April Wright

April Wright

Southeastern Louisiana University

H-index: 16

North America-United States

About April Wright

April Wright, With an exceptional h-index of 16 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Southeastern Louisiana University, specializes in the field of Evolution, phylogeny, comparative methods, paleontology, computation.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Redescription of three basal anomodonts: a phylogenetic reassessment of the holotype of Eodicynodon oelofseni (NMQR 2913)

Quantitative Models for Distinguishing Punctuated and Continuous-Time Models of Character Evolution and Their Implications for Macroevolutionary Theory

Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models used in Palaeobiology

Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

One tree to rule them all| Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications, Editors Laura Kubatko and Lacey Knowles, Princeton University Press, 2023, $110.00 hbk …

Species Delimitation of Eastern Pinesnake Complex (Pituophis melanoleucus)

Handling Character Dependency in Phylogenetic Inference: Extensive Performance Testing of Assumptions and Solutions Using Simulated Data

Genomic data support the taxonomic validity of Middle American livebearers Poeciliopsis gracilis and Poeciliopsis pleurospilus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

April Wright Information

University

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Citations(all)

5701

Citations(since 2020)

4966

Cited By

2834

hIndex(all)

16

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

18

i10Index(since 2020)

18

Email

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Southeastern Louisiana University

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April Wright Skills & Research Interests

Evolution

phylogeny

comparative methods

paleontology

computation

Top articles of April Wright

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Redescription of three basal anomodonts: a phylogenetic reassessment of the holotype of Eodicynodon oelofseni (NMQR 2913)

Frontiers in Earth Science

Alienor Duhamel

Julien Benoit

Brenen Wynd

April Marie Wright

Bruce Rubidge

2024/2/14

Quantitative Models for Distinguishing Punctuated and Continuous-Time Models of Character Evolution and Their Implications for Macroevolutionary Theory

bioRxiv

April M Wright

Peter J Wagner

2024

Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models used in Palaeobiology

bioRxiv

Laura PA Mulvey

Michael R May

Jeremy M Brown

Sebastian Hoehna

April M Wright

...

2024

Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Open Research Europe

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Orlando Schwery

Rachel CM Warnock

Chi Zhang

April Marie Wright

2023/11/20

One tree to rule them all| Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications, Editors Laura Kubatko and Lacey Knowles, Princeton University Press, 2023, $110.00 hbk …

April Marie Wright

2023/9/8

Species Delimitation of Eastern Pinesnake Complex (Pituophis melanoleucus)

Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

Basanta Khakurel

Zachary L Nikolakis

Brian I Crother

April Wright

2023/12/22

Handling Character Dependency in Phylogenetic Inference: Extensive Performance Testing of Assumptions and Solutions Using Simulated Data

Tiago R Simões

Oksana V Vernygora

Bruno AS de Medeiros

April Wright

2022/4

Genomic data support the taxonomic validity of Middle American livebearers Poeciliopsis gracilis and Poeciliopsis pleurospilus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

Plos one

Sarah J Ward

Caleb D McMahan

Basanta Khakurel

April M Wright

Kyle R Piller

2022/1/31

Integrating fossil observations into phylogenetics using the fossilized birth–death model

April M Wright

David W Bapst

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Rachel CM Warnock

2022/8/16

Revticulate: An R framework for interaction with RevBayes

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Caleb P Charpentier

April M Wright

2022/6

Lessons learned from organizing and teaching virtual phylogenetics workshops

Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Joshua A Justison

Rui Borges

Jeremy M Brown

Wade Dismukes

...

2022/6/6

treedata. table: a wrapper for data. table that enables fast manipulation of large phylogenetic trees matched to data

PeerJ

Cristian Román Palacios

April Wright

Josef Uyeda

2021/11/26

Testing character evolution models in phylogenetic paleobiology: a case study with Cambrian echinoderms

Elements of Paleontology

April Wright

Peter J Wagner

David F Wright

2021/7

From panic to pedagogy: Using online active learning to promote inclusive instruction in ecology and evolutionary biology courses and beyond

Ecology and Evolution

2020/10

Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology

Paleobiology

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Erin E Saupe

Tara M Smiley

Laura C Soul

April M Wright

...

2020/11

Bayesian analyses in phylogenetic palaeontology: interpreting the posterior sample

Palaeontology

April M Wright

Graeme T Lloyd

2020/11

Estimating a time-calibrated phylogeny of fossil and extant taxa using RevBayes

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Joshua A Justison

April M Wright

Rachel CM Warnock

Walker Pett

...

2020

Understanding the tripartite approach to Bayesian divergence time estimation

Rachel Warnock

April Wright

2020/4

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