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Jean Mollett
Summary
In 2013, I changed track from a Teaching and Learning focus to building capacity in the field of research involving genetic divergence and hybridization in bird and plant species to inform conservation in southern Africa. The molecular techniques I am aiming to strengthen in our School such as the use of genetic markers in hybridization studies will lead to all kinds of population genetics studies in the future. In the literature, microsatellites are considered valuable tools not only for detecting hybridization but also in determining population and social structure, neonatal fitness, male mating success, bottleneck events, evolutionary relationships and demographic history. My long term goal is to set up methodologies and techniques to strengthen research and research capacity into the genetics of speciation and into the role of anthropogenic driven changes to the environment, such as climate and land-use change, which can alter bird, plant and insect distributions, their breeding success and survival which has implications in an ecological context.
Biodiversity Cell Biology Conservation Biology Genetics Population Biology Zoology