Scientific Publications — Julia Zichello, Ph.D.

Starling Ecology & Evolution:

Zichello, Julia M., Shelagh T. DeLiberto, Paul Holmes, Agnieszka A. Pierwola, and Scott J. Werner. “Recent beak evolution in North American starlings after invasion.” Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 140.

Stuart, Katarina C., Natalie R. Hofmeister, Julia M. Zichello, and Lee A. Rollins. “Global invasion history and native decline of the common starling: insights through genetics.” Biological Invasions 25, no. 5 (2023): 1291-1316.

Bodt, Louise Hart, Lee Ann Rollins, and Julia M. Zichello. “Contrasting mitochondrial diversity of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across three invasive continental distributions.” Ecology and Evolution 10, no. 18 (2020): 10186-10195.

Human & Primate Evolution:

Zichello, Julia M., Karen L. Baab, Kieran P. McNulty, Christopher J. Raxworthy, and Michael E. Steiper. “Hominoid intraspecific cranial variation mirrors neutral genetic diversity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 45 (2018): 11501-11506.

Zichello, Julia M. “Look in the trees: Hylobatids as evolutionary models for extinct hominins.” Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 27, no. 4 (2018): 142-146.

Kheng, Valentine, Julia M. Zichello, Daniel N. Lumbantobing, Shobi ZS Lawalata, Noviar Andayani, and Don J. Melnick. “Phylogeography, population structure, and conservation of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch).” International Journal of Primatology 39, no. 1 (2018): 5-26.

Steiper, Michael E., Fiona Walsh, and Julia M. Zichello. “The SLC4A1 gene is under differential selective pressure in primates infected by Plasmodium falciparum and related parasites.” Infection, Genetics and Evolution 12, no. 5 (2012): 1037-1045.

Steiper, Michael E., Sonia J. Parikh, and Julia M. Zichello. “Phylogenetic analysis of the promoter region of the CD40L gene in primates and other mammals.” Infection, Genetics and Evolution 8, no. 4 (2008): 406-413.