Kevin de Queiroz
Curator/Research Zoologist
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
MRC 162
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
dequeirk@si.edu
Research Interests
Systematics and evolutionary biology of reptiles; principles and methods of systematic biology.
Current Research Projects
Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid sand lizards; phylogenetic relationships of swordtail fishes; development of theory and rules of phylogenetic nomenclature; theory of species and its implications for taxonomy.
Current or Projected Exhibits
Behring mammal halls (part of extended team).
Recent Publications
Losos, J. B., T. R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodriguez Schettino. 1998. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 279(5359):2115-2118.
de Queiroz, K. 1998. The general lineage concept of species, species criteria, and the process of speciation: A conceptual unification and terminological recommendations. Pp. 57-75 (Chapter 5) in Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, D. J. Howard and S. H. Berlocher (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
de Queiroz, K., L.-R. Chu, and J. B. Losos. 1998. A second Anolis lizard in Dominican amber and the systematics and ecological morphology of Dominican amber anoles. American Museum Novitates (3249):1-23.
de Queiroz, K. 1999. The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category. Pp. 49-89 (Chapter 3) in Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, R. A. Wilson (ed.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wilgenbusch, J., and K. de Queiroz. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among the phrynosomatid sand lizards inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences generated by heterogeneous evolutionary processes. Systematic Biology 49(3):592-612.
de Queiroz, K., and S. Poe. 2001. Philosophy and Phylogenetic Inference: A Comparison of Likelihood and Parsimony Methods in the Context of Karl Popper’s Writings on Corroboration. Systematic Biology 50(3):305-321.
Creer, D. A., K. de Queiroz, T. R. Jackman, J. B. Losos, and A. Larson. 2001. Systematics of the Anolis roquet series of the southern Lesser Antilles. Journal of Herpetology 35(3):428-441.
Gauthier, J., and K. de Queiroz. 2001. Feathered dinosaurs, flying dinosaurs, crown dinosaurs, and the name "Aves." Pp. 7-41 in New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom, J. Gauthier and L. F. Gall (eds.), Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
de Queiroz, K., and P. D. Cantino. 2001. Phylogenetic nomenclature and the PhyloCode. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(4):254-271.
Jackman, T. R., D. J. Irschick, K.
de Queiroz, J. B. Losos, and A. Larson. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic perspective
on evolution of lizards of the Anolis grahami series. Journal of Experimental
Zoology 294:1-16.
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