Sarah Lyn Boyce

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Research & Collections-Crustacea 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90007 Telephone 1.213.763.3473 email:sboyce@nhm.org Curriculum Vitae

I am primarily interested in the evolution and systematic biology of crustaceans. Crustaceans are an amazing group of diverse animals ranging from microscopic zooplankton such as copepods to the larger (and tastier) crabs, shrimps and lobsters. Throughout my education I have had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of crustaceans. As a marine science undergraduate at the University of South Carolina I looked at the phylogeographic relationships of the cosmopolitan harpacticoid copepod Microarthridion littorale to determine if the species was ubiquitous or instead a sister-species complex. After earning my Bachelors of Science I entered Florida State University's Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution where I worked with Drs. Lawrence Abele and Trisha Spears trying to tease apart the phylogenetic relationships among a group of crabs called the calappids. As a result of my Masters research I am now trying to expand the phylogeny of the calappids to include the oxystomatid crabs.

• Monographic research on the Conchostraca
• A review of the spinicaudatan genus Limnadopsis (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Conchostraca)
• An illustrated key to the families and genera of Conchostraca
• The freshwater branchiopods of Malaysia (excluding cladocerans)
• A new species of Lynceus from Canada