Dilini Abeyrama- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Queen's University
Dilini Abeyrama
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Queen's University
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Introduction
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Queen's University
Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Description
- Using environmental DNA (eDNA) to study species at risk and invasive species.
Publications
Publications (13)
A small colony of black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris, 21–65 breeding pairs) was discovered in 2003 on Albatross Islet, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. The formation of new breeding sites is important from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. This colony is particularly significant because it is the only one recorded for the species...
The southern oceans are home to a large variety of organisms, including many endemic species. High levels of endemism are due in part to non-physical barriers limiting gene flow in marine species. The sooty albatross Phoebetria fusca is an endangered seabird breeding on seven island groups in Atlantic and Indian Oceans. We sequenced the mitochondri...
Population genetic structure is influenced by a combination of contemporary and historical events; however, this structure can be complicated by ongoing gene flow. While it is well known that contemporary hybridization occurs frequently among many closely related species, it often remains uncertain as to which populations are involved in introgress...
Advancements in technology over the past few decades have resulted in the development of genome sequencing at lower costs. Protocols, costs, and the amount of data produced by different sequencing technologies are highly variable. Ion Torrent and Illumina sequencing instruments are two sequencing technologies which use very similar library preparat...
The two species of yellow-nosed albatross, Atlantic (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) and Indian (T. carteri), are morphologically similar, but they differ in breeding behaviour and distribution. Both species are listed as endangered by the IUCN due to the limited number of breeding sites, threats from introduced predators and diseases, and impact of c...
Key components of biodiversity cannot be treated equally due to the limitations of resources available for conservation. Therefore biodiversity should be prioritized in effective conservation and site based conservation is one such model to achieve that. However parameters related to ecology, sociology and economics (aka. tourism) are primarily use...
Different components of biodiversity cannot be treated equally due to the limitations of knowledge and resources, and the heterogeneity in the distribution of biodiversity in the landscape. Therefore, biodiversity should be prioritized in effective site-based conservation. Parameters related to ecology, sociology and economics are primarily used fo...
The evolutionary history of a phylogenetically distinct group of organisms (a clade) can be traced by using a phylogenetic tree. Such phylogenetic trees can also be used to measure the amount of evolutionary history captured by each member species (node) in the tree. Evolutionary Distinctness (ED) and Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered S...
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Question (1)
Whenever I run codes to calculate Mean Pairwise Distance I get the above error. But using the same community file and the phylogenetic tree I was able to calculate phylogentic diversity (PD).
