Gonzalo Giribet
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Phone: 617-495-1473
E-mail:
Office: 504 MCZ Labs, 26 Oxford St
Lab Website: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/giribet/lab
My primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals. Current projects include a multidisciplinary study to "Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life", a project on the "Systematics, Biogeography and Evolutionary Radiations of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones)" and a collabortive PEET sponsored research project on "Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders". I am also interested in philosophical aspects of sequence data analysis, emphasizing homology-related issues.
Recent Publications
Edgecombe GD, Giribet G (2007) Evolutionary biology of centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Annual Review of Entomology, 52 , 151-170.
Pinto-da-Rocha R, Machado G, Giribet G (2007) Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones, p. 597. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Boyer SL, Baker JM, Giribet G (2007) Deep genetic divergences in Aoraki denticulata (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi): a widespread 'mite harvestman' defies DNA taxonomy. Molecular Ecology, 16, 4999-5016.
Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Kuranarathna, I., Giribet, G., 2007. Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. J. Biogeogr. 34, 2070-2085.
Giribet, G., 2007. Efficient tree searches with available algorithms. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 3, 1-16.
Baker JM, P Funch, G Giribet, 2007. Cryptic speciation in the recently discovered American cycliophoran Symbion americanus; genetic structure and population expansion. Marine Biology 151 (6): 2183-2193
Giribet G, WC Wheeler, 2007. The case for sensitivity: a response to Grant and Kluge. Cladistics 23 (3): 294-296
Benavides L, G Giribet, 2007. An illustrated catalogue of the South American species of the cyphophthalmid family Neogoveidae (Arthropoda, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) with a report on 37 undescribed species. Zootaxa (1509): 1-15
Espinasa L, C Flick, G Giribet, 2007. Phylogeny of the American silverfish Cubacubaninae (Hexapoda : Zygentoma : Nicoletiidae): a combined approach using morphology and five molecular loci. Cladistics 23 (1): 22-40
Courses Taught
OEB 51. Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals
OEB 181. Systematics
OEB 310. Metazoan Systematics
