James E. Keirans

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James Edward Keirans (born April 4, 1935 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) is an American arachnologist , parasitologist, and university professor. He specializes in hematophagous arthropods of vertebrates , especially ticks , but also animal lice and fleas .

Keirans was the curator of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory's tick collection from 1969 to 2005 , which during this time became part of the United States National Tick Collection and has been based at Georgia Southern University since 1990 . He was also a professor in the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University.

Life

James E. Keirans is from Worcester , Massachusetts . From 1956 to 1958 he did military service in the US Army Medical Service Corps . He then studied at Boston University , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and a Magister Artium in 1963 . In 1966 he received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire . His dissertation dealt with the pine lice of birds of New England . In 1990 he received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the University of Maryland .

Following his PhD, Keirans worked for the Centers for Disease Control in Georgia. In 1969 he became the successor to Glen M. Kohl's curator of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory's tick collection . In 1983 the collection was donated to the Smithsonian Institution . There it formed the core of the United States National Tick Collection under the direction of Keirans . In 1990, the Smithsonian Institution and Georgia Southern University in Statesboro , Georgia signed an agreement that gave the United States National Tick Collection on permanent loan to the University's Institute of Arthropods and Parasitology. Keirans, who was paid from the university's budget, held the position of curator until he retired in 2005. From 1992 to 2003, Lance A. Durden, a world-class acarologist, served as the second curator.

In addition to his work as a curator, Keirans was a professor at the Institute of Arthropodology & Parasitology at Georgia Southern University.

With the first description by Argas keiransi Estrada-Peña , Venzal & González-Acuña , 2003, of a Chilean leather tick parasitizing on Chimangokarakaras (Phalcoboenus chimango) , Keirans was honored for his extraordinary contributions to the taxonomy , phylogeny and ecology of ticks.

Keirans is married and has two children. In his spare time he is interested in crime novels, mostly those by John Dickson Carr , and has published several articles on them.

Initial descriptions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • James E. Keirans: The Mallophaga of New England Birds . Durham 1966 ( unh.edu [PDF; 15.1 MB ] Ph.D. thesis, University of New Hampshire).
  • James E. Keirans: George Henry Falkiner Nuttall and the Nuttall Tick Catalog (=  United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Miscellaneous Publication . No. 1438). Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1985 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dgeorgehenryfalki1438keir~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  • Richard G. Robbins, James E. Keirans: Systematics and ecology of the subgenus Ixodiopsis (Acari: Ixodidae: Ixodes) (=  Thomas Say Foundation monographs . Volume 14 ). Entomological Society of America, College Park, Md. 1992, ISBN 0-938522-38-8 .
  • Lance A. Durden , James E. Keirans: Nymphs of the genus Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) of the United States: taxonomy, identification key, distribution, hosts, and medical / veterinary importance (=  Thomas Say Foundation monographs ). Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Md. 1996, ISBN 0-938522-57-4 .
  • Lance A. Durden, James E. Keirans: Host – Parasite Coextinction and the Plight of Tick Conservation . In: American Entomologist . tape 42 , no. 2 , 1996, p. 87-91 , doi : 10.1093 / ae / 42.2.87 .
  • Jane B. Walker , James E. Keirans, Ivan G. Horak: The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae). A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-01977-X .

Web links

  • Publications. (No longer available online.) Georgia State University, March 18, 2003, archived from the original on May 25, 2009 ; accessed on April 30, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lance A. Durden , James E. Keirans, James H. Oliver: The US National Tick Collection: A Vital Resource for Systematics and Human and Animal Welfare . In: American Entomologist . tape 42 , no. 4 , 1996, pp. 239-243 , doi : 10.1093 / ae / 42.4.239 .
  2. ↑ a b Personal Data. (No longer available online.) Georgia State University , February 7, 2003, archived from the original on October 15, 2008 ; accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Pamela M. Kalte et al. (Eds.): American Men & Women of Science. 22nd edition. A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological and Related Sciences . Volume 4 JL. Thomson Gale, Detroit et al. a. 2005, ISBN 0-7876-7396-X , pp. 267 .
  4. ↑ United States National Tick Collection. History. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Agustin Estrada-Peña , Jose Manuel Venzal , Daniel González-Acuña , Alberto A. Guglielmone : Argas (Persicargas) keiransi n. Sp. (Acari: Argasidae), a Parasite of the Chimango, Milvago c. chimango (Aves: Falconiformes) in Chile . In: Journal of Medical Entomology . tape 40 , no. 6 , 2003, p. 766-769 , doi : 10.1603 / 0022-2585-40.6.766 .
  6. ^ Publications. (No longer available online.) Georgia State University, March 18, 2003, archived from the original on May 25, 2009 ; accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lance A. Durden, James E. Keirans, Lora L. Smith : Amblyomma geochelone, a New Species of Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) from the Madagascan Plowshare Tortoise . In: Journal of Medical Entomology . tape 39 , no. 2 , 2002, p. 398-403 , doi : 10.1603 / 0022-2585-39.2.398 .
  8. ↑ a b c James E. Keirans, Dennis R. King , Robert D. Sharrad : Aponomma (bothriocroton) glebopalma, n. Subgen., N. Sp., And Amblyomma glauerti n. Sp. (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), parasites of monitor lizards (Varanidae) in Australia . In: Journal of Medical Entomology . tape 31 , no. 1 , 1994, p. 132-147 , doi : 10.1093 / jmedent / 31.1.132 .
  9. ↑ James E. Keirans, Michael Bull , Glen A. Duffield : Amblyomma vikirri n. Sp. (Atari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), a parasite of the gidgee skink Egernia stokesii (Reptilia: Scincidae) from South Australia . In: Systematic Parasitology . tape 34 , no. 1 , 1996, p. 1-9 , doi : 10.1007 / bf01531205 .
  10. ↑ Harry Hoogstraal , Hilda Y. Wassef , Coppelia Hays, James E. Keirans: Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) spheniscus n. Sp. [Acarina: Ixodoidea: Argasidae: Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis Group], a Tick Parasite of the Humboldt Penguin in Peru . In: Journal of Parasitology . tape 71 , no. 5 , 1985, pp. 635-644 , doi : 10.2307 / 3281437 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e James E. Keirans, Carleton M. Clifford, Jane B. Walker: The Ixodes (Afrixodes) oldi group (Accari: Ixodidae) from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of five new species . In: Journal of Medical Entomology . tape 19 , no. 3 , 1982, pp. 309-329 , doi : 10.1093 / jmedent / 19.3.309 .
  12. ↑ James E. Keirans, Sadia Ajohda : Ixodes (Ixodes) dicei, a new tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) from a lagomorph in a restricted high-altitude habitat in talamanca, Costa Rica . In: International Journal of Acarology . tape 29 , no. 1 , 2003, p. 63-67 , doi : 10.1080 / 01647950308684322 .
  13. ↑ Arthur M. Spickett , James E. Keirans, R. Andrew I. Norval , Carleton M. Clifford: Ixodes (Afrixodes) matopi n.sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae): A tick found aggregating on pre-orbital gland scent marks of the klipspringer in Zimbabwe . In: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research . tape 48 , 1981, pp. 23–30 ( handle.net [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Carleton M. Clifford , Jane B. Walker , James E. Keirans: Ixodes (Afrixodes) neitzi, n. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae) from the mountain reedbuck in South Africa . In: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research . tape 44 , no. 3 , 1977, pp. 143–150 ( up.ac.za [PDF; 1.1 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Keirans, James E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keirans, James Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American arachnologist, parasitologist, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts