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62
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15002
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2066
National Ranking
55

Overview

Brent C. Emerson is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Ecology, Genetics, and related subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific outlets, most notably:

  • Molecular Ecology (12 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (4 publications)
  • Molecular Ecology Resources (4 publications)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences" (2020), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole-community haplotype-level metabarcoding" (2020), Molecular Ecology
  • "Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence" (2024), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data" (2021), Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real-time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10.4" (2023), Cladistics

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Paula Arribas, Carmelo Andújar, Paulo A. V. Borges, Víctor Noguerales, and Pedro Cardoso. These partnerships have contributed to a diverse and interdisciplinary approach within their research fields.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

    Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Yinqiu Ji;Brent C. Emerson;Xiaoyang Wang

  • Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time.

    Brent C. Emerson;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

    Yinqiu Ji;Louise Ashton;Scott M. Pedley;David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards

  • Evolution on oceanic islands: molecular phylogenetic approaches to understanding pattern and process.

    B. C. Emerson

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Colonization and diversification: towards a phylogeographic synthesis for the Canary Islands.

    Carlos Juan;Brent C. Emerson;Pedro Oromı́;Godfrey M. Hewitt

  • Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing, genotyping error estimation and de novo assembly optimization for population genetic inference

    Alicia Mastretta-Yanes;Nils Arrigo;Nadir Álvarez;Tove H. Jorgensen

  • Cryptic or mystic? Glacial tree refugia in northern Europe

    P.C. Tzedakis;Brent C. Emerson;Brent C. Emerson;Godfrey M Hewitt

  • Species diversity can drive speciation.

    Brent C. Emerson;Niclas Kolm

  • Biodiversity in the Mexican highlands and the interaction of geology, geography and climate within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

    Alicia Mastretta-Yanes;Alejandra Moreno-Letelier;Daniel Piñero;Tove H. Jorgensen

  • Revealing the demographic histories of species using DNA sequences

    Brent C. Emerson;Emmanuel Paradis;Christophe Thébaud

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the plant-specific seven-transmembrane MLO family.

    Alessandra Devoto;Henrik Andreas Hartmann;Pietro Piffanelli;Candace Elliott

  • Bulk De Novo Mitogenome Assembly from Pooled Total DNA Elucidates the Phylogeny of Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

    Conrad P.D.T. Gillett;Alex Crampton-Platt;Martin J.T.N. Timmermans;Bjarte Henry Jordal

  • HOW DID LIFE BECOME SO DIVERSE? THE DYNAMICS OF DIVERSIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE FOSSIL RECORD AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS

    Michael J. Benton;Brent C. Emerson

  • A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;Paulo A.V. Borges;José María Fernández-Palacios

  • Sexual selection protects against extinction

    Alyson J. Lumley;Łukasz Michalczyk;James J. N. Kitson;Lewis G. Spurgin

  • Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

    Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Rahel Sollmann;Andreas Wilting;Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann

  • Why the COI barcode should be the community DNA metabarcode for the metazoa.

    Carmelo Andújar;Paula Arribas;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of European hedgehogs.

    F. Santucci;B. C. Emerson;G. M. Hewitt

  • A road map for molecular ecology.

    Rose L. Andrew;Louis Bernatchez;Aurélie Bonin;C. Alex. Buerkle

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Michael J. Hickerson
Michael J. Hickerson City University of New York
Paula Arribas
Paula Arribas Spanish National Research Council
Pedro Oromí
Pedro Oromí University of La Laguna
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Godfrey M. Hewitt
Godfrey M. Hewitt University of East Anglia
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva

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