Sentences with phrase «evolutionary studies depend»

Today, many ecological and evolutionary studies depend on a wide range of molecular tools to infer phylogenetic relationships, uncover population structure within species, and track quantitative traits.

Not exact matches

As such, warming could increase or decrease the strength of «enemy release» depending on the organisms that exist in a given location,» says the study's lead author Samuel Fey, a visiting scholar at Dartmouth and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program.

Indeed, evolutionary biologists tend to take a more pragmatic approach to defining species, one that depends on their avenue of study.