(Lamichhaney Lab members are highlighted in bold)
2025
Prashant Ghimire, Nan Wang, Yiai Hu, and Sangeet Lamichhaney, A complete reference genome assembly and annotation of the Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros), Scientific Data 12, 1885 (2025).
Media Coverage: Springer Nature Behind the Paper, Kent State News.
Rojina Ghimire, Prashant Ghimire, Shiseer Khatiwada, Kiran Gosai, Udhab Raj Khadka, Carol Inskipp, and Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ornithology in Nepal: insights and perspectives from the twenty-first century, Ornithology Research, 2025, 33, 54.
Chengbin Shan, Ning Wang, Wei Liang, Xiangjiang Zhan, Longwu Wang, Le Yang, Qiong Liu, Yanlin Liu, Hao Meng, Haitao Wang, Wei Xie, Sangeet Lamichhaney, and Bin Liang,
Diverse mitogenomic variations contribute to population differentiation in Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus), Zoological Research, 2025.
Aarati Basnet, Catalina Palacios, Hao Meng, Dhruv R Nakhwa, Thomas Farmer, Nishma Dahal, David Anchundia, George E Heimpel, Charlotte E Causton, Jennifer A H Koop, and Sangeet Lamichhaney, Genomic Insights into the Successful Invasion of the Avian Vampire Fly (Philornis downsi ) in the Galápagos Islands, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025, Volume 42, Issue 3, msaf052.
Media coverage: Kent State News
2024
Nan Wang, Catalina Palacios, Megan Brown, Teresa Raba, Jonathan Heid, Xujie Ding, Zhibu Ou, Nishma Dahal, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Gene expression plasticity in response to rapid and extreme elevation changes in Perdix hodgsoniae (Tibetan Partridge), Ornithological Applications, 2024, duae050
Prashant Ghimire, Catalina Palacios, Jeremiah Trimble, Sangeet Lamichhaney (2024). Museum genomics approach to study the taxonomy and evolution of Woolly-necked storks using historic specimens . G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, jkae081.
Isabella Ricchetti, Trixie Taucher, Reese Loebick, Simon Yung Wa Sin, Catalina Palacios, & Sangeet Lamichhaney (2024). Gene expression variation in geographically diverse populations of two North American songbird species. Frontiers in Bird Science, 3.
2023
Catalina Palacios, Pengcheng Wang, Nan Wang, Megan A Brown, Lukas Capatosto, Juan Du, Jiahu Jiang, Qingze Zhang, Nishma Dahal, and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2023). Genomic Variation, Population History, and Long-Term Genetic Adaptation to High Altitudes in Tibetan Partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae) Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 40, Issue 10, msad214
Nishma Dahal, Melia G. Romine, Sunita Khatiwara, Uma Ramakrishnan, and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2023). Gene flow drives genomic diversity in Asian Pikas distributed along the core and range‐edge habitats in the Himalayas. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5): e10129.
Jason Hill, Erik D Enbody, Huijuan Bi, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Weipan Lei, Juexin Chen, Chentao Wei, Yang Liu, Doreen Schwochow, Shady Younis, Fredrik Widemo, Leif Andersson (2023). Low mutation load in a supergene underpinning alternative male mating strategies in ruff (Calidris pugnax). Molecular Biology and Evolution, msad224.
Minjie Fu, John A Eimes, Sungsik Kong, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Bruce Waldman (2023). Identification of major histocompatibility complex genotypes associated with resistance to an amphibian emerging infectious disease. Infection, Genetics and Evolution:105470.
2022
Melia G Romine, Sarah A Knutie, Carly M Crow, Grace J Vaziri, Jaime A Chaves, Jennifer A H Koop, and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2022). The genome sequence of the avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi), an invasive nest parasite of Darwin’s finches in Galápagos. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics; jkab414.
Carl-Johan Rubin, Erik D. Enbody, Mariya P. Dobreva, Arhat Abzhanov, Brian W. Davis, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Mats Pettersson, Ashley T. Sendell-Price, C. Grace Sprehn, Carlos A. Valle, Karla Vasco, Ola Wallerman, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant and Leif Andersson (2022). Rapid adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches depends on ancestral genetic modules. Science Advances; 8, eabm5982.
