Welcome

We are interested in mechanisms that underlie the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in reptiles and amphibians. A common theme in our lab is identifying and measuring mechanisms of temporal and spatial changes in population genetic differentiation. To do so we address questions at various scales, ranging from individuals (mating systems, relatedness, or reproductive success), to populations (fine-scale population genetics and phylogeography), to species (higher-level systematics).

RECENT LAB NEWS & REASONS TO CELEBRATE!

April 2013

1. -Welcome Nick Polato, new post-doc arriving in August, working on landscape genomics in EVOTRAC
   

2. -Our Bd genome resequencing paper is published in PNAS!  Open access: [link]
   

3. -Gui Becker calls for protection of the Serra da Mantiqueira in Science [link]
   

4. -Rayna Bell blogs from her field sites in the Gulf of Guinea islands [link]
   

February 2013

1. -Ana Longo and Rayna Bell BOTH received NSF DDIGs for their PhD research!
   

2. -Ana Longo’s paper on variation in Bd standards for qPCR is published in PLoS One.
   

3. -Marina Hydeman’s report on Bd in the Gulf of Guinea (São Tomé) in press in Herp Review.
   

4. -Guille Velo-Antón’s paper on Pseudoeurycea leprosa landscape genetics is in press in Molecular Ecology.
   

5. -Our collaborative paper looking at patterns of genomic differentiation in Bd is now in press at PNAS.
   

6. -Congratulations KZ Lab for starting off strong in 2013!
   

November 2012

1. -Rayna’s sexual dichromatism paper gets some nice coverage on AmphibiaWeb! 
   

http://amphibiaweb.org/amphibian/dichromatism.html

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Graduate Field of E&EB

Cornell University