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John Tucker
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Great Rivers Field Station Brighton, IL 62012 Phone: 618-466-9690 Fax: 618-466-9688 Email: jktucker@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Herpetologist Office Location: GRFS | ||
| Activities | Studies on endangered and threatened Illinois amphibians and reptiles |
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| Research |
Examination of the effects of climatic change on the natural history of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans). Natural selection on life history traits of the red-eared slider. Population status of the Illinois chorus frog (Pseudacris illinoensis). Taxonomy of the Conoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). |
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| Selected publications |
Myers, Erin M., Fredric J. Janzen, D. C. Adams, and John K. Tucker. 2006. Quantitative genetics of plastron shape in slider turtles (Trachemys scripta). Evolution 60:563-572. Owen, Patrick C. and John K. Tucker. 2006. Courtship calls and behavior in two species of chorus frogs, genus Pseudacris (Anura: Hylidae). Copeia 2006(1):137-144. Tryfonas, Anna E., John K. Tucker, Paul E. Brunkow, Kevin A. Johnson, Hussein S. Huseein, and Zhi-Qing Lin. 2006. Metal accumulation in eggs of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in the Lower Illinois River. Chemosphere 63:39-48. Willette, Damian A. S., John K. Tucker, and Fredric J. Janzen, 2005. Linking climate and physiology at the population level for a key life-history stage of turtles. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:845-850. Tucker, John K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295. |
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| Education | MS, Zoology, Illinois State University, Normal, 1977 BS, Biology, Illinois State University, Normal, 1974 | ||