2021
Rebecca S. Taylor, Evelyn L. Jensen, David W. Coltman, Andrew D. Foote and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2021). Seeing the whole picture: What molecular ecology is gaining from whole genomes. Molecular Ecology;30:5917–5922.
Prashant Ghimire, Nishma Dahal, Ajit K. Karna, Surendra Karki, and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2021). Exploring potentialities of avian genomic research in Nepalese Himalayas, Avian Research 12, 57.
Nishma Dahal, Sangeet Lamichhaney, and Sanjay Kumar (2021). Climate Change Impacts on Himalayan Biodiversity: Evidence-Based Perception and Current Approaches to Evaluate Threats Under Climate Change, Journal of Indian Institute of Science.
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Renee Catullo, J. Scott Keogh, Simon Clulow, Scott V. Edwards, and Tariq Ezaz (2021). A bird-like genome from a frog: Mechanisms of genome size reduction in the ornate burrowing frog, Platyplectrum ornatum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (11) e2011649118
2020
Peter R Grant, Rosemary B Grant, Erik D Enbody, Leif Andersson and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2020). Darwin’s Finches, An Iconic Adaptive Radiation, eLS, Vol 1: 672–682
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Fan Han, Matthew T Webster, B Rosemary Grant, Peter R Grant, Leif Andersson (2020). Female-biased gene flow between two species of Darwin’s finches. Nature Ecology and Evolution
Media coverage (Nature EcoEvo community, Earth News, Science daily, Princeton news, Mirage News)
J Li, M Lee, BW Davis, S Lamichhaney, BJ Dorshorst, PB Siegel, L Andersson (2020) Mutations upstream of the TBX5 and PITX1 transcription factor genes are associated with feathered legs in the domestic chicken. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msaa 093
2019
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Daren C. Card, Phil Grayson, João F. R. Tonini, Gustavo A. Bravo, Kathrin Näpflin, Flavia Termignoni-Garcia, Christopher Torres, Frank Burbrink, Julia A. Clarke, Timothy B. Sackton and Scott V. Edwards (2019), Integrating natural history collections and comparative genomics to study the genetic architecture of convergent evolution, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 374
Sangeet Lamichhaney and Leif Andersson (2019) A comparison of the association between large haplotype blocks under selection and the presence/absence of inversions, Ecology & Evolution ;00:1–9
Gustavo A Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D Bacon, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Mozes PK, Blom, Stella Huynh, Graham Jones, L Lacey Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Thomas Marcussen, Hélène Morlon, Luay K Nakhleh, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, Fernanda P Werneck, John Wiedenhoeft, Sandi Willows-Munro, Scott V Edwards (2019), Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics, PeerJ 7:e6399
2018
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Fan Han, Matthew T. Webster, Leif Andersson, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant (2017) Rapid hybrid speciation in Darwin’s finches, Science 10.1126/science.aao4593
(In the news – BBC, Science Daily, International Business Times, The Week UK, The Economic Times)
2017
Leif Andersson, Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, and Sangeet Lamichhaney (2017) Genes controlling beak size and shape in Darwin’s finches, AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Education.
