Stories not to be missed

Stories© Andrew Hendry

The bioGENESIS Scientific Committee puts a lot of efforts in collecting examples of studies or projects addressing its scientific strategy.

These examples are formatted in a way they can be used by academics, teachers or any other public interested in these questions. They can be used freely with mention of the credit "DIVERSITAS bioGENESIS stories".

These stories are classified along the Foci of the bioGENESIS scientific strategy, and some of them were already published in the document presenting the bioGENESIS scientific strategy (Donoghue et al. 2009 - Science Plan and Implementation Strategy):

Focus 1: New strategies and tools for documenting biodiversity

Story 1.1: Molecular approaches to discovering microbial diversity in the oceans
(Box 1 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.2: "Myco-diesel" from an endophytic fungus
(Box 2 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.3: bioGENESIS and GEO BON
(Box 3 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.4: EDIT Scratchpads: Unifying revisionary taxonomy on the web
(Box 4 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.5: Visualising evolution on a global scale
(Box 5 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.6: Geographic evolution and the spread of infectious diseases
(Box 6 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.8: All Taxa Biotic Inventory of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
(Box S2 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.9: Automated capture of label data from museum specimens
(Box S3 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 1.10: Developing and using biodiversity databanks to establish and improve conservation and sustainable use priorities
(Box S4 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Focus 2: The causes and consequences of diversification

Story 2.1: Rapid radiation of cichlid fiches in East African lakes
(Box 7 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.2: Climate change, habitat fragmentation, and hybrid speciation in primroses
(Box 8 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.3: The assembly of regional biotas
(Box 9 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.4: Evolutionary factors shaping species diversity gradients
(Box 10 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.5: Drivers of morphological evolution in Bignoniaceae
(Box 11 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.6: Taking trait evolution into account in modelling global climate change
(Box 12 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.7: Genetic variation matters to ecological processes
(Box 13 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.8: Harvesting can cause undesirable rapid evolutionary change
(Box 14 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.9: Measuring rates of speciation and extinction in legumes
(Box S5 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.10: Evolutionary perspectives on the assembly of local communities
(Box S6 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.11: Liana evolution
(Box S7 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.12: Evolution can be very rapid
(Box S8 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 2.13: Species invasions can cause rapid speciation
(Box S9 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Focus 3: Evolution, biodiversity, and human well being

Story 3.1: Invasion of the reed grass, Phragmites australis: genetic analysis of a “sleeper weed”
(Box 15 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.2: Rapid evolution of native species in response to invaders
(Box 16 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.3: Evolutionary responses to climate change
(Box 17 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.4: Responses to climate change in Thoreaus’s wood
(Box 18 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.5: Drug resistance in HIV
(Box 19 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.6: Origin and evolution of introduced pests in forest ecosystems
(Box 20 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.7: Phylogenetic diversity, evolutionary mechanisms, and conservation priorities
(Box 21 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.8: Evolutionary biogeography and biodiversity prediction
(Box 22 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.9: Rapid evolution of invasive species
(Box S10 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.10: The origin of weedy species driven by human introductions
(Box S11 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.11: Phylogeny helps us assess important impacts of climate change
(Box S12 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.12: Identifying pathogens in infectious outbreaks
(Box S13 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.13: Historical population dynamics of infectious diseases
(Box S14 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.14: Phylogeny evidence in HIV transmission in a criminal trial
(Box S15 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

Story 3.15: Phylogeny can help determine conservation priorities for species
(Box S16 in bioGENESIS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy)

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