Kassandra L. Ford
Affiliations: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States | ||
| 2023- | Biology | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN |
Area:
Electric Fish, Evolution, Functional Morphology, Feeding BiomechanicsWebsite:
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"Kassandra Ford"Bio:
I am an evolutionary morphologist who is broadly interested in convergence and ecomorphology. My work examines skull shape evolution in teleost fishes using 3D examinations of shape, statistical tests of convergence, and phylogenetic comparative methods.
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| James Spurling Albert | grad student | 2016-2021 | University of Louisiana - Lafayette (Evolution Tree) | |
| (Ph.D.: Mosaic Evolution of Craniofacial Morphologies in Apteronotid and Mormyrid Weakly Electric Fishes) | ||||
| Ole Seehausen | post-doc | 2021-2022 | University of Bern (Evolution Tree) | |
| Luz Patricia Hernandez | post-doc | 2022-2023 | The George Washington University | |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Adam P. Summers | collaborator | 2016- | University of Washington - Friday Harbor |
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| Nachman MW, Beckman EJ, Bowie RC, et al. (2023) Specimen collection is essential for modern science. Plos Biology. 21: e3002318 |
| Haberthür D, Law M, Ford K, et al. (2023) Microtomographic investigation of a large corpus of cichlids. Plos One. 18: e0291003 |
| Ford KL, Peterson R, Bernt M, et al. (2022) Convergence is Only Skin Deep: Craniofacial Evolution in Electric Fishes from South America and Africa (Apteronotidae and Mormyridae). Integrative Organismal Biology (Oxford, England). 4: obac022 |
| Ford KL, Albert JS. (2022) Is the medium the message? Functional diversity across abiotic gradients in freshwater electric fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology |