Robert Fleischer holding a little green bird in his hand
Contact Info
Phone: 202.633.4190
Fax: 202.673.0040
Address: National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, 3001 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008-0551
Robert Fleischer
Adjunct Professor
Senior Scientist and Center Head, Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoo

Graduate Program Affiliation

  • BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in the evolutionary and conservation biology of birds and mammals, including studies of the genetic aspects of interactions of pathogens with their vectors and hosts, phylogeography and systematics, and the application of molecular markers to studies of kinship and behavior.


Education

Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983, Evolutionary genetics
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978, Biology


All Publications

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Latest Publications via PubMed

Blanchet G,Bellinger MR,Kearns AM,Cortes-Rodriguez N,Masuda B,Campana MG,Rutz C,Fleischer RC,Sutton JT
J Hered. 2024 Feb 3;115(1):32-44. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esad063. Epub
Mulder KP,Savage AE,Gratwicke B,Longcore JE,Bronikowski E,Evans M,Longo AV,Kurata NP,Walsh T,Pasmans F,McInerney N,Murray S,Martel A,Fleischer RC
Fungal Genet Biol. 2024 Feb;170:103858. doi: 10.1016/j.fgb.2023.103858. Epub 2023 Dec 13
Seidl CM,Ferreira FC,Parise KL,Paxton KL,Paxton EH,Atkinson CT,Fleischer RC,Foster JT,Marm Kilpatrick A
Int J Parasitol. 2024 Feb;54(2):123-130. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.10.001. Epub 2023 Nov 3
Navine AK,Paxton KL,Paxton EH,Hart PJ,Foster JT,McInerney N,Fleischer RC,Videvall E
Mol Ecol. 2023 Dec;32(23):6659-6670. doi: 10.1111/mec.16743. Epub 2022 Nov 10
Paxton KL,Cassin-Sackett L,Atkinson CT,Videvall E,Campana MG,Fleischer RC
J Hered. 2023 Jun 22;114(4):326-340. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esad017. Epub
Kaganer AW,Ossiboff RJ,Keith NI,Schuler KL,Comizzoli P,Hare MP,Fleischer RC,Gratwicke B,Bunting EM
R Soc Open Sci. 2023 Feb;10(2):220810. doi: 10.1098/rsos.220810. Epub 2023 Feb 1
Byerly PA,Chesser RT,Fleischer RC,McInerney N,Przelomska NAS,Leberg PL
Integr Comp Biol. 2022 Dec 30;62(6):1838-1848. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac107. Epub
Fleischer RC,Campana MG,James HF
Curr Biol. 2022 Oct 24;32(20):R1070-R1072. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.057. Epub
Ferreira FC,Videvall E,Seidl CM,Wagner NE,Kilpatrick AM,Fleischer RC,Fonseca DM
Malar J. 2022 Aug 29;21(1):249. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04271-x. Epub 2022 Aug 29
Parker LD,Campana MG,Quinta JD,Cypher B,Rivera I,Fleischer RC,Ralls K,Wilbert TR,Boarman R,Boarman WI,Maldonado JE
Mol Ecol Resour. 2022 May;22(4):1345-1361. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13552. Epub 2021 Nov 25
Kearns AM,Campana MG,Slikas B,Berry L,Saitoh T,Cibois A,Fleischer RC
Mol Ecol. 2022 Apr;31(7):1995-2012. doi: 10.1111/mec.16382. Epub 2022 Feb 16
Mulder KP,Alarcón-Ríos L,Nicieza AG,Fleischer RC,Bell RC,Velo-Antón G
Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2022 Feb;167:107347. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107347. Epub 2021 Nov 8
Becker MH,Brophy JAN,Barrett K,Bronikowski E,Evans M,Glassey E,Kaganer AW,Klocke B,Lassiter E,Meyer AJ,Muletz-Wolz CR,Fleischer RC,Voigt CA,Gratwicke B
ISME Commun. 2021 Oct 18;1(1):57. doi: 10.1038/s43705-021-00044-w. Epub 2021 Oct 18
Venkatraman M,Fleischer RC,Tsuchiya MTN
Genome Biol Evol. 2021 May 7;13(5):. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab063. Epub
Videvall E,Paxton KL,Campana MG,Cassin-Sackett L,Atkinson CT,Fleischer RC
Ecol Evol. 2021 May;11(9):4935-4944. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7401. Epub 2021 Mar 27
