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Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biogeography — Climatic factors; Birds – Evolution; Birds – Geographical distribution; Evolution (Biology); Molecular genetics; North America; Paleobiogeography; Population genetics; South America
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Molecular Evolution And Historical Biogeography Of New World Birds, Brian T. Smith
Molecular Evolution And Historical Biogeography Of New World Birds, Brian T. Smith
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Deciphering the patterns of how biodiversity has evolved across time and space has remained a fundamental objective for biologists for the last 200 years. Researchers are faced with the challenge of interpreting the complexity of evolutionary patterns that have been generated over the deep history of the Earth. The advancement of DNA sequencing technology has yielded a new and powerful genetic toolkit that has allowed biologists to address novel evolutionary questions. For my dissertation research, I used molecular genetics and a statistical framework to study the evolution and historical biogeography of birds distributed in North and South America. My dissertation …