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.
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.
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’.
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.
Julia concluded her talk with this summary slide.
