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Exploring the Euteleost Tree of Life represents the education and outreach of the Euteleost Tree of Life research grant (BI PI: Wiley), which consists of a scientist profile, curriculum activity and web material.
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University of Kansas Natural History Museum
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Elucidating the phylogenetic relationships and character evolution of deep-sea lizardfishes and their allies (Euteleostei: Aulopiformes) are the goals of this study. Aulopiform fishes include some of the most bizarre deep-sea fishes, with members of...
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University of Kansas
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Submitted. Are node-based and stem-based clades equivalent? Insights from graph theory PLoS Currents. 2
2010
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2010. A teleost classification based on monophyletic groups. Origin and phylogenetic interrelationships of teleosts. Honoring Gloria Arratia. Proceedings of the international symposium at the ASIH Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, 2007.. :123-182.
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2010. Why Philosophy Matters to the Working Biologist. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85:81-83.
2009
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2009. Characterization of 35 novel microsatellite loci for ecological and evolutionary studies of the bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus).. Ecology Resources. 9:864-867.
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2009. Patrocladistics, nothing new. Taxon. 58:2-6. Abstract
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2009. Characterization of 32 novel microsatellite loci for population and mating system studies using Campostoma anomalum (central stoneroller). Molecular Ecology Resources. 9:251-254. Abstract
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2009. A tale of four “carp:” Invasion potential and ecological niche modeling. PLoS ONE. 4:e5451.
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2008. Twenty three microsatellite DNA loci for population genetic studies and parentage assignment in orangethroat darter, Etheostoma spectabile. Molecular Ecology Resources. 8(6):1483-1485.
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2008. Homology, identity and transformation. Mesozoic Fishes. 4:9–21.
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2008. Acanthuroid relationships revisited: a new nuclear gene-based analysis that incorporates tetraodontiform representatives. Ichthyological Research. 55:274-283. Abstract
2007
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2007. Mitochondrial genome and a nuclear gene indicate a novel phylogenetic position of deep-sea tube-eye fish (Stylephoridae). Ichthyological Research. 54:323-332. Abstract
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2007. Species concepts and their importance in fisheries management and research. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136:1126-1135. Abstract
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2007. Ecological niche modeling as a predictive tool: silver and bighead carps in North America. Biological Invasions. 9:43-51. Abstract
2004
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2004. Biodiversity and the Internet: building and using the virtual world museum. Environmental Online Communication, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series. :91–99.
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2004. Gnathostome fishes. Assembling the Tree of Life.. :410-429.
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2004. Predicting invasions of north American basses in Japan using native range data and a genetic algorithm. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133:845-854. Abstract
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2004. Biodiversity and the Internet: Building and using the virtual world museum. Environmental Online Communication. :91-99.
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2004. Museum collections and taxonomy. Science. 305:1106-1107.
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2004. Predicting invasions of North American basses in Japan using native range data and a genetic algorithm. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133:845-854.
2003
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2003. Distributed information systems and predictive biogeography: putting natural history collections to work in the 21st Century. The new panorama of animal evolution: proceedings XVIII International Congress of Zoology.. :619-624. Abstract
Education
Southwest Texas State College, San Marcos, Texas
Degree: Bachelor of Science, 1966
Major: Biology
Minor: Chemistry
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Degree: Master of Arts (Biology), 1972
Thesis: Geographic Variation in Southwestern Populations of Fundulus nottii (Agassiz) (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae).
The City University of New York, New York, New York
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, 1976
Thesis: The Phylogeny and Biogeography of Fossil and Recent Gars (Actinopterygii, Lepisosteidae).
Grants
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund. 1974. "Phylogeny of Fossil and Recent Gars." $1,100.
Watkins Fund, University of Kansas. 1976. "Ventral Gill Arch Muscles of Latimeria chalumnae." $750.
General Research Fund (GRF), University of Kansas. 1980. "Evolution of Fundulus topminnows." $4,500.
National Science Foundation. 1981. "Systematics and Evolution of Fundulus topminnows." $49,123.
GRF, University of Kansas.1982. "Phylogenetic analysis of Notropis minnows. $4,500.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1984. "NOR and G-Banding Fish Chromosomes." $5,600.
ZWO (Dutch Pure Research Council), The Netherlands. 1985. "Visiting Scientist Award." DF36,000.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1985. "Morphological and Genetic Divergence in Freshwater Fish Evolution. $5,600.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1987. "Speciation and Allozyme Evolution in Freshwater Fishes. $7,583.
NSF, 1988. "Speciation and Isozyme Evolution of Freshwater Fishes in Northern Gulf Coast Drainages." $182,000.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1990. "The Evolutionary Relationships of Percid Fishes as Evidenced by Mitochondrial DNA Sequences." $5,100.
NSF, 1992. The Evolutionary Relationships of Percid Fishes (Teleostei: Percidae) as Evidenced by Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data. $20,000 (pilot project).
Smithsonian Institution, Coral Reef Ecosystems Small Grants Program, 1991, 1992. $750.00, $600.00. Support of fieldwork in Belize, Central America.
PEW Trust. 1992. Proposal for PEW Undergraduate Fellowships in Systematic Biology from the University of Kansas. $25,000. (Co-PI with J.S. Ashe, PI, C. Haufler, R. Kaesler, and J. M. Young). Funded.
Environmental Protection Agency. 1991. Monitoring and Status Assessment of Fish and Invertebrate Populations in Selected Streams Draining the Galena Superfund Subsite. $50,000. (L. C. Ferrington, Co-PI).
