WORK IN PROGRESS

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