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Timothy G. Barraclough

Timothy G. Barraclough

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
22300
World Ranking
1926
National Ranking
228

Overview

Timothy G. Barraclough is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output features research centered on evolutionary and genetic dynamics, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, plant and fungal interactions, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies. Other topics addressed in their publications include studies involving plant and animal organisms and plant-microbe interactions and immunity.

Frequent co-authors contributing collaboratively to their research include Reuben W. Nowell, Christopher G. Wilson, Matthew J. Ryan, J. Flood, and Lily D. Peck.

Timothy G. Barraclough regularly publishes in notable scientific venues, with multiple articles appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, PLoS Biology, Genome Biology and Evolution, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Barraclough include:

  • Bacterial adaptation is constrained in complex communities, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The role of hosts, plasmids and environment in determining plasmid transfer rates: A meta-analysis, 2020, Plasmid
  • Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints, 2020, Evolution
  • Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers, 2021, eLife
  • Introgression across evolutionary scales suggests reticulation contributes to Amazonian tree diversity, 2020, Molecular Ecology

Best Publications

  • Sequence-Based Species Delimitation for the DNA Taxonomy of Undescribed Insects

    Joan Pons;Joan Pons;Timothy G. Barraclough;Timothy G. Barraclough;Jesus Gomez-Zurita;Jesus Gomez-Zurita;Anabela Cardoso;Anabela Cardoso

  • Delimiting Species Using Single-Locus Data and the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent Approach: A Revised Method and Evaluation on Simulated Data Sets

    Tomochika Fujisawa;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • DNA barcoding the floras of biodiversity hotspots

    Renaud Lahaye;Michelle van der Bank;Diego Bogarin;Jorge Warner

  • A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation

    Toby Hunt;Johannes Bergsten;Zuzana Levkanicova;Anna Papadopoulou

  • A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants

    Mark W. Chase;Robyn S. Cowan;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Cassio van den Berg

  • Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation.

    Michael T. Monaghan;Ruth Wild;Ruth Wild;Miranda Elliot;Miranda Elliot;Tomochika Fujisawa

  • Darwin's abominable mystery: Insights from a supertree of the angiosperms

    T. Jonathan Davies;Timothy G. Barraclough;Mark W. Chase;Pamela S. Soltis

  • Detecting the Geographical Pattern of Speciation from Species-Level Phylogenies.

    Timothy G. Barraclough;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Phylogenetics and speciation.

    Timothy G. Barraclough;Sean Nee

  • The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding

    Johannes Bergsten;David T. Bilton;Tomochika Fujisawa;Miranda Elliott

  • Speciation Has a Spatial Scale That Depends on Levels of Gene Flow

    Yael Kisel;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment

    Diane Lawrence;Francesca Fiegna;Volker Behrends;Jacob G. Bundy

  • Independently evolving species in asexual bdelloid rotifers.

    Diego Fontaneto;Elisabeth A Herniou;Elisabeth A Herniou;Chiara Boschetti;Manuela Caprioli

  • Sexual Selection and Taxonomic Diversity in Passerine Birds

    Timothy G. Barraclough;Paul H. Harvey;Sean Nee

  • The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

    Cuong Q. Tang;Francesca Leasi;Francesca Leasi;Ulrike Obertegger;Alexander Kieneke

  • Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores

    T. Jonathan Davies;Shai Meiri;Timothy G. Barraclough;Timothy G. Barraclough;John L. Gittleman

  • Rate heterogeneity among lineages of tracheophytes: Integration of molecular and fossil data and evidence for molecular living fossils

    Pamela S. Soltis;Douglas E. Soltis;Vincent Savolainen;Peter R. Crane

  • Revealing the factors that promote speciation

    Timothy G. Barraclough;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler;Paul H. Harvey

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants

    T. Jonathan Davies;Vincent Savolainen;Mark W. Chase;Justin Moat

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
Thomas Bell
Thomas Bell Imperial College London
Félix Forest
Félix Forest Royal Botanic Gardens
T. Jonathan Davies
T. Jonathan Davies University of British Columbia
R. Toby Pennington
R. Toby Pennington University of Exeter
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Austin Burt
Austin Burt Imperial College London

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