Louise A. Lewis

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Along the Nipmuk Trail in central Connecticut, Dec. 2006

Associate 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

L. Lewis Lab Homepage

Research Interests

  • Systematics and evolution of green algae
  • Biodiversity of desert green algae
  • 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.
  • Physiology of desert green algae
  • Phylogenetic relationships of the green algae that form symbiotic relationships with sea anemones (Anthopleura)
  • Phylogeny of basal green plants


Selected Publications

Arizona Biotic Crust
  • Gray, D. W., Z. G. Cardon and L. A. Lewis (2007) Photosynthetic recovery following desiccation of desert green algae (Chlorophyta) and their aquatic relatives. Plant Cell and Environment, Forthcoming.
  • 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.
  • Gray, D. W., Z. G. Cardon and L. A. Lewis (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.
  • Lewis, L. A. and P. O. Lewis (2005) Unearthing the molecular phylodiversity of desert soil green algae (Chlorophyta). Systematic Biology 54: 936-947.
  • 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.
  • Lewis, L. A., and V. R. Flechtner (2004) Cryptic species of Scenedesmus (Chlorophyta) from desert soil communities of western North America. Journal of Phycology 40: 1127-1137.
AJB Cover 2004
  • Lewis, L. A. and R. M. McCourt (2004) Green algae and the origin of land plants. American Journal of Botany 91: 1535-1556.
Biological Bulletin Cover
  • Lewis, L. A. and G. Muller-Parker (2004) Phylogenetic placement of "Zoochlorellae" (Chlorophyta), algal symbiont of the temperate anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Biological Bulletin 207: 87-92.
  • Shoup, S. and L. A. Lewis (2003) Polyphyletic origin of parallel basal bodies in swimming cells of chlorophycean green algae (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 39: 789-796.
  • Lewis, L. A. and V. R. Flechtner (2002) Green algae (Chlorophyta) of desert microbiotic crusts: diversity of North American taxa. Taxon 51: 443-451.
  • Watanabe, S., A. Himizu, L. A. Lewis, G. L. Floyd and P. A. Fuerst (2000) Pseudoneochloris marina, a new coccoid Ulvophycean alga, and its phylogenetic position inferred from morphological and molecular data. Journal of Phycology 36: 596-604.
  • Lewis, L. A. (1997) Phylogenetic placement of Bracteacoccus based on 18S rDNA sequence data. Journal of Phycology 33: 279-28.
  • Lewis, L. A., B. D. Mishler and R. Vilgalys (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.
  • Hershkovitz, M. A. and L. A. Lewis (1996) Deep-level diagnostic value of the rDNA-ITS region. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13: 1276- 1295.
  • Mishler, B. M., L. A. Lewis, M. A. Buchheim, K. S. Renzaglia, D. J. Garbary, C. F. Delwiche, F. W. Zechman, T. S. Kantz and R. L. Chapman (1994) Phylogenetic relationships of the "green algae" and "bryophytes". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81: 451- 483.
  • Lewis, L. A., L. W. Wilcox, P. A. Fuerst and G. L. Floyd (1992) Concordance of molecular and ultrastructural data in the study of zoosporic green algae. Journal of Phycology 28: 375-380.

Courses

  • I am involved in teaching introductory biology for majors, Biology 108, usually in alternate spring semesters (2007, 2009...). This course web site is accessed using Vista.


  • I also teach Biology of the Algae (co-listed as EEB 290 and EEB 390) in alternate fall semesters (2006, 2008...).