In the U.S.
Studies on the impact of the Asian tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi, on the Yaqui chub, in Arizona. PI: Scott Bonar, U.S. F.W.S. Cooperative Unit and University of Arizona, Tuscon.
Biogeography and molecular systematics of Bothriocephalus cuspidatus and B. acheilognathi in North America.
Biogeography and molecular systematics
of Crepidostomum spp. in North America.
In CANADA
Studies on fish
parasites of southern Manitoba: systematics and biogeography. (With
Patrick
Nelson (a.k.a., Patty or iPN), Department
of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba). Parasite assemblages
in suckers (Catostomidae).
In MEXICO
Biogeography, ecology
and systematics of helminths from freshwater fishes of Mexico. Principal
investigator: Dr.Gerardo
Pérez-Ponce de León, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico).
Phylogenetic systematics
of the bunoderine allocreadiids (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Allocreadiidae)
and biogeographical relationships with their fish hosts. (Collaborator:
Dr.Virginia
León Regagnon).
On parasites of fishes that know no political boundaries
Phylogenetic Systematics and coevolution of Lissorchiidae (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) and their cypriniform hosts.
Systematics and biogeography
of helminths from freshwater fishes of Costa Rica. Collaborators: Dr.Rita
Hartvigsen Daverdin and
Dr. Odd Terje Sandlund,
Norwegian Institute of Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway.
Other collaborators and consultants on matters parctical and esoteric.
Dr. Fernando Luna
Portella Marques. Universidade Estadual Paulista,
IBB - Departamento de Zoologia, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Specialty: Systematics
and phylogenetics of decapod (brachyuran) crustaceans, and of tetraphyllidean
tapeworms of stingrays.
Brian Moore: Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street,
New Haven, Connecticut.
Specialty: Methods
and philosophy of phylogenetic systematics.
Francesco Santini,
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, and Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto. PhD candidate.
Specialty: Systematics,
phylogenetics and historical biogeography of tetraodontiform fishes