Thomas Hrbek, Ph. D.

Education

• Ph.D., 1999, Washington University in St. Louis, Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology.

Areas of Interest

• Animal evolutionary genetics

Recent Publications

• GRAVENA, W., T. HRBEK AND I. P. FARIAS. 2008. Amazon pink river dolphin love fetishes: From folklore to molecular forensics. Marine Mamm. Sci. 24:969-978.

• FARIAS, I. P. AND T. HRBEK. 2008. Patterns of diversification and speciation in the discus fish (Symphysodon spp. Cichlidae) of the Amazon basin. Mol. Phylogent. Evol. 49:32-43.

• BOUBLI, J. P., M. N. F. DA SILVA, M. V. AMADO, T. HRBEK, F. B. PONTUAL AND I. P. FARIAS 2008. A taxonomic reassessment of black uakari monkeys, Cacajao melanocephalus group, Humboldt (1811), with the description of two new species Int. J. Primatol. 29:723-741.

• HRBEK, T., M. CROSSA AND I. P. FARIAS. 2007. Conservation strategies for Arapaima gigas (Schinz, 1822) and the Amazonian várzea ecosystem. Braz. J. Biol. 67:909-917.

• HRBEK, T., J. SECKINGER AND A. MEYER. 2007. A phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective on the evolution of poeciliid fishes. Mol. Phylogent. Evol. 43:986-998.

Contact Information

• Phone:
  (787)764-0000 ext. 1- 2908
  
• Email:
  

  hrbek@uprrp.edu

• Web Page:
  

  www.evoamazon.net

  
  
• Postal Address:
  

  Biology Department, JGD-216
  University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
  Ave. Juan Ponce de León
  San Juan, PR 00931-3360
  Puerto Rico / USA

  
  

Curriculum Vitae