Giribet Laboratory
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
and Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
(617)496–5308-w (617)763–9619-h
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 2004–present
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Giribet Laboratory
Master of Science (M.S.), 1994
University of Florida, Gainesville
Department of Zoology
Brockmann Laboratory
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), 1989
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Comparative Areas
Reviewed Publications
Clouse, R. M. and G. Giribet. 2007. Across Lydekker's Line–first report of mite harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Stylocellidae) from New Guinea. Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 207–-227.
Clouse, R. M. 2007. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Micronesia. Micronesica. 39(2): 171–296.
Clouse, R. M. 2007. New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Micronesia. Zootaxa 1475: 1–19.
Boyer, S. L., Clouse, R. M., Benavides, L. R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P. J., Karunarathna, I., Rahmadi, C., and Giribet, G. 2007. Biogeography of the World: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of Biogeography. 43(12): 2070–2085.
Clouse, R. M., D. Janies and A. M. Kerr. 2005. Resurrection of Bohadschia bivittata from B. marmorata (Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae) based on behavioral, morphological, and mitochondrial DNA evidence. Zoology 108(1): 27–39.
Kerr, A. M., D. A. Janies, R. M. Clouse, Y. Samyn, J. Kuszak and J. Kim. 2005. Molecular Phylogeny of Coral-Reef Sea Cucumbers (Holothuriidae: Aspidochirotida) Based on 16S Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA Sequence. Marine Biotechnology 7(1): 53–60.
Clouse, R. M. 2001. Some Effects of Group Size on Output of Beginning Nests of the Florida Paper Wasp, Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Florida Entomologist 84(3): 418–425.
Clouse, R. M. 1999. Leaf-Litter Inhabitants of a Brazilian Pepper Stand in Everglades National Park. Florida Entomologist 82(3): 388–403.
Clouse, R. M. 1997. Are lone paper wasp foundresses mainly the result of sister mortality? Florida Scientist 60(4): 265–274.
Clouse, R. M., B. Ferster and M. A. Deyrup. 1997. Observations of insects associated with an infestation of sand pine (Pinus clausa) by the aphid Cinara pinivora. Florida Scientist 60(2): 89–93.
Meshaka, W. E., Jr., R. M. Clouse, B. P. Butterfield, J. B. Hauge. 1997. The Cuban green anole, Anolis porcatus: a new anole established in Florida. Herpetological Review. 28(2): 101–102.
Clouse, R. M. 1997. Burying behavior in an Indo-Pacific sea cucumber, Bohadschia marmorata: a circadian, not circatidal rhythm. Micronesica 30(2): 245–257.
Clouse, R. M. 1997. End-plate spicules in Bohadschia marmorata (Jaeger) (Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae). Micronesica 30(1): 187–192.
Clouse, R. M. 1995. The importance of gall size for sea daisy gall midge parasitoids. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 68: 184–188.
Clouse, R. M. 1995. Nest usurpation and intercolonial cannibalism in the paper wasp, Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 68: 67–73.
Scientific Presentations (presented by first author)
27th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society
Tucumán, Argentina, October 28–31, 2008
•de Bivort, B., R. M. Clouse, G. Giribet. Phylogenies from Morphometrics I: Method principles, independence analysis, character collapse, alternative effective methods, Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) as proof of principle (Oral presentation)
•Clouse, R. M., B. de Bivort, G. Giribet. Phylogenies from Morphometrics II: Missing values, females, character selection and scaling, support, dependence optimization, Stylocellidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) as a challenging test (Oral presentation)
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology G4 Symposium
Harvard University, April 29–May 1, 2008
•Clouse, R. M. Crustal Dynamics and Southeast Asian Mite Harvestmen Phylogentics (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi): Whence India? (Oral presentation)
Graduate Student Speaker Series, Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology
Harvard University, August 21, 2007
•Clouse, R. M. Evolutionary and Biogeographic Trends in the Stylocellidae, a Southeast Asian family of Cyphophthalmi (Opiliones) (Oral presentation)
17th International Congress of Arachnology
São Pedro, Brazil, August 5–10, 2007
•Giribet, G., S. L. Boyer, R. M. Clouse, L. R. Benavides, P. Sharma. Biogeography of the World: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids (Oral presentation)
•Clouse, R. M. and G. Giribet. Evolutionary and Biogeographic Trends in the Stylocellidae, a Southeast Asian family of Cyphophthalmi (Opiliones) (Oral presentation)
First International Pacific Invasive Ant Conference
Kona, Hawai'i, May 22–25, 2007
•Clouse, R. M. The Ants of Micronesia (Oral presentation)
Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) Fall Symposium
Harvard University, October 21, 2006
•Clouse, R. M. and G. Giribet. Crossing Lydekker's Line–first report of mite harvestmen (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from New Guinea (Poster presentation)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
Orlando, January 4-8, 2006
•Clouse, R. M. and G. Giribet. The Systematics and Biogeography of the Stylocellidae, a Southeast Asian Family of Cyphophthalmi (Opiliones). (Abstract: Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 978.) (Oral presentation)
11th International Echinoderm Conference
Munich, October 5–10, 2003
•Clouse, R. M., D. Janies and A. M. Kerr. Behavioural-Ecological, Morphological, and mtDNA Evidence to Resurrect Bohadschia bivittata from the B. marmorata Species Complex (Oral presentation)
•Kerr, A. M, D. Janies and R. M. Clouse. Evolutionary Radiations onto Coral Reefs by an Echinoderm Worm (Oral presentation)
•Kerr, A. M, D. Janies and R. M. Clouse. Phylogeny of Holothuroidea based on 16S, 18S and histone 3 DNA sequences (Oral presentation)
14th International Ethological Conference
Honolulu, August 10–18, 1995
•Clouse, R. M. Burying Behavior in an Indo-Pacific Sea Cucumber, Bohadschia marmorata (Oral presentation)
