Evon Hekkala

American Museum of Natural History — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genetic diversity and population structure(27), Identification and Quantification in Food(13), Species Distribution and Climate Change(11), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(9), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(9)

Publications47 total

Cost-effective eDNA methods for monitoring wild crocodiles
Biodiversity and Conservation·2025Open Access
Changes in the prevalence of three disease-causing pathogens in bird-borne blacklegged ticks: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases·2025Open Access
<scp>VoronaGasyCodes</scp> : A Public Database of Mitochondrial Barcodes for Malagasy Birds
Molecular Ecology Resources·2025Open Access
VoronaGasyCodes: a public database of mitochondrial barcodes for Malagasy birds
2025Open Access
Patterns of late Holocene and historical extinctions on Madagascar
Cambridge Prisms Extinction·2025Open Access
Genome‐wide population affinities and signatures of adaptation in hydruntines, sussemiones and Asian wild asses
Molecular Ecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Leech‐derived <scp>iDNA</scp> complements traditional surveying methods, enhancing species detections for rapid biodiversity sampling in the tropics
Environmental DNA·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Life on the edge—a changing genetic landscape within an iconic American pika metapopulation over the last half century
PeerJ·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Leech-derived iDNA complements traditional surveying methods, enhancing species detections for rapid biodiversity sampling in the tropics
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Life on the edge - a changing genetic landscape within an iconic American pika metapopulation over the last half century
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Using Mitogenomes to Explore the Social and Ecological Contexts of Crocodile Mummification in Ancient Egypt
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History·2022· 1 cited
Integrating ecological and molecular data to investigate species maintenance and interspecific hybridization between the redbreast sunfish (<i>Lepomis auritus</i>) and the pumpkinseed sunfish (<i>Lepomis gibbosus</i>)
Canadian Journal of Zoology·2022· 1 cited
Teasing Apart Impacts of Human Activity and Regional Drought on Madagascar’s Large Vertebrate Fauna: Insights From New Excavations at Tsimanampesotse and Antsirafaly
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2021· 12 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene “horned” crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus
Communications Biology·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene “horned” crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus
Communications Biology·2021· 32 citedOpen Access
Multilocus Metabarcoding of Terrestrial Leech Bloodmeal iDNA Increases Species Richness Uncovered in Surveys of Vertebrate Host Biodiversity
Journal of Parasitology·2020· 13 cited
Reconstructing the Genomic Diversity of a Widespread Sub-Saharan Bat (Pteropodidae: Eidolon helvum) Using Archival Museum Collections
Acta Chiropterologica·2020· 3 citedOpen Access
The secrets of Sobek – A crocodile mummy mitogenome from ancient Egypt
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2020· 12 cited
Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source for CITES-protected contraband leeches
European Journal of Wildlife Research·2020· 19 cited
Phylogenomics reveals novel relationships among Neotropical crocodiles (Crocodylus spp.)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2020· 18 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

George Amato(13), Mai Fahmy(8), Seth W. Cunningham(6), Sergios‐Orestis Kolokotronis(5), John B. Thorbjarnarson(4), Kent A. Vliet(4), Michael A. Russello(4), Stephanie A. Dowell(4), Mary M. Peacock(4), Mark E. Siddall(4), Patricia C. Wright(4), Matthew H. Shirley(3), Michael J. Blum(3), Robert W. Meredith(3), Jan A. Randall(3), John Gatesy(3), Apurva Narechania(3), Michael Tessler(3), Frank J. Mazzotti(3), Steven M. Goodman(3)