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Root Gorelick
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Latest papers
Prediction of Arctic plant phenological sensitivity to climate change from historical records.
Ecology and evolution · 2017 · senior author
Mean annual precipitation explains spatiotemporal patterns of Cenozoic mammal beta diversity and latitudinal diversity gradients in North America.
PloS one · 2014
Polyploidy is genetic hence may cause non-adaptive radiations, whereas pseudopolyploidy is genomic hence may cause adaptive non-radiations.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2013 · first author
Latest funding
- $105,000
""Evolutionary implications of sex reducing heritable variation: Disaggregated individuals, haploid leks, and the Red Queen on asexual Red Bull""
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $105,850
What is sex? How did it originate? Why does it persist?
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Prediction of Arctic plant phenological sensitivity to climate change from historical records.
Panchen ZA, Gorelick R
Mean annual precipitation explains spatiotemporal patterns of Cenozoic mammal beta diversity and latitudinal diversity gradients in North America.
Fraser D, Hassall C, Gorelick R, Rybczynski N
Polyploidy is genetic hence may cause non-adaptive radiations, whereas pseudopolyploidy is genomic hence may cause adaptive non-radiations.
Gorelick R, Olson K
Commentary: Do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity? The fallacy of true diversity.
Gorelick R
Sex reduces genetic variation: a multidisciplinary review.
Gorelick R, Heng HH
Multi-Way Multi-Group Segregation and Diversity Indices
Root Gorelick, Susan M. Bertram
Species richness and the analytic geometry of latitudinal and altitudinal gradients.
Gorelick R
""Evolutionary implications of sex reducing heritable variation: Disaggregated individuals, haploid leks, and the Red Queen on asexual Red Bull""
Principal investigators: Gorelick, Root
What is sex? How did it originate? Why does it persist?
Principal investigators: Gorelick, Root
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Susan Bertram and Sue Bertram: 117 shared papers
- Danielle Fraser and Natalia Rybczynski: 4 shared papers
- Danielle Fraser and Susan Bertram: 1 shared paper
- Danielle Fraser and Root Gorelick: 1 shared paper
- Danielle Fraser and Sue Bertram: 1 shared paper
- Susan Bertram and Root Gorelick: 1 shared paper
- Root Gorelick and Sue Bertram: 1 shared paper
- Root Gorelick and Natalia Rybczynski: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biology
- School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Other
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