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H. Bradley Shaffer

Brad Shaffer
hbshaffer@ucdavis.edu

Research:

Evolutionary biology, ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles. Recent research projects include comparative phylogeography of amphibians and reptiles in California and the central U.S., systematics of freshwater turtles and tortoises both globally and in eastern Australia, and conservation genetics of endangered California amphibians and reptiles. Recently, we have focused a great deal of ecological and genetical work on the California tiger salamander, an endangered species native to central California grassland habitat.

Degrees:

1982 - PhD - University of Chicago - Evolutionary Biology
1976 - BS - University of California, Berkeley - Zoology

Three Recent Publications:

Fitzpatrick, B. M. and H.B. Shaffer. 2007. Hybrid vigor between native and introduced salamanders raises new challenges for conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104:15793-15798.PDF

Spinks, P.Q. and H. B. Shaffer. 2007. Conservation phylogenetics of the Asian box turtles (Geoemydidae, Cuora): mitochondrial introgression, numts, and inferences from multiple nuclear loci. Conservation Genetics 8:641-657.PDF

Pauly, Gregory B., Oliver Piskurek, and H. Bradley Shaffer. 2007. Phylogeographic concordance in the southeastern United States: the flatwoods salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, as a test case. Molecular Ecology, 16:415–429. PDF

For more information:

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