Related Links

International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature
List of North American Amphibian and Reptile Species
PhyloCode

Interviews and News Articles
Wired (2007)
National Public Radio (2007)
Discover (2005)
Scientific American (2004)
Folha de Saõ Paulo (2002)
Science (2001)
BioScience (2000)

Education

B.S. (Biology), University of California at Los Angeles, 1978.
M.S. (Zoology), San Diego State University, 1985.
Ph.D. (Zoology), University of California at Berkeley, 1989.

Research Interests

Theory and practice of systematic biology, phylogeny and evolution of amphibians and reptiles with emphasis on iguanian lizards.

Selected Publications

2004.   Brandley, M. C., and K. de Queiroz.  Phylogeny, ecomorphological evolution, and historical biogeography of the Anolis cristatellus series.  Herpetological Monographs 18:90-126.

2004.   de Queiroz, K.  The measurement of test severity, significance tests for resolution, and a unified philosophy of phylogenetic inference.  Zoologica Scripta 33(5):463-473.

2001.   de Queiroz, K., and P. D. Cantino.  Phylogenetic nomenclature and the PhyloCode.  Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(4):254-271.

2000.   de Queiroz, K.  Logical problems associated with including and excluding characters during tree reconstruction and their implications for the study of morphological character evolution.  Pp. 192-212 (Chapter 8) in Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data, J. J. Wiens (ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. [PDF]

1998.   de Queiroz, K., L.-R. Chu, and J. B. Losos.  A second Anolis lizard in Dominican amber and the systematics and ecological morphology of Dominican amber anoles.  American Museum Novitates (3249):1-23.

1998.   de Queiroz, K.  The general lineage concept of species, species criteria, and the process of speciation:  A conceptual unification and terminological recommendations.  Pp. 57-75 (Chapter 5) in Endless Forms:  Species and Speciation, D. J. Howard and S. H. Berlocher (eds.).  Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.

1998.   Losos, J. B., T. R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodriguez Schettino.  Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards.  Science 279(5359):2115-2118.

1997.   de Queiroz, K., & D. A. Good.  Phenetic Clustering in biology:  A critique.  Quarterly Review of Biology 72(1):3-30.

1992.   de Queiroz, K., & J. Gauthier.  Phylogenetic taxonomy.  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:449-480. [PDF]

1988.   Estes, R., K. de Queiroz, & J. A. Gauthier.  Phylogenetic relationships within squamate reptiles.  Pp. 119-281 in Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families, R. Estes and G. Pregill (eds.), Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California.

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