Christopher MeyerResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1752
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• 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.

Current Activities: Director, Moorea Biocode Project

Recent Publications:
Leray, Matthieu, Agudelo, Natalia, Mills, Suzanne C. and Meyer, Christopher P. 2013. Effectiveness of Annealing Blocking Primers versus Restriction Enzymes for Characterization of Generalist Diets: Unexpected Prey Revealed in the Gut Contents of Two Coral Reef Fish Species. Plos One, 8(4) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058076

Parker, Meaghan, Stones-Havas, Steven, Starger, Craig and Meyer, Christopher P. 2012. Laboratory information management systems for DNA barcoding. In: DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press,(Methods in molecular biology) pp.269-310.

Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Ormos, Andrea, Meyer, Christopher P. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2012. Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols. In: DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols.(Methods in molecular biology) pp.11-16.

Davies, Neil, Meyer, Christopher P., Gilbert, Jack A., Amaral-Zettler, Linda, Deck, John, Bicak, Mesude, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Assunta-Sansone, Susanna, Willis, Kathy and Field, Dawn 2012. A call for an international network of genomic observatories (GOs). GigaScience, 1: 1-5. doi:10.1186/2047-217X-1-5

Leray, M., Boehm, J. T., Mills, S. C. and Meyer, Christopher P. 2012. Moorea BIOCODE barcode library as a tool for understanding predator-prey interactions: insights into the diet of common predatory coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs, 31(2): 383-388. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0845-0

Puillandre, Nicolas, Meyer, Christopher P., Bouchet, Philippe and Olivera, Baldomero M. 2011. Genetic divergence and geographical variation in the deep-water Conus orbignyi complex (Mollusca: Conoidea). Zoologica Scripta, 40(4): 350-363. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00478.x

Puillandre, N., Kantor, Yu I., Sysoev, A., Couloux, A., Meyer, C., Rawlings, T., Todd, J. A. and Bouchet, P. 2011. The dragon tamed? A molecular phylogeny of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77(3): 259-272. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr015

Hubert, Nicolas, Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan, Irisson, Jean-Olivier, Meyer, Christopher P. and Planes, Serge 2010. Identifying coral reef fish larvae through DNA barcoding: a test case with the families Acanthuridae and Holocentridae. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 55(3): 1195-1203.

Bellwood, David R. and Meyer, Christopher P. 2009. Searching for heat in a marine biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography, 36(4): 569-576.

Bellwood, David R. and Meyer, Christopher P. 2009. Endemism and evolution in the Coral Triangle: a call for clarity. Journal of Biogeography, 36(10): 2010-2012.

Plaisance, Laetitia, Knowlton, Nancy, Paulay, Gustav and Meyer, Christopher P. 2009. Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding. Coral Reefs, 28(4): 977-986. doi:10.1007/s00338-009-0543-3



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