Chungang Feng*, Mats Pettersson*, Sangeet Lamichhaney*, Carl-Johan Rubin, Nima Rafati, Michele Casini, Arild Folkvord & Leif Andersson (2017) Moderate nucleotide diversity in the Atlantic herring is associated with a low mutation rate, eLife 6, e23907
*joint first author
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Angela P Fuentes-Pardo, Nima Rafati, Nils Ryman, Gregory R McCracken, Christina Bourne, Rabindra Singh, Daniel E Ruzzante, Leif Andersson (2017) Parallel adaptive evolution of geographically distant herring populations on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (17) E3452-E3461
(In the news – Eureka Alert, Health Medicine Network, Phys.org)
Fan Han, Sangeet Lamichhaney, B Rosemary Grant, Peter R Grant, Leif Andersson, Matthew T Webster (2017) Gene flow, ancient polymorphism, and ecological adaptation shape the genomic landscape of divergence among Darwin’s finches, Genome Research 27 (6), 1004-1015
Mats Pettersson, Marcin Kierczak, Markus Sällman Almén, Sangeet Lamichhaney and Leif Andersson (2017) A Model-Free Approach For Detecting Genomic Regions Of Deep Divergence Using The Distribution Of Haplotype Distances, bioRxiv, p. 144394
2016
Alvaro Martinez Barrio*, Sangeet Lamichhaney*, Guangyi Fan*, Nima Rafati*, Mats Pettersson, He Zhang, Jacques Dainat, Diana Ekman, Marc Höppner, Patric Jern, Marcel Martin, Björn Nystedt, Xin Liu, Wenbin Chen, Xinming Liang, Chengcheng Shi, Yuanyuan Fu, Kailong Ma, Xiao Zhan, Chungang Feng, Ulla Gustafson, Carl-Johan Rubin, Markus Sällman Almén, Martina Blass, Michele Casini, Arild Folkvord, Linda Laikre, Nils Ryman, Simon Ming-Yuen Lee, Xun Xu, Leif Andersson (2016) The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing, elife 5, e12081
*joint first author
(In the news – Science daily, Phys.org, Eureka Alert)
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Fan Han, Jonas Berglund, Chao Wang, Markus Sällman Almén, Matthew T Webster, B Rosemary Grant, Peter R Grant, Leif Andersson (2016) A beak size locus in Darwin’s finches facilitated character displacement during a drought, Science 352 (6284), 470-474
(In the news – Washington Post, Nature, Sci-News, Genome-web)
Markus Sällman Almén, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Jonas Berglund, B Rosemary Grant, Peter R Grant, Matthew T Webster, Leif Andersson (2016) Adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches revisited using whole genome sequencing, BioEssays 38 (1), 14-20
2015
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Guangyi Fan, Fredrik Widemo, Ulrika Gunnarsson, Doreen Schwochow Thalmann, Marc P Hoeppner, Susanne Kerje, Ulla Gustafson, Chengcheng Shi, He Zhang, Wenbin Chen, Xinming Liang, Leihuan Huang, Jiahao Wang, Enjing Liang, Qiong Wu, Simon Ming-Yuen Lee, Xun Xu, Jacob Höglund, Xin Liu, Leif Andersson (2015) Structural genomic changes underlie alternative reproductive strategies in the ruff (Philomachus pugnax), Nature Genetics 48, 84–88
(In the news – Washington Post, The Scientist, Tech Times, Genome web, Phys.org)
Highlighted in the cover page of Nature genetics January 2016 issue
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Jonas Berglund, Markus Sällman Almén, Khurram Maqbool, Manfred Grabherr, Alvaro Martinez-Barrio, Marta Promerová, Carl-Johan Rubin, Chao Wang, Neda Zamani, B Rosemary Grant, Peter R Grant, Matthew T Webster, Leif Andersson (2015) Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing, Nature 518 (7539), 371-375
(In the News – National Geographic, BBC News, Washington Post, Nature News, The American Scholar, CBS News, Nature World News, Science World Report, IB Times, The Scientist, Deccan Herald)
Suzanne V Saenko, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Alvaro Martinez Barrio, Nima Rafati, Leif Andersson, Michel C Milinkovitch (2015) Amelanism in the corn snake is associated with the insertion of an LTR-retrotransposon in the OCA2 gene, Scientific Reports 5 17118
2012
Sangeet Lamichhaney, Alvaro Martinez Barrio, Nima Rafati, Görel Sundström, Carl-Johan Rubin, Elizabeth R Gilbert, Jonas Berglund, Anna Wetterbom, Linda Laikre, Matthew T Webster, Manfred Grabherr, Nils Ryman, Leif Andersson (2012) Population-scale sequencing reveals genetic differentiation due to local adaptation in Atlantic herring, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (47), 19345-19350
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