Dr. Melisa Olave

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsEvolution, Anthropology
Keywordscoalescent, speciation, species delimitation, incomplete lineage sorting, gene flow

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityBanos Lunlunta

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Axel MeyerFachbereich Biologie, Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2018

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020Kautt, Andreas F and Kratochwil, Claudius F and Nater, Alexander and Machado-Schiaffino, Gonzalo and Olave, Melisa and Henning, Frederico and Torres-Dowdall, Juli{\'a}n and Härer, Andreas and Hulsey, C Darrin and Franchini, Paolo and others: Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. In: Nature, 2020, 1--6
2020Olave, Melisa and Mar{\'\i}n, Andrea Gonz{\'a}lez and Avila, Luciano J and Sites, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Disparate patterns of diversification within Liolaemini lizards. Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Springer, 2020. 765--790
2020Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: How important is it to consider lineage diversification heterogeneity in macroevolutionary studies? Lessons from the lizard family Liolaemidae. In: Journal of Biogeography, 47, 2020, 1286--1297
2020Olave, Melisa and Meyer, Axel: Implementing Large Genomic SNP Datasets in Phylogenetic Network Reconstructions: A Case Study of Particularly Rapid Radiations of Cichlid Fish.. In: Systematic Biology, 2020,
2020Morando, Mariana and Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Leach{\'e}, Adam D: Phylogenomic data resolve higher-level relationships within South American Liolaemus lizards. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2020, 106781
2018Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Detecting hybridization by likelihood calculation of gene tree extra lineages given explicit models. 9, 2018, 121--133
2018Mar{\'\i}n, Andrea Gonz{\'a}lez and Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Evidence of body size and shape stasis driven by selection in Patagonian lizards of the Phymaturus patagonicus clade (Squamata: Liolaemini). 129, 2018, 226--241
2018Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Hybridization could be a common phenomenon within the highly diverse lizard genus Liolaemus. 2018,
2018Darrin Hulsey, C and Zheng, Jimmy and Holzman, Roi: Phylogenomics of a putatively convergent novelty: did hypertrophied lips evolve once or. In: BMC evolutionary biology, 18, 2018, 1
2017Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Hidden diversity within the lizard genus Liolaemus: genetic vs morphological divergence in the L. rothi complex (Squamata: Liolaeminae). 107, 2017, 56--63
2015Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Model-based approach to test hard polytomies in the Eulaemus clade of the most diverse South American lizard genus Liolaemus (Liolaemini, Squamata). 174, 2015, 169--184
2015Morando, Mariana and Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Baker, Eric and Sites Jr, Jack W: Molecular phylogeny of the lizard clade Leiosaurae endemic to Southern South America. 71, 2015, 322--331
2014Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Multilocus phylogeny of the widely distributed South American lizard clade E ulaemus (Liolaemini, Liolaemus). 43, 2014, 323--337
2014Olave, Melisa and Sola, Eduard and Knowles, L Lacey: Upstream analyses create problems with DNA-based species delimitation. 63, 2014, 263--271
2013Avila, Luciano Javier and Olave, Melisa and Perez, Cristian Hernan Fulvio and P{\'e}rez, Daniel Roberto and Morando, Mariana: Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Liolaemus rothi complex and a new species of lizard from Auca Mahuida Volcano (Squamata: Liolaemini). 2013,
2012Fontanella, Frank M and Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano J and Sites, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Molecular dating and diversification of the South American lizard genus Liolaemus (subgenus Eulaemus) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. 164, 2012, 825--835
2011Olave, Melisa and Martinez, Lorena E and Avila, Luciano J and Sites Jr, Jack W and Morando, Mariana: Evidence of hybridization in the Argentinean lizards Liolaemus gracilis and Liolaemus bibronii (Iguania: Liolaemini): An integrative approach based on genes and morphology. 61, 2011, 381--391
2009Kozykariski, Monica and Goldman, Jhonatan and Olave, Melisa and Avila, Luciano: Liolaemus rothi. Canibalism.. 40, 2009, 89