Jeffrey L. Peters
Ph.D.
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Wright State University
United States of America
Biography
Education History: Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK . Ph.D. Biological Sciences. 2006. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD . M.S. Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology. 2002. Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD. B.S.Biology. 1996. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.
Research Interest
His research program is interdisciplinary and includes aspects of molecular and evolutionary ecology, population/community genetics, molecular evolution, and behavioral ecology. The research focuses on two primary goals: (1) to study the evolutionary histories of populations and species using DNA sequences; and (2) to study the influence of natural selection on non-coding DNA.
Publications
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Lavretsky, P.*, K.G. McCracken, & J.L. Peters. 2014. Phylogenetics of a recent radiation in the mallards and allies (Aves: Anas): Inferences from a genomic transect and the multispecies coalescent. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70: 402-411.
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Lavretsky, P.*, A. Engilis, Jr., & J.L. Peters. 2014. Major histocompatibility I gene diversity in the critically endangered Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis). Pacific Conservation Biology: In Press.
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Peters, J.L., S.A. Sonsthagen, P. Lavretsky*, M. Rezsutek, W.P. Johnson, & K.G. McCracken. 2014. Interspecific hybridization contributes to high genetic diversity and apparent effective population size in an endemic population of mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula maculosa). Conservation Genetics: In Press.
