Area of research
Paleontology · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.
Competition among freshwater clades explains cave colonization in blind cavefishes
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonization in North American cavefishes
The complete genome sequences of 12 species of Percopsiformes
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonisation in North American cavefishes
Population genomics and mitochondrial DNA reveal cryptic diversity in North American Spring Cavefishes (Amblyopsidae, Forbesichthys)
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
Conservation implications for the world’s most widely distributed cavefish species complex based on population genomics (Typhlichthys, Percopsiformes)
<scp>BeeDNA</scp> : Microfluidic environmental <scp>DNA</scp> metabarcoding as a tool for connecting plant and pollinator communities
Speciation with gene flow in a narrow endemic West Virginia cave salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus)
Rediscovery and phylogenetic analysis of the Shelta Cave Crayfish (Orconectes sheltae Cooper &amp; Cooper, 1997), a decapod (Decapoda, Cambaridae) endemic to Shelta Cave in northern Alabama, USA
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome
Subterranean freshwater gastropod biodiversity and conservation in the United States and Mexico
Refining sampling protocols for cavefishes and cave crayfishes to account for environmental variation
Discovery of the Blue Ridge Springsnail, Fontigens orolibas, Hubricht, 1957 (Gastropoda: Emmericiidae) in East Tennessee and Its Conservation Implications
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology
Cave‐adapted evolution in the North American amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics
Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems
Patterns, Mechanisms and Genetics of Speciation in Reptiles and Amphibians
Rediscovery and conservation status of six short‐range endemic <i>Pseudanophthalmus</i> cave beetles (Carabidae: Trechini)
Morphological Evolution of the Cave-, Spring-, and Swampfishes of the Amblyopsidae (Percopsiformes)
Vertebrate fauna in caves of eastern Tennessee within the Appalachians karst region, USA
First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States
Doomed before they are described? The need for conservation assessments of cryptic species complexes using an amblyopsid cavefish (Amblyopsidae: Typhlichthys) as a case study