NSF, 1992. Academic Research Infrastructure Program. Replacement of Ethenol Research Storage Facilities. (Co-PI with Philip S. Humphrey, PI, and others). $790,000.
NSF. 1993. "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Higher Teleost (Acanthomorph) Fishes Based on Morphological and Molecular Data." $190,000. (with W. D. Dimmick and G. D. Johnson).
NSF. 1993.Research Collections in Systematics & Ecology. Compactor Storage for Fluid Collections of Vertebrates. (Co-PI, Philip Humphrey, PI). $370,000. (NSF STI-9214184)
NSF. 1994 Systematic and Population Biology. REU Supplement for DEB-9317881. (E. O. Wiley, PI, W. W. Dimmick, Co-PI). $5,000.
NSF. 1995 Systematic and Population Biology. REU Supplement for DEB-9317881. (E. O. Wiley, PI, W. W. Dimmick, Co-PI). $5,000.
NSF. 1996 Systematic and Population Biology. REU Supplement for DEB-9317881. (E. O. Wiley, PI, W. W. Dimmick, Co-PI). $5,000.
K*STAR NSF EPSCoR CRINC 1996. A Collaborative Facility for Macroevolutionary Studies of DNA Sequences. 1 October 1997-30 September 1998. $75,000 (Co-PI with W. W. Dimmick). Funded.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1998. The Phylogenetic Relationships of a Newly Proposed Group of Fishes, Smegmamorpha, and Their affinities to Higher Percomorphs. $8,325.55.
GRF, University of Kansas. 1999. The Phylogenetic Relationships of Tetraodontiform fishes. $6,100.
NSF. 1999. (SGER) "A Predictive Data network for Fish Diversity: The FISHNET Prototype System. $99,332.
Office of Naval Research (ONR). 2000. The FishNet Distributed Biodiversity Information System. $500,000.
Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks/U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife. 2003. Data Management and Support for State-Wide Surveys of Fishes and Macroinvertebrates. $138,993. 02/05/03 – 06/01/04.
NSF. 2003. Building the Information Community Infrastructure - A Test Case Implementation for Icthyological Collections. $750,000 (Co-PI, David Vieglais, PI).
Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks/U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife. 2005. Data Management and Support for State-Wide Surveys of Fishes. $105,000. 07/01/05-06/03/06.
Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks/U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife. 2006. Data Management and Support for State-Wide Surveys of Fishes. $105,000. 07/01/05-06/03/07.
NSF. 2007. Collaborative Research: Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life – Addressing the major Unresolved problem in Vertebrate Phylogeny. NSF DEB-073281, AToL. $309,985.00. 09/20/2007- 09/20/2012. (KU PI with four other institutions
Publications
Submitted
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Submitted. Are node-based and stem-based clades equivalent? Insights from graph theory PLoS Currents. 2
2010
.
2010. A teleost classification based on monophyletic groups. Origin and phylogenetic interrelationships of teleosts. Honoring Gloria Arratia. Proceedings of the international symposium at the ASIH Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, 2007.. :123-182.
.
2010. Why Philosophy Matters to the Working Biologist. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85:81-83.
2009
.
2009. Characterization of 35 novel microsatellite loci for ecological and evolutionary studies of the bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus).. Ecology Resources. 9:864-867.
.
2009. Patrocladistics, nothing new. Taxon. 58:2-6. Abstract
.
2009. Characterization of 32 novel microsatellite loci for population and mating system studies using Campostoma anomalum (central stoneroller). Molecular Ecology Resources. 9:251-254. Abstract
.
2009. A tale of four “carp:” Invasion potential and ecological niche modeling. PLoS ONE. 4:e5451.
2008
.
2008. Twenty three microsatellite DNA loci for population genetic studies and parentage assignment in orangethroat darter, Etheostoma spectabile. Molecular Ecology Resources. 8(6):1483-1485.
.
2008. Homology, identity and transformation. Mesozoic Fishes. 4:9–21.
.
2008. Acanthuroid relationships revisited: a new nuclear gene-based analysis that incorporates tetraodontiform representatives. Ichthyological Research. 55:274-283. Abstract
2007
.
2007. Mitochondrial genome and a nuclear gene indicate a novel phylogenetic position of deep-sea tube-eye fish (Stylephoridae). Ichthyological Research. 54:323-332. Abstract
.
2007. Species concepts and their importance in fisheries management and research. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136:1126-1135. Abstract
.
2007. Ecological niche modeling as a predictive tool: silver and bighead carps in North America. Biological Invasions. 9:43-51. Abstract
2004
.
2004. Biodiversity and the Internet: building and using the virtual world museum. Environmental Online Communication, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series. :91–99.
.
2004. Gnathostome fishes. Assembling the Tree of Life.. :410-429.
.
2004. Predicting invasions of north American basses in Japan using native range data and a genetic algorithm. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133:845-854. Abstract
.
2004. Biodiversity and the Internet: Building and using the virtual world museum. Environmental Online Communication. :91-99.
.
2004. Museum collections and taxonomy. Science. 305:1106-1107.
.
2004. Predicting invasions of North American basses in Japan using native range data and a genetic algorithm. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133:845-854.
2003
.
2003. Distributed information systems and predictive biogeography: putting natural history collections to work in the 21st Century. The new panorama of animal evolution: proceedings XVIII International Congress of Zoology.. :619-624. Abstract
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