Investigación - Personal

Borja Mila

Investigador contratado
Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2
Madrid 28006

+34 914111328 x1285

bmila @ mncn.csic.es

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests / Lineas de investigacion

^{I am interested in the evolutionary process of species formation and population divergence in vertebrates. I use molecular genetic markers (mtDNA sequence, AFLP, microsatellites) and phenotypic data (morphology, plumage, song, etc.) to explore geographic variation across various spatial scales to reveal patterns of gene flow between populations and infer the historical and selective factors driving population divergence and speciation. I am particularly interested in the relative roles of neutral factors (genetic drift) and selection (natural and sexual selection) in driving speciation. Other areas of interest include biogeography, ecomorphology, bioacoustics, systematics and conservation.}

^{Some of my current projects include:}

^{-- Population divergence, speciation mechanisms and species limits in Amazonian rainforest birds. Collaborators: Alan Baker, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, and CNRS-Guyane, France.}

^{-- Diversification mechanisms of the Mascarene gray white-eye (Zosterops borbonicus) on the islands of Reunion and Mauritius. Collaborators: Christophe Thebaud and Philipp Heeb, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.}

^{-- Genetic structure and patterns of dispersal in the Pyrenean newt (Calotriton asper). Collaborators: Jean Clobert, CNRS, France.}

^{-- Phylogeography of the lizard Lacerta vivipara in Europe, and patterns of introgression across an oviparous/viviparous contact zone. Collaborators: Patrick Fitze, MNCN-CSIC, Spain.}

^{-- Phylogeography, ecomorphology and evolution of migration in North American birds with migratory and sedentary populations. Collaborators: Robert Wayne and Tom Smith, UCLA, USA.}

^{-- Genetic structure, genetic diversity and species limits of the birds of Mexico and Central America. Collaborators: Adolfo Navarro, UNAM, Mexico.}

^{-- Phylogeography of the naked goby (Gobiosoma bosc), a fish found along the Atlantic coast of North America. Collaborators: Rafael Zardoya, MNCN-CSIC, Spain.}

Selected publications / Publicaciones principales

^{Bonneaud, C., I. Sepil, B. Mila, W. Buermann, J. P. Pollinger, R. N. M. Sehgal, G. ValkiÅ«nas, T. A. Iezhova, S. Saatchi and T. B. Smith. 2009. The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology, In press.}

^{Mila, B., R. K. Wayne, P. S. Fitze and T. B. Smith. 2009. Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogeographic structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus, a Neotropical rainforest bird. Molecular Ecology, In press.}

^{Mila, B., R. K. Wayne and T. B. Smith. 2008. Ecomorphology of migratory and sedentary populations of the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata). Condor 110(2):335-344.}

^{Buermann, W., S. Saatchi, T. B. Smith, B. R. Zutta, J. A. Chaves, B. Mila and C. H. Graham. 2008. Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Journal of Biogeography 35(7):1160-1176.}

^{Smith, T.B., B. Mila, G. F. Grether, H. Slabbekoorn, I. Sepil, W. Buermann, S. Saatchi and J. P. Pollinger. 2008. Evolutionary consequences of human disturbance in a rainforest bird species from Central Africa. Molecular Ecology 17:58-71.}

^{Brown, D. M., R. A. Brenneman, K. P. Koepfli, J. P. Pollinger, B. Mila, N. J. Georgiadis, E. E. Louis Jr., G. F. Grether, D. K. Jacobs and R. K. Wayne. 2007. Extensive genetic structure in the giraffe. BMC Biology 5:57.}

^{Mila, B., J. E. McCormack, G. Castaeda, R. K. Wayne and T. B. Smith. 2007. Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genus Junco. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:2653-2660.}

^{Mila, B., T. B. Smith and R. K. Wayne. 2007. Speciation and rapid phenotypic differentiation in the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata) complex. Molecular Ecology 16:159-173.}

^{Mila, B., T. B. Smith, R. K. Wayne. 2006. Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird. Evolution 60(11):2403-2409.}

^{Mila, B. and C. Bardeleben. 2005. Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the wedge-billed woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:844-845.}

^{Hobson, K.A., L. I. Wassenaar, B. Mila, I. Lovette, C. Dingle, T. B. Smith. 2003. Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community. Oecologia 136(2):302-308.}

^{Outlaw, D.C., G. Voelker, B. Mila, D. J. Girman. 2003. Evolution of long-distance migration and historical biogeography of Catharus thrushes: a molecular phylogenetic aproach. Auk 120(2):299-310.}

^{Kimura, M., S. M. Clegg, I. J. Lovette, K. R. Holder, D. J. Girman, B. Mila, P. Wade, T. B. Smith. 2002. Phylogeographical approaches to assessing demographic connectivity between breeding and overwintering regions in a Nearctic-Neotropical warbler (Wilsonia pusilla). Molecular Ecology 11:1605-1616.}

^{Mila, B., D.J. Girman, M. Kimura, T.B. Smith. 2000. Genetic evidence for the effect of a post-glacial population expansion on the phylogeography of a North American songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 267:1033-1040.}