Patrick Danley
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Baylor University
United States of America
Biography
Patrick Danley is currently joined as an Associate Professor at Baylor University in the department of Biology. He has completed his Ph.D. in Zoology from University of New Hampshire & B.S. in Biology from The Pennsylvania State University. His research interest includes Why are there so many species? He try to answer this question by examining the factors that have influenced speciation in two of the worlds most species rich groups: East African cichlids and Hawaiian crickets. Species formation in these systems has been rapid, recent, and extensive. Yet the factor that seems to influence the rate of speciation in these groups is common to most sexually reproducing organisms. That is, organisms must choose a mate. He had so many publications in national & international journals.
Research Interest
Molecular Ecology, Population Genetics
Publications
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Shaw, K. L., and P. D. Danley, Behavioral genomics and the study of speciation at a porous species boundary. Zoology (2003), vol.106, PP. 261-273.
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Danley, P.D., S. P. Mullen, F. Lui, V. Nene, J. Quackenbush and K. L. Shaw. 2007. A cricket gene index: A neurological, behavioral, and evolutionary genetic resource. BMC Genomics 8 Art. # 109.
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Danley, P. D., T. N. deCarvalho, D. J. Fergus, and K. L. Shaw, Reproductive asynchrony and the divergence of Hawaiian crickets. Ethology (2007), vol. 113, PP. 1125-1132.
