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Allan J. Baker

Allan J. Baker

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
25898
World Ranking
1045
National Ranking
61

Overview

Allan J. Baker was affiliated with the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. Their research focused primarily on genetics, ecology, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and environmental science.

The main topics addressed in their work included:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Identification and quantification in food
  • Fish ecology and management studies

They published research in several prominent scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Science Advances
  • Ornithological Applications
  • Ibis

Significant recent publications included:

  • "Red Knot (Calidris canutus)" (2020), Birds of the World
  • "Global flyway evolution in red knots Calidris canutus and genetic evidence for a Nearctic refugium" (2022), Molecular Ecology
  • "A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moa" (2024), Science Advances
  • "Genetic structure in the nonbreeding range of rufa Red Knots suggests distinct Arctic breeding populations" (2021), Ornithological Applications
  • "Molecular evidence for introgressive hybridization in New Zealand masked gulls" (2022), Ibis

Frequent collaborators in their research included Andrew D. Given, James A. Mills, Paolo Momigliano, Jesse R. Conklin, and Yvonne I. Verkuil.

The subfields of study encompassed genetics, ecology, molecular biology, nature and landscape conservation, and ecological modeling.

Best Publications

  • The interplay between habitat availability and population differentiation

    Yvonne Verkuil;Theunis Piersma;Joop Jukema;Leo Zwarts

  • Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay

    Allan J. Baker;Allan J. Baker;Patricia M. González;Theunis Piersma;Lawrence J. Niles

  • CHAPTER 3 – Mitochondrial Control Region Sequences as Tools for Understanding Evolution

    Allan J. Baker;H. Dawn Marshall

  • Single mitochondrial gene barcodes reliably identify sister-species in diverse clades of birds

    Erika S Tavares;Allan J Baker;Allan J Baker

  • A Mitogenomic Timescale for Birds Detects Variable Phylogenetic Rates of Molecular Evolution and Refutes the Standard Molecular Clock

    Sergio L. Pereira;Allan J. Baker

  • Complete mitochondrial DNA geonome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis

    O. Haddrath;A. J. Baker

  • Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirds

    Allan J Baker;Sérgio L Pereira;Tara A Paton

  • Convergent regulatory evolution and loss of flight in paleognathous birds

    Timothy B. Sackton;Phil Grayson;Alison Cloutier;Zhirui Hu

  • HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND PRESENT DAY POPULATION STRUCTURE OF THE GREENFINCH, CARDUEUS CHLORIS-AN ANALYSIS OF mtDNA CONTROL-REGION SEQUENCES.

    Juha Merilä;Juha Merilä;Mats Björklund;Allan J. Baker

  • Mitochondrial control-region sequences in two shorebird species, the turnstone and the dunlin, and their utility in population genetic studies.

    P.W. Wenink;A.J. Baker;M.G.J. Tilanus

  • Hypervariable-control-region sequences reveal global population structuring in a long-distance migrant shorebird, the Dunlin (Calidris alpina)

    Paul W. Wenink;Allan J. Baker;Marcel G. J. Tilanus

  • RAPID GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AND FOUNDER EFFECT IN COLONIZING POPULATIONS OF COMMON MYNAS (ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS)

    Allan J. Baker;Abdul Moeed

  • GLOBAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF HOLARCTIC BREEDING DUNLINS (CALIDRIS ALPINA).

    Paul W. Wenink;Allan J. Baker;Allan J. Baker;Hans-Ulrich Rosner;Marcel G. J. Tilanus

  • Multiple gene evidence for expansion of extant penguins out of Antarctica due to global cooling

    Allan J Baker;Sergio Luiz Pereira;Oliver P Haddrath;Kerri-Anne Edge

  • RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within Charadriiform birds.

    Tara A. Paton;Allan J. Baker;Allan J. Baker;Jeff G. Groth;George F. Barrowclough

  • Disjunct distribution of highly diverged mitochondrial lineage clade and population subdivision in a marine bivalve with pelagic larval dispersal.

    P. C. Luttikhuizen;J. Drent;A. J. Baker

  • Flightless brown kiwis of New Zealand possess extremely subdivided population structure and cryptic species like small mammals.

    Allan J. Baker;C. H. Daugherty;Rogan Colbourne;J. L. McLennan

  • Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences Support a Cretaceous Origin of Columbiformes and a Dispersal-Driven Radiation in the Paleogene

    Sergio L. Pereira;Kevin P. Johnson;Dale H. Clayton;Allan J. Baker;Allan J. Baker

  • Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences show that modern birds are not descended from transitional shorebirds

    Tara Paton;Oliver Haddrath;Allan J. Baker;Allan J. Baker

  • Phylogenetic relationships within the Alcidae (Charadriiformes: Aves) inferred from total molecular evidence.

    Vicki L. Friesen;Allan J. Baker;John F. Piatt

  • Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirds: Biol. Lett. 3, 205–209 (2007)

    Allan J Baker;Sérgio L Pereira;Tara A Paton

Frequent Co-Authors

Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Scott V. Edwards
Scott V. Edwards Harvard University
Juha Merilä
Juha Merilä University of Hong Kong
Julia A. Clarke
Julia A. Clarke The University of Texas at Austin
Vicki L. Friesen
Vicki L. Friesen Queen's University
Robert A. Robinson
Robert A. Robinson British Trust for Ornithology
Simon Gillings
Simon Gillings British Trust for Ornithology
David M. Lambert
David M. Lambert Griffith University
Jason Newton
Jason Newton University of Glasgow
Jun S. Liu
Jun S. Liu Harvard University

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