Juan Carlos Villarreal
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Connecticut
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
75 N. Eagleville Road, U-3043
Storrs, CT 06269
Education
Ph.D. 2004–Present
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Primary Advisor: Bernard Goffinet
Research Project: Phylogeny of the Nothoceros alliance with emphasis in the phylogeography and clonal structure of Megaceros [Nothoceros] aenigmaticus
M.Sc. 2003–2005
Southern Illinois University
Publications
Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal & R.J. Duff. In press. New insights into morphology, anatomy and systematics of hornworts. In Bryophyte Biology II, J. Shaw & B. Goffinet (eds).
Villarreal, J.C., G. Hässel de & Menéndez & N. Salazar Allen. 2007. Nothoceros superbus (Dendrocerotaceae), a new species of hornwort from the Neotropics. The Bryologist, 110: 279-285.
Duff, R.J., J.C. Villarreal, D.C. Cargill & K.S. Renzaglia. 2007. Progress and challenges toward developing a phylogeny and classification of the hornworts. The Bryologist,1110: 214-243.
Villarreal, J.C. & K.S. Renzaglia. 2006. Sporophyte structure in the neotropical hornwort Phaeomegaceros fimbriatus: implications for phylogeny, taxonomy and character evolution. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 413-427.
Villarreal, J.C. & K.S. Renzaglia. 2006. Structure and development of Nostoc strands in Leiosporoceros dussii (Anthocerotophyta): a novel symbiosis in land plants. American Journal of Botany 93(5): 693-705. (Cover).
Dauphin, G.; T. Pócs; J. C. Villarreal & N. Salazar Allen. 2006. Nuevos Registros de Hepáticas y Anthocerotófitas para Panamá. Tropical Bryology 27: 73-85.
Cargill, D.C.; R.J. Duff, J.C. Villarreal & K.S. Renzaglia. 2005. Generic concepts in hornworts: historical review, contemporary insights and future directions. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 7-16.
Duff, R.J.; D.C. Cargill, J.C. Villarreal & K.S. Renzaglia. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of the hornworts based on rbcL sequence data: novel relationships and new insights. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 41-58.
Teaching Experience
2007-2007 BIOL 110.