Christopher MeyerResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1752
• Fax: 202-357-2343
• E-mail:meyerc@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Mollusca

Education:
B.A., Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1988.
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, California, 1992
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, California, 1998

Research Interests: Marine speciation, diversification, biogeography and phylogeography. History, assembly and maintenance of tropical reef communities. DNA Barcoding. Phylogeny and Systematics of Cypraeidae, Conus, and other diverse, reef-associated gastropod groups.

Selected Publications:

Hickerson, M., C. Meyer and C. Moritz. 2006. DNA-Barcoding will fail to discover animal species over broad parameter space. Systematic Biology. 55(5): 729-739.

G. Paulay and C. Meyer. 2006. Dispersal and divergence across the greatest ocean region: Do larvae matter? Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46: 269-281.

Meyer, C. and G. Paulay. 2005. DNA barcoding error rates based on comprehensive sampling. PLoS Biology. 3: E422

Meyer, C., J. Geller and G. Paulay. 2005. Fine scale endemism on coral reefs: archipelagic differentiation in turbinid gastropods. Evolution. 59(1): 113-125.

Meyer, C. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia. 46(1): 127-156.

Kirkendale, L. and C. Meyer. 2004. Phylogeography of the Patelloida profunda group (Lottidae: Gastropoda): diversification in a dispersal-driven system. Molecular Ecology. 13(9): 2749-2762.

Meyer, C.P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 79: 401-459.

Paulay, G. and C. Meyer. 2002. Diversification in the tropical Pacific: comparisons between marine and terrestrial systems and the importance of founder speciation. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 42: 922-934.

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