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David Vander Pluym

David Vander Pluym

PhD candidate in ornithology at Louisiana State University studying altitudinal migration in birds.

Jul 20, 2026

19:19
Yes
19:19
... was able to get some and found that they were embedded, they were part of that group, um, which was really kinda cool to see.
19:27
Um, and I have the tissues for, I have sequencing for all 12 subspecies that have been described and are currently considered to be accepted.
19:35
Um, I haven't-- I just got back, uh, the last subspecies, though, less than a month ago, and I haven't had time to do the, the, put them into the pipeline.
19:44
Um, but the rest of them, so looking at populations of how they're related to each other, both with the mitochondrial DNA along with the nuclear DNA, uh, and being able to see the relationships and that there's three lar- main groups.
19:59
Um, you have miniatus is sort of on its own, and then you have the Central American clade, and then you have a South American clade, which is what previous work had shown as well.
20:08
So it was nice to see that the previous work and my work lined up, uh, pretty, pretty neatly.
22:33
so far?

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