It may come as a surprise, then, to learn that the Duke University professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator recently made news for co-leading the Avian
Phylogenomics Project and co-authoring a 12 December Science paper presenting the most well resolved bird family tree ever assembled.
His involvement in the Avian
Phylogenomics Project — which, apart from appearing at first unrelated to his research area, also requires skills and analysis outside his expertise — is an illustration of this ethos in action.
Not exact matches
The
project is about using molecular
phylogenomics to identify and taxonomically assign the specific DPANNs from the Loki's Castle samples.