Perry L. Wood, Jr.
Perry Lee Wood, Jr. (born October 25, 1981 ) is an American herpetologist . His research focus is on the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia .
Life
Wood was the research and curatorial assistant of the Herpetological Collection at La Sierra University in Riverside , California from 2001 to 2006 . From 2003 to 2005 he was a lecturer and student trainee for tropical field biology at La Sierra University. In 2004 he worked with Larry Lee Grismer and Jesse Leland Grismer to the documentation Reptile Kings: Search for the Lost Viper radio station Animal Planet with. In 2007, Wood received a Bachelor of Science degree in Life Sciences from La Sierra University.
From 2008 to 2009 he was a lecturer in biology and herpetology at Villanova University . In 2011 he graduated with the thesis Systematics, biogeography, taxonomy and delimiting species complexes in the Southeast Asian Lizard Genus Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 inferred from mitochondrial and fast-evolving protein coding nuclear loci under the direction of Todd R. Jackman and Aaron M. Bauer zum Master of Science from Villanova University. From 2012 to 2015 he was a visiting lecturer in evolutionary biology at Brigham Young University . 2017 he was awarded the dissertation Phylogenetics, Biogeography, and Patterns of Diversification of geckos across the Sunda Shelf with emphasis on on-the genus Cnemaspis (Bush, 1887) under the direction of W. Jack Sites, Jr. to Ph.D. PhD from Brigham Young University.
From January 2017 to August 2018 he was a postdoc under the direction of Rafe M. Brown in the research project Comparative phylogenomics of the Philippines at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. Since August 2018 he has been a research associate in the Generalizing Bayesian phylogenetics to infer shared evolutionary events project at Auburn University , which is headed by Jamie R. Oaks .
His research mainly focuses on aspects of evolutionary biology in Southeast Asia. He deals with cryptic amphibian and reptile species, patterns and processes of evolution as well as the systematics and historical biogeography of the Sunda region . In particular, he studied the Artabgrenzung and historical biogeography at the Southeast Asian agamas genus of the acanthosaura ( Acanthosaura ), which formed the focus of his master's thesis. The focus of his dissertation was the collection of morphological and molecular data in order to answer questions about ground adaptation, convergent evolution and adaptive radiation in the Southeast Asian gecko genus Cnemaspis . His projects include the comparative phylogeography of the herpetofauna of the Malay Peninsula, across the Isthmus of Kra and the Kangar-Pattani Line , the testing of hypotheses on phylogeography, biogeography and speciation in Southeast Asia using genomic data, the evolutionary systematics, species delimitation and historical biogeography of Geckos and agamas in Southeast Asia, as well as the theoretical systematics, phylogenomics and Bayesian coalescence methods for the delimitation of species complexes and for the estimation of co- divergence .
Wood's research trips took him to the Malay Peninsula , Thailand , Indonesia , Myanmar , Peru and Cambodia, among others .
Wood was the first descriptions of over 130 Gecko and skinks, 8 species of frogs and a tailed amphibian involved.
Wood is a member of the International Biogeography Society , the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists , the Herpetologists' League , the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles , the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists .
literature
- Curriculum Vitae (Status: 2019, PDF, 165 kB)
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wood, Perry L. Junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Perry Lee junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American herpetologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1981 |