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PEET-bivalves
March 07th, 2011
Joint preparation of the major exhibition, Pearls, by the PIs with two other curators from AMNH and FMNH required investigations into saome of the intriguing economic aspects surrounding marine and freshwater bivalves.
March 07th, 2011
Marine bivalve biodiversity in the waters surrounding the Florida Keys, an island archipelago off southern Florida, including the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, was studied from ten years of original collections as well as from a critical review of museium specimens and literature data.
March 07th, 2011
Using transmission electron microscopy, sperm morphology is being investigated for a suite of veneroidean taxa for their potential valuein phylogenetic analyses.
March 07th, 2011
Despite their remarkable ecological and economic importance, there is a suprising scarcity of anatomical data on species of Veneridae, with only about 50 species having at least some detailed information published on soft-part morphology.
March 07th, 2011
The largest Recent family of Bivalvia, the marine Veneridae, comprises one of the least understood and most poorly defined molluscan taxa, despite including some of the most economically important and abundant bivalves. A review of previous phylogenetic analyses including the superfamily Veneroidea (Veneridae, Petricolidae, Glauconomidae, Turtoniidae, Neoleptonidae) and within Veneridae shows minimal taxon sampling leading to weak conclusions and few supported synapomorphies.
March 07th, 2011
The bivalve genus Isognomon is the focus of this Ph.D. disseration project examining the evolution of developmental pathways and ecophenotypic responses.
March 07th, 2011
This dissertation project focused on the evolution of diversity in the bivalve superfamily Pterioidea, which includes the commerciallly important pearl oysters.