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Richard J. Adams

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Affiliation: Monterey Co. Office of Education
Position: Special Education Teacher
Work Address: 370 Bush St.
Salinas, California
United States 93907
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Email: rjadams55(at)yahoo.com
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Past Work: Taxonomy of Phthiraptera (Insecta). Host-parasite coevolution.
Expertise/Interests: Interests: Taxonomy and biogeography of California spiders, Effects of introduced species on already established communities.

Publications

  1. Price, R. D., Clayton, D. H. & Adams, R. J. 2000. Pigeon Lice down under: Taxonomy of Australian Campanulotes (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) with a description of C. durdeni n. sp.  J. Parasitol. 86(5): 948-950.
  2. Adams, R. J. 2001. Rallicola deckeri N. sp. (Phthiraptera:Philopteridae) from Ruddy Woodcreepers Dendrocincla homochroa (Passeriformes: Furnariidae) collected in Campeche, Mexico. J. Parasitol. 87(1): 118-120.
  3. Johnson, K. P., Adams, R. J. & Clayton, D. H. 2001. Molecular systematics of Goniodidae (Insecta: Phthiraptera). J. Parasit. 87(4): 862-869.
  4. Johnson, K. P., Williams, B. L., Drown, D. D., Adams, R. J. & Clayton, D.H. 2002. The population genetics of host specificity: genetic differentiation in dove lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Mol. Ecol. 11: 25-38.
  5. Johnson, K. P., Adams, R. J. & Clayton, D. H. 2002. The phylogeny of the louse genus Brueelia does not reflect host phylogeny. Biol. Journ. of the Lin. Soc. 77: 233-247.
  6. Johnson, K. P., Adams, R. J., Page, R. D. M. & Clayton, D. H. 2001. When do parasites fail to speciate in response to host speciation? Sys. Biol. 52(1): 37-47.
  7. Adams, R. J., Price, R. D. & Clayton, D. H. 2005. Taxonomic revision of the Old World members of the feather louse genus Columbicola (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera), including descriptions of eight new species. Journ. of Nat. Hist. 39(4): 3545-3618.