Mark D. Clements
Graduate Student
Tulane University Museum of Natural History
Bldg. A-3, Wild Boar Rd.
Belle Chasse, LA 70037
Voice: (504) 862-8284
FAX: (504) 394-5045
Email: mclemen1@tulane.edu
Webpage: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~mclemen1/
General Interests: My primary interests involve evolutionary relationships, systematics, biogeography, life history, and reproductive behavior of catostomid fishes. Recently, my colleagues (Hank Bart and Dave Hurley) and I have been using sequences of the nuclear Growth Hormone gene to elucidate phylogenetic relationships among species in the family Catostomidae. This marker is also being used to infer basal relationships among major cypriniform lineages in an effort to discover sister group relationships to catostomids. On going research includes systematic and phylogeographic studies and biodiversity surveys of moxostomatin suckers in Mexico and the United States. I am also developing other nuclear loci for use in phylogenetic reconstruction, functional genomics and expression patterns of genes in tetraploid catostomid fishes.
Taxa: Recent and Fossil species; Families Catostomidae, Cyprinidae, and Cobitidae
Character Types: Morphology, mtDNA, nDNA
Target Continents: North America