Adam Leache

He has received MS, PhD degrees from San Diego State University, UC Berkeley.Research in the Leaché Lab focuses on phylogenetics, systematics, phylogeography, and species delimitation. We study natural populations, and we conduct extensive fieldwork to collect specimens for our research. Most of us are currently studying amphibians and reptiles, but we also have on-going projects focused on birds, mammals, and plants. We maintain active research labs with a mix of graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Biology and at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

His publications are as follows:
Leaché AD, Harris RB, Rannala B, Yang Z. The influence of gene flow on species tree estimation: a simulation study. Systematic biology. 2014;63:17-30.
Leaché AD, Fujita MK, Minin VN, Bouckaert RR. Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Data. Systematic Biology. 2014.
Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Arenas-Moreno D, Beltrán-Sanchez E, Leaché AD. A new species of horned lizard (genus \textit{Phrynosoma} from Guerrero, Mexico, with an updated multilocus phylogeny. Herpetologica. 2014;70:in press.
Penner J, Adum GB, McElroy MT, Doherty-Bone T, Hirschfeld M, Sandberger L, et al. West Africa-A Safe Haven for Frogs? A Sub-Continental Assessment of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). PloS one. 2013;8:e56236.
Sherman EM, Leaché AD. Molecular Identification of A Hitchhiking Frog. Northwestern Naturalist. 2013;94:81-4.
Leaché AD, Palacios JA, Minin VN, Bryson RW. Phylogeography of the Trans-Volcanic bunchgrass lizard (Sceloporus bicanthalis) across the highlands of south-eastern Mexico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2013;110:852-65.
Wagner P, Leache A, Mazuch T, Boehme W. Additions to the lizard diversity of the Horn of Africa: Two new species in the Agama spinosa group. Amphibia–Reptilia. 2013;34:363-87.