Dr. Chyi Yin Gwee

Postdoc

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Research interests

I am broadly interested in the mechanisms driving speciation and the role of biogeography in shaping biodiversity. My research integrates evolutionary biology, museomics, and paleogenomics to understand how species boundaries are maintained over time in the face of climate change. By combining spatial and temporal genomic approaches, I aim to deepen our understanding of how biodiversity evolves and persists across dynamic landscapes.

For more information, please visit this extended version of our website: biodiversitysmns.wixsite.com/rpereiralab

Projects

Publications

2026

Gwee C.Y., Tassoni L., Boev Z., Tomek T., Bochenski Z.M., Talamo S., Wolf J.B.W. 2026. Performance of Two Custom Probe Kits for In-Solution Enrichment of Ancient Avian DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources 26, no. 1: e70071. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70071.

2025

Gwee C.Y., Metzler D., Fuchs J., Wolf J.B.W. (2025). Reconciling Gene Tree Discordance and Biogeography in European Crows. Molecular Ecology, e17764, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17764

2024

Garg K.M., Gwee C.Y., Chattopadhyay B., Ng N.S., Prawiradilaga D.M., David G., Fuchs J., Manh H.L., Martinez J., Olsson U., Tu V.T., Chhin S., Alström P., Lei F., Rheindt F.E. (2024). When colors mislead: Genomics and bioacoustics prompt re-classification of Asian flycatcher radiation (Aves: Niltavinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 193: 107999, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107999

2023

Tan H.Z., Jansen J.J.F.J, Allport G.A., Garg K.M., Chattopadhyay B., Irestedt M., Pang S.E.H, Chilton G., Gwee C.Y., Rheindt F.E. (2023). Megafaunal extinctions, not climate change, may explain Holocene genetic diversity declines in Numenius shorebirds. eLife 12:e85422, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85422
Wu M.Y., Forcina G., Low G.W., Sadanandan K.R., Gwee C.Y., van Grouw H., Wu S., Edwards S.V. Baldwin M.W., Rheindt F.E. (2023). Historic samples reveal loss of wild genotype through domestic chicken introgression during the Anthropocene. PLoS Genetics 19(1): e1010551, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010551

2022

Wu M.Y., Lau C.J., Ng E.Y.X, Baveja P., Gwee C.Y., Sadanandan K., Ferasyi T.R., Haminuddin, Ramadhan R., Menner J.K., Rheindt F.E. (2022). Genomes from historic DNA unveil massive hidden extinction and terminal endangerment in a tropical Asian songbird radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(9), https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac189
Sin Y.C.K., Kristensen N.P., Gwee C.Y., Chisholm R.A., & Rheindt F.E. (2022). Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land-bridge connections. Journal of Biogeography 49(1): 189-200, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14293

2020

Gwee C.Y., Garg K.M., Chattopadhyay B., Sadanandan K.R., Prawiradilaga D.M., Irestedt M., Lei F., Bloch L.M., Lee J.G.H., Irham M., Haryoko T., Soh M.C.G., Peh K.S.H., Rowe K.M.C., Ferasyi T.R., Wu S., Wogan G.O.U., Bowie R.C.K., Rheindt F.E. (2020). Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a ‘great speciator’, reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity. eLife 9: e627, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62765
Gwee C.Y., Lee Q.L., Mahood S.P., Hung L.M., Tizard R., Eiamampai K., Round P.D., Rheindt F.E. (2020). The interplay of color and bioacoustic traits in the differentiation of a Southeast Asian songbird complex. Molecular Ecology 30: 297-309, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15718
Sadanandan K.R., Low G.W., Sridharan S., Gwee C.Y., Ng E.Y.X., Yuda P., Prawiradilaga D.M., Lee J.G.H, Tritto A., Rheindt F.E. (2020). The conservation value of admixed phenotypes in a critically endangered species complex. Scientific Reports 10: 15549, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72428-2
Rheindt F.E., Prawiradilaga M.D., Ashari H., Suparno, Gwee C.Y., Lee G.W.X., Wu M.Y., Ng N.S.R. (2020). A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna. Science 367(6474): 167-170, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax2146

2019

Gwee C.Y., Eaton J.A., Ng E.Y.X., Rheindt F.E. (2019). Species delimitation within the Glaucidium brodiei owlet complex using bioacoustic tools. Avian Research 10: 36, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-019-0175-4
Gwee C.Y., Eaton J.A., Garg K.M., Alström P., van Balen S., Hutchinson R.O., Prawiradilaga D.M., Hung Le Manh, Rheindt F.E. (2019). Cryptic diversity in Cyornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) jungle-flycatchers flagged by simple bioacoustic approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186(3): 725-741, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz003

2018

Tang Q., Low G.W, Lim J.Y., Gwee C.Y., Rheindt F.E. (2018). Human activities and landscape features interact to closely define the distribution and dispersal of an urban commensal. Evolutionary Applications 11: 1598-1608, https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12650
Alström P., Rheindt F.E., Zhang R., Zhao M., Wang J., Zhu X., Gwee C.Y., Hao Y., Ohlson J., Jia C., Prawiradilaga D.M., Olsson U. (2018). Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 141-152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.031
Prawiradilaga D.M., Baveja P., Suparno S., Ashari H., Ng N.S.R., Gwee C.Y., Verbelen P. and Rheindt F.E. (2018). A colourful new species of Myzomela honeyeater from Rote island in Eastern Indonesia. Treubia 44: 77-100

2017

Chattopadhyay B., Garg K.M., Gwee C.Y., Edwards S.V., and Rheindt F.E. (2017). Gene flow during glacial habitat shifts facilitates character displacement in a Neotropical flycatcher radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(1): 210, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1047-3
Gwee C.Y., Christidis L., Eaton J.A., Norman J.A., Trainor C.R., Verbelen P., Rheindt F.E. (2017). Bioacoustic and multi- locus DNA data of Ninox owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 246-258, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024