Jason Raucher, Ph. D.

Education

• Ph.D., 2000, Evolutionary and Population Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
• B.A., 1992, Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.

Areas of Interest

• Molecular ecology evolution and genetics
  
• Plant evolutionary and conservation genetics

Recent Publications

• Soltis, D.E., E.V. Mavrodiev, J.J. Doyle, J.T. Rauscher and P.S. Soltis.  2008. ITS and ETS sequence data and phylogeny reconstruction in allopolyploids and hybrids. Systematic Botany 33 (1): 7-20.
• Rauscher, J.T., J.J. Doyle, and A.H.D. Brown. 2004. Multiple origins and nrDNA ITS homologue evolution in the Glycine tomentella (Leguminosae) allopolyploid complex. Genetics 166: 987-998.
• Doyle, J.J., J.L. Doyle, J.T. Rauscher, and A.H.D. Brown. 2004. Evolution of the perennial soybean polyploid complex (Glycine subgenus Glycine): a study of contrasts.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82: 583-597.
• Rauscher, J.T., J.J. Doyle, and A.H.D. Brown. 2002. Internal transcribed spacer repeat-specific primers and the analysis of hybridization in the Glycine tomentella (Leguminosae) polyploid complex. Molecular Ecology 11: 2691-2702.
• Rauscher, J.T.  2002.  Molecular phylogenetics of the Espeletia complex (Asteraceae): evidence fromnrDNA ITS sequences on the closest relatives of an Andean adaptive radiation.  American Journal of Botany 89: 1074-1084.

Contact Information

• Phone:
  (787)764-0000 ext. 7764
  
• Email:
  rauscher@evoandes.net  |  jtrauscher@gmail.com
• Web Page:
  http://evoandes.net
  
• Postal Address:
  
  Department of Biology

  University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

  P.O. Box 23360

  San Juan, PR  00931-3360
   

Curriculum Vitae