C. Witt

Christopher C. Witt, U.S. ornithologist

• Museum of Southwestern Biology and Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• McGuire, J.A., Witt, C.C., Altshuler, D.L. & Remsen, Jr., J.V. 2007. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy. Systematic Biology 56(5):837–856. DOI: 10.1080/10635150701656360 Reference page. 

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. 
• McGuire, J.A., Witt, C.C., Remsen, Jr., J.V., Dudley, R. & Altshuler, D.L. 2008. A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds. Journal of Ornithology 150:155–165. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0330-x ResearchGate Reference page. 

2012

• DuBay, S.G. & Witt, C.C. 2012. An improved phylogeny of the Andean tit-tyrants (Aves, Tyrannidae): More characters trump sophisticated analyses. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 64(2):285-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.04.002 Full article (PDF)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

• McGuire, J.A., Witt, C.C., Remsen, Jr., J.V., Corl, A., Rabosky, D.L., Altshuler, D.L. & Dudley, R. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of Hummingbirds. Current Biology 24: 910–916. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 ErratumReference page. 

2016

• Carmi, O., Witt, C.C., Jaramillo, A. & Dumbacher, J.P. 2016. Phylogeography of the Vermilion Flycatcher species complex: Multiple speciation events, shifts in migratory behavior, and an apparent extinction of a Galápagos-endemic bird species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 152–173. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.029 Reference page. 

2023

• Klicka, J., Epperly, K., Smith, B.T., Spellman, G.M., Chaves, J.A., Escalante, P., Witt, C.C., Canales-del-Castillo, R. & Zink, R.M. 2023. Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren. Ornithology 140(3): ukad018 DOI: 10.1093/ornithology/ukad018 Reference page. 

2024

• Williamson, J.L., Gyllenhaal, E.F., Bauerfeind, S.M., Bautista, E., Baumann, M.J., Gadek, C.R., Marra, P.P., Ricote, N., Valqui H., T.H., Bozinovic, F., Singh, N.D. & Witt, C.C. 2024. Extreme elevational migration spurred cryptic speciation in giant hummingbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 121 (21): e2313599121 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313599121 Reference page.