Boyer's research interests encompass evolution, historical biogeography, and
systematics of invertebrates. Her research at Harvard focused on the suborder
Cyphophthalmi, a group of tiny Opiliones (daddy long-legs or harvestmen) with a global
distribution. 

As a lecturer, she designed and taught an ecology class for non-majors, as well as a
molecular ecology course for masters students. She has taught in field settings,
including a semester-long field biology course at the University of California South
Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Swarthmore College M.A., University of California, Berkeley Ph.D.,
Harvard University 

Boyer has been teaching at Macalester since 2007.

Articles

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A New Model Gondwanan Taxon: Systematics and biogeography of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), with a taxonomic revision of genera from Australia and New Zealand. (with G. Giribet), Cladistics (2007)
 

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Biogeography of the World from a Globally-distributed Arachnid (with R. C. Clouse, L. Benevides, P. Schwendinger, P. Sharma, I. Karunathana, and G. Giribet), Journal of Biogeography (2007)
 

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Deep Genetic Divergences in Aoraki Denticulata (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi): a widespread “mite harvestmen” defies DNA taxonomy (with G. Giribet and J. M. Baker), Molecular Ecology (2007)
 

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Confirmation of the Type Locality and Distributional Range of Suzukielus Sauteri (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) in Japan (with N. Tsurusaki and G. Giribet), Acta Arachnologica (2006)
 

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The Family Sironidae (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) in Europe: a phylogenetic approach to Eastern Mediterranean biogeography (with I. Karaman and G. Giribet), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2005)
 

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Contributions to Books

Methods for Molecular Studies in Systematics (with G. Giribet), Biology of the Opiliones (2007)
 

Pettalidae Shear ,1980 (with G. Giribet,), Biology of the Opiliones (2007)