Jon Edward Ahlquist (27 July 1944 –7 May 2020Jon Edward Ahlquist obituary
''The Huntsville Times,'' 9–10 May 2020.) was an American molecular biologist and

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who has specialized in molecular phylogenetics. He has collaborated extensively with Charles Sibley, primarily at Yale University. By 1987, both Ahlquist and Sibley had left Yale. In 1988, Ahlquist and Sibley were awarded the

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by the

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. In January 1991 (often listed as 1990), Charles Sibley and Ahlquist published ''Phylogeny and Classification of Birds,'' which presented a new phylogeny for birds based on DNA-DNA hybridisation techniques, known as the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy. At that time, he was an

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of zoology at Ohio University. In 1999, Ahlquist was retired.

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