Jaymes Awbrey, M.S. 2015

Jaymes applied recent innovations in integrative species delimitation to combine molecular and morphological data into one analysis. Such methods are used to differentiate candidate species using continuous characters as well as gene sequences, but have not previously been applied to marine invertebrates. Jaymes extracted measurements from SEM images of radular teeth and shells, and included these data in analyses using the programs BPP and iBPP together with genetic data. His thesis supported previously proposed candidate species in Oxynoe, and will form the basis for a revision of the genus Lobiger.

 

See Berriman et al. 2018, Mol. Phylogen. Evol.