Samuel Richard Hirst- University of South Florida
Samuel Richard Hirst
- University of South Florida
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I am a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of South Florida. My research is focused on determining whether theories of species diversity patterns can be used to predict patterns of genetic diversity and phenotypic complexity. I use a combination of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics to investigate patterns of venom complexity and genetic diversity in Rattlesnakes throughout the Baja California Peninsula and on islands in the Sea of Cortés
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Understanding how human-mediated environmental change affects biodiversity is key for conserving evolvability. Because the most severe impacts are ongoing, such an understanding is proving exceptionally difficult to attain. Islands are natural, replicated experiments that serve as proxies for habitat fragmentation and, therefore, allow us to use hi...
Understanding the proximate and ultimate causes of phenotypic variation is fundamental in evolutionary research, as such variation provides the substrate for selection to act upon. Although trait variation can arise due to selection, the importance of neutral processes is sometimes understudied. We presented the first reference-quality genome of th...
Venoms have traditionally been studied from a proteomic and/or transcriptomic perspective, often overlooking the true genetic complexity underlying venom production. The recent surge in genome-based venom research (sometimes called venomics) has proven to be instrumental in deepening our molecular understanding of venom evolution, particularly thro...
Evaluate how representative water sampling and eDNA analysis is of the aquatic macroinvertebrate communities through comparison with macroinvertebrates captured in terrestrial adult forms
