Richard Taylor Highton, Ph.D.

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Zoology University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 
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Arnold Brams Grobman grad student 1956 UF Gainesville
 (Ph.D.: The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. M.S. (1953) The life history of the slimy salamander (plethodon glutinosus) in Florida.)

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Donald Earl Johnston grad student 1961 University of Maryland
Anne Sayler grad student 1964 University of Maryland
Sarah Mills (Goldblatt) Mountjoy grad student 1966 University of Maryland
Henry Merchant grad student 1966 University of Maryland (Anthropology Tree)
Richard D, Widman grad student 1966 University of Maryland
Frank P. Saitta grad student 1967 University of Maryland
John P. Angle grad student 1968 University of Maryland
Richard D. Worthington grad student 1968 University of Maryland
Robert Gordon Jaeger grad student 1969 University of Maryland
Dale Madison grad student 1971 University of Maryland (Microtree)
Rudolph Theodore Danstedt grad student 1972 University of Maryland
Douglas F. Fraser grad student 1974 University of Maryland
Gary M. Fellers grad student 1976 University of Maryland
Robert Cameron Duncan grad student 1977 University of Maryland
L. Allan Larson grad student 1975-1977 University of Maryland
Robert B. Peabody grad student 1978 University of Maryland
Raymond Donald Semlitsch grad student 1979 University of Maryland
Addison H. Wynn grad student 1982 University of Maryland
Jeremy F. Jacobs grad student 1984 University of Maryland
Kristi L. Burnell grad student 1988 University of Maryland
S. Blair Hedges grad student 1988 University of Maryland
Paul A. Manzo grad student 1988 University of Maryland (Cell Biology Tree)
Gavin J. P. Naylor grad student 1989 University of Maryland (Cell Biology Tree)
Carla A. Hass grad student 1990 University of Maryland
Robb Brumfield grad student 1999 University of Maryland
Melanie Culver grad student 1999 University of Maryland (Anthropology Tree)
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Kuchta SR, Brown AD, Highton R. (2018) Disintegrating over space and time: Paraphyly and species delimitation in the Wehrle's Salamander complex Zoologica Scripta. 47: 285-299
Kuchta SR, Brown AD, Converse PE, et al. (2016) Multilocus Phylogeography and Species Delimitation in the Cumberland Plateau Salamander, Plethodon kentucki: Incongruence among Data Sets and Methods. Plos One. 11: e0150022
Kuchta SR, Haughey M, Wynn AH, et al. (2015) Ancient river systems and phylogeographical structure in the spring salamander, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus Journal of Biogeography
Highton R. (2014) Detecting cryptic species in phylogeographic studies: speciation in the California Slender Salamander, Batrachoseps attenuatus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 71: 127-41
Highton R, Hastings AP, Palmer C, et al. (2012) Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (Genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63: 278-90
Sites JW, Morando M, Highton R, et al. (2004) Phylogenetic relationships of the endangered Shenandoah Salamander (Plethodon shenandoah) and other salamanders of the Plethodon cinereus group (Caudata: Plethodontidae) Journal of Herpetology. 38: 96-105
Crother BI, Boundy J, Campbell JA, et al. (2003) Scientific and standard english names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico: Update Herpetological Review. 34: 196-203
Highton R, Hedges SB, Hass CA, et al. (2002) Snake relationships revealed by slowly-evolving proteins: Further analysis and a reply Herpetologica. 58: 270-275
Highton R. (1999) Geographic protein variation and speciation in the salamanders of the Plethodon cinereus group with the description of two new species Herpetologica. 55: 43-90
Dowling HG, Hass CA, Hedges SB, et al. (1996) Snake relationships revealed by slow-evolving proteins: A preliminary survey Journal of Zoology. 240: 1-28
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