Stuart McDaniel
PhD, Duke University, 2005
Current address: Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis
BA, Oberlin College, 1994 Advisor: David
Benzing
Agroforester, Peace Corps Paraguay, 1994-1996
Intern, New
York State Museum, 1997-1998 Advisor: Norton
Miller
Thesis Project: Evolutionary genetics of Ceratodon purpureus
My dissertation work is focused on three questions:
- what is the role of natural selection in maintaining differences among populations;
- what is the genetic architecture of adaptive differences among populations; and
- what is the connection between adaptation and reproductive isolation?
Publications:
McDaniel, SF. Genetic correlations do not constrain the evolution of sexual dimorphism in the moss Ceratodon purpureus. Evolution 59(11): 2353-2361.
McDaniel, SF and AJ Shaw. 2005. Selective sweeps and intercontinental migration in the cosmopolitan moss Ceratodon purpureus, (Hedw.) Brid. Molecular Ecology 14:1121-1132.
Miller, NG and SF McDaniel. 2004. Bryophyte dispersal capabilities inferred from colonization of an introduced substrate on Whiteface Mountain, New York. American Journal of Botany 91:1173-1182.
McDaniel, SF and AJ Shaw. 2003. Phylogeographic structure and cryptic speciation in the trans-Antarctic moss Pyrrhobryum mnioides. Evolution 57:205-215.
McDaniel, SF and NG Miller. 2000. Winter dispersal of bryophyte fragments in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Bryologist 103:592-600.
Reviews:
Shaw, AJ, SF McDaniel, O Werner, and RM Ros. 2002. New frontiers in bryology and lichenology: phylogeography and phylodemography. Bryologist 105:373-383.
Shaw Laboratory
139
Biological Sciences Bldg.
Box 90338
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham
North Carolina 27708
U.S.A.
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660-7345
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