| Kevin Johnson | |||||
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Email: kjohnson@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Ornithologist
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| Activities | Further Studies Ornithologist; INHS Curator of Birds |
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| Research |
Host parasite systems provide an opportunity to study the interface between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns. The goals of my current research center around recovering the coevolutionary history of birds and their ectoparasitic lice. The degree of cospeciation varies across different groups of lice. By understanding how ecological differences between groups might cause differences in coevolutionary history, considerable progress can be made towards predicting macroevolutionary patterns from microevolutionary proc |
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| Professional affiliations |
Society of Systematic Biologists, American Ornithologists Union, American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Animal Behavior Society, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Cooper Ornithological Society |
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| Selected publications |
Johnson, K. P., B. L. Williams, D. M. Drown, R. J. Adams, and D. H. Clayton. 2002. The population genetics of host specificity: Genetic differentiation in dove lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Ecology 11:25-38 . Johnson, K. P., D. M. Drown, D. H. Clayton. 2001. A data based parsimony method of cophylogenetic analysis. Zoologica Scripta 30:79-87. Johnson, K. P. 2001. Taxon sampling and the phylogenetic position of Passeriformes: Evidence from 916 avian cytochrome b sequences. Systematic Biology 50: 128-136. Johnson, K. P. and J. Seger. 2001. Elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitutions in island birds. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:874-881. Johnson, K. P., F. R. Adler, and J. L. Cherry. 2000. Genetic and phylogenetic consequences of island biogeography. Evolution 54:387-396. |
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| Program Affiliates |
Department of Animal Biology, Department of Entomology, and Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois Field Museum of Natural History: Birds |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
Program Chair Society of Systematic Biologists | ||||
| Education | PhD, Ecology, University of Minnesota, 1997 BS, Biology, Bethel College, St Paul MN, 1991 | ||||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
