Dr Chris Venditti
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology
Areas of Interest
- Funding from the Leverhulme Trust
- Phylogenetic inference
- Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Integrating information about extinct and extant species in to studies of macroevolution
- Speciation
- Rates of molecular and morphological evolution
- Adaptation
Member of the Evolution Research Group
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- Interviews with BBC Radio Berkshire
- Research featured in New Scientist
Esteem Factors
- External examiner for MRes in Biosystematics (Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, London)
Teaching
- Part 3: Research Topics in Ecology (BI3EI8)
Research groups / Centres
Publications
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Number of items: 38.
2019
- Baker, J. and Venditti, C. (2019) Rapid change in mammalian eye shape is explained by activity pattern. Current Biology, 29 (6). pp. 1082-1088. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.017
- Kubo, T., Sakamoto, M., Meade, A. and Venditti, C. (2019) Transitions between foot postures are associated with elevated rates of body size evolution in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814329116
- Sakamoto, M., Ruta, M. and Venditti, C. (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1932
2018
- Sakamoto, M. and Venditti, C. (2018) Phylogenetic non-independence in rates of trait evolution. Biology Letters, 14 (10). 20180502. ISSN 1744-957X doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0502
- O’Donovan, C., Meade, A. and Venditti, C. (2018) Dinosaurs reveal the geographical signature of an evolutionary radiation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (3). pp. 452-458. ISSN 2397-334X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0454-6
2017
- Sakamoto, M., Venditti, C. and Benton, M. J. (2017) ‘Residual diversity estimates’ do not correct for sampling bias in palaeodiversity data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8 (4). pp. 453-459. ISSN 2041-210X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12666
2016
- Gudde, R. and Venditti, C. (2016) Comparison of conservation metrics in a case study of lemurs. Conservation Biology, 30 (6). pp. 1347-1356. ISSN 1523-1739 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12746
- Sakamoto, M., Benton, M. J. and Venditti, C. (2016) Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (18). pp. 5036-5040. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521478113
- Baker, J., Meade, A., Pagel, M. and Venditti, C. (2016) Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118 (1). pp. 95-115. ISSN 0024-4066 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12649
- Cooper, N., Thomas, G. H., Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Freckleton, R. P. (2016) A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118 (1). pp. 64-77. ISSN 0024-4066 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12701
- El Baidouri, F., Venditti, C. and Humphries, S. (2016) Independent evolution of shape and motility allows evolutionary flexibility in Firmicutes bacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). 0009. ISSN 2397-334X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0009
2015
- Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2015) Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (43). pp. 13296-13301. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503793112
- Capellini, I., Baker, J., Allen, W. L., Street, S. E. and Venditti, C. (2015) The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success. Ecology Letters, 18 (10). pp. 1099-1107. ISSN 1461-023X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12493
- Baker, J., Meade, A., Pagel, M. and Venditti, C. (2015) Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (16). pp. 5093-5098. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419823112
- Sibly, R. M., Baker, J., Grady, J. M., Luna, S. M., Kodric-Brown, A., Venditti, C. and Brown, J. H. (2015) Fundamental insights into ontogenetic growth from theory and fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (45). pp. 13934-13939. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518823112
2014
- Barton, R. A. and Venditti, C. (2014) Rapid evolution of the cerebellum in humans and other great apes. Current Biology, 24 (20). pp. 2440-2444. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.056
- McInerney, C. E., Maurice, L., Robertson, A. L., Knight, L. R. F. D., Arnscheidt, J., Venditti, C., Dooley, J. S. G., Mathers, T., Matthijs, S., Eriksson, K., Proudlove, G. S. and Hänfling, B. (2014) The ancient Britons: groundwater fauna survived extreme climate change over tens of millions of years across NW Europe. Molecular Ecology, 23 (5). pp. 1153-1166. ISSN 0962-1083 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12664
- Sibly, R. M., Grady, J. M., Venditti, C. and Brown, J. H. (2014) How body mass and lifestyle affect juvenile biomass production in placental mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281 (1777). 20132818. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2818
- Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2014) Plenty of room for punctuational change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29 (2). pp. 71-72. ISSN 0169-5347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.002
2013
- Barton, R. A. and Venditti, C. (2013) Human frontal lobes are not relatively large. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (22). pp. 9001-9006. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1215723110
2012
- Sibly, R. M., Witt, C. C., Wright, N. A., Venditti, C., Jetz, W. and Brown, J. H. (2012) Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (27). pp. 10937-10941. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206512109
2011
- Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2011) Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature, 479. pp. 393-396. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10516
- Wilson Sayres, M. A., Venditti, C., Pagel, M. and Makova, K. D. (2011) Do variations in substitution rates and male mutation bias correlate with life-history traits? A study of 32 mammalian genomes. Evolution, 65 (10). pp. 2800-2815. ISSN 1558-5646 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01337.x
- Gomes, N. M. V., Ryder, O. A., Houck, M. L., Charter, S. J., Walker, W., Forsyth, N. R., Austad, S. N., Venditti, C., Pagel, M., Shay, J. W. and Wright, W. E. (2011) Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination. Aging cell, 10 (5). pp. 761-768. ISSN 1474-9718 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00718.x
- Montgomery, S. H., Capellini, I., Venditti, C., Barton, R. A. and Mundy, N. I. (2011) Adaptive evolution of four microcephaly genes and the evolution of brain size in anthropoid primates. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28 (1). pp. 625-638. ISSN 1537-1719 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq237
- Capellini, I., Venditti, C. and Barton, R. A. (2011) Placentation and maternal investment in mammals. American Naturalist, 177 (1). pp. 86-98. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/657435
2010
- Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2010) Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25 (1). pp. 14-20. ISSN 0169-5347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.010
- Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature, 463 (7379). pp. 349-352. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08630
- Capellini, I., Venditti, C. and Barton, R. A. (2010) Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology, 91 (9). pp. 2783-2793. ISSN 0012-9658 doi: https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0817.1
2008
- Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Evolution in fits and starts. The Biologist, 55 (3). pp. 140-146.
- Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science, 319 (5863). p. 588. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1149683
- Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Model misspecification not the node-density artifact. Evolution, 62 (8). pp. 2125-2126. ISSN 0014-3820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00407.x
- Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008) Parsing the evolution of language - Response. Science, 320 (5875). p. 446. ISSN 0036-8075
- Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2008) Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts. Systematic Biology, 57 (2). pp. 286-293. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802044045
- Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Speciation and bursts of evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 1 (3). pp. 274-280. ISSN 1936-6426 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-008-0049-4
2007
- Lester, L. and Venditti, C. (2007) The prevalence of pili multigemini. British Journal of Dermatology, 156 (6). pp. 1362-1363. ISSN 0007-0963 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2007.07868.x
2006
- Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2006) Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology, 55 (4). pp. 637-643. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150600865567
- Pagel, M., Venditti, C. and Meade, A. (2006) Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level. Science, 314 (5796). pp. 119-121. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1129647