REU:  Properties and Capabilities of DNA/DNA Hybridization  as a Systematic Method in Ornithology
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The technique of DNA-DNA hybridization can be used to                      measure genetic similarity between species; DNA hybridizes more                 extensively among closely related species than among distantly                  related species. This technique has been used to reconstruct the                phylogenetic history of some groups of animals and plants; for                  example, DNA-DNA hybridization, along with other molecular                      techniques, has shown that humans are very closely related to the               chimp. DNA-DNA hybridization has also been used to reconstruct                  the evolutionary history of birds. This research will resolve a                 number of technical and theoretical questions regarding the                     application of DNA-DNA hybridization to the measure of genetic                  distance between species, its ability to resolve relationships at               low levels in the systematic hierarchy, and the reconstruction of               evolutionary history. These questions will be addressed in                      context of an analysis of the evolutionary histories of two                     families of birds, one containing the herons and bitterns and the               other the swallows and martins. These are both important avian                  groups with puzzling evolutionary histories.
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