zool710-intro-marguerite-butler

This is the repository for Marguerite Butler in Zool 710.

About me

Hello! I’m a Professor of Life Sciences at UH Manoa and a faculty member in the Zoology and Microbiology graduate programs. I am a biologist very interested in data science. My questions range from evolutionary biology to the comparative physiology of ectotherms (mostly frogs and lizards) and microbes.

Four fun facts about me

  1. I love to cook and eat good food, when I have time. These days it is mostly on the weekends, when I get to share with my parents. I love to try new recipes, these days mostly from Korean or any Asian cuisine, Mexican, or Italian cuisines.
  2. I have one kid (senior in college! Yikes) and one puppy (turns 12 in January).
  3. I have done fieldwork in Hawaii, the Caribbean, North America, Central America, Southern Africa, Papua New Guinea, East Asia (Japan), and Australia. Still on my bucket list is Madagascar.
  4. I am involved with the Comparative Phylogenetics Methods in R community (here is a listerv)R-sig-phylo, and have contributed to the OUCH package in R (Butler and King 2004; King and Butler 2009). We are folks interested in learning by comparing species, analyzing data across phylogenetic trees.

The Majesty of Wildlife

There is so much bad news these days. This year I wanted to see beauty. This is the stunning photo gallery of Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition from the Natural History Museum

Papers with my students

I love to do research with my students. Here are a couple of papers that resulted from massive effort that Iʻm particularly proud of. A phylogeny of the enigmatic Asterophryinae frogs of New Guinea, a hyperdiverse group with over 350 named species (Hill et al. 2022), and the accompanying data paper (Hill et al. submitted for publication).

To learn more about Quarto websites visit https://quarto.org/docs/websites.

References

Butler, M. A., and A. A. King. 2004. Phylogenetic comparative analysis: A modeling approach for adaptive evolution. AMERICAN NATURALIST 164:683–695.
Hill, E. C., C. J. Fraser, D. F. Gao, M. J. Jarman, E. R. Henry, B. Iova, A. Allison, and M. A. Butler. 2022. Resolving the deep phylogeny: Implications for early adaptive radiation, cryptic, and present-day ecological diversity of papuan microhylid frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 177:107618.
Hill, E. C., M. J. Jarman, C. J. Fraser, D. F. Gao, E. R. Henry, B. Iova, and A. Allison. submitted for publication. Molecular and phylogenetic datasets for the asterophryinae frogs of new guinea with additional data on lifestyle, geography, and elevation. Data in Brief.
King, A. A., and M. A. Butler. 2009. Ouch: Ornstein-uhlenbeck models for phylogenetic comparative hypotheses (r package).