![Dr Julia Day gave a talk at a BOC meeting on 18 March 2019](https://boc-online.org/wp-content/uploads/Julia-Day-talk-0-900x506.jpg)
Dr Julia Day gave a talk at a BOC meeting on 18 March 2019
We have posted a video at the BOC YouTube channel of a talk presented by Dr Julia Day, an Associate Professor at University College London who has developed a research programme in research in Systematics and Evolutionary Biology. Much of her work focuses on African freshwater fish as a study system, but she’s interested in other African radiations too.
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Dr Julia Day’s talk was entitled Continental vs. island evolution of a ‘great speciator’: resolving the Zosterops taxonomic conundrum.
Being a birder, she couldn’t resist working on a notoriously difficult-to-identify avian group. Julia gave a talk entitled Continental vs. island evolution of a ‘great speciator’: resolving the Zosterops taxonomic conundrum.
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White-eyes (Zosterops) has been lauded as a ‘great speciator’.
There have been few studies that focus on species-rich groups of highly dispersive animals which can colonise both continents and extensive archipelagos over comparable timeframes. White-eyes (Zosterops) has been lauded as a ‘great speciator’.
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Zosterops palpebrosus is a ‘typical’ white-eye.
In her talk, Julia discussed how resolving the evolutionary relationships of white-eyes (Zosterops) in Africa, Arabia and associated islands, combined with morphological data, has allowed us to better understand evolutionary processes across these different geographic landscapes.
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Julia concluded her talk with this summary slide.