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