About SaBR
SaBR (Systematics and Biogeographic Research) is a student-led group at the University of Nevada Las Vegas interested in uncovering the evolutionary patterns and processes of biotas. Our group serves as a forum for learning data analysis, exchanging ideas, demystifying coalescent theory, incorporating ecology into a historical context, and eliciting arguments. We hold a weekly meeting that includes members presenting their research as well as leading tutorials on the latest cutting-edge software and analysis trends, e.g. data partitioning in MrBayes. Although the group is run by students, we invite all researchers interested in biogeography to participate in our group.
2009 SaBR publications:
Oláh-Hemmings V, Jaeger JR, Sredl MJ, Schlaepfer MA, Jennings RD, Drost CA, Bradford DF, Riddle BR (in press) Phylogeography of declining relict and lowland leopard frogs in the desert Southwest of North America. Journal of Zoology.
Houston DD, Ogden TH, Whiting, MF, Shiozawa DK (in press) Polyphyly of the genus Ptychocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) inferred using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Houston DD, Shiozawa DK, Riddle, BR (in press) Phylogenetic relationships of the western North American cyprinid genus Richardsonius, with an overview of phylogeographic structure. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Eckstut ME, Lemons ER, Sever DM (2009) Annual dynamics of sperm production and storage in the Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, in the southeastern United States. Amphibia-Reptilia 30, 45-56.
Jezkova T, Jaeger JR, Marshall ZL, Riddle BR (2009) Pleistocene Impacts on the Phylogeography of the Desert Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus). Journal of Mammalogy 90, 306-320.
Jezkova T, Leal M, Rodriguez-Robles JA (2009) Living together but remaining apart: comparative phylogeography of Anolis poncensis and A-cooki, two lizards endemic to the aridlands of Puerto Rico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96, 617-634.
Rheubert JL, Poldemann EH, Eckstut ME, Collier MH, Sever DM, Gribbins HM (2009) Temporal germ cell development strategy during mixed spermatogenesis within the male Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Copeia 2009, 793–800.
Eckstut ME, Sever DM, White ME, Crother BI (2009) Phylogenetic analysis of sperm storage in female squamates, p. 185-218. In: Animal Reproduction: New Research Developments. NOVA Science Publishers, Inc., Happauge, New York. L.T. Dahnof (ed).
Eckstut ME, Hamilton AM, Austin CC, Sever DM (2009) Asynchronous oviductal seasonal variation in the unisexual-bisexual Nactus pelagicus complex from the Vanuatu Archipelago, p. 295-307. In: Animal Reproduction: New Research Developments. L.T. Dahnof (ed).
Bryson RW, Mueller JM, Lazcano D. (2008) Observations on the thermal ecology of montane Mexican rattlesnakes, p. 287-290. In: The Biology of the Rattlesnakes. W. K. Hayes, K. R. Beaman, M. D. Cardwell, and S. P. Bush (eds.).
2009 SaBR presentations:
Houston DD, Shiozawa DK, Riddle BR (2009) Investigating the Effects
of Pluvial Lake Lahontan on Diversification Among Populations of Lahontan
Redside Shiner, Richardsonius egregius. Society for
the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Moscow, ID.
Shiozawa DK, Evans RP, Houston DD, Unmack P (2009) Comparative Phylogeography of Some Interior Western North American Fishes. Invited talk given to the Lineage Greenback Cutthroat Trout Conservation Team, Grand Junction, CO
Eckstut ME, Sever DM, White ME, Crother BI (2009) Phylogenetic analysis of sperm storage in female squamates. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR
Eckstut ME, Hamilton AM, Austin CC (2009) Uniform bisexuals and variable unisexuals: morphological variation in the Nactus pelagicus complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR
Jezkova T, Riddle BR (2009) Disagreement between ecological niche models, the fossil record, and phylogeographic structure: assessing the strengths and limitations of an integrative approach to infer response of a Great Basin endemic to the last glacial maximum. International Biogeography Society Meeting, Mérida, México.
Jezkova T, Jaeger JR, Riddle BR (2009) Does climatic change promote niche evolution? A case study of the desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos. Joint Meeting of Ichtyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr
News 2009:
- Rob Bryson was elected a SoLS Representative for the GPSA Council in 2009-10
- Rob Bryson was awarded UNLV Barrick Fellowship for 2009-10, ($14,000) and UNLV Graduate ACCESS Scholarship for 2009-10 ($2000)
- Matt Graham was featured in "America's Wild Spaces: Death Valley" on the National Geographic Channel
- Derek Houston successfully defended his Dissertation on Sep 17
- Matt Graham passed his Comprehensive exam
- Brian Tilston Smith recieved a highly competetive plush cardinal from the American Cardinal Appreciation Society
- Tereza Jezkova has a paper in the Journal of Mammalogy on the phylogeography of the Desert Pocket Mouse [link]
- Adam Leland, Derek Houston, Mallory Eckstut, and Stacy Mantooth were recognized for their oral or poster presentations at the UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Annual Research Forum
- Sean Neiswenter received the Elmer C. Birney Award from the American Society of Mammalogists for his paper “Diversification of silky pocket mice in the Perognathus flavus species-group: implications for the biogeography of North American arid grasslands.”
- Tereza Jezkova received an award for a best student poster presentation at the Fourth International Biogeography Society Conference, which was held in Mérida, Yucatán, México, January 8-12, 2009.
- Tereza Jezkova has a paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society on the comparative phylogeography of two Anolis species [link]
- School of Life Sciences Graduate achievements for 2008 can be viwed here. Notice, that SaBR members did pretty well.
