Houston Museum of Natural Science

Recent papers from Houston Museum of Natural Science

1. Sixty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American BirdsOrnithology · 2026
2. IL36γ signaling promotes mammalian anti-tick immunityProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
3. Divergence in wing‐whirring, vocalizations and morphology supports species status for the Santa Marta Guan ( Penelope colombiana )Ibis · 2026
4. A bat guano-derived perspective on Holocene anthropogenic fire impacts in the southeastern USAQuaternary Science Reviews · 2026
5. Challenges for reproducibility in species delimitationSystematic Biology · 2026
6. The curious case of a Chilean copepod ( Tigriopus aff. angulatus ) genome assemblyJournal of Heredity · 2026
7. Vagility in an Ephemeral Habitat Specialist Explains Panmixia: A Recent Range Expansion and Retraction Do Not.2026
8. Habitat, morphology, and syntopy shape song evolution in female suboscine birds (Aves, Thamnophilidae)Ornithology · 2026
9. Digest: Speciation involves both barriers and bridges in the tropical AndesEvolution · 2026
10. A wealth of riches: A comprehensive revision of diamond frogs, genus Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae: Cophylinae), with the description of seven new speciesZooKeys · 2026
11. Educational escape games in emotion education: effects on learning achievement, emotion regulation strategies, and achievement emotions among upper elementary studentsFrontiers in Psychology · 2026
12. A comprehensive reference genome assembly dataset of birds inhabiting Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe IslandsGigaScience · 2026
13. Molecular phylogeny of rare arboreal rats from SE Asia, genera Pithecheir and PithecheiropsMammalian Biology · 2026
14. Early development of Neanderthals revealed through virtual microanatomyRoyal Society Open Science · 2026
15. Untargeted metabolomics for chemotaxonomy of blow fly pupae (Diptera: Calliphoridae) supported by DNA barcodingJournal of Medical Entomology · 2026
16. Phylogenetic relationships, hybridization, and genetic structuring in “Cassidix” gracklesOrnithology · 2026
17. Genomic and physiological changes in a sexually selected and frugivorous bird radiationCurrent Biology · 2026
18. Contrasting Genomic Outcomes of Secondary Contact in Bornean Bird Lineages: Insights From Barrier Loci, Demographic History and Genomic FeaturesMolecular Ecology · 2026
19. The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome researchAnimal Microbiome · 2026
20. Draft assemblies for 177 bird species enhance genus-level coverageGigaScience · 2026