[Photo: Me and brazilian visiting scientists at Niagara Falls]
A special on fish barcoding in the journal Mitochondrial DNA has recently been released online. Two papers were written by researchers visiting the Hanner Lab at the University of Guelph from the developing world. I was lucky enough to interact with these researchers and help with the development of the studies.
DNA barcoding discriminates freshwater fishes from southeastern Nigeria and provides river system-level phylogeographic resolution within some species By Christopher D. Nwani, Sven Becker, Heather E. Braid, Emmanuel F. Ude, Okechukwu I. Okogwu, Robert Hanner
DNA barcodes discriminate freshwater fishes from the Paraíba do Sul River Basin, São Paulo, Brazil By Luiz H. G. Pereira, Gláucia M. G. Maia, Robert Hanner, Fausto Foresti, Claudio Oliveira
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- 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.