-
Gary Voelker - Professor, Curator of Birds, Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections
- Office:
- 252 WFES
- Email:
- gvoelker@tamu.edu
- Phone:
- 979-845-5288
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S., Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Education
- Ph.D., Zoology, University of Washington
Recent Publications
Hibbitts, Toby J., Wade A. Ryberg, Johanna A. Harvey, Gary Voelker, A. Michelle Lawing, Connor S. Adams, Dalton B. Neuharth, Drew E. Dittmer, C. Michael Duran et al. (2019) Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880) (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae): one species or two?, Zootaxa, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.6.
Huntley, Jerry W., Katrina D. Keith, Adrian A. Castellanos, Lukas J. Musher and Gary Voelker. (2019) Underestimated and cryptic diversification patterns across Afro-tropical lowland forests, Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13505.
Rakovic, Marko, Julio M. Neto, Ricardo J. Lopes, Evgeniy A. Koblik, Igor V. Fadeev, Yuriy V. Lohman, Sargis A. Aghayan, Giovanni Boano, Marco Pavia, Yoav Perlman, Gary Voelker et al. (2019) Geographic patterns of mtDNA and Z-linked sequence variation in the Common Chiffchaff and the ‘chiffchaff complex’, PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210268.
Harvey, Johanna A. and Gary Voelker. (2019) Host associations and climate influence avian haemosporidian distributions in Benin, International Journal for Parasitology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.07.004.
Castellanos, Adrian A.*, Jerry W. Huntley, Gary Voelker and A. Michelle Lawing. (2019) Environmental filtering improves ecological niche models across multiple scales, British Ecological Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13142.
About the Lab
The primary long-term focus of work in the Voelker Lab is on the systematics and biogeography of birds. More recently my students and I have developed an interest in looking at the ecto- and endoparasites of birds to include avian malaria and lice.