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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2019-07-01 to present (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology)
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Education and qualifications (2)

The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX, US

2011 to 2017 | PhD (Department of Integrative Biology)
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Boston University: Boston, MA, US

2006 to 2010 | BA
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Professional activities (3)

Society of Systematic Biologists: Arlington, US

2025 to 2027 | Councilor
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Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles: Lawrence, US

2021 to 2024 | Member, Board of Directors
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Genetics Society of America: Bethesda, US

2021 to 2023 | Member, Equity and Inclusion Committee
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Funding (3)

Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: A four-dimensional genotype-phenotype map of poison frog skin color

2023-12-15 to 2027-11-30 | Grant
Directorate for Biological Sciences (Alexandria, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.13550831
GRANT_NUMBER: 2319711
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Evolutionary genetics of adaptation to toxins in animals

2023-09-15 to 2028-07-31 | Grant
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.13615846
GRANT_NUMBER: R35GM150574
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DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Why poison frogs don't poison themselves: phylogenetic origins and consequences of autoresistance

2014-07-01 to 2017-06-30 | Grant
Directorate for Biological Sciences (Alexandria, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3581601
GRANT_NUMBER: 1404409
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Works (34)

Genome size evolution and phenotypic correlates in the poison frog family Dendrobatidae

Evolution
2025-02-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf011
Contributors: Tyler E Douglas; Roberto Márquez; V Renee Holmes; J Spencer Johnston; Rebecca D Tarvin; Diogo Provete; Hélène Morlon
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A subset of conserved phagocytic genes are likely used for the intracellular theft of cnidarian stinging organelles in nudibranch gastropods

2025-02-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.13.637864
Contributors: Jessica A. Goodheart; Rose Fiorenza; Robin Rio; Rebecca N. Lopez-Anido; Noah J. Martin; Timothy J. Herrlinger; Rebecca D. Tarvin; Deirdre C. Lyons
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Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality

2025-02-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.07.636964
Contributors: Maria José Navarrete Méndez; Sina S. Amini; Juan Carlos Santos; Jacob Saal; Marvalee H. Wake; Santiago R. Ron; Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests

ZooKeys
2025-02-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.123803
Contributors: Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela; Andrew J. Crawford; David C. Cannatella; Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses

eLife
2024-12-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.100011.3
Contributors: Rebecca D Tarvin; Jeffrey L Coleman; David A Donoso; Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Karem López-Hervas; Kimberly S Gleason; J Ryan Sanders; Jacqueline M Smith; Santiago R Ron; Juan C Santos et al.
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Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses

2024-11-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.100011.2
Contributors: Rebecca D Tarvin; Jeffrey L Coleman; David A Donoso; Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Karem López-Hervas; Kimberly S Gleason; J Ryan Sanders; Jacqueline M Smith; Santiago R Ron; Juan C Santos et al.
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The Amphibian Genomics Consortium: advancing genomic and genetic resources for amphibian research and conservation

BMC Genomics
2024-11-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10899-7
Part of ISSN: 1471-2164
Contributors: Tiffany Kosch; María Torres-Sánchez; H. Christoph Liedtke; Kyle Summers; Maximina Yun; Andrew J. Crawford; Simon Maddock; Md. Sabbir Ahammed; Victor L. N. Araújo; Lorenzo Bertola et al.
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Snakes (Erythrolamprus spp.) with a complex toxic diet show convergent yet highly heterogeneous voltage-gated sodium channel evolution

2024-07-25 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/x2ms6d
Contributors: Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda; Rebecca Tarvin; Roberto Marquez
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Deep divergences among inconspicuously colored clades of Epipedobates poison frogs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2024-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108065
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.29.547117
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
Contributors: Karem López-Hervas; Juan C. Santos; Santiago R. Ron; Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; David C. Cannatella; Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses

2024-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.13.593697
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin; Jeffrey L. Coleman; David A. Donoso; Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Karem López-Hervas; Kimberly S. Gleason; J. Ryan Sanders; Jacqueline M. Smith; Santiago R. Ron; Juan C. Santos et al.
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming ofEpipedobates currulaosp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests

2024-03-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.23.586415
Contributors: Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela; Andrew J. Crawford; David C. Cannatella; Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Specimen collection is essential for modern science

PLOS Biology
2023-11-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318
Part of ISSN: 1545-7885
Contributors: Michael Nachman; Elizabeth J. Beckman; Rauri CK Bowie; Carla Cicero; Chris J. Conroy; Robert Dudley; Tyrone B. Hayes; Michelle S. Koo; Eileen A. Lacey; Christopher H. Martin et al.
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

The Diverse Mechanisms that Animals Use to Resist Toxins

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
2023-11-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-102117
Part of ISSN: 1543-592X
Part of ISSN: 1545-2069
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin; Kannon C. Pearson; Tyler E. Douglas; Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda; María José Navarrete
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Selection on Visual Opsin Genes in Diurnal Neotropical Frogs and Loss of the SWS2 Opsin in Poison Frogs

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2023-10-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad206
Part of ISSN: 0737-4038
Part of ISSN: 1537-1719
Contributors: Yin Chen Wan; María José Navarrete Méndez; Lauren A. O'Connell; Lawrence Uricchio; Alexandre-Benoit Roland; Martine Maan; Santiago Ron; Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar; Marcio R Pie; Kimberly A Howell et al.
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Are Pacific Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris regilla) Resistant to Tetrodotoxin (TTX)? Characterizing Potential TTX Exposure and Resistance in an Ecological Associate of Pacific Newts (Taricha)

