Brian Moore, Ph.D.

Brain Moore

Associate Professor

  • Evolution & Ecology
He/Him/His
5330 Storer Hall
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616

Specialties and Focus

  • Systematics and Comparative Biology

Selected Works

  • 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.
Publications
  • Model misspecification misleads inference of the spatial dynamics of disease outbreaks
    Journal Article | Gao, J., May, M., Rannala, B., Moore, B. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, e2213913120. 10.1073/pnas.2213913120
  • PrioriTree: a utility for improving phylodynamic analyses in BEAST
    Journal Article | Gao, J., May, M., Rannala, B., Moore, B. Bioinformatics, 39, btac849. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac849
  • New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread
    Journal Article | Gao, J., May, M., Rannala, B., Moore, B. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39, msac159. 10.1093/molbev/msac159
  • A Bayesian Approach for Inferring the Impact of a Discrete Character on Rates of Continuous-Character Evolution in the Presence of Background-Rate Variation
    Journal Article | May, M., Moore, B. Systematic Biology, 69, 530-544. 10.1093/sysbio/syz069
  • A hierarchical Bayesian mixture model for inferring the expression state of genes in transcriptomes
    Journal Article | Thompson, A., May, M., Moore, B., Kopp, A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 19339-19346. 10.1073/pnas.1919748117
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