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D'Amato, M. E., D. H. Lunt, and G. R. Carvalho (1999) Microsatellite markers for the hake Macruronus magellanicus amplify other gadoid fish MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 8:1086-1088. PDF
The long-tail hake Macruronus magellanicus is a demersal pelagic species that constitutes the most abundant fish...
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Lunt, D. H., K. M. Ibrahim, and G. M. Hewitt (1998) MtDNA phylogeography and postglacial patterns of subdivision in the meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus Heredity 80:633-641. PDF
A 300 bp portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene was used to...
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Lunt, D. H., L. E. Whipple, and B. C. Hyman (1998) Mitochondrial DNA variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs): utility and problems in molecular ecology. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 7:1441-1455. PDF
Analysis of mitochondrial (mt)DNA size polymorphism in the form of variable number tandem repeats...
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Whipple, L. E., D. H. Lunt, and B. C. Hyman (1998) Mitochondrial DNA length variation in Meloidogyne incognita isolates of established genetic relationships: utility for nematode population studies. FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED NEMATOLOGY 21:265-271. (PDF)
Six Meloidogyne incognita isolates with previously characterized...
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A main interest of my lab is in the processes that determine genome content, structure and change. To what extent do the primary forces of evolution (recombination, effective population size, mutation and natural selection) cause differences in genome content between...
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Most of my research projects involve evolutionary analysis of DNA sequence data, from phylogenetics to comparative genomics. Although phylogenetic approaches are widespread in many areas of biology they are largely underused for very large-scale sequence datasets and the analysis of...