Publications
Hancock, Z.B., Bradburd, G.S. (2026) sandwrm: an R package for estimating Wright’s neighborhood size and species-level genetic diversity. bioRxiv, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654925v1.
Hancock, Z.B., Adams, N.E., Wood Jr., P.L., Bradburd, G.S. (2026). Asymmetric gene flow maintains range edges in a marine invertebrate. The American Naturalist, 208(2): 201-214. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/741060.
Beckman, A., Hamer, S., Rosenthal, G., Brennan, L., Hancock, Z.B. (2025) The role of management decisions in subspecies hybridization across wild turkey occupied range. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 49(S1): e1625. (https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1625)
Hancock, Z.B. (2025) “Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes.” Nautilus, https://nautil.us/evolution-and-guinea-pig-toes-1217063/. (Essay)
Hancock, Z.B. (2025) “A resurrected defense of beanbag genetics.” Aeon, https://aeon.co/essays/a-resurrected-defence-of-beanbag-genetics. (Essay)
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 (https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae094).
Hancock, Z.B., Cardinale, D.S. (2024) Back to the Fundamentals: A reply to Basener & Sanford (2018). Journal of Mathematical Biology, 88(54): DOI: 10.1007/s00285-024-02077-w.
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.
Hancock, Z.B., Lehmberg E.S., Blackmon, H. (2022) Phylogenetics in Space: How continuous spatial structure impacts phylogenetic inference. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 173: 107505.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hancock, Z.B. (2017) A Walk on the Beach: Haustoriid Amphipods as Indicators of Beach Disturbance. Applied Biodiversity Science Perspective Series, 7: 13–20.