Faculty profile
Daniel T Baldassarre
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office hours
M/W 10:15 to 11:15
Research
Combining field studies of behavior with genomic analyses to understand large-scale patterns of avian diversity.
Specialty areas:
- ornithology
- behavioral ecology
- speciation
Publications
Devries, M. S., Anderson, R. C., Baldassarre, D. T., Jawor, J. M., and Slevin, M. C. 2022. Geographic variation in morphology of Northern Cardinals: possible application of Bergmann’s rule? Journal of Field Ornithology: 93: 9.
Rowe, M., van Oort, A., Brouwer, L., Lifjeld, J. T., Webster, M. S., Welklin J. F., and Baldassarre, D. T. 2022. Sperm numbers as a paternity guard in a wild bird. Cells 11: 231.
Tobias, J. A., ... Baldassarre, D. T. et al. (115 authors) 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581-597.
Boersma, J., Barron, D. G., Baldassarre, D. T., Webster, M. S., and Schwabl, H. 2021. Wildfire affects expression of male sexual plumage in a tropical songbird. Journal of Avian Biology 52: e02757.
Baldassarre, D.T., Campagna, L., Thomassen, H. A., Atwell, J. W., Chu, M., Crampton, L.H., Fleischer, R. C., and Riehl, C. 2019. GPS tracking and population genomics suggest itinerant breeding across drastically different habitats in the Phainopepla. The Auk 136: ukz058.
Song, S. J., Sanders, J. G., Baldassarre, D.T., Chaves, J. A., Johnson, N. S., Piaggio, A. J., Stuckey, M. J., Nováková, E., Metcalf, J. L., Chomel. B. B., Aguilar-Setién, A., Knight, R., and McKenzie, V. J. 2019. Is there convergence of gut microbes in blood-feeding vertebrates? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374.
Enbody, E. D., Boersma, J., Jones, J. A., Chatfield, M. W. H., Ketaloya, S., Nason, D., Baldassarre, D.T., Hazlehurst, J., Gowen, O., Schwabl, H., and Karubian, J. 2019. Social organisation and breeding biology of the White-shouldered Fairywren (Malurus alboscapulatus). Emu 119: 274-285.
Michel, A. J., Ward, L. M., Goffredi, S. K., Dawson, K. S., Baldassarre, D.T., Brenner, A., Gotanda, K. M., McCormack, J. E., Mullin, S., O’Neill, A., Tender, G., Uy, J. A. C., Yu, K., Orphan, V. J., and Chaves, J. A. 2018. The gut of the finch: uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos Vampire Finch. Microbiome 6: 167.
Hauber, M. E., Dainson, M., Baldassarre, D. T., Hossain, M., Holford, M., and Riehl, C. 2018. The perceptual and chemical basis of egg discrimination in communally nesting Greater Anis (Crotophaga major). Journal of Avian Biology, 49(8).
Brouwer, L., van de Pol, M., Hidalgo Aranzamendi, N., Bain, G., Baldassarre, D. T., Brooker, L. C., Brooker, M. G., Colombelli-Négrel, D., Enbody, E., Gielow, K., Hall, M. L., Johnson, A. E., Karubian, J., Kingma, S. J., Kleindorfer, S., Louter, M., Mulder, R. A., Peters, A., Pruett-Jones, S., Tarvin, K. A., Thrasher, D. J., Varian-Ramos, C. W., Webster, M. S., and Cockburn, A. 2017. Multiple hypotheses explain variation in extra-pair paternity at different levels in a single bird family. Molecular Ecology 26: 6717-6729.
Potticary, A. L., Dowling, J. L., Barron, D. G., Baldassarre, D. T., and Webster, M. S. 2016. Subtle benefits of cooperation to breeding males of the Red-backed Fairywren. The Auk 133: 286-297.
Toews, D. P. L, Campagna, L., Taylor, S. A., Balakrishnan, C. N., Baldassarre, D. T., Deane-Coe, P. E., Harvey, M. G., Hooper, D. M., Irwin, D. E., Judy, C. D., Mason, N. A., McCormack, J. E., McCracken, K. G., Oliveros, C. H., Safran, R. J., Scordato, E. S. C., Stryjewski, K. F., Tigano, A., Uy, J. A. C., and Winger, B. 2016. Genomic approaches to understanding the early stages of population divergence and speciation in birds. The Auk 133: 13-30.
Greig, E. I., Baldassarre, D. T., and Webster, M. S. 2015. Differential rates of phenotypic introgression are associated with male behavioral responses to multiple signals. Evolution. 69: 2602-2612.
Baldassarre, D. T. and Webster, M. S. 2013. Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives asymmetrical introgression of a sexual trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280.