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Releasing a Foothill yellow-legged (Rana boylii) frog in Mendocino National Forest.
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Jennifer
A. Dever
Rana boylii |
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." – Marilyn vos Savant.
Course
Information (Classes I am currently teaching, or recently taught)
SPRING 2012
FALL 2011
Research
Interests
I earned my Ph.D. from Texas Tech University where I studied population genetics of endangered crocodiles in Belize, C.A. and have been at USF for the past nine years where my research falls under the broad category of conservation genetics. It is my goal to use genetics as a means of better managing threatened wildlife. I am currently collaborating with Ryan Peek, my former graduate student on examining the effects of dams on gene flow on the river-dwelling frog Rana boylii. Population genetics questions interest me as well - my graduate student Marissa Lafler and I have teamed up with Behavioral Biologist Scott Nunes on researching Belding's ground squirrel populations near Yosemite. I am also interested in finding evolutionarily significant populations of species on a more global scale, and am a research associate with the Herpetology Department at the California Academy of Sciences where my students and I are involved in describing new frog species from Myanmar... For more detailed info check out these links:
CURRENT PROJECTS:
New species of Amolops from Myanmar (formally known as Burma)
Impact of dams on genetic diversity in foothill yellow-legged frogs (R. boylii)
Belding's Ground Squirrel Population Study near Yosemite
FORMER PROJECTS:
Gene flow in Rana boylii of a pristine region on the Eel river
Genetic Diversity in Morelet's Crocodile populations in Belize, Central America
Collecting Rana boylii frogs in the Eldorado National Forest, June 2011.
Cool
links
For your listening pleasure: KEXP& KCRW
For looking up information: PubMed, or BioOne(USF students)
Amphibian Specialist Group: http://www.amphibians.org/
Amphibia Web: http://amphibiaweb.org/
Want to support the conservation effort? The Nature Conservancy