Andreanna J. Welch

Andreanna J. Welch

Assistant Professor (Research)

School of Biological & Biomedical SciencesDurham University

South Road

Durham

DH1 3LE

UK

a.j.welch<at>durham.ac.uk

andreanna05<at>gmail.com

Professional Experience

Bond Postdoctoral Fellow 2015

Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics

Migratory Bird Center

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

National Zoological Park

Postdoctoral Research Associate 2013 - 2015

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University

Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

Postdoctoral Research Associate 2011-2013

Department of Biological Sciences

University at Buffalo

Education

2011 Ph.D. Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; University of Maryland, College Park

2003 B.Sc. Environmental and Forest Biology; State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Publications - Lab members in bold - Also see my Google Scholar Profile

**For peer-reviewed, accepted versions for most recent papers check my Durham Research Online page.

Michael N, Torres R, Welch AJ, Adams J, Bonillas-Monge ME, Felis J, López-Márquez LA, Martínez-Flores A, Wiley AE. Carotenoid ornaments reflect foraging propensity in the brown booby (Sula leucogaster): revisiting the rarity hypothesis using stable isotopes and GPS tracking. Biology Letters. In press.

Chesser TR, Vaseghi H, Bergner LM, Cortes-Rodriguez MN, Welch AJ, and Collins CT. 2018. Molecular systematics of swifts of the genus Chaetura (Aves: Apodiformes: Apodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128:162-171.

Hofman CA , Rick TC, Erlandson JM, Reeder-Myers L, Welch AJ, Buckley M. 2018. Collagen Fingerprinting and the Earliest Marine Mammal Hunting in North America. Scientific Reports 8:10014.

Lucas T, Welch AJ, Zanchetta C, Chesser TR, Manno M, Donnadieu C, Bretagnolle V, Pante E. 2018. Evidence for a duplicated mitochondrial region in Audubon’s

shearwater based on MinION sequencing. Mitochondrial DNA Part A. In press. DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2018.1484116

Gray HWI, Nishida S, Welch AJ, Moura AE, Tanabe S, Kiani M, Cullock R, Möller L, Natoli A, Ponnempalam L, Minton G, Gore M, Collins T, Wilson A,

Baldwin R, Hoelzel AR. 2018. Cryptic lineage differentiation among Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the northwest Indian Ocean.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 122:1-14.

Welch AJ, Collins K, Ratan A, Drautz D, Schuster SC, Lindqvist C. 2016. The quest to resolve recent radiations: Plastid phylogenomics of extinct and endangered Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99:16-33. Abstract. PDF.

Welch AJ, Collins K, Ratan A, Drautz D, Schuster SC, Lindqvist C. 2016. Data characterizing the chloroplast genomes of extinct and endagered Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae) and their close relatives. Data in Brief 7:900-922. Abstract/PDF.

Hailer F, Welch AJ. 2016. Evolutionary history of polar and brown bears. In: eLS. John Whiley & Sons LTd, Chichester, UK.

Moura AE, Kenny JG, Chaudhuri R, Hughes MA, Welch AJ, Reisinger RR, de Bruyn PJN, Dahlheim ME, Hall N, Hoelzel AR. 2014. Population genomics of the killer whale indicates ecotype evolution in sympatry involving both selection and drift. Molecular Ecology 23: 5179 - 5192. Abstract. PDF.

Welch AJ, Bedoya-Reina OC, Carretero-Paulet L, Miller W, Rode KD, Lindqvist C. 2014. Polar bears exhibit genome-wide signatures of bioenergetic adaptation to life in the Arctic environment. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6:433-450. Abstract. PDF.

Welch AJ, Olson SL, Fleischer RC. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships of the extinct St. Helena petrel, Pterodroma rupinarum Olson (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae), based on ancient DNA. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170:494-505. Abstract. PDF.

Wiley AE, Ostrom PH, Welch AJ, Fleischer RC, Gandhi H, Southon JR, Stafford TW Jr., Penniman J, Hu D, Duvall F, James HF. 2013. Millennial-scale records from a wide-ranging predator show evidence of recent human impact to oceanic food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 110:8972-8977. Abstract. PDF.

*See the Editors' Choice article about our work in Science. The work was also highlighted on the National Science Foundation website.

Ibarra-Laclette E, Lyons E, Hernández-Guzmán G, Pérez-Torres CA, Carretero-Paulet L, Chang T-H, Lan T, Welch AJ, Juárez MJA, Simpson J, Fernández-Cortés A, Arteaga-Vázquez M, Gongora-Castillo E, Acevedo-Hernández G, Schuster SC, Himmelbauer H, Minoche AE, Xu SE, Lynch M, Oropeza-Aburto A, Cervantes SA, de Jesús Ortega-Estrada M, Cervantes-Luevano JI, Michael T, Mockler T, Bryant D, Herrera-Estrella A, Albert VA, Herrera-Estrella L. 2013 Architecture and evolution of a minimal plant genome. Nature 498:94-98. Abstract. PDF.

*Here is an article at NBC News about our work.

Miller W, Schuster SC, Welch AJ, Ratan A, Bedoya-Reina OC, Zhao F, Kim HL, Burhans RC, Drautz DI, Wittenkindt NE, Tomsho LP, Ibarra-Laclette E, Herrera-Estrella L, Peacock E, Farley S, Sage GK, Rode K, Obbard M, Montiel R, Bachmann L, Ingólfsson Ó, Aars J, Mailund T, Wiig Ø, Talbot SL, and Lindqvist C. 2012 Polar bear and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109:E2382-E2390. Abstract. PDF.

*This work was covered by the New York Times. Ranked 13th out of the top 25 stories of 2012 by Science News.