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Overview

Thomas E. Dowling is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Aquatic Science.

Their work focuses on topics including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Dowling has authored several research papers across various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Wild at heart: Programs to diminish negative ecological and evolutionary effects of conservation hatcheries" (2020) in Biological Conservation
  • "Concordant patterns of morphological, stable isotope and genetic variation in a recent ecological radiation (Salmonidae: Coregonus spp.)" (2022) in Molecular Ecology
  • "The Eighth Edition of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes" (2023) in Fisheries
  • "Transcriptomic divergence predicts morphological and ecological variation underlying an adaptive radiation" (2020) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Contrasting the role of historic factors in phylogeograpic patterns in the native Johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum) and invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in lower michigan" (2024) in Ecology and Evolution

Dowling frequently collaborates with several researchers including A. J. Wicks, Megan J. Osborne, Thomas F. Turner, Katherine E. Bemis, and Lloyd T. Findley. These collaborations are reflected in multiple joint publications.

Their research has been published in venues such as Fisheries, Biological Conservation, Molecular Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Ecology and Evolution, indicating a diverse range of publication outlets.

Best Publications

  • EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: RELEVANCE FOR POPULATION BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

    C. Moritz;T. E. Dowling;W. M. Brown

  • The role of hybridization and introgression in the diversification of animals

    Thomas E. Dowling;Carol L. Secor

  • Evolutionary significance of introgressive hybridization in cyprinid fishes

    Thomas E. Dowling;Bruce D. DeMarais

  • Origin of Gila seminuda (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) through introgressive hybridization: implications for evolution and conservation

    Bruce D. Demarais;Thomas E. Dowling;Michael E. Douglas;W. L. Minckley

  • Evidence for multiple genetic forms with similar eyeless phenotypes in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus.

    Thomas E. Dowling;David P. Martasian;William R. Jeffery

  • A Conservation Plan for Native Fishes of the Lower Colorado River

    W. L. Minckley;Paul C. Marsh;James E. Deacon;Thomas E. Dowling

  • Does nonneutral evolution shape observed patterns of DNA variation in animal mitochondrial genomes

    Anne S. Gerber;Ronald Loggins;Sudhir Kumar;Thomas E. Dowling

  • Impact of Hybridization on a Threatened Trout of the Southwestern United States

    Thomas E. Dowling;Michael R. Childs

  • REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AND INTROGRESSION BETWEEN NOTROPIS CORNUTUS AND NOTROPIS CHRYSOCEPHALUS (FAMILY CYPRINIDAE): COMPARISON OF MORPHOLOGY, ALLOZYMES, AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

    Thomas E. Dowling;Gerald R. Smith;Wesley M. Brown

  • Evolutionary Relationships of the Plagopterins (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Cytochrome b Sequences

    Thomas E. Dowling;C. Alana Tibbets;W. L. Minckley;Gerald R. Smith

  • Questioning evidence for recombination in human mitochondrial DNA.

    S. Kumar;P. W. Hedrick;T. Dowling;Mark Stoneking

  • Length variation in mitochondrial DNA of the minnow Cyprinella spiloptera.

    R E Broughton;T E Dowling

  • Historical Biogeography of the New-World Pupfish Genus Cyprinodon (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae)

    Anthony A. Echelle;Evan W. Carson;Alice F. Echelle;R. A. Van Den Bussche

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Eurasian and American cyprinids using cytochrome b sequences

    C. Cunha;N. Mesquita;T. E. Dowling;A. Gilles

  • EFFECTS OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC FACTORS ON POPULATION FRAGMENTATION IN THREE SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MINNOWS (TELEOSTEI: CYPRINIDAE)

    C. Alana Tibbets;Thomas E. Dowling

  • Functional and ecological significance of rDNA intergenic spacer variation in a clonal organism under divergent selection for production rate.

    Elena Gorokhova;Thomas E. Dowling;Lawrence J. Weider;Teresa J. Crease

  • The role of introgressive hybridization in the evolution of the Gila robusta complex (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).

    Anne S. Gerber;C. Alana Tibbets;Thomas E. Dowling

  • Molecular and cytological investigations

    D. G. Buth;T. E. Dowling;J. R. Gold

  • THE EXTENT OF INTROGRESSION OUTSIDE THE CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN NOTROPIS CORNUTUS AND NOTROPIS CHRYSOCEPHALUS (TELEOSTEI: CYPRINIDAE).

    Thomas E. Dowling;Walter R. Hoeh

  • Influence of hydrogeographic history and hybridization on the distribution of genetic variation in the pupfishes Cyprinodon atrorus and C. bifasciatus.

    Evan W. Carson;Thomas E. Dowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gerald R. Smith
Gerald R. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maria Manuela Coelho
Maria Manuela Coelho University of Lisbon
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Michael E. Douglas
Michael E. Douglas University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Elena Gorokhova
Elena Gorokhova Stockholm University
Ignacio Doadrio
Ignacio Doadrio Spanish National Research Council
Philip W. Hedrick
Philip W. Hedrick Arizona State University
Sudhir Kumar
Sudhir Kumar Temple University

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