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Fields of interest:

• evolutionary biology
• population genetics
• bioinformatics
• molecular evolution
• systematics
• taxonomy
• phylogeography

Recent publications:

Pérez-Losada, M., D.V. Jobes, F. Sinangil, K.A. Crandall, D. Posada, and P.W. Berman. 2010. Phylodynamics of HIV-1 from a phase III AIDS vaccine trial in North America. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:417-425.

Lewis-Rogers, N., and K.A. Crandall. 2010. Evolution of Picornaviridae: An examination of phylogenetic relationships and cophylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(3):995-1005.

Sinclair, E.A., J.B. Pramuk, R.L. Bezy, K.A. Crandall, and J.W. Sites, Jr. 2010. DNA evidence for non-hybrid origins of parthenogensis in natural populations of vertebrates. Evolution 64(5):1346-1357.

Hickerson, M.J., B.C. Carstens, J. Cavender-Bares, K.A. Crandall, C.H. Graham, J.B. Johnson, L. Rissler, P.F. Victoriano, and A.D. Yoder. 2010. Phylogeography’s past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise 2000. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(1):291-301.

Bracken, H.D., S. DeGrave, A. Toon, D.L. Felder, and K.A. Crandall. 2010. Phylogenetic position, systematic status, and divergence time of the Procarididea (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologica Scripta 39(2):198-212.

DeGrave, S., N.D. Pentcheff, S.T. Ahyong, T-Y Chan, K.A. Crandall, P.C. Dworschak, D.L. Felder, R.M. Feldmann, C.H.J.M. Fransen, L.Y.D. Goulding, R. Lemaitre, M.E.Y. Low, J.W. Martin, P.K.L. Ng, C.E. Schweitzer, S.H. Tan, D. Tshudy, R. Wetzer. 2009. A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin Of Zoology Supplement No. 21:1-109.

Pérez-Losada, M., G. Bond-Buckup, C.G. Jara, and K.A. Crandall. 2009. Conservation assessment of southern South America freshwater ecoregions based on endemic crabs of the genus Aegla. Conservation Biology 23(3):692-702.

Pérez-Losada, M., J.T. Høeg, K.A. Crandall. 2009. Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea). BMC Biology 7:15.

Xu, J., M. Pérez-Losada, C.G. Jara, and K.A. Crandall. 2009. Pleistocene glaciation leaves deep signature on the freshwater crab Aegla alacalufi in Chilean Patagonia. Molecular Ecology 18:904-918.

Lewis-Rogers, N., M. L. Bendall, and K.A. Crandall. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships and molecular adaptation dynamics of human rhinoviruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26:969-981.