RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Systematics, evolution, biogeography, conservation biology of North American freshwater fishes; molecular systematics, evolutionary genetics, conservation genetics, historical biogeography, phylogenetic analysis of genetic and molecular data.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Quattro, J.M., D.S. Stoner, W.B. Driggers, C.A. Anderson, K.A. Priede, E.C. Hoppman, N.H. Campbell, and J.M. Grady. 2006. Genetic evidence of cryptic speciation within hammerhead sharks (Genus Sphyrna). Marine Biology 148(5):1143-1155.
• Burr, B.M, D.J. Eisenhour, and J.M. Grady. 2005. Two new species of Noturus (Siluriformes: Icatluridae) from the Tennessee River drainage: description, distribution, and conservation status. Copeia (2005:4): 783-802.
• Roberts, MA, CA Anderson, Stender, B, Segars, A, Whittaker, D, Grady, JM, Quattro, JM. 2005.  Estimated contribution of Atlantic Coastal loggerhead turtle nesting populations to offshore feeding aggregations.  Conservation Genetics 6(1): 133-139.
• Martinez, ML, LJ Chapman, JM Grady, and BB Rees. 2004.  Interdemic variation in haematocrit and lactate dehydrogenase in the African cyprinid Barbus neumayeri.  Journal of Fish Biology 65:1-14.
• Stoner, DS, Grady, JM, Priede, KA, Quattro, JM.  2003.  Amplification primers for the mitochondrial control region and sixth intron of the nuclear-encoded lactate dehydrogenase A gene in elasmobrnach fishes.  Conservation Genetics 4(6):805-808.
• Hardy, ME, JM Grady and EJ Routman. 2002.  Intraspecific phylogeography of the slender madtom: the complex evolutionary history of the North American central highlands. Molecular Ecology. 11: 2392-2403.
• Grady, JM, DK Coykendall, BB Collette and JM Quattro. 2001.  Taxonomic diversity, origin, and conservation status of Bermuda killifishes (Fundulus) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b phylogenies. Conservation Genetics 2 41-52.
• Quattro, JM, WJ Jones, JM Grady and FC Rohde.  2001.  Gene-gene concordance and the phylogenetic relationships among rare and widespread pygmy sunfishes (Elassoma).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 18(2): 217-226.
• Grady, JM and JM Quattro. 1999.  Using character concordance to define taxonomic and conservation units. Conservation Biology. 13(5): 1004-1007.