Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark (on left; Jon Paul
Rodríguez on right)
e-mail: kate@sigmaxi.org
B.A. in English
and B.S. in Biology, June 1992, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S. in Environmental
Sciences, November 1994, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
M.S. in Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, May 2000, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Ph.D. in Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, September 2002, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ
PhD Thesis Title:
The conservation of
quantitative genetic variation in small captive populations: experiments
with Oncopeltus fasciatus (The Large Milkweed Bug)
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
Insituto Venezolano
de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC)
Caracas, Venezuela
Publications from time in Hollocher lab:
Rodriguez-Clark, K. M. 1999. Genetic theory and evidence supporting current practices in captive breeding for conservation, pp. 47-74, In: Genetics and the extinction of species. L. F. Landweber and A. P. Dobson (eds). Princeton Univesrity Press, Princeton, NJ.
Rodriguez-Clark, K. M., J. D. Ballou, H. Dingle, E. Dyreson, H. Hollocher, H. Horn, L. F. Keller, R. C. Lacy, and D. A. Stratton. 2003. The dynamics of genetic variance for color and fecundity in populations of Oncopeltus fasciatus (The Large Milkweed Bug). In review for Evolution.