Publications

Academic (Peer-reviewed)

Pre-print

  1. Hancock, Z.B. & Bradburd, G.S. (2025) sandwrm: an R package for estimating Wright’s neighborhood size and species-level diversity. In prep.

  2. Hancock, Z.B., Adams, N.E., Wood Jr., P.L., Bradburd, G.S. (2025). Asymmetric gene flow maintains range edges in a marine invertebrate. bioRxiv.

  3. Beckman, A., Hamer, S., Rosenthal, G., Brennan, L., Hancock, Z.B. (2024) Investigating the role of management decisions in subspecies hybridization across the wild turkey’s range. bioRxiv.

Published

  1. Hancock, Z.B., Toczydlowski, R.H., Bradburd, G.S. (2024) A spatial approach to jointly estimate Wright’s neighborhood size and long-term effective population size. Genetics, 227(4): iyae094.

  2. Hancock, Z.B., Cardinale, D.S. (2024) Back to the Fundamentals: A reply to Basener & Sanford (2018). Journal of Mathematical Biology, 88(54): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-024-02077-w.

  3. Rogan, J., Parker, M.R., Hancock, Z.B., Earl, A.R., Buchholtz, E., Chyn, K., Martina, J., Fitzgerald, L.F. (2023) Genetic and demographic consequences of range contraction patterns. Scientific Reports, 13(1): 1691. link

  4. Hancock, Z.B., Lehmberg E.S., Blackmon, H. (2022) Phylogenetics in Space: How continuous spatial structure impacts phylogenetic inference. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 173: 107505. link

  5. Hancock, Z.B., Ogawa, H., Light, J.E., Wicksten, M. (2022) Origin and evolution of the Haustoriidae (Amphipoda): A eulogy for the Haustoriidira. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(4): 1252–1267. link

  6. Hancock, Z.B., Hardin, F.O., Murthy, A., Hillhouse, A., Johnston, J.S. (2021) Rapid genomic expansion and purging associated with habitat transitions in a clade of beach crustaceans (Haustoriidae: Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 41(3): ruab042. link

  7. Wicksten, M.K., Hancock, Z.B. (2021) Synonymy of the caridean shrimp genus Paralatreutes Kemp, 1925 with Latreutes Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Hippolytidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4(67): 247–252.

  8. Hardin, F.O., Leivers, S., Grace, J.K., Hancock, Z.B., Campell, T., Pierce, B., Morrison, M.L. (2021) Secondhand homes: The multilayered influence of woodpeckers as ecosystem engineers. Ecology & Evolution, 11(16): 11425–11439. link

  9. Hancock, Z.B., Lehmberg E.S., Bradburd G. (2021) Neo-darwinism still haunts evolutionary theory: A modern perspective on Charlesworth, Lande, and Slatkin (1982). Evolution, 75(6): 1244–1255. link

  10. Hancock, Z.B. & Blackmon, H. (2020) Ghosts of a structured past: Impacts of ancestral patterns of isolation-by-distance on divergence-time estimation. Journal of Heredity, 111(6): 573-582. link

  11. Hancock, Z.B., Hardin, F.O., Light, J.E. (2019) Phylogeography of sand-burrowing amphipods (Haustoriidae) supports an ancient suture zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Biogeography, 46(11): 2532–2547. link

  12. Hancock, Z.B. & Wicksten, M.K. (2018) Two new species of sand-burrowing amphipods of the genus Haustorius Müller, 1775 (Amphipoda: Haustoriidae) from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa, 4459(1): 101–127. link

  13. Hancock, Z.B., Goeke, J.A., Wicksten, M.K. (2017) A sea anemone of many names: a review of the taxonomy and distribution of the invasive actiniarian Diadumene lineata (Diadumenidae), with records of its reappearance on the Texas coast. ZooKeys, 706: 1–15. link

  14. Hancock, Z.B. (2017) A Walk on the Beach: Haustoriid Amphipods as Indicators of Beach Disturbance. Applied Biodiversity Science Perspective Series, 7: 13–20.

Popular Science

Hancock, Z.B. (2025) A resurrected defence of beanbag genetics. Aeon.