Jesús A. Ballesteros Chávez
Postdoctoral fellow
Email: ballesterosc at wisc dot edu
Github: https://github.com/ballesterus
Curriculum vitae (updated Nov 2020)

Broadly speaking, I am interested in the diversity and evolution of arachnids at organismic, genetic, and genomic scales. My analytical expertise is in phylogenetics using sequence data and I am deeply interested solving recalcitrant relationships in the arthropod tree of life. Ultimately, my interest in phylogenetics goes beyond “the tree”; my research objectives focus on how these hypotheses of evolutionary relatedness frame our understanding of the diversity of forms and their genetic machinery.
Research snapshots:
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From: Ballesteros and Sharma (2020) Syst. Biol. 68:896–917.
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From Ballesteros et al. (2020) Mol. Biol. Evol. (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa228/5904272)