Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Recent papers from Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

1. Reconstructing Cenozoic grasslands in North America and western Eurasia: evidence for cold‐season grasses from 3D phytolith morphologyNew Phytologist · 2026
2. Draft genome assemblies of 58 species of Ribes L. (Grossulariaceae, Saxifragales)Biodiversity Genomes · 2026
3. A Taxonomist’s Guide to the Genealogical Divergence IndexSystematic Biology · 2026
4. The taste for the beautiful: influence of diet on the evolution of plumage in tanagersEvolution · 2026
5. The evolutionary origins of the parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis tesselatusJournal of Heredity · 2026
6. Late Miocene capybara in the Atacama Desert reveals a wetter climate and a transcontinental dispersal pathwayScientific Reports · 2026
7. First record of piscivory in ghost pipefishes (Teleostei, Solenostomidae) revealed by micro‐computed tomographyJournal of Fish Biology · 2026
8. A modern phytolith reference collection for selected native Australian plants: Implications for vegetation reconstructionAnnals of Botany · 2026
9. Postglacial ecosystem development of a hydrothermal landscape in Yellowstone National ParkProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
10. Gene Flow Creates Fuzzy Species Boundaries in Fence LizardsSystematic Biology · 2026
11. A comprehensive chronostratigraphic framework for Oligocene and Miocene fossil plant sites of the Pacific Northwest (USA) from U-Pb zircon geochronology and Bayesian age modelingGeosphere · 2026
12. The origin and development of the Miocene northwest African savannaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
13. Mutualism and Antagonism in a Post‐Extinction Hawaiian Bird–Lobelioid Pollination SystemEcology and Evolution · 2026
14. Bird extinctions shift bill–flower trait matching in Hawaiian lobelioidsFunctional Ecology · 2026
15. Chromosome Evolution Model Reveals Hidden Variation in Fern Diversification RatesSystematic Biology · 2026
16. The pre‐disruption hydrogen budgets of the tafassite and brachinite parent bodiesMeteoritics and Planetary Science · 2026
17. Balancing mechanics and metabolism: Elevational variation in the microanatomy of hummingbird flight muscleThe Anatomical Record · 2026
18. Mid-Oligocene age of the Refugian Stage in western Washington: Evidence for diachronous provincial biozones along the northeast Pacific marginGeology · 2026
19. A comprehensive reference genome assembly dataset of birds inhabiting Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe IslandsGigaScience · 2026
20. Scaling and ecomorphology of lagomorph body shape and appendicular skeletonThe Anatomical Record · 2026