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Robert C. Fleischer
Researcher at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Publications - 296
Citations - 14757
Robert C. Fleischer is an academic researcher from Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Brood parasite. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 275 publications receiving 13478 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Fleischer include American University & Durham University.
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Universal Linker and Ligation Procedures for Construction of Genomic DNA Libraries Enriched for Microsatellites
TL;DR: A blunt-end linker, named SNX for its restriction sites, that allows the use of combinations of restriction enzymes to digest the majority of genomic DNA into the 200-1000-bp range, resulting in representative small-insert libraries with a very high proportion of positive clones.
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Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza.
A. Marm Kilpatrick,Aleksei A. Chmura,David W. Gibbons,Robert C. Fleischer,Peter P. Marra,Peter Daszak +5 more
TL;DR: H5N1 is more likely to be introduced into the Western Hemisphere through infected poultry and into the mainland United States by subsequent movement of migrating birds from neighboring countries, rather than from eastern Siberia.
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Evolution on a volcanic conveyor belt: using phylogeographic reconstructions and K-Ar-based ages of the Hawaiian Islands to estimate molecular evolutionary rates.
TL;DR: K–Ar estimates of the date of an island’s formation provide a maximum age for the taxa inhabiting the island and can be used to calibrate rates of molecular change under the following assumptions: (i) K–Ar dates are accurate; (ii) tree topologies show that derivation of taxa parallels the timing of island formation;
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Emerging vectors in the Culex pipiens complex.
Dina M. Fonseca,Nusha Keyghobadi,Colin A. Malcolm,Ceylan Mehmet,Francis Schaffner,Motoyoshi Mogi,Robert C. Fleischer,Richard C. Wilkerson +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that, in northern Europe, forms differing in behavior and physiology have unique microsatellite fingerprints with no evidence of gene flow between them, as would be expected from distinct species.
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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.