Assistant Professor of Biology
Elsie Shogren, Ph.D., Department of Biology Assistant Professor
Education
B.S. Cornell University
Ph.D. Kansas State University
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Research Interests
My research centers around understanding how environmental, behavioral, and genetic variation influences evolution and speciation in birds. I am especially interested in drivers of divergence and consequences of hybridization in closely related taxa. Using field observations and experiments in combination with genomic analyses, my research group will test hypotheses at multiple biological levels to determine the factors that define species boundaries and influence evolutionary trajectories.
Selected Publications
Shogren, E. H., J. M. Sardell, C. A. Muirhead, E. Martí, E. A. Cooper, R. G. Moyle, D. C. Presgraves, and J. A. C. Uy. 2024. Recent secondary contact, genome-wide admixture, and asymmetric introgression of neo-sex chromosomes between two Pacific island bird species. PLOS Genetics 20:e1011360.
Shogren, E. H., M. Anciães, J. Barske, C. Cestari, E. H. DuVal, M. G. Gaiotti, E. I. Johnson, R. T. Kimball, M. A. Marini, T. B. Ryder, M. N. Scholer, J. Ungvári, S. A. White, and W. A. Boyle. 2022. Dancing drives the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in manakins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20212540.
Shogren, E. H., M. A. Jones, and W. A. Boyle. 2021. Dancing in the Rain: how do abiotic conditions influence sexually selected behaviors in the White-Ruffed Manakin? Integrative and Comparative Biology:1–14.
Shogren, E. H., and W. A. Boyle. 2021. Spread the word: male manakins advertise the presence of display sites with neighboring competitors. Animal Behaviour 177:147–158.
Boyle, W. A., E. H. Shogren, and J. D. Brawn. 2020. Hygric niches for tropical endotherms. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35.
Boyle, W. A., and E. H. Shogren. 2019. Sex and deception: a rare case of cheating in a lekking tropical bird. Journal of Ethology 37:151–155.
Shogren, E. H., M. A. Jones, B. K. Sandercock, and W. A. Boyle. 2019. Apparent survival of tropical birds in a wet, premontane forest in Costa Rica. Journal of Field Ornithology 90:117–127.