Megan L. Smith

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Indiana University

Genetic diversity and population structure Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Species Distribution and Climate Change Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Publications

Citations

989

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2001

Research summary

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Megan L. Smith studies how populations and species of animals evolve, diversify, and spread across landscapes, using genetic and genomic data. A major focus is developing and testing computational and statistical methods—including machine learning—to reconstruct evolutionary histories (phylogenetics and phylogeography) and to detect processes like species boundaries, gene flow between lineages, and past changes in geographic range. Much of the work involves organisms such as frogs, snails, and other invertebrates in regions like the Pacific Northwest.

Phylogeography and population geneticsSpecies delimitation and diversificationPhylogenetic and phylogenomic methodsMachine learning in molecular ecologyBiodiversity and evolutionary history

Publication activity rose to a peak around 2021-2022 and shows lower counts in the most recent years, though recent years may be incomplete.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.6/year recently

Recent publications

Using Gene Trees with Lineage-Specific Duplicates for Phylogenetic Inference Mitigates the Effects of Long-Branch Attraction
Systematic Biology · 2025
The reasonable effectiveness of domain adaptation for inference of introgression
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
There and Back Again: The Unexpected Journeys of <i>Metridium</i> de Blainville, 1824 between the Old Oceans and throughout the Modern World
Biological Bulletin · 2023
Species limits and diversification of the Dendropsophus rubicundulus subgroup (Anura, Hylidae) in Neotropical savannas
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2023
Comparative Phylogeography of Microsnails from the Pacific Northwest
Northwest Science · 2023
Data from Comparative Phylogeography of Microsnails from the Pacific Northwest
Figshare · 2023
Data from Comparative Phylogeography of Leaf-litter dwelling invertebrates from the Pacific Northwest
Figshare · 2023
Species Delimitation Using Molecular Data
2022
The role of multiple Pleistocene refugia in promoting diversification in the Pacific Northwest
Molecular Ecology · 2022
Assessing model adequacy leads to more robust phylogeographic inference
Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2022
The EGS Collab Project – Stimulations at Two Depths
2022
Genomic evidence of an ancient inland temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest of North America
Molecular Ecology · 2022
Assessing model adequacy for Bayesian Skyline plots using posterior predictive simulation
PLoS ONE · 2022
Characterizing Rock Fractures and Physical Properties for Experiment 2 of the EGS Collab Project, Sanford Underground Research Facility
2022
Signatures of north-eastern expansion and multiple refugia: genomic phylogeography of the Pine Barrens tree frog,<i>Hyla andersonii</i>(Anura: Hylidae)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2021

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bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×9
Figshare×9
Molecular Ecology×7
Systematic Biology×3
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society×3

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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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