BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
FACULTY MEMBER
Dr. Lawrence G. Abele
Professor, Vice President, and
Provost;
Ph.D., University of Miami, 1972
Research and
Professional Interests:
Past research interests include classical crustacean systematics, ecology,
and biogeography. More recently, focus has shifted to crustacean molecular systematics and evolution. Ongoing research projects encompass the use of nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA sequence data to infer higher-order
phylogenetic relationships among the major crustacean taxa. Molecularly
based phylogeneies can then be used as an independent test of
evolutionary theories based on morphological characters. Additional
projects include the use of mitochondrial DNA sequence data to address
questions of crustacean speciation.
Selected Publications:
Abele, L. G., W.
Kim, and B. E. Felgenhauer. 1989. Molecular evidence for
inclusion of the phylum Pentastomida in the Crustacea. Molecular
Biology and Evolution 6:685-691.
Abele, L. G. 1991. Comparison of morphological and
molecular phylogeny of the Decapoda. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
31:101-108.
Abele, L. G., T. Spears, W. Kim, and M. Applegate.
1992. Phylogeny of selected maxillopodan and other crustacean taxa based
on 18S ribosomal nucleotide sequences: a preliminary analysis. Acta
Zoologica (Stockholm) 73:373-382.
Spears, T., L. G. Abele, and M.
A. Applegate. 1994. Phylogenetic study of cirripedes and selected
relatives (Thecostraca) basedon 18S rDNA sequence analysis. Journal of
Crustacean Biology 14:641-656.
DeBry, R. W., and L. G. Abele. 1995. The relationship between parsimony and maximum-likelihood analyses: tree scores and confidence estimates for three real data sets. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:291-297.
Spears, T., and L. G. Abele. 1997. Crustacean phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA. In Arthropod Relationships. Systematics Association Special Volume Series 55. R. A. Fortey and R. H. Thomas, editors. Chapman and Hall, London. 169-187.
Spears, T., and L. G. Abele. 1999. The phylogenetic relationships of crustaceans with foliaceous limbs: an 18S rDNA study
of Branchiopoda, Cephalocarida, and Phyllocarida. J. Crust. Biol. 19:825-843.
Spears, T., and L. G. Abele. 2000. Branchiopod monophyly and interordinal phylogeny inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA. J.
Crust. Biol. 20:1-24.
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