Brian Moore, Ph.D.

Brain Moore

Position Title
Associate Professor

  • Evolution & Ecology
5330 Storer Hall
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616
Bio

Specialties / Focus

  • Systematics and Comparative Biology

Selected Publications

  • Moore, B.R., S.A. Smith, R.H. Ree, and M.J. Donoghue. 2008. Incorporating fossil data in biogeographic inference: A likelihood approach. Evolution (in press).
  • Moore, B.R. 2008. Inferring patterns of diversification. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw Hill.
  • Moore, B.R., and M.J. Donoghue. 2007. Correlates of diversification in the plant clade Dipsacales: Geographic movement and evolutionary innovation. The American Naturalist 170:S28-S55.
  • Moore, B.R., S.A. Smith, and M.J. Donoghue. 2006. Increasing data transparency and estimating phylogenetic uncertainty in supertrees: Approaches using nonparametric bootstrapping. Systematic Biology 55:662-676.
  • Chan, K.M.A., and B.R. Moore. 2005. SymmeTREE: Whole-tree analysis of differential diversification rates. Bioinformatics 21:1709-1710.
  • Ree, R.H, B.R. Moore, and M.J. Donoghue. 2005. A likelihood framework for inferring the evolution of geographic range on phylogenetic trees. Evolution 59:2299-2311.