Recent publications
Addressing urban food insecurity through data-driven and community-centric smart city frameworks
IEEE Access (2025)
Zohrabi N, Jones JC, Keegan B, Adhikari S, Verrelli BC, Abdelwahed S
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology
Nature Cities (2025)
Carlen EJ, Caizergues AE, Jagiello Z, Kuzyo H, Munshi-South J, Alberti M, Angeoletto F, Bonilla-Bedoya S, Booth W, Charmantier A, Cocciardi JM, Cook EM, Gotanda KM, Govaert L, Johnson LE, Li D, Malesis AN, Martin E, Marzluff JM, Mazurek M, Miles LS, Phifer-Rixey M, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Savage AM, Snyder R, Stadnicki I, Vergeles Y, Verrelli BC, Villar DA, Wilhelm-Solomon M, Willmott M, Winchell KM, Yates SS, Zhou Y, Garroway CJ, Szulkin M
Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion
Biology Letters (2025)
Miles LS, Verrelli BC, Adams R, Francioli YZ, Card DC, Castoe TA, Balvin O, Booth W
Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology
BMC Biology (2025)
Gould E, Fraser HS, Parker TH, Nakagawa S, Griffith S, Vesk P, Fidler F + Verrelli BC and 296 alphabetical co-authors
Online toolkits for collaborative and inclusive global research in urban evolutionary ecology
Ecology & Evolution (2024)
Savage AM, Willmott MJ, Moreno-Garcia P, Jagiello Z, Li D, Malesis A, Miles LS, Roman-Palacios C, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Verrelli BC, Winchell KM, Alberti M, Bonilla-Bedoya S, Carlen EJ, Falvey C, Johnson L, Martin E, Kuzyo H, Marzluff J, Munshi-South J, Phifer-Rixey M, Stadnicki I, Szulkin M, Zhou Y, Gotanda KM
Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)
Johnson MTJ, Arif I, Marchetti F, Munshi-South J, Ness RW, Szulkin M, Verrelli BC, Yauk CL, Anstett DN, Booth W, Caizergues AE, Carlen EJ, Dant A, González J, González Lagos C, Oman M, Phifer-Rixey M, Rennison DJ, Rosenberg MS, Winchell KM
Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity
Nature Climate Change (2024)
Urban MC, Alberti M, De Meester L, Zhou Y, Verrelli BC, Szulkin M, Schmidt C, Savage AM, Roberts P, Rivkin LR, Palkovacs EP, Munshi-South J, Melesis AN, Harris NC, Gotanda KM, Garroway CJ, Diamond SE, Des Roches S, Charmantier A, Brans KI
Insight into the adaptive role of arachnid genome-wide duplication through chromosome-level genome assembly of the Western black widow spider
Journal of Heredity (2024)
Miles LS, Waterman H, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Rosenberg MS, Krabbenhoft TJ, Verrelli BC
Metabarcoding reveals rangewide variation in aquatic diet of a riparian avian insectivore, the Prothonotary Warbler
Ornithology (2023)
Rogers SL, Verrelli BC, Bukaveckas PA, Ames EM, Youtz J, Boves TJ, Johnson EI, Tonra CM, Bulluck LP
Urban evolutionary ecology brings exaptation back into focus
Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2023)
Winchell KM, Losos JB, Verrelli BC
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2023)
Ahangari M, Bustamante D, Kirkpatrick R, Nguyen T-H, Verrelli BC, Fanous A, Kendler KS, Webb BT, Bacanu SA, Riley BP
Genome-wide parallelism underlies contemporary adaptation in urban lizards
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (2023)
Winchell KM, Campbell-Staton SC, Losos JB, Revell LJ, Verrelli BC, Geneva AJ
Examining the source of increased bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder common risk variation burden in multiplex schizophrenia families
Schizophrenia (2022)
Ahangari M, Kirkpatrick R, Nguyen T-H, Gillespie N, Kendler KS, Bacanu S-A, Webb BT, Verrelli BC, Riley BP
Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research
Ecology & Evolution (2022)
Winchell KM, Aviles-Rodriguez KJ, Carlen EJ, Miles LS, Charmantier A, De León LF, Gotanda KM, Rivkin LR, Szulkin M, Verrelli BC
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2022)
Verrelli BC, Alberti M, Des Roches S, Harris NC, Hendry AP, Johnson MTJ, Savage AM, Charmantier A, Gotanda KM, Govaert L, Miles LS, Rivkin LR, Winchell KM, Brans KI, Correa C, Diamond SE, Fitzhugh B, Grimm NB, Hughes S, Marzluff JM, Munshi-South, J, Rojas C, Santangelo JS, Schell CJ, Schweitzer JA, Szulkin M, Urban MC, Zhou Y, Ziter C
Evaluating the role of common risk variation in the recurrence risk of schizophrenia in multiplex schizophrenia families
Translational Psychiatry (2022)
Ahangari M, Gentry AE, Irish Schizophrenia Genomics Consortium, Nguyen T-H, Kirkpatrick R, Verrelli BC, Bacanu S-A, Kendler KS, Webb BT, Riley BP
Genome-wide analysis of schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis identifies shared genomic loci with mixed direction of effects
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity (2022)
Ahangari M, Everest E, Nguyen T-H, Verrelli BC, Webb BT, Bacanu S-A, Tahir Turanli E, Riley BP
Reducing food access disparities: Promising practices in equity, engagement, and collaboration
Virginia Social Science Journal (2022)
Keegan B, Jones JC, Abdelwahed S, Adhikari S, Gooden B, Zohrabi N, Verrelli BC
Evolutionary genetic signatures of selection on bone-related variation within human and chimpanzee populations
Genes (2022)
Stover DA, Housman G, Stone AC, Rosenberg MS, Verrelli BC
Towards sustainable food security: an interdisciplinary approach
IEEE Fifth International Conference on Smart City Innovations (2021)
Zohrabi N, Linkous L, Eini R, Adhikari S, Keegan B, Jones JC, Gooden B, Verrelli BC, Abdelwahed S
Evolutionary stability, landscape heterogeneity, and human land‐usage shape population genetic connectivity in the Cape Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot
Evolutionary Applications (2021)
Tassone EE, Miles LS, Dyer RJ, Rosenberg MS, Cowling RM, Verrelli BC
Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities
Evolutionary Applications (2021)
Des Roches S, Brans KI, Lambert M, Rivkin LR, Savage A, Schell CJ, Correa C, De Meester L, Diamond SE, Govaert L, Grimm NB, Harris NC, Hendry AP, Johnson MTJ, Munshi-South J, Palkovacs EP, Szulkin M, Urban MC, Verrelli BC, Alberti M
The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics
Bioscience (2020)
Alberti M, Palkovacs EP, Des Roches S, De Meester L, Brans KI, Govaert L, Grimm NB, Harris NC, Hendry AP, Schell CJ, Szulkin M, Munshi-South J, Urban MC, Verrelli BC
Ovarian transcriptomic analyses in the urban human health pest, the Western black widow spider
Genes (2020)
Miles LS, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Verrelli BC