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PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT COUNCILORS
Mario De Pinna Ichthyologist. Long-term interest on notions of time in dendrograms, especially as it regards incorporation of ontogenetic information into phylogenetic hypotheses. Also interested in various conceptual issues relating homology, character delimitation and character-state transitions. Current empirical work focuses on ways to segregate character correlations (functional, developmental, phylogenetic) on the basis of phylogenetic tracing of parasitic strategies (morphology and behavior) in an ongoing phylogenetic analysis of parasitic catfishes.
John Wenzel
Mary Mickevich
Ward Wheeler
Rainer Willmann
Brunella Bowditch
Pierre Deleporte Theories and methods in phylogenetic systematics. Phylogeny use in evolutionary biology and historical biogeography. Comparative ethology. Evolution of social behavior in insects, dictyoptera
Henrik Enghoff 1) General and theoretical historical biogeography. This includes methods of analysis and their simultaneous application to multiple taxon-area cladograms with a view to revealing repeated patterns. 2) Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of millipedes. This includes, e.g., high-level phylogeny, species-level taxonomy and phylogeny of selected groups within the orders Julida and Spirobolida, as well as insular patterns of phylogeny and distribution.
Mari Källersjö
Guillaume Lecointre
I. Fish phylogeny II.Methodology of phylogenetic reconstruction
Juan Morrone My general interests are biogeography and systematics. In biogeography, I am working in track and cladistic analyses, and their aplication for biodiversity conservation. In systematics, my major interest is the higher classification of the superfamily Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), specially of the family Curculionidae.
Gitte Petersen My research is primarily focused on molecular evolution, studied using cladistic principles. Secondarily on phylogenetic reconstructions within the monocotyledons, in particular the grasses.
Fredrik Pleijel
Ellen Strong
David Yeates My primary research interest is in the phylogeny of Diptera (Insecta). I work in two main area: understanding the deep branching of the Brachycera, and the systematics of flies belonging to the superfamily Asiloidea. Students in my laboratory conduct phylogenetic and monographic research on Australian insects, using both morphological and molecular data. I am part of the team developing the interactive key software LucID.
Miquel Angel Arnedo
Jennifer Ast
Pamela Beresford
Richard Brusca
Marymegan Daly
Jan De Laet
Jeff Doyle
Greg Edgecombe
Ginny Emerson
John Gatesy
Luke Holbrook
Sue Hottenrott
Peter Hovenkamp
Jaakko Hyvonen
Sharon Jansa
Kirsten Kivimaki
Gunilla Stahls-Makela
Eugene Maurakis
Jeremy Miller
Museu de Zoologia
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Caixa Postal 42694
Sao Paulo-SP 04299-970
Brazil
I was originally interested in behavioral ecology and sociobiology, and
began using cladistic methods as a way to analyze the assembly of complex
behaviors from simpler precursors. I have been particularly interested in
introducing phylogenetic thinking into studies of adaptation. Most of my
work focusses on the systematics and behavior of social wasps.
My research interests focus on two main topics: the application of principals of phylogenetic systematics towards sustainable oceans and theoretical issues in the cladistic analysis.
Curator of Invertebrates
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York, NY 10024-5192
US
Wheeler@amnh.org
UMR 6552
"Ethology-Evolution-Ecology"
CNRS and Universite Rennes 1
Station Biologique
35380 Paimpont France
pierre.deleporte@univ-rennes1.fr
Professor of Zoological Systematics and Zoogeography
Dierctor, Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Koebenhavn OE, DANNMARK
Henghoff@zmuc.ku.dk
Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie générale et appliquée
et Service de Systématique moléculaire (IFR CNRS 1541)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
43 rue Cuvier 75231 PARIS cedex 05
FRANCE
Lecointr@mnhn.fr
I.1.Molecular phylogeny of the Acanthomorpha, using taxonomic congruence (separate analyses).
I.2.Phylogeny of the Notothenioidei (antarctic perciformes)
I.3.Molecular phylogeny of the europaean Cyprinidae
I.4.Euteleostean phylogeny
II. 1.My present research deals with properties and particular applications of tests for character incongruence (for instance in the phylogeny of E. coli)
II. 2.Improving weighting strategies in molecular systematics.
II. 3.Application of standard parsimony techniques to unusual characters, i.e. to enzymes that perform biochemical reactions of the cellular metabolism. The aim is to infer (1) the order of emergence of the main enzymatic functions in the earliest "protobionts" and (2) the earliest metabolic pathways.
II. 4.Sampling problems in molecular systematics.
Museo de Zoologia
Facultad de Ciencias
UNAM
Apdo Postal 70-399
04510 Mexico D.F
Mexico
jjm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx
Botanical Institute
University of Copenhagen
Gothersgade 140
DK-1123 Copenhagen K
gittep@bot.ku.dk
Biologie des Invertébrés marins
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
57, rue Cuvier
75231 Paris Cedex 05
FRANCE
pleijel@cimrs1.mnhn.fr
Department of Zoology and Entomology
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld AUSTRALIA 4072
d.yeates@mailbox.uq.edu.au