exploring biodiversity for solutions
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Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions. BioDiversity. 1,300,000 species described Likely over 8,000,000 total. Wheeler 1990. Some tools for exploring biodiversity. Explore trees Target key innovations Identify independent origins Target selective environments - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions
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BioDiversity• 1,300,000 species described• Likely over 8,000,000 total
Wheeler 1990
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Some tools for exploring biodiversity
• Explore trees– Target key innovations– Identify independent origins
• Target selective environments• Browse natural history records• Dig into the literature• Ask a biologist
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Organizing Life• Phylogeny: hypothesized evolutionary
relationships among a group of species
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
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Target Clades with Key Innovations
• Explore variation in that trait between environments, lineages, etc.
Gamble et al 2012 PLoS One
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Identify multiple evolutionary origins
• For a particular trait • For solving a particular problem
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Target Selective Environments
• Can you distill your problem into an environment organisms are adapted to?
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Browse databases & natural history records
• What are certain species or lineages really “good at?”
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Browse databases & natural history records
• What are certain species or lineages really “good at?”
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Research the mechanism
• Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar
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Ask a Biologist• We are always excited to talk about our study
organisms!• 200+ biologists at the University (CBS, CFANS)• Find a specialist for your group of interest
College of Biological Sciences website Bell Museum collections