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Juan Carlos Morales
Title Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer
Affiliation/Department Associate Research Scientist, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University
Telephone: (212) 854-9490
e-mail: jcm19@columbia.edu
Professional degree Ph.D., Wildlife, Texas A&M University, 1992
Research Keywords mammalogy, systematics,biogeography, population genetics, resource conservation
Research Description Juan Carlos Morales has interests in systematics, biogeography and conservation genetics of Mammals. He is particularly interested in the use of molecular markers to determine evolutionary relationships, distributional patterns, areas of genetic endemism, and population structure on several mammalian groups.
Representative Publications:

Andayani, N., Morales, J.C., S. Suryadi, D. Buchori, S. Murti, Forstner, M., Supriatna, J., and Melnick, D.J. 2001. Genetic variability in the mitochondrial control region of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch). Implications for conservation. Conservation Biology 15: 770-775

Morales, J. C. 2000. Primate Behavior. Molecular Techniques in Studies of Primate Socioecology and Conservation. In 2001 Yearbook of Science and Techonology. McGraw-Hill

Tosi, A.J., Morales, J.C., and Melnick, D.J. 2000. Evolution of the genus Macaca: New Data from the Y-chromosome. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17: 133-144

Morales, J.C. and D.J. Melnick. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of the macaques (Cercopithecidae: Macaca), as revealed by high resolution restriction site mapping of mitochondrial ribosomal genes. Journal of Human Evolution, 34:1-23.

Gonder, M.K., J.F. Oates, T.R. Disotell, M.J. Forstner, J.C Morales, and D.J. Melnick. 1997. A new chimpanzee subspecies in west Africa? Nature, 388: 337.

Evans, B.J., J.C. Morales, J. Supriatna, and D.J. Melnick. Submitted. Origins of the Sulawesi macaques as suggested by mitochondrial DNA phylogeny. Biological J. of the Linnean Society.

Evans, B.J., J.C. Morales, M.D.Picker, D.B. Kelley, and D.J. Melnick. 1997. Comparative molecular phylogeography of two Xenopus species, X. gilli and X. laevis, in the south-western Cape Province, South Africa. Molecular Ecology, 6(188):1-11.
Current Research

He is currently involved in research on different mammalian groups in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Current projects include (but are not limited): phylogeny, phylogeography, biogeography and conservation of Asian Primates; population genetics of the rhinoceros; phylogeny and biogeography of Wallacean bats and rodents; and phylogeny and biogeography of New World bats and rodents.

  
Current Teaching

Conservation Genetics, Mammalogy