About me
- johnjameswilson
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- I am interested in how we can use DNA sequences to understand biodiversity – how do we recognise species, and how are species related at taxonomic, ecological and geographic levels? My passion for biodiversity research has led me from the world’s largest natural history collection - Natural History Museum, London, where I completed my MSc, to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario - global centre for the international Barcode of Life, as a PhD student, and to the hyper-diverse tropics of Southeast Asia. The tropics will be the first regions to experience historically unprecedented climates and this will happen within the next decade. Consequently my recent research has focussed on understanding the effects of urbanisation and climate change on tropical and subtropical biodiversity - encompassing both species richness and ecological integrity across a diversity of taxonomic groups.
Feb 21, 2012
Measuring discord between taxonomy and phylogenetic inference
This paper covers a problem I am also interested in - how to formalize the discordance between a taxonomic classification and a phylogenetic inference? Whereas my approach used existing algorithms employed in phylogenetics the CI and RI and refashioned them as the TCI and TRI, these authors with their substantial programming skills have refashioned the problem as one of "subcoloring". I can't say I fully understand what they have done, yet, but it certainly is nice to see other authors addressing this same problem. The paper is also interesting as a manuscript posted online prior to formal (journal) publication.
