Chris Venditti

Email:
c.d.venditti@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 4683
Job title:
Professor

Responsibilities:

Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology

Teaching

Part 3: Research Topics in Ecology (BI3EI8)

Research centres and groups

Member of the Impact, Enterprise and Outreach

Interviews with BBC Radio Berkshire
Research featured in New Scientist

Research projects

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

Awards and honours

Esteem Factors

External examiner for MRes in Biosystematics (Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, London)

Selected publications

Magazines

Accidental origins: Where species come from?

Publications

Furness, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-7596-9623 , Venditti, C. , Capellini, I. ORCID: 0000-0001-8065-2436 (2022) Terrestrial reproduction and parental care drive rapid evolution in the trade-off between offspring size and number across amphibians.. PLoS Biology , 20 (1). pp 0. ISSN: 1544-9173 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001495

Sakamoto, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-6447-406X , Benton, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-4323-1824 , Venditti, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-6776-2355 (2021) Strong support for a heterogeneous speciation decline model in Dinosauria: a response to claims made by Bonsor et al . (2020). Royal Society Open Science , 8 (8). ISSN: 2054-5703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202143
Avaria-Llautureo, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-8610-7428 , Venditti, C. , Rivadeneira, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-1681-416X , Inostroza-Michael, O. , Rivera, R. ORCID: 0000-0001-7903-0314 , Hernández, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-9811-2881 , Canales-Aguirre, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-8468-6139 (2021) Historical warming consistently decreased size, dispersal and speciation rate of fish. Nature Climate Change , 11 pp. 787-793. ISSN: 1758-678X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01123-5
Johnston, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8781-4039 , Meade, A. , Ardö, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-9318-0973 , Arriga, N. ORCID: 0000-0001-5321-3497 , Black, A. , Blanken, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7405-2220 , Bonal, D. ORCID: 0000-0001-9602-8603 , Brümmer, C. ORCID: 0000-0001-6621-5010 , Cescatti, A. , Dušek, J. ORCID: 0000-0001-6119-0838 , Graf, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-4870-7622 , Gioli, B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7631-2623 , Goded, I. ORCID: 0000-0002-1912-325X , Gough, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1227-7731 , Ikawa, H. , Jassal, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-6727-5215 , Kobayashi, H. ORCID: 0000-0001-9319-0621 , Magliulo, V. ORCID: 0000-0001-5505-6552 , Manca, G. ORCID: 0000-0002-9376-0310 , Montagnani, L. ORCID: 0000-0003-2957-9071 , Moyano, F. ORCID: 0000-0002-4090-5838 , Olesen, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-6639-1273 , Sachs, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-9959-4771 , Shao, C. , Tagesson, T. ORCID: 0000-0003-3011-1775 , Wohlfahrt, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-3080-6702 , Wolf, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7717-6993 , Woodgate, W. , Varlagin, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-2549-5236 , Venditti, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-6776-2355 (2021) Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale.. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 5 pp. 487-494. ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01398-z
Baker, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , Venditti, C. (2021) Nothing wrong with the analysis of clades in comparative evolutionary studies. Systematic Biology , 70 (1). pp. 197-201. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa067

Venditti, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-6776-2355 , Baker, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Benton, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-4323-1824 , Meade, A. , Humphries, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-9766-6404 (2020) 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature , 587 pp. 83-86. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8
Campoy, A. , Addamo, A. , Machordom, A. , Meade, A. , Rivadeneira, M. , Hernández, C. , Venditti, C. (2020) The origin and correlated evolution of symbiosis and coloniality in Scleractinian corals. Frontiers in Marine Science , 7 pp. 461. ISSN: 2296-7745 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00461
Baker, J. , Humphries, S. , Ferguson-Gow, H. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. (2020) Rapid decreases in relative testes mass among monogamous birds but not in other vertebrates. Ecology Letters , 23 (2). pp. 283-292. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13431

Avaria-Llautureo, J. , Hernández, C. , Rodríguez-Serrano, E. , Venditti, C. (2019) The decoupled nature of basal metabolic rate and body temperature in endotherm evolution. Nature , 572 pp. 651-654. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1476-9
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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.017
Kubo, T. , Sakamoto, M. , Meade, A. , 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 , 116 (7). pp. 2618-2623. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814329116
Sakamoto, M. , Ruta, M. , 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). pp. 20181932. ISSN: 0962-8452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1932

