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John
W. Bickham |
Rank |
Professor |
Department |
Wildlife
and Fisheries Sciences |
Phone |
(979)
845-5777 |
Fax
|
(979)
845-496 |
Email
Address |
j-bickham@tamu.edu |
Distinguished
Awards |
Distinguished Performance Award Graduate Teaching,
Texas A&M University System (1985)
Distinguished Professor Award, Association
of Graduate Wildlife and Fisheries Scientists
(1986)
Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Donald
W. Tinkle Research Excellence Award (1990)
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My
lab's research focuses primarily on the evolutionary
biology of extant vertebrate taxa including systematics,
population genetics, and toxicology using current
molecular genetic and cytometric techniques.
My
interest in the area of vertebrate evolution deals
mainly with mammals (Chiropterans, Cetaceans, and
Pinnipeds), reptiles (Testudines), and fish (Salmonids).
Current projects include population genetics of
Steller's sea lions and bowhead whales, and molecular
systematics of vespertilionid bats. I am also working
on stock assessment and evolution of several commercially
important North American salmonids (salmon and ciscoes).
I
am also interested in the effects environmental
pollutants have on the population structure of wildlife
and their role as potential indicators of environmental
health. Environmental toxins manifest their effects
in a variety of manners, and my research is geared
toward chronic or long-term evolutionary consequences
of exposure. Current projects focus on genetic damage
and resulting changes in the genetic structure of
wildlife populations in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Theodorakis, C. W., J. W. Bickham,
T. Lamb, P. A. Medica, and T. B. Lyne. 2001. Integration
of genotoxicity and population genetic analyses
in kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) exposed to
radionuclide contamination at the Nevada Test Site.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20:317-326.
Politov,
D. V., J. W. Bickham, and J. C.
Patton. 2004. Molecular Phylogeography of Palearctic
and Nearctic Ciscoes. Ann. Zool. Fennici 41:13-23.
Bickham
J. W., C. W. Matson, A. Islamzadey, G.
T. Rowe, K. C. Donnelly, C. D. Swartz, W. J. Rogers,
R. L. Autenrieth, T. J. McDonald, D. Politov, J.
K. Wickliffe, G. Palatnikov, A. A. Mekhtiev, and
Rafik Kasimov. 2003. Editorial: The unknown environmental
tragedy in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan. Ecotoxicology 12:507-510.
Trujillo,
R. G., T. R. Loughlin, N. J. Gemmell, J. C. Patton,
and J. W. Bickham. 2004. Variation
in microsatellites and mtDNA across the range of
the Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus. Journal
of Mammalogy 85:12-20.
