Dr. David Reed

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Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 2000
Assistant Curator of Mammals, Florida Museum of Natural History

Museum Rd & Newell Dr.
Gainesville, FL
32611
voice: (352) 392-1721 x 220
Fax: (352) 846-0287
dreed@flmnh.ufl.edu

Research Interest

My laboratory uses phylogenetic and cophylogenetic methods to study the ecology and evolutionary history of hosts and parasites, primarily mammals and their parasitic lice. For example, we are interested in ecological factors that govern the ability of host-specific parasites to disperse and establish on new host species, such as host size, phylogenetic relatedness, geographic proximity, and host defense. In addition, we study the evolutionary history of parasites in order to infer host evolutionary history. My lab also studies methods of phylogenetic inference using high-performance computing. And lastly, we are involved with developing a specimen-based database (called BioCorder) for tracking specimens, DNA sequence data, images, GIS data, etc.

Students Currently Supervised

Julie Allen
Using evolutionary genetical techniques to look at ecological relationships of organisms and their environments, and for conservation purposes.

Representative Publications

Reed, D. L., V. S. Smith, A. R. Rogers, S. Hammond, and D. H. Clayton.2004.Molecular genetic analysis of human lice supports direct contact between modern and archaic humans. Public Library of Science, Biology. 2(11):xxx-xxx.

Cummings, M. P., and S. A. Handley, D. S. Myers, D. L. Reed, A. Rokas,and K. Winka. 2003. Comparing bootstrap and posterior probability values in the four taxon case. Systematic Biology 53(4):477-487.

Hafner, M. S., J.W. Demastes, T. A. Spradling, and D. L. Reed. 2003. Cophylogeny between pocket gophers and chewing lice. In Tangled trees: phylogenies, cospeciation and coevolution, (R. D. M. Page, ed.). University of Chicago Press, pp195-220.

Reed, D. L. and M. S. Hafner. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial communities associated with ectoparasitic chewing lice of pocket gophers: A culture-independent approach. Microbial Ecology. 44(1):78-93.

Demastes, J. W., T. A. Spradling, M. S. Hafner, and D. L. Reed. 2002.Systematics and phylogeography of pocket gophers in the genera Cratogeomys and Pappogeomys. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22(1):144-154.