Anthony A. Echelle

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Anthony A. Echelle, Regents Professor & Curator of Fishes.

Fish Biology; Molecular/Biochemical Systematics; Population Structure; Conservation Biology.

 

Ph.D., 1970, University of Oklahoma

Phone: 405-744-9681

Email: echelle@okstate.edu


Specific Interests

My research is in fish biology with an emphasis on molecular systematics, genetic structure of natural populations, and the status and conservation biology of fishes in the southwestern United States. Ongoing projects include studies of hybridization in pupfishes, phylogenetics of pupfishes and speckled chubs, and conservation genetics of fishes in the southwest.

 

Selected Publications

  • Echelle, A. A., M. S. Schwemm, N. J. Lang, J. S. Baker, R. M. Wood, T. J. Near, and W. L. Fisher. 2015 Molecular systematics of the Least Darter (Percidae: Etheostoma microperca): Historical biogeography and conservation implications. Copeia 2015:87-98.
  • Echelle, A. A., and L. Grande. 2014. Chapter 7, Lepisosteidae: Gars, p. 243-278. In: North American Freshwater Fishes: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation. M. L. Warren, Jr. and B. M. Burr (eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Lee, J. S., D. C. Heins, A. F. Echelle, and A. A. Echelle. 2014. Annual ovarian cycle and other reproductive traits of female Red River pupfish (Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis) in the Red River drainage of Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist. 59:9-14
  • Echelle, A. A., M. R. Schwemm, N. J. Lang, B. C. Nagle, A. M. Simons, P. J. Unmack, W. L. Fisher, and C. W. Hoagstrom. 2014. Molecular systematics of the Nocomis biguttatus species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae): Nuclear and mitochondrial introgression and a cryptic species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 81:109-119.
  • Echelle, A. A., M. L. Lozano Vilano, S. Baker, W. Wilson, A. F. Echelle, G. P. Garrett, and R. J. Edwards. 2013. Conservation Genetics of Gambusia krumholzi (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) with Assessment of the Species Status of G. clarkhubbsi and Hybridization with G. speciosa. Copeia 2013:72-79.
  • Liu, R. K., and A. A. Echelle. 2013. Behavior of the Catarina Pupfish (Cyprinodontidae: Megupsilon aporus), a severely imperiled species. The Southwestern Naturalist 58:1-7.
  • Martin, A. P., A. A. Echelle, G. Zegers, S. Baker and C. L. Keeler-Foster. 2012. Dramatic shifts in the gene pool of a managed population of an endangered species may be exacerbated by high genetic load. Conservation Genetics 13:349-358.
  • Lang, N. J., and A. A. Echelle. 2011. Novel phylogeographic patterns in a lowland fish, Etheostoma proeliare (Percidae). Southeastern Naturalist 10:133-144.
  • McClure, S. A., A. A. Echelle, R. A. Van Den Bussche, A. F. Echelle, D. A. Hendrickson, & G. P. Garrett. 2010. Genetic Status of Headwater Catfish (Ictalurus lupus) in Texas and New Mexico: A perspective from mtDNA and morphology. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:1780-1791.
  • Echelle, A. A., J. C. Hackler, J. B. Lack, S. R. Ballard, J. Roman, S. F. Fox, D. M. Leslie, Jr., and R. A. Van Den Bussche. 2010. Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced genetic structure. Conservation Genetics 11:1375–1387.