Publications


Please link to Julia Day’s Research Gate to access all publications if not open access.

Bold indicates current and former lab members


Groh, S.S, Upchurch, P, Barrett, P, Day JJ. How to date a crocodile – estimation of neosuchian divergence dates and a comparison of the performance of four time-scaling methods. Palaeontology. (minor revisions).


Nyingi WD, Agnèse JF, Ford AGP, Day JJ, Ndiwa T, Turner, GF, Getahun A. (2021) Identifying and conserving Tilapiine cichlid species in the 21st Century. In: Abate ME & Noakes DLG (eds) The Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution of Cichlid Fishes. Fish and Fisheries Series, vol40. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2080-7_9



Hallam J, Clare EL, Jones JI, Day JJ (2021) Biodiversity assessment across a dynamic riverine system: A comparison of eDNA metabarcoding versus traditional fish surveying methods. Environmental DNA. Environmental DNA. doi/10.1002/edn3.241


Deepak V, Maddock ST, Williams R, Nagy, Z, Conradie W., Rocha S, Harris J, Perera A, Gvoždík V, Doherty-Bone TM, Menegon M, Labisko J, Morel C, Cooper N, Day JJ, Gower DJ (2021). Molecular phylogenetics of sub-Saharan African natricine snakes, and the biogeographic origins of the Seychelles endemic Lycognathophis seychellensis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161: 107152. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107152


Sutton G,,White, LJ, Ford AGP, Shechonge A, Day JJ, Dasmahapatra, KK, Powell, ME (2020). Exploring the expression of cardiac regulators in a vertebrate adapted to an extreme environment: the cichlid fish Oreochromis (Alcolapia) alcalica. Journal of Developmental Biology. 8(4), 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/jdb8040022


White, LJ, Sutton G, Shechonge A, Day JJ, Dasmahapatra, KK, Powell, ME. (2020) Adaptation of  the carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (CPS) enzyme in an extremophile fish. Royal Society Open Science 7: 201200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201200


Maddock ST, Nussbaum RA, Day JJ, Latta L, Miller M, Fisk D, Wilkinson M, Sara Rocha, Gower DJ, Pfrender ME. (2020) The roles of vicariance and isolation by distance in shaping biotic diversification across an ancient archipelago: evidence from a Seychelles caecilian amphibian. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20, 110. doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01673-w


Streicher, SW, Day JJ (2020) The toad’s warts: Discordance creates bumpy expectations of mitochondrial-nuclear evolution between species. News and Views Perspectives, Molecular Ecology, 29(18):3400-3402. doi.org/10.1111/mec.15568


Day JJ, Martins FC, Tobias JA, Murrell DJ (2020) Contrasting trajectories of morphological diversification on continents and islands in the Afrotropical white-eye radiation. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13917


Martins FC, Cox SC, Irestedt M, Prŷs-Jones, RP, Day JJ (2020) A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Afrotropical white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae) highlights prior underestimation of mainland diversity and complex colonization history, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 149 doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106843


Doble CJ, Hipperson H, Salzburger W, Horsburgh G, Mwita C, Murrell DJ, Day JJ (2020) Testing the performance of eDNA metabarcoding for surveying highly diverse tropical fish communities: A case study from Lake Tanganyika. Environmental DNA 2,1:24-41 DOI:10.1002/edn3.43


Groh SS, Upchurch P, Barrett, Day JJ. (2020) The phylogenetic relationships of neosuchian crocodiles and their implications for the convergent evolution of the longirostrine condition. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 188,2: 473-506. DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz117


Ratnarathorn N, Harnyuttanakorn P, Chanhome L, Evans SE Day JJ (2019) Geographic differentiation and cryptic diversity in the monocled cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Thailand. Zoologica Scripta, 48,6: 711-726 DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12378


Ford AGP, Bullen TR, Pang L, Genner MJ, Bills R, Flouri T, Ngatunga BP, Rüber L, Schliewen UK, Seehausen O, Shechonge A, Stiassny MLJ, Turner GF, Day JJ (2019) Molecular phylogeny of Oreochromis (Cichlidae: Oreochromini) reveals mito-nuclear discordance and multiple colonisation of adverse aquatic environments. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 136: 215-226. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.04.008


Britton AW, Murrell DJ, McGill RAR, Doble CJ, Ramage CI, Day JJ (2019) The effects of land use disturbance varies with trophic position in littoral cichlid fish communities from Lake Tanganyika. Freshwater Biology 64: 1114-1130. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13287.


Shechonge A, Ngatunga BP, Bradbeer SJ, Day JJ, Freer JJ, Ford AGP, Kihedu J, Richmond T, Mzighani S, Smith AM, Sweke EA, Tamatamah R, Tyers AM, Turner GF, Genner MJ (2019) Widespread colonization of Tanzanian catchments by introduced Oreochromis tilapia fishes: the legacy from decades of deliberate introduction. Hydrobiologia 832, 235-253 doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3597-9


Peart CR, Dasmahapatra KK, Day JJ (2018) Contrasting geographic structure in evolutionary divergent Lake Tanganyika catfishes. Evolution and Ecology 8,5: 2688-2697 doi:10.1002/ece3.3860


Britton A, Day JJ, Ngatunga BP, Kemp K, Carbone C, Murrell DJ. (2017) Terrestrial-focused protected areas are effective for conservation of freshwater fish diversity in Lake Tanganyika. Biological Conservation. 212 (A), 120-129. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.06.001


Day, JJ, Fages A, Brown KJ, Vreven EJ, Stiassny MLJ, Bills R, Friel JP, Rüber L (2017) Multiple independent colonizations into the Congo Basin during the continental radiation of African Mastacembelus spiny eels. Journal of Biogeography. 44(10): 2308-2318. DOI:10.1111/jbi.13037


Ford AGP, Rüber L, Newton J, Dasmahapatra KK, Balarin JD, Bruun K, Day JJ (2016) Niche divergence facilitated by fine-scale ecological partitioning in a recent cichlid fish adaptive radiation. Evolution, 70(12): 2718-2735.  DOI: 10.1111/evo. 13072.


Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Mauro DS, Waeschenbach A, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (2016) Next-generation mitogenomes: A comparison of approaches applied to caecilian amphibian phylogeny. PLoS ONE. 11(6) e0156757. Open access.


Morris J, Ford AGP, Ali JR, Peart CP, Bills R, Day JJ (2016) High levels of genetic structure  and striking phenotypic variability in a sexually dimorphic suckermouth catfish from the African Highveld. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 117(3): 528-546. Open Access.


De-Silva DL, Elias M, Willmott K, Mallet J, Day JJ (2016) Diversification of clearwing butterflies with the rise of the Andes. Journal of Biogeography, 43(1): 44-58. Open Access.


Habel JC, Borghesio L, Newmark WD, Day JJ, Lens L, Huesmann M, Ulrich W (2015) Evolution  along the Great Rift Valley: phenotypic and genetic differentation of East African White-eyes (Aves, Zosteropidae). Ecology and Evolution, 5(21) 4849-4862. Open Access.


Ford AGP, Dasmahapatra KK, Rüber L, Gharbi K, Cezard T, Day JJ (2015) High levels of interspecific gene flow in endemic cichlid fish adaptive radiation from an extreme lake environment Molecular Ecology, 24(13): 3421-3440. Open Access.


Cox SC, Prys-Jones RP, Habel JC, Amakobe B, Day JJ (2014) Niche divergence promotes rapid diversification of East African sky island white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae). Molecular Ecology, 23(16): 4103-4118. Open access.


Maddock ST, Lewis CJ, Wilkinson M, Day JJ, Morel C, Kouete MT, Gower DJ (2014) Non-lethal DNA sampling for caecilian amphibians. Journal of Herpetology, 24: 255-260.


Maddock ST, Day JJ, Nussbaum RA, Wilkinson M, Gower DJ (2014) Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae) Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 75:194-201. Open Access.


Peart CR, Bills R, Wilkinson M, Day JJ (2014) Nocturnal claroteine catfish reveal dual colonisation but a single radiation in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 71: 119-128. Open Access.


Lewis CJ, Maddock ST, Day JJ, Nussbaum RA, Morel C, Wilkinson M, Foster PG, Gower DJ (2014) Development of anonymous nuclear markers from Illumina paired-end data in Seychelles caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). Conservation Genetic Resources, 6: 289-291.


Day JJ, Peart CR, Brown KJ, Bills R, Friel, J, Moritz T (2013) Continental diversification of an African catfish radiation (Mochokidae: Synodontis). Systematic Biology, 62(3): 351-365. doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt001


Brown KJ, Britz, R. Bills R, Rüber L, Day JJ (2011) Pectoral fin loss in the Mastacembelidae: a new species from Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Zoology, 284(4): 286-293.


Brown KJ, Rüber L, Bills R, Day JJ (2010) Mastacemblid eels support Lake Tanganyika as an evolutionary hotspot of diversification. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:188.


De-Silva DL, Day JJ, Elias M, Willmott K, Whinnett A & Mallet J (2010) Molecular phylogenetics of the neotropical butterfly subtribe Oleriina (Nymphalidae: Danainae: Ithomiini) Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 55: 1032-1041.


Day JJ, Bills R, Friel JP (2009) Lacustrine radiations in African Synodontis catfish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22 (4) 805-817.


Day JJ, Cotton JA & Barraclough TG (2008) Tempo and mode of diversification of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes. PLoS ONE, 3(3) e1730.


Loader SP, Pisani D, Cotton JA, Gower DJ, Day JJ, Wilkinson M (2007) Relative timescales reveal multiple origins of parallel distjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians. Biology Letters, 3(5) 505-508.


Day JJ, Santini S, Garcia-Moreno J (2007) Phylogenetic relationships of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini: The story from mitochondrial DNA, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 45, 629-642.


Day JJ & Wilkinson M (2006) On the origin of the Synodontis catfish flock from Lake Tanganyika. Biology Letters, 2 (4), 548-552.


Stager JC, Day JJ, Santini S (2004) Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa.” Science, 304: 963.


Day JJ & Barrett P (2004) Material of Megalosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England: one taxon or two? Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 115: 359-366.


Day JJ, Norman DB, Gale AS, Powell HP, Upchurch P (2004) A new Middle Jurassic dinosaur trackways from Oxfordshire, UK. Palaeontology, 47 (2): 319-348.


Day JJ (2003) Evolutionary relationships of the Sparidae (Teleostei: Percoidei), integrating fossil and Recent data. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Science, 93: 333-353.


Day JJ (2002) Phylogenetic relationships of the Sparidae (Teleostei: Percoidei) and implications for convergent trophic evolution, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 76 (2): 269-302.


Day JJ, Upchurch P, Norman DB, Gale AS, Powell HP (2002) Sauropod trackways, evolution and behavior, Science, 296: 1659.


Day JJ, Norman DB, Upchurch P, Powell, HP (2002) Dinosaur locomotion from a new trackway. Nature, 415: 494-495.


Day JJ (1999) A new species of labrid fish (Teleostei: Perciformes) from the Lower Miocene of Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Tertiary Research, 19: 85-89.