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Heather R. L. Lerner
Researcher at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Publications - 2
Citations - 490
Heather R. L. Lerner is an academic researcher from Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adaptive radiation & Hawaiian honeycreeper. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 442 citations. Previous affiliations of Heather R. L. Lerner include National Museum of Natural History & University of Maryland, College Park.
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Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers
Heather R. L. Lerner,Heather R. L. Lerner,Matthias Meyer,Helen F. James,Helen F. James,Michael Hofreiter,Robert C. Fleischer,Robert C. Fleischer +7 more
TL;DR: A new data set of 13 nuclear loci and pyrosequencing of mitochondrial genomes is analyzed that resolves the Hawaiian honeycreeper phylogeny and shows that they are a sister taxon to Eurasian rosefinches and probably came to Hawaii from Asia.