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Doctoral Student

KOJUN KANDA

Advisor:

David Maddison

Contact Info:

Marley 704
(520) 621-7033
kkanda@cals.arizona.edu

Research and Interests:

I am interested in the systematics and taxonomy of the beetle family, Tenebrionidae. For my thesis, I am working on a revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Coniontis. I will also examine the utility of molecular data in discerning species boundaries among morphologically similar species. I also plan on conducting a preliminary examination of the higher level phylogeny for the family using DNA sequence data.

Publications:

• Short, A.E.Z. & K. Kanda. 2006. The water scavenger beetles of Mongolia with new records from the Selenge River Basin (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155: 9–12.