Sakamoto, M. and Venditti, C. (2018) Phylogenetic non-independence in rates of trait evolution. Biology Letters , 14 (10). ISSN: 1744-957X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0502
O’Donovan, C. , Meade, A. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0454-6

Sakamoto, M. , Venditti, C. , Benton, M. , eds. (2017) ‘Residual diversity estimates’ do not correct for sampling bias in palaeodiversity data. In: Paradis, E. , (eds.) Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 8 (4). pp. 453-459. ISSN: 2041-210X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12666

El Baidouri, F. , Venditti, C. , Humphries, S. (2016) Independent evolution of shape and motility allows evolutionary flexibility in Firmicutes bacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 1 (1). ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0009
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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12746
Sakamoto, M. , Benton, M. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521478113
Cooper, N. , Thomas, G. , Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Freckleton, R. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12701
Baker, J. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12649

Capellini, I. , Baker, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Allen, W. , Street, S. , Venditti, C. , eds. (2015) The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success. In: Wiens, J. , (eds.) Ecology Letters , 18 (10). pp. 1099-1107. ISSN: 1461-023X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12493
Baker, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419823112
Grollemund, R. , Branford, S. , Bostoen, K. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503793112
Sibly, R. , Baker, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Grady, J. , Luna, S. , Kodric-Brown, A. , Venditti, C. , Brown, J. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518823112

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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.002
McInerney, C. , Maurice, L. , Robertson, A. , Knight, L. , Arnscheidt, J. , Venditti, C. , Dooley, J. , Mathers, T. , Matthijs, S. , Eriksson, K. , Proudlove, G. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12664
Barton, R. 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.056
Sibly, R. , Grady, J. , Venditti, C. , Brown, J. (2014) How body mass and lifestyle affect juvenile biomass production in placental mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 281 (1777). ISSN: 0962-8452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2818

Barton, R. 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1215723110

Sibly, R. , Witt, C. , Wright, N. , Venditti, C. , Jetz, W. , Brown, J. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206512109

Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. (2011) Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature , 479 pp. 393-396. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10516
Gomes, N. , Ryder, O. , Houck, M. , Charter, S. , Walker, W. , Forsyth, N. , Austad, S. , Venditti, C. , Pagel, M. , Shay, J. , Wright, W. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00718.x
Wilson Sayres, M. , Venditti, C. , Pagel, M. , Makova, K. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01337.x
Montgomery, S. , Capellini, I. , Venditti, C. , Barton, R. , Mundy, N. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq237
Capellini, I. , Venditti, C. , Barton, R. (2011) Placentation and maternal investment in mammals. American Naturalist , 177 (1). pp. 86-98. ISSN: 0003-0147 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/657435

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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.010
Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature , 463 (7379). pp. 349-352. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08630
Capellini, I. , Venditti, C. , Barton, R. (2010) Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology , 91 (9). pp. 2783-2793. ISSN: 0012-9658 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-0817.1

Venditti, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2008) Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts. Systematic Biology , 57 (2). pp. 286-293. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150802044045
Venditti, . and Pagel, . (2008) Model misspecification not the node-density artifact. Evolution , 62 (8). pp. 2125-2126. ISSN: 0014-3820 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00407.x
Venditti, . and Pagel, . (2008) Evolution in fits and starts. The Biologist , 55 (3). pp. 140-146.
Atkinson, . , Meade, . , Venditti, . , Greenhill, . , Pagel, . (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science , 319 (5863). pp. 588-588. ISSN: 0036-8075 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1149683
Atkinson, . , Meade, . , Venditti, . , Greenhill, . , Pagel, . (2008) Parsing the evolution of language - Response. Science , 320 (5875). pp. 446-446. ISSN: 0036-8075
Venditti, . and Pagel, . (2008) Speciation and bursts of evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach , 1 (3). pp. 274-280. ISSN: 1936-6426 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12052-008-0049-4

Lester, . and Venditti, . (2007) The prevalence of pili multigemini. British Journal of Dermatology , 156 (6). pp. 1362-1363. ISSN: 0007-0963 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2007.07868.x

Venditti, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2006) Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology , 55 (4). pp. 637-643. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150600865567
Pagel, . , Venditti, . , Meade, . (2006) Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level. Science , 314 (5796). pp. 119-121. ISSN: 0036-8075 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1129647

Chris Venditti

Teaching

Research centres and groups

Research projects

Awards and honours

Selected publications

Magazines

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