ABOUT OUR LAB
Research project of our mammalian systematics and evolution research team is designed to examine species diversity in Southeast Asia through molecular data, and explores potential biogeographic, ecology and behavioral patterns that can be used as a basis for recognizing species complexes that are comprised of multiple unique lineages, potentially representing genetic species.
Our team currently are focusing on the evolutionary history of tarsiers, bats, rodents, shrews and treeshrews based on our available funding. Our projects include data collected in the field from various geographic locations on the ecology and behavioral pattern of these animals, and later, evaluation of the genetic variation of these mammals will be conducted in the laboratory using various molecular markers.
We expect that data collected from various sources will able to explain the diversification pattern of mammalian fauna in Southeast Asia and detect lineages that has not been previously recorded.
Schematic diagram on the datasets used (from top left, anti-clock wise: geographic distribution, morphology, ecology and their genetics) to evaluate mammalian evolutionary history and their diversification in Southeast Asia