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Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions

Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions. BioDiversity. 1,300,000 species described Likely over 8,000,000 total. Wheeler 1990. Some tools for exploring biodiversity. Explore trees Target key innovations Identify independent origins Target selective environments

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Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions

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  1. Exploring Biodiversity for Solutions

  2. BioDiversity • 1,300,000 species described • Likely over 8,000,000 total Wheeler 1990

  3. Some tools for exploring biodiversity • Explore trees • Target key innovations • Identify independent origins • Target selective environments • Browse natural history records • Dig into the literature • Ask a biologist

  4. Organizing Life • Phylogeny: hypothesized evolutionary relationships among a group of species http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

  5. Target Clades with Key Innovations • Explore variation in that trait between environments, lineages, etc. Gamble et al 2012 PLoS One

  6. Identify multiple evolutionary origins • For a particular trait • For solving a particular problem

  7. Target Selective Environments • Can you distill your problem into an environment organisms are adapted to?

  8. Browse databases & natural history records • What are certain species or lineages really “good at?”

  9. Browse databases & natural history records • What are certain species or lineages really “good at?”

  10. Research the mechanism • Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar

  11. Ask a Biologist • We are always excited to talk about our study organisms! • 200+ biologists at the University (CBS, CFANS) • Find a specialist for your group of interest College of Biological Sciences website Bell Museum collections

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