James Todd Harper
About
Instructor teaching:
- General biology
- Anatomy and physiology
- Plants & society
- Marine biology
- Evolution
Education and credentials
- PhD, New Brunswick
- MSc, St. Francis Xavier
- BSc, St. Francis Xavier
- BA, St. Francis Xavier
Research summary
Publications and other research outputs
- North American Bird Strike Advisory System: Strategic Plan
- Host specificity of Podocystis adriatica on the red alga Heterosiphonia crispella from Senegal
- Marine algae of northern Senegal: The flora and its biogeography
- The application of sequences of the ribosomal cistron to the systematics and classification of the florideophyte red algae (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta)
- A molecular systematic investigation of the Acrochaetiales (Florideophycidae, Rhodophyta) and related taxa based on nuclear small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequence data
- A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales ord. nov. (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta)
- Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of marine Aseptate Gregarines (Apicomplexa): Selenidium spp. and Lecudina spp.
- A complex and punctate distribution of three eukaryotic genes derived by lateral gene transfer
- On the monophyly of chromalveolates using a six-protein phylogeny of eukaryotes
- Molecular and morphological analysis of the family Calonymphidae with a description of Calonympha chia sp. nov., Snyderella kirbyi sp. nov., Snyderella swezyae sp. nov. and Snyderella yamini sp. nov.
- Nucleus-encoded, plastid-targeted glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) indicates a single origin for chromalveolate plastids
- Using molecular data to resolve the taxonomic limits of the genera Callophyllis , Euthora and Pugetia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta)
- Phylogenetic study of the Nemaliales (Rhodophyta) based on large-subunit ribosomal DNA sequences supports segregation of the Scinaiaceae fam. nov. and resurrection of Dichotomaria Lamarck
- Large subunit rDNA and rbcL gene sequence data place Petrohua bernabei gen. et sp. nov. in the Batrachospermales (Rhodophyta), but do not provide further resolution among taxa in this order
- New species of Spirotrichonympha from reticulitermes and the relationships among genera in Spirotrichonymphea (Parabasalia)
- Plastid-derived Type II fatty acid biosynthetic enzymes in chromists
- Lateral gene transfer and the complex distribution of insertions in eukaryotic enolase
- Molecular systematics of the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta) using nuclear large- and small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequence data
- The inadequacy of morphology for species and genus delineation in microbial eukaryotes: An example from the parabasalian termite symbiont Coronympha