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Symposium 22: A genomic perspective on Asian avian biodiversity
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Organizer: Yanhua Qu (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Co-organizer: Lu Dong (Colleague of Life Science, Beijing Normal University)
Asia has a great diversity of habitats, ranging from Arctic tundra to tropical forests, and including the highest mountains in the world. This is reflected in the region’s immense richness in birds. This habitat diversity in combination with climate change during the Pliocene and Pleistocene have been some of the main drivers of this this diversity. Recently, with the advance of new molecular and genomic tools, it has become possible to better understand the speciation and adaptation mechanisms underlying this extraordinarily high diversity.

This symposium will focus on understanding the relationship between genomic change and the evolutionary forces promoting speciation in Asia. For example, how have mountain and island barriers promoted geographic isolation and speciation, and how have land bridges between isolated islands during glacial periods allowed for gene flow between previously separated genetic lineages. As genomic data become more easy to generate and methods are ever further refined, we are coming closer and closer to unraveling the mechanisms that have produced Asia’s extraordinary avian diversity.

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