Michael R. May

University of California, Davis — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

19h-index3.4kcitations60works3.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(24), Genetic diversity and population structure(20), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(17), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(10), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(4)

Publications60 total

Inferring Branch-Specific Rates of Lineage Diversification Under the Birth–Death-Shift Process
Systematic Biology·2026Open Access
The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change
Science Advances·2025Open Access
SN 2021ukt: A Transitional Supernova with a Short Plateau and Persistent Interaction
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Quantifying Transcriptome Turnover on Phylogenies by Modeling Gene Expression as a Binary Trait
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Fossils improve extinction-rate estimates under state-dependent diversification models
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Brain size dependent speciation and extinction rates in birds and the cognitive buffer hypothesis
2025Open Access
Macroevolutionary inference of complex modes of chromosomal speciation in a cosmopolitan plant lineage
New Phytologist·2024· 9 cited
Detecting shifts in the mode of chromosomal speciation across the cosmopolitan plant lineage Carex
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2024Open Access
Quantifying transcriptome turnover on phylogenies by modeling gene expression as a binary trait
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations
Systematic Biology·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Searching for Tidal Orbital Decay in Hot Jupiters
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Early detection of highly transmissible viral variants using phylogenomics
Science Advances·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models used in Palaeobiology
2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Macroevolutionary inference of complex modes of chromosomal speciation in a cosmopolitan plant lineage
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Detecting shifts in the mode of chromosomal speciation across the cosmopolitan plant lineage Carex
2023Open Access
Phylogenies increase power to detect highly transmissible viral genome variants
2023Open Access
Model misspecification misleads inference of the spatial dynamics of disease outbreaks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools
Systematic Biology·2023· 21 citedOpen Access
PrioriTree: a utility for improving phylodynamic analyses in BEAST
Bioinformatics·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Brian R. Moore(22), Sebastian Höhna(13), Carrie M. Tribble(9), Bruce Rannala(8), Carl J. Rothfels(6), Jiansi Gao(6), Rosana Zenil‐Ferguson(6), William A. Freyman(5), Michael J. Landis(5), Joëlle Barido‐Sottani(5), Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra(4), Ammon Thompson(4), Artyom Kopp(4), Jeremy M. Brown(4), April Wright(4), Paul Peluso(3), David R. Rank(3), John P. Huelsenbeck(3), Bjørn Tore Kopperud(3), Rachel C. M. Warnock(3)