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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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Rapid genetic differentiation and founder effect in colonizing populations of common mynas (acridotheres tristis)
Allan J. Baker,Abdul Moeed +1 more
TL;DR: Populations of common mynas introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and South Africa from India during the last century were compared genetically with the extant native population using isozyme electrophoresis of 39 presumptive loci.
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Convergent regulatory evolution and loss of flight in paleognathous birds
Timothy B. Sackton,Phil Grayson,Alison Cloutier,Zhirui Hu,Jun Liu,Nicole E. Wheeler,Nicole E. Wheeler,Paul P. Gardner,Paul P. Gardner,Julia A. Clarke,Allan J. Baker,Allan J. Baker,Michele Clamp,Scott V. Edwards +13 more
TL;DR: This work combined phylogenomic, developmental, and epigenomic analysis of 11 new genomes of paleognathous birds to show that convergent evolution of regulatory regions, more so than protein-coding genes, is prevalent among developmental pathways associated with independent losses of flight.
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Disjunct distribution of highly diverged mitochondrial lineage clade and population subdivision in a marine bivalve with pelagic larval dispersal.
TL;DR: According to mitochondrial DNA sequence data, populations of this species can remain highly subdivided in spite of the potential for high gene flow, implying that their population and evolutionary dynamics can be independent.
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Global mitochondrial dna phylogeography of holarctic breeding dunlins (calidris alpina).
TL;DR: Dunlins provide one of the clearest examples of the linkage between historical and contemporary components of mtDNA phylogeographic structuring in birds, which is being maintained by natal philopatry.
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RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within Charadriiform birds.
TL;DR: Divergence times estimated with rate-smoothing methods and minimum time constraints imposed at nodes with key fossils suggest that Charadriiformes originated in Gondwanaland.