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Allan J. Baker
Researcher at Royal Ontario Museum
Publications - 169
Citations - 17477
Allan J. Baker is an academic researcher from Royal Ontario Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 168 publications receiving 15981 citations. Previous affiliations of Allan J. Baker include University of Toronto.
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The interplay between habitat availability and population differentiation
Yvonne I. Verkuil,Theunis Piersma,Joop Jukema,Leo Zwarts,Allan J. Baker,Jos C.E.W. Hooijmeijer +5 more
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Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay
Allan J. Baker,Allan J. Baker,Patricia M. González,Theunis Piersma,Lawrence J. Niles,Inês de Lima Serrano do Nascimento,Philip W. Atkinson,Nigel A. Clark,Clive Minton,Mark K. Peck,Geert Aarts +10 more
TL;DR: Demographic modelling predicts imminent endangerment and an increased risk of extinction of the subspecies without urgent risk–averse management of the red knot population wintering in Tierra del Fuego, seriously threatening the viability of this subspecies.
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CHAPTER 3 – Mitochondrial Control Region Sequences as Tools for Understanding Evolution
Allan J. Baker,H. Dawn Marshall +1 more
TL;DR: The chapter summarizes what is known about the control region of birds in terms of its organization, the location of markers within it, and presents exemplars from laboratory observations illustrating the potential and problems of fast-evolving sequences in elucidating the population structure and molecular systematics of closely related taxa.
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A Mitogenomic Timescale for Birds Detects Variable Phylogenetic Rates of Molecular Evolution and Refutes the Standard Molecular Clock
Sergio L. Pereira,Allan J. Baker +1 more
TL;DR: The first comprehensive analysis of mitogenomic data of 48 vertebrates, including 35 birds, is performed to derive a Bayesian timescale for avian evolution and to estimate rates of DNA evolution, finding no support for the hypothesis that the molecular clock in birds "ticks" according to a constant rate of substitution per unit of mass-specific metabolic energy rather than per unitOf time, as recently suggested.
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Complete mitochondrial DNA geonome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis
Oliver Haddrath,Allan J. Baker +1 more
TL;DR: Most of the major ratite lineages fit the vicariance biogeography hypothesis, the exceptions being the ostrich and the kiwi, which require dispersal to explain their present distribution.