James M Maley

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Summary

James M. Maley is from Rochester, New York. He attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks for his B.S. and M. S. He received his Ph.D. in 2012 from Louisiana State University where he worked on large rails in the genus Rallus, uncovering novel genetic relationships that led to the splitting of Clapper Rail into three species and King Rail into two species. He is the Collections Manager of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Biodiversity Bioinformatics Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Molecular Biology

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Occidental College

Work details

Collections Manager

Occidental College

September 2013

Moore Laboratory of Zoology

The mission of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology is to answer outstanding questions about the origins of biodiversity and how species respond to environmental change by linking information from the habitats and genomes of species with physical specimens in our collection. The Moore Lab contains 65,000 specimens, mostly bird study skins, with a strong focus on Mexico and Latin America. The vast majority of the specimens were collected from 1933 to 1955 by Chester C. Lamb as he traversed Mexico under the direction of Robert T. Moore, whose goal was to describe the poorly known birdlife south of the U.S. border. These specimens are now a snapshot in time from before pristine habitats were destroyed for logging and agriculture.

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December 11, 2018

Combining ultraconserved elements and mtDNA data to uncover lineage diversity in a Mexican highland frog (Sarcohyla; Hylidae)

Eugenia Zarza, Elizabeth M. Connors, James M. Maley, Whitney L.E. Tsai, Peter Heimes, Moises Kaplan, John E. McCormack

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6045 PubMed 30581665

April 21, 2015

Michael G. Harvey, Caroline Duffie Judy, Glenn F. Seeholzer, James M. Maley, Gary R. Graves, Robb T. Brumfield

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.895 PubMed 25922792

February 28, 2015 - Version: 1

Michael G Harvey, Caroline Duffie Judy, Glenn F Seeholzer, James M Maley, Gary R Graves, Robb T Brumfield

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.864v1