Jill Yager
| Biografía | |
|---|---|
| Nacemento | 1945  (79/80 anos) |
| Educación | Universidade Estatal de Colorado - graduado en ciencias Florida Institute of Technology (en)  - Mestrado en ciencias Old Dominion University (en) - Doutora en filosofía |
| Actividade | |
| Campo de traballo | Remipedios, Crustáceos e invertebrate zoology (en) |
| Ocupación | bióloga, carcinóloga, zoóloga, cave diver (en) |
| Empregador | Antioch College (en) (1989–2007) Instituto Smithsoniano Museo Nacional de Historia Natural dos Estados Unidos |
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Jill Yager é unha bióloga estadounidense especializada no estudo dos crustáceos, recoñecida mundialmente por ser a descubridora e descritora da nova clase dos remipedios.
Traxectoria
[editar | editar a fonte]Estudou na B.S. Colorado State University e no M.S. Florida Institute of Technology, doutorándose na Old Dominion University. Na actualidade é investigadora asociada no Departamento de Zooloxía de Invertebrados da Institución Smithsoniana.
Principais obras
[editar | editar a fonte]- Hartke, T. R., Koenemann, S. & J. Yager (2011): "Speleonectes williamsi, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Bahamas". Zootaxa 3115: 21-28.
- Daenekas, J., Iliffe., T.M., Yager, J., & S. Koenemann (2009): "Speleonectes kakuki, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from Andros and Cat Island, Bahamas". Zootaxa 2016: 51-66.
- Escobar-Briones, E. & J. Yager (2002): "Remipedia". En: Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico. Vol. III, eds. J. L. Bousquets e J. J. Morone. Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México, pp. 279–290.
- Yager, J. & M. E. Madden (2002): "Preliminary analysis of the ecology of a cenote in Quintana Roo, Mexico, characterized by its extraordinary quantities of remipedes". En: Hydrogeology and Biology of Post-Paleozoic Carbonate Aquifers, eds. J. B. Martin, C. M. Wicks & I. D. Sasowsky. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 7: 138-141.
- Yager, J. & J. H. Carpenter (1999): "Speleonectes epilimnius, new species, (Remipedia: Speleonectidae) from surface water of an anchialine cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas". Crustaceana 72 (8): 965-977.
- Hessler, R. R. & J. Yager (1998): "Skeletomusculature of trunk segments and their limbs in Speleonectes tulumensis (Remipedia)". Journal of Crustacean Biology 18 (1): 111-119.
- Yager, J. & W. F. Humphreys (1996): "Lasionectes exleyi, sp. nov., the first remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species". Invertebrate Taxonomy '10: 171-187.
- Yager, J. (1994): "Speleonectes gironensis, new species of remipede (Crustacea: Remipedia: Speleonectidae) from anchialine caves in Cuba, with remarks on biogeography and ecology". Journal Crustacean Biology 14 (4): 752-762.
- Yager, J. (1991): "The reproductive biology of two species of remipedes". En: R. T. Bauer & J. W. Martin, eds. Crustacean Sexual Biology, pp. 271–289. Nova York: Columbia University Press.
- Yager, J. (1981): "Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas". Journal of Crustacean Biology 1 (3): 328-333.
