Helen James

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Helen James

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Curator in Charge of Vertebrate Zoology

Research Interests

Systematics, evolutionary morphology, and fossil record of birds

BISI Concentration Areas

BEES


Latest Papers

Anatomical Atlas and Three-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Model of the Flight Apparatus in the Southern Screamer (Anseriformes: Chauna torquata)

| Integrative Organismal Biology
Author(s): Klara Widrig, Aiden Starry, Helen F James
UMD Author(s): Helen James


Reticulated adaptive radiation and phylogenomic diversity loss in the Hawaiian honeycreepers

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
UMD Author(s): Helen James


Morphological variability as a buffer against extinction: insights from Hawaiian honeycreepers

| Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
UMD Author(s): Helen James


Population structure and inter-species admixture within a likely extinct yet formerly widespread Hawaiian honeycreeper

| Biology Letters
Author(s): Natalia A. S. Przelomska, Michael G. Campana, Helen F. James, et. al
UMD Author(s): Helen James


Quantitative analysis of stem-palaeognath flight capabilities sheds light on ratite dispersal and flight loss

| Biology Letters
Author(s): Klara Widrig, Fabio Alfieri, Pei-Chen Kuo, et. al
UMD Author(s): Helen James


Comparative anatomy supports the evolution of nocturnality in the extinct Hawaiian ibis Apteribis

| Integrative and Comparative Biology
UMD Author(s): Helen James


2024 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Rebecca T. Kimball

| Ornithology
UMD Author(s): Helen James


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