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Associate Professor<br/>
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[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology]<br/>
 
[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology]<br/>
 
[http://www.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut]<br/>
 
[http://www.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut]<br/>
 
Storrs, CT 06269-3043<br/>
 
Storrs, CT 06269-3043<br/>
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office: 200 Pharmacy/Biology Building<br/>
 
office: 200 Pharmacy/Biology Building<br/>
 
voice: +1 860-486-6723<br/>
 
voice: +1 860-486-6723<br/>
 
fax:  +1 860-486-6364<br/>
 
fax:  +1 860-486-6364<br/>
email: louise.lewis@uconn.edu<br/><br/>
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email: [mailto:louise.lewis@uconn.edu louise.lewis@uconn.edu]<br/><br/>
[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/L._Lewis_Lab L. Lewis Lab Homepage]
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URL: http://algae.eeb.uconn.edu/
==Research Interests==
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*Systematics and evolution of green algae
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*Biodiversity of desert green algae
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*[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/bcp/ Biotic Crust Project] - web site and relational database is designed to disseminate results of an NSF-funded (Biotic Systems and Inventories) project to document the diversity of green algae, cyanobacteria, lichens and bryophytes of the desert crust communities of the western United States.
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*Physiology of desert green algae
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*Phylogenetic relationships of the green algae that form symbiotic relationships with sea anemones (''Anthopleura'')
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*Phylogeny of basal green plants
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==Selected Publications==
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[[Category:EEB Faculty|LewisL]] [[Category:EEB People|LewisL]]
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Lewis, L. A. (2007) Chlorophyta on land. Independent lineages of green eukaryotes from arid lands. In: J. Seckbach (ed.) ''Extremophilic Algae, Cyanobacteria and non-photosynthetic Protists: From Prokaryotes to Astrobiology''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
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Gray, D. W., Cardon, Z. G., and Lewis, L. A. (2006) Simultaneous collection of rapid chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics, fluorescence quenching parameters, and environmental data using an automated PAM-2000/CR10X data logging system. Photosynthesis Research 87: 295-301.
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Lewis, L. A., and Lewis, P. O. (2005) Unearthing the molecular phylodiversity of desert soil green algae (Chlorophyta). Systematic Biology 54: 936-947.
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McManus, H.A. and L.A. Lewis (2005) Systematics, morphological variation and implications for colony-form evolution in the family Hydrodictyaceae (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 44: 582-595.
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Lewis, L. A., and Flechtner, V. R. (2004) Cryptic species of ''Scenedesmus'' (Chlorophyta) from desert soil communities of western North America. Journal of Phycology 40: 1127-1137.
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Lewis, L. A., and McCourt, R. M. (2004) Green algae and the origin of land plants. American Journal of Botany 91: 1535-1556.
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Lewis, L. A., and Muller-Parker, G. (2004) Phylogenetic placement of "Zoochlorellae" (Chlorophyta), algal symbiont of the temperate anemone ''Anthopleura'' ''elegantissima''. Biological Bulletin 207: 87-92.
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Shoup, S., and Lewis, L. A. (2003) Polyphyletic origin of parallel basal bodies in swimming cells of chlorophycean green algae (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 39: 789-796.
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Lewis, L. A., and Flechtner, V. R. (2002) Green algae (Chlorophyta) of desert microbiotic crusts: diversity of North American taxa. Taxon 51: 443-451.
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Watanabe, S., Himizu, A., Lewis, L. A., Floyd, G. L., and Fuerst, P. A. (2000) ''Pseudoneochloris marina'', a new coccoid Ulvophycean alga, and its phylogenetic position inferred from morphological and molecular data. Journal of Phycology 36: 596-604.
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Lewis, L. A. (1997) Phylogenetic placement of ''Bracteacoccus'' based on 18S rDNA sequence data. Journal of Phycology 33: 279-28.
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Lewis, L. A., Mishler, B. D., and Vilgalys, R. (1997) Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene, rbcL. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7: 377-393.
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Hershkovitz, M. A. and Lewis, L. A. (1996) Deep-level diagnostic value of the rDNA-ITS region. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13: 1276- 1295.
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Mishler, B. M., Lewis, L. A., Buchheim, M. A., Renzaglia, K. S., Garbary, D. J., Delwiche, C. F., Zechman, F. W., Kantz, T. S., and Chapman, R. L. (1994) Phylogenetic relationships of the "green algae" and "bryophytes". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81: 451- 483.
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Lewis, L. A., Wilcox, L. W., Fuerst, P. A., and Floyd, G. L. (1992) Concordance of molecular and ultrastructural data in the study of zoosporic green algae. Journal of Phycology 28: 375-380.<br><br>
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Latest revision as of 12:21, 18 August 2014

Professor

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3043

office: 200 Pharmacy/Biology Building
voice: +1 860-486-6723
fax: +1 860-486-6364
email: louise.lewis@uconn.edu

URL: http://algae.eeb.uconn.edu/

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