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David Burton Wake, PhD

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1969-2021 Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
Evolution of neotropical salamanders
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David Burton Wake (June 8, 1936 – April 29, 2021) was an American herpetologist. He was professor of integrative biology and Director and curator of herpetology of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake is known for his work on the biology and evolution of salamanders as well as general issues of vertebrate evolutionary biology. He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and American Society of Zoologists. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Linnean Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and in 1998 was elected into the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2006 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/waked

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Jay Mathers Savage grad student 1958-1964 USC
 (Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family Plethodontidae)

Children

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Andrew J. Crawford research assistant 1990-1994 UC Berkeley
Evangeline S. Ballerini research assistant 2000-2001
Peng Zhang grad student
Richard J. Wassersug grad student 1973 Chicago
James F. Lynch grad student 1967-1974 UC Berkeley
James Lloyd Edwards grad student 1976 UC Berkeley
Lynne Houck grad student 1971-1977 UC Berkeley
Samuel Spender Sweet grad student 1978 UC Berkeley
Kay Yanev grad student 1971-1978 UC Berkeley
James Hanken grad student 1973-1980 UC Berkeley
John E. Cadle grad student 1976-1982 UC Berkeley
L. Allan Larson grad student 1977-1982 UC Berkeley
Stephen Busack grad student 1978-1985 UC Berkeley
Stanley K. Sessions grad student 1978-1985 UC Berkeley
David A. Good grad student 1979-1985 UC Berkeley
Pere Alberch Vie grad student 1980-1985 UC Berkeley
David Darda grad student 1980-1988 UC Berkeley
Nancy Staub grad student 1981-1989 UC Berkeley
Kevin de Queiroz grad student 1983-1989 UC Berkeley
Andrés Collazo grad student 1985-1990 UC Berkeley
Todd Jackman grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley
An-Ming Tan grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley
Sharyn Marks grad student 1987-1995 UC Berkeley
Anna Graybeal grad student 1989-1995 UC Berkeley
Elizabeth Jockusch grad student 1990-1996 UC Berkeley
Stephen Deban grad student 1991-1997 UC Berkeley
Gabriela Parra Olea grad student 1999 UNAM Mexico City and Merida
Meredith J. Mahoney grad student 1993-1999 UC Berkeley
Duncan Stuart Parks grad student 2000 UC Berkeley
Shawn Robert Kuchta grad student 2002 UC Berkeley
Vance Thomas Vredenburg grad student 2002 UC Berkeley
Rachel Lockridge Mueller grad student 2005 UC Berkeley
Erica Bree Rosenblum grad student 2005 UC Berkeley
Yu Zeng grad student 2013 UC Berkeley
Stevan James Arnold post-doc UC Berkeley
Mark Kirkpatrick post-doc
David C. Cannatella post-doc 1986-1988 UC Berkeley
Mario García-París post-doc 1993-1994 UC Berkeley
Kelly R. Zamudio post-doc 1996-1999 UC Berkeley
Adam P. Summers post-doc 1999-2001 UC Berkeley (Biomechanics Tree)
Leslie J. Rissler post-doc 2001-2003 UC Berkeley
Sean M. Rovito post-doc 2009-2014 Langebio-Cinvestav, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

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Yuan ZY, Wu YK, Yan F, et al. (2022) Comparative multi-locus assessment of modern Asian newts ( , , and : Salamandridae) in southern China suggests a shared biogeographic history. Zoological Research. 43: 706-718
Koo MS, Vredenburg VT, Deck JB, et al. (2021) Tracking, Synthesizing, and Sharing Global Data at AmphibianDisease.org. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 8: 728232
Sessions SK, Wake DB. (2020) Forever Young: Linking Regeneration and Genome Size in Salamanders. Developmental Dynamics : An Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists
Reyes-Puig C, Wake DB, Kotharambath R, et al. (2020) Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador. Peerj. 8: e9934
Cusi JC, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Brcko IC, et al. (2020) Taxonomic status of the Neotropical salamanders Bolitoglossa altamazonica and Bolitoglossa peruviana (Amphibia: Caudata: Plethodontidae), with the description of a new species from Northern Peru. Zootaxa. 4834: zootaxa.4834.3.3
Jockusch EL, Hansen RW, Fisher RN, et al. (2020) Slender salamanders (genus ) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages. Peerj. 8: e9599
Parra Olea G, Garcia-Castillo MG, Rovito SM, et al. (2020) Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa. Peerj. 8: e8800
Reilly SB, Wake DB. (2019) Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Peerj. 7: e7370
Patton A, Apodaca JJ, Corser JD, et al. (2019) A New Green Salamander in the Southern Appalachians: Evolutionary History of Aneides aeneus and Implications for Management and Conservation with the Description of a Cryptic Microendemic Species Copeia. 107: 748
Bingham RE, Papenfuss TJ, Lindstrand L, et al. (2018) Phylogeography and Species Boundaries In theHydromantes shastaeComplex, With Description of Two New Species (Amphibia; Caudata; Plethodontidae) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 161: 403-427
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