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Student, Undergraduate College of Literature, Science, and the Arts gillj@umich.edu |
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Jeanine stumbled upon the Acarology Lab as an undergraduate when she expressed her interest in insects and coevolution to a professor. Since then she has processed specimens on Phyllostomid bats from Peru and seven families of bats from Surinam. Recently, she and Dr. OConnor have begun a review of the mite genus Pandalura as well as a description of a new species from the Oilbird, Steatornis caripensis. The Long-eared Owl (Asio otus, order Strigiformes) is a known host of mite Pandalura strigisoti. Although Caprimulgiformes, the order to which S. caripensis belongs and the sister taxa of Strigiformes, has been listed as a host of Pandalura, no mite species have been described from it. Through this research we hope to clarify the relationships between these taxa. Having just received her B.S. in Biology, Jeanine can be found sunbathing in the Greek Isles until further notice. |