Steve Jordan
Biology Department
Contact Information
Biology Building 310
sdjordan@bucknell.edu
570-577-1254
Educational Background
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1992
M.S., Brigham Young University, 1996
Ph.D., U. Connecticut, 2001
Teaching Interests
Systematics, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology
Research Interests
I am a molecular systematist and entomologist. My principle research area is the systematics and biogeography of the damselflies of Pacific islands. I have worked extensively in Hawaii and the Marquesas Islands. My recent postdoc in France involved the comparative genomics and phylogenetics of the Capra genus, and testing for selection signatures at multiple nuclear loci.
Recent Activities:
NSF-funded postdoctoral researcher at the CNRS Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Grenoble, France with Dr. Pierre Taberlet and Dr. Gordon Luikart.
Selected Publications
Beja-Pereira, A., P. R. England, N. Ferrand, S. Jordan, A. Bakhiet, M. A. Abdalla, M. Mashkour, J. Jordana, P. Taberlet, G. Luikart. 2004. Two African origins of the domestic donkey. Science 304:1781.
Luikart, G., P. R. England, D. Tallmon, S. Jordan and P. Taberlet. 2003. The power and promise of population genomics: from genotyping to genome typing. Nature Reviews Genetics 4: 981-994.
Jordan, S. , C. Simon, and D. Polhemus. 2003. Molecular systematics and adaptive radiation of Hawaii's endemic damselfly genus Megalagrion (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Systematic Biology 52(1): 89-109.
Johnson, J. B. and S. Jordan. 2000. Phylogenetic divergence in leatherside chub (Gila copei) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Ecology 9:1029-1035.
Jordan, S., D. K. Shiozawa, and J. M. Schmid-Araya. 1999. Benthic invertebrates of a large, sandy river system: The Green and Colorado Rivers of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 147(1):91-127.
