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Eric B. Taylor is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, Aquatic Science, and Molecular Biology as subfields.

Their research topics concentrate on Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Identification and Quantification in Food, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Taylor include:

  • Global systematic diversity, range distributions, conservation and taxonomic assessments of graylings (Teleostei: Salmonidae; Thymallus spp.), 2020, Organisms Diversity & Evolution
  • The sockeye salmon genome, transcriptome, and analyses identifying population defining regions of the genome, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Evidence for divergence between sympatric stone charr and Dolly Varden along unique environmental gradients in Kamchatka, 2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
  • Evaluating a species phylogeny using ddRAD SNPs: Cyto-nuclear discordance and introgression in the salmonid genus Thymallus (Salmonidae), 2022, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Effects of experimental flow manipulations on water quality, hypoxia, and growth of Threatened Salish sucker (Catostomus sp. cf. catostomus) and juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), 2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Organisms Diversity & Evolution
  • PLoS ONE
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research

Frequent co-authors include Armando Geraldes, Steven Weiss, Giulia Secci-Petretto, Gernot K. Englmaier, and Gaël P.J. Denys. This collaboration pattern indicates a consistent engagement with experts in related fields, supporting interdisciplinary approaches in their research.

Best Publications

  • Conservation status of imperiled north American freshwater and diadromous fishes

    Howard L. Jelks;Stephen J. Walsh;Noel M. Burkhead;Salvador Contreras‐Balderas

  • A review of local adaptation in Salmonidac, with particular reference to Pacific and Atlantic salmon

    Eric B Taylor

  • Identifying Canadian Freshwater Fishes through DNA Barcodes

    Nicolas Hubert;Robert Hanner;Erling Holm;Nicholas E. Mandrak

  • Speciation in reverse: morphological and genetic evidence of the collapse of a three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) species pair

    E. B. Taylor;J. W. Boughman;J. W. Boughman;M. Groenenboom;M. Groenenboom;M. Sniatynski

  • Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis

    DJ Fraser;LK Weir;L Bernatchez;MM Hansen

  • ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE AND THE BALANCE BETWEEN SELECTION AND GENE FLOW: LAKE AND STREAM STICKLEBACK IN THE MISTY SYSTEM

    Andrew P. Hendry;Eric B. Taylor;J. Donald McPhail

  • Historical contingency and ecological determinism interact to prime speciation in sticklebacks, Gasterosteus.

    Eric B. Taylor;J. Donald McPhail

  • HOW MUCH OF THE VARIATION IN ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE CAN BE EXPLAINED BY GENE FLOW? AN EVALUATION USING LAKE-STREAM STICKLEBACK PAIRS

    Andrew P. Hendry;Eric B. Taylor

  • POPULATION MIXING AND THE ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE OF QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN DISCRETE POPULATIONS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR EMPIRICAL TESTS

    Andrew P. Hendry;Troy Day;Eric B. Taylor

  • Population subdivision in westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) at the northern periphery of its range: evolutionary inferences and conservation implications.

    E. B. Taylor;M. D. Stamford;J. S. Baxter

  • Species pairs of north temperate freshwater fishes: Evolution, taxonomy, and conservation

    Eric B. Taylor

  • Prolonged and burst swimming in anadromous and freshwater threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus

    Eric B. Taylor;J. D. McPhail

  • Evolutionary history of an adaptive radiation in species pairs of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus): insights from mitochondrial DNA

    Eric B. Taylor;J. D. McPHAIL

  • Hepatic Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier 1 is Required for Efficient Regulation of Gluconeogenesis and Whole-body Glucose Homeostasis

    Lawrence R. Gray;Mst Rasheda Sultana;Adam J. Rauckhorst;Lalita Oonthonpan

  • The influence of history and contemporary stream hydrology on the evolution of genetic diversity within species: an examination of microsatellite DNA variation in bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus (Pisces: Salmonidae).

    A. B. Costello;T. E. Down;S. M. Pollard;C. J. Pacas

  • MOLECULAR GENETIC EVIDENCE FOR PARALLEL LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION WITHIN A PACIFIC SALMON (SOCKEYE SALMON AND KOKANEE, ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA).

    Eric B. Taylor;Chris J. Foote;C. C. Wood

  • Variation in Burst and Prolonged Swimming Performance Among British Columbia Populations of Coho Salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch

    Eric B. Taylor;J. D. McPhail

  • Variation in Body Morphology Among British Columbia Populations of Coho Salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch

    Eric B. Taylor;J. D. McPhail

  • Contrasting hybridization rates between sympatric three-spined sticklebacks highlight the fragility of reproductive barriers between evolutionarily young species.

    Jennifer L. Gow;Catherine L. Peichel;Eric B. Taylor

  • Evidence for multiple origins and sympatric divergence of trophic ecotypes of smelt (Osmerus) in northeastern North America

    Eric B. Taylor;Paul Bentzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie J. Goodyear
Laurie J. Goodyear Harvard University
Jared Rutter
Jared Rutter University of Utah
J. D. McPhail
J. D. McPhail University of British Columbia
Michael F. Hirshman
Michael F. Hirshman Harvard University
James C. Cox
James C. Cox Georgia State University
E. Dale Abel
E. Dale Abel University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas R. Spitz
Douglas R. Spitz University of Iowa
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval
Thomas P. Quinn
Thomas P. Quinn University of Washington

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