The beauty of Birding Aus is its egalitarianism and the little peep we get into the lives and knowledge of others involved in birds. In the following case the insight is obscured by my ignorance. Every speciality evolves its’ own language and terminology, but I am a bit bluffed by the the title of the paper referred to in the second last (penultimate) paragraph of Bruce’s (Wedderburn Birding) post on White-naped Honeyeaters, i.e.
“Toon, A., J.M. Hughes, and L. Joseph (2010), Multilocus analysis of honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) highlights spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the influence of biogeographic barriers in the Australian monsoonal zone, Mol. Ecol. 19, 2980-2994. See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04730.x/abstract”
I think I can have a good stab at the first and last underlined term (my underlining), but the second has me bluffed – their interplay is consequently a little baffling. Not surprisingly the terms do not appear in standard dictionaries.
Could someone please have a stab at a translation (or elucidation) of the title – or what, in essence, the article is about.
I did look at the abstract, but that raises even more problems with my ignorance.
Grateful for any enlightenment.
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Greg et al,
Looks like I may be wrong in my interpretation of multi-locus analysis. I have been doing a bit of thinking on the phrase and I think it probably refers to a type of DNA analysis. Any gene jocks out there who can elucidate ?
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Carl
I’d go with your interpretation but would add that the multilocus might mean several smaller studies combined or the one study over several areas.
Greg Little
Hi Angus, My understanding is that ‘spatio-temporal heterogeneity’ refers to space, time, and dissimilarity / variability; so it means that something varies over an area (place to place) and also over time. Similarly, ‘biogeographic barrier’ refers to life, place on earth and physical prevention; so it means the distribution of a species is somehow limited. Hope that helps. I’ll leave the genetics to someone else. Cheers, Merrilyn
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Oops, sorry, I did’nt know underling would not transmit. The three terms were (a) “Multilocus analysis” (I think I have that sorted), (b) “spatio-temporal heterogeneity ” (no clear picture), and (c) “biogeographic barriers” (think I have some inkling, but not sure if technically right).
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Carl
I’d go with your interpretation but would add that the multilocus might mean several smaller studies combined or the one study over several areas.
Greg Little
My superficial interpretation based on an inspection of the abstract [i.e. probably incomplete] is the authors used genetic analysis to examine geographical variation in honeyeaters in northern Australia and hence examine the impact of environmental factors in speciation.
Regards, Laurie.
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Angus,
I will take a stab at it. ” A study of honeyeaters of the family Meliphagidae highlights the influence of geographic barriers which effect their distribution geographically and over time in the monsoon areas of Oz” or words to that effect”. But then being an uneducated oik, I am probably wrong.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
The beauty of Birding Aus is its egalitarianism and the little peep we get into the lives and knowledge of others involved in birds. In the following case the insight is obscured by my ignorance. Every speciality evolves its’ own language and terminology, but I am a bit bluffed by the the title of the paper referred to in the second last (penultimate) paragraph of Bruce’s (Wedderburn Birding) post on White- naped Honeyeaters, i.e.
“Toon, A., J.M. Hughes, and L. Joseph (2010), Multilocus analysis of honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) highlights spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the influence of biogeographic barriers in the Australian monsoonal zone, Mol. Ecol. 19, 2980-2994. See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04730.x/abstract ”
I think I can have a good stab at the first and last underlined term (my underlining), but the second has me bluffed – their interplay is consequently a little baffling. Not surprisingly the terms do not appear in standard dictionaries.
Could someone please have a stab at a translation (or elucidation) of the title – or what, in essence, the article is about.
I did look at the abstract, but that raises even more problems with my ignorance.
Grateful for any enlightenment.
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