Carlos J. Pavón-Vázquez

Postdoctoral Scholar

Contact Information

carlos.pavon@uky.edu

204 T.H. Morgan Building

859-257-2249

Research Interests

Evolutionary Biology
Biogeography
Phylogenomics
systematics

Affiliations

Biology

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Personal website

Research

I am a postdoc in the Weisrock Lab that is currently working on the phylogenomics and evolution of salamandrid salamanders. More broadly, I am interested in how ecological and population-level processes shape different facets of biodiversity, specifically species diversity, community composition, and phenotypic variation. Thus, the goal of my research program is to link processes with patterns, bridging the gap between micro- and macro-evolution.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., I.G. Brennan, A. Skeels & J.S. Keogh. 2022 Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo-Australasian monitor lizards. Evolution 76: 476–495.

Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., D. Esquerré, A.J. Fitch, P. Doughty, S.C. Donnellan & J.S. Keogh. 2022. Between a rock and a dry place: phylogenomics, biogeography, and systematics of ridge-tailed monitors (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus acanthurus complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 173: 107516.

Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., D. Esquerré & J.S. Keogh. 2022. Ontogenetic drivers of morphological evolution in monitor lizards and allies (Squamata: Paleoanguimorpha), a clade with extreme body size disparity. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22: 15.

Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., I.G. Brennan & J.S. Keogh. 2021. A comprehensive approach to detect hybridization sheds light on the evolution of Earth’s largest lizards. Systematic Biology 70: 877–890.

Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., U.O. García-Vázquez, R.W. Bryson, Jr., M. Feria-Ortiz, N.L. Manríquez-Morán & A. Nieto-Montes de Oca. 2018. Integrative species delimitation in practice: revealing cryptic lineages within the short-nosed skink Plestiodon brevirostris (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 242–257.