Chris Venditti

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+44 (0) 118 378 4683
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Professor
- 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
Publications
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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
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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
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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
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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. , DuĊĦek, 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
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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
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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
- OâDonovan, 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) âResidual diversity estimatesâ 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
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Capellini, I.
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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
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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
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Sibly, R.
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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