Journal of Herpetology
2023-07-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.22.475505
DOI: 10.1670/22-002
Part of ISSN: 0022-1511
Contributors: Katherine O. Montana; Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda; Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Genome size evolution and phenotypic correlates in the poison frog family Dendrobatidae

2023-07-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.30.547273
Contributors: Tyler E Douglas; Roberto Marquez; V. Renee D Holmes; J. Spencer Johnston; Rebecca D Tarvin
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2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is an effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics

Ecology and Evolution
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9842
Contributors: E. Anne Chambers; Rebecca D. Tarvin; Juan C. Santos; Santiago R. Ron; Mileidy Betancourth‐Cundar; David M. Hillis; Mikhail V. Matz; David C. Cannatella
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A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122667119
DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/uszd7
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin
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State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources

Ichthyology & Herpetology
2022-11-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/r9qga
DOI: 10.1643/h2022005
Part of ISSN: 2766-1512
Contributors: Molly C. Womack; Emma Steigerwald; David C. Blackburn; David C. Cannatella; Alessandro Catenazzi; Jing Che; Michelle S. Koo; Jimmy A. McGuire; Santiago R. Ron; Carol L. Spencer et al.
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Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future

BioScience
2022-08-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac062
Part of ISSN: 0006-3568
Part of ISSN: 1525-3244
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin
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A review of chemical defense in harlequin toads (Bufonidae: Atelopus)

Toxicon: X
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxcx.2022.100092
Part of ISSN: 2590-1710
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Trade-offs between cost of ingestion and rate of intake drive defensive toxin use

Biology Letters
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0579
DOI: 10.1101/2021.07.23.453507
Part of ISSN: 1744-957X
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Part of ISSN: 26928205
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A Quarter Century of Reptile and Amphibian Databases

Herpetological Review
2021 | Journal article
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

An insight into molecular taxonomy of bufonids, microhylids, and dicroglossid frogs: First genetic records from Pakistan

Ecology and Evolution
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8134
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2-s2.0-85115786985

Part of ISSN: 20457758
Contributors: Akram, A.; Rais, M.; Lopez-Hervas, K.; Tarvin, R.D.; Saeed, M.; Bolnick, D.I.; Cannatella, D.C.
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Erratum: Convergent Substitutions in a Sodium Channel Suggest Multiple Origins of Toxin Resistance in Poison Frogs (Molecular Biology and Evolution 33:4 (1068-1081) DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv350)

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz071
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2-s2.0-85078867637

Part of ISSN: 15371719 07374038
Contributors: Tarvin, R.D.; Santos, J.C.; O'Connell, L.A.; Zakon, H.H.; Cannatella, D.C.
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Rebecca D. Tarvin via Scopus - Elsevier

A Sucker for Taste

Cell
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.012
Part of ISSN: 0092-8674
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Diversity within diversity: Parasite species richness in poison frogs assessed by transcriptomics

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.015
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
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Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance

Science
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5061
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2-s2.0-85029842917
Contributors: Tarvin, R.D.; Borghese, C.M.; Sachs, W.; Santos, J.C.; Lu, Y.; O’Connell, L.A.; Cannatella, D.C.; Harris, R.A.; Zakon, H.H.
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The birth of aposematism: High phenotypic divergence and low genetic diversity in a young clade of poison frogs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.035
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2-s2.0-85010903333
Contributors: Tarvin, R.D.; Powell, E.A.; Santos, J.C.; Ron, S.R.; Cannatella, D.C.
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A Review of Chemical Defense in Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidae): Ecology, Pharmacokinetics, and Autoresistance

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13
2016 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22026-0_21
Part of ISBN: 9783319220253
Part of ISBN: 9783319220260
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Rebecca D. Tarvin

Convergent substitutions in a sodium channel suggest multiple origins of toxin resistance in poison frogs

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv350
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2-s2.0-84964877907
Contributors: Tarvin, R.D.; Santos, J.C.; O'Connell, L.A.; Zakon, H.H.; Cannatella, D.C.
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Carry-over Effects of Size at Metamorphosis in Red-eyed Treefrogs: Higher Survival but Slower Growth of Larger Metamorphs

Biotropica
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12198
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2-s2.0-84924240845
Contributors: Tarvin, R.D.; Silva Bermúdez, C.; Briggs, V.S.; Warkentin, K.M.
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Changes in Population Size and Survival in<i>Atelopus spumarius</i>(Anura: Bufonidae) Are Not Correlated with Chytrid Prevalence

Journal of Herpetology
2014-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1670/11-269
Part of ISSN: 0022-1511
Contributors: Rebecca D. Tarvin
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Divergence in coloration and ecological speciation in the Anolis marmoratus species complex

Molecular Ecology
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12295
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2-s2.0-84876802830
Contributors: Muñoz, M.M.; Crawford, N.G.; McGreevy Jr., T.J.; Messana, N.J.; Tarvin, R.D.; Revell, L.J.; Zandvliet, R.M.; Hopwood, J.M.; Mock, E.; Schneider, A.L. et al.
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