Biodiversity Research in the Tropics in the Era of the Sixth Extinction Crisis - Frank Rheindt скачать в хорошем качестве

Biodiversity Research in the Tropics in the Era of the Sixth Extinction Crisis - Frank Rheindt

Members of the Avian Evolution Lab have in common a fascination for biodiversity and its underlying evolutionary processes. With the on-going biodiversity crisis on our planet, we are also interested in how knowledge of evolutionary processes can inform conservation.Most of our research activities focus on the mechanisms that lead to – or sometimes act against – the build-up of biodiversity, such as genetic differentiation and introgression. Birds are our main model organism because their well-known distribution and life-history render them a suitable object for evolutionary studies. However, our lab has branched out into a wide array of other animal groups, such as turtles, crocodiles, and mosquitoes. Pursuing a research project in this lab usually involves the application of a variety of laboratory approaches and contemporary computational tools based on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology. Fieldwork and bioacoustic analyses are often, but not always, an important component of our students’ work. Some of the overarching themes that we are involved in include Conservation Genomics, Genetic introgression, Complex radiations and leapfrog patterns and Biogeography in Wallacea.