Feng S,Stiller J,Deng Y,Armstrong J,Fang Q,Reeve AH,Xie D,Chen G,Guo C,Faircloth BC,Petersen B,Wang Z,Zhou Q,Diekhans M,Chen W,Andreu-Sánchez S,Margaryan A,Howard JT,Parent C,Pacheco G,Sinding MS,Puetz L,Cavill E,Ribeiro ÂM,Eckhart L,Fjeldså J,Hosner PA,Brumfield RT,Christidis L,Bertelsen MF,Sicheritz-Ponten T,Tietze DT,Robertson BC,Song G,Borgia G,Claramunt S,Lovette IJ,Cowen SJ,Njoroge P,Dumbacher JP,Ryder OA,Fuchs J,Bunce M,Burt DW,Cracraft J,Meng G,Hackett SJ,Ryan PG,Jønsson KA,Jamieson IG,da Fonseca RR,Braun EL,Houde P,Mirarab S,Suh A,Hansson B,Ponnikas S,Sigeman H,Stervander M,Frandsen PB,van der Zwan H,van der Sluis R,Visser C,Balakrishnan CN,Clark AG,Fitzpatrick JW,Bowman R,Chen N,Cloutier A,Sackton TB,Edwards SV,Foote DJ,Shakya SB,Sheldon FH,Vignal A,Soares AER,Shapiro B,González-Solís J,Ferrer-Obiol J,Rozas J,Riutort M,Tigano A,Friesen V,Dalén L,Urrutia AO,Székely T,Liu Y,Campana MG,Corvelo A,Fleischer RC,Rutherford KM,Gemmell NJ,Dussex N,Mouritsen H,Thiele N,Delmore K,Liedvogel M,Franke A,Hoeppner MP,Krone O,Fudickar AM,Milá B,Ketterson ED,Fidler AE,Friis G,Parody-Merino ÁM,Battley PF,Cox MP,Lima NCB,Prosdocimi F,Parchman TL,Schlinger BA,Loiselle BA,Blake JG,Lim HC,Day LB,Fuxjager MJ,Baldwin MW,Braun MJ,Wirthlin M,Dikow RB,Ryder TB,Camenisch G,Keller LF,DaCosta JM,Hauber ME,Louder MIM,Witt CC,McGuire JA,Mudge J,Megna LC,Carling MD,Wang B,Taylor SA,Del-Rio G,Aleixo A,Vasconcelos ATR,Mello CV,Weir JT,Haussler D,Li Q,Yang H,Wang J,Lei F,Rahbek C,Gilbert MTP,Graves GR,Jarvis ED,Paten B,Zhang G
Nature. 2021 Apr;592(7856):E24. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8. Epub
Muletz-Wolz CR,Wilson Rankin E,McGrath-Blaser S,Venkatraman M,Maldonado JE,Gruner DS,Fleischer RC
Ecol Evol. 2021 Feb;11(4):1814-1828. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7171. Epub 2021 Jan 19
Dussex N,Kutschera VE,Wiberg RAW,Parker DJ,Hunt GR,Gray RD,Rutherford K,Abe H,Fleischer RC,Ritchie MG,Rutz C,Wolf JBW,Gemmell NJ
Mol Ecol. 2021 Feb;30(4):973-986. doi: 10.1111/mec.15775. Epub 2020 Dec 23
Feng S,Stiller J,Deng Y,Armstrong J,Fang Q,Reeve AH,Xie D,Chen G,Guo C,Faircloth BC,Petersen B,Wang Z,Zhou Q,Diekhans M,Chen W,Andreu-Sánchez S,Margaryan A,Howard JT,Parent C,Pacheco G,Sinding MS,Puetz L,Cavill E,Ribeiro ÂM,Eckhart L,Fjeldså J,Hosner PA,Brumfield RT,Christidis L,Bertelsen MF,Sicheritz-Ponten T,Tietze DT,Robertson BC,Song G,Borgia G,Claramunt S,Lovette IJ,Cowen SJ,Njoroge P,Dumbacher JP,Ryder OA,Fuchs J,Bunce M,Burt DW,Cracraft J,Meng G,Hackett SJ,Ryan PG,Jønsson KA,Jamieson IG,da Fonseca RR,Braun EL,Houde P,Mirarab S,Suh A,Hansson B,Ponnikas S,Sigeman H,Stervander M,Frandsen PB,van der Zwan H,van der Sluis R,Visser C,Balakrishnan CN,Clark AG,Fitzpatrick JW,Bowman R,Chen N,Cloutier A,Sackton TB,Edwards SV,Foote DJ,Shakya SB,Sheldon FH,Vignal A,Soares AER,Shapiro B,González-Solís J,Ferrer-Obiol J,Rozas J,Riutort M,Tigano A,Friesen V,Dalén L,Urrutia AO,Székely T,Liu Y,Campana MG,Corvelo A,Fleischer RC,Rutherford KM,Gemmell NJ,Dussex N,Mouritsen H,Thiele N,Delmore K,Liedvogel M,Franke A,Hoeppner MP,Krone O,Fudickar AM,Milá B,Ketterson ED,Fidler AE,Friis G,Parody-Merino ÁM,Battley PF,Cox MP,Lima NCB,Prosdocimi F,Parchman TL,Schlinger BA,Loiselle BA,Blake JG,Lim HC,Day LB,Fuxjager MJ,Baldwin MW,Braun MJ,Wirthlin M,Dikow RB,Ryder TB,Camenisch G,Keller LF,DaCosta JM,Hauber ME,Louder MIM,Witt CC,McGuire JA,Mudge J,Megna LC,Carling MD,Wang B,Taylor SA,Del-Rio G,Aleixo A,Vasconcelos ATR,Mello CV,Weir JT,Haussler D,Li Q,Yang H,Wang J,Lei F,Rahbek C,Gilbert MTP,Graves GR,Jarvis ED,Paten B,Zhang G
Nature. 2020 Nov;587(7833):252-257. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9. Epub 2020 Nov 11
Savage AE,Gratwicke B,Hope K,Bronikowski E,Fleischer RC
Mol Ecol. 2020 Aug;29(15):2889-2903. doi: 10.1111/mec.15533. Epub 2020 Jul 23