JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 309A:569–570 (2008)
3rd International Workshop on Crocodylian Genetics and Genomics LLEWELLYN D. DENSMORE III1 AND TRAVIS C. GLENN2 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 2 Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia How to cite this article: Densmore III L, Glenn T. 2008. 3rd International Workshop on Crocodylian Genetics and Genomics. J. Exp. Zool. 309A:569–570.
This compilation represents the second set of crocodylian genetics and genomic articles published in a Special Issue of JEZ. Most of these articles were presented in April of 2007, in Panama City, Panama for the 3rd Crocodylian Genetics and Genomics Workshop, generously hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Presentations were given by senior researchers, graduate students and even a few undergraduates. Special thanks go to the STRI Director, Eldredge (Biff) Bermingham, Oris Sanjur, Miryam Venegas de Anaya, Armando Escobedo and Sonia Mahecha for their tireless efforts in putting on an incredible workshop. The first JEZ Special Issue on crocodylian genetics was published in 2002, based on work presented at the 2nd Crocodylian Genetics and Genomics Workshop held at the San Diego Zoo. The first issue honored Dr. Herbert Dessauer for his lifelong efforts in crocodylian biochemical and molecular genetics. After that model, we herein honor another important crocodylian biologist, Dr. James Perran Ross, for his many contributions to research involving crocodylian genetics and genomics. Perran is an ecologist by training and has probably never run a gel or even isolated DNA, but his efforts as head of the Crocodile Specialist Group for many years and in networking those researchers that needed material have been incredibly invaluable to those of us working in the field. No one has been more supportive of crocodylian research endeavors than Perran Ross, be they studies of conservation and management, molecular systematics and evolution or population genetics. He has been the glue that has bound together the community of
researchers doing molecular genetics and genomics for over 20 years. He demonstrated his commitment to this area by insisting that the money that was to be used to bring him to Panama City to be honored publically, be diverted to support a graduate student’s travel to the Workshop (Mr. Paulino Ponce-Campos), when other obligations required his presence at the time of the Panama workshop. This is yet
another example of Perran Ross doing what is best for crocodylian research. For all of your efforts with crocodylians and most particularly for facilitating crocodylian genetics and genomic research throughout the world, Perran, we are proud to dedicate this Special Issue in your honor.
Published online 16 October 2008 in Wiley InterScience (www. interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/jez.506
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