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 DNA-barcoding approach to identifying juvenile freshwater mussels (Bivalvia:Unionidae) recovered from naturally infested fishes (with Alexander A. Howe, Nathan W. Juergens, and Mark C. Hove), Journal of the North American Benthological Society (2011)
‘Moa’s Ark’ or ‘Goodbye Gondwana’: is the origin of New Zealand’s terrestrial invertebrate fauna ancient, recent, or both? (with Gonzalo Giribet), Invertebrate Systematics (2010)
Welcome back New Zealand: regional biogeography and Gondwanan origin of three endemic genera of mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) (with Gonzalo Giribet), Journal of Biogeography (2009)
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)
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