Kirk S. Zigler
Associate Professor of Biology & Co-Director, Island Ecology Program
B.A., Kenyon College; Ph.D., Duke University
Campus Office
Woods Lab 204
Telephone
(931) 598-1807
Email
kzigler@sewanee.edu
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
I study animal evolution and development.
My particular interests are the evolution and development of sea urchins and sand dollars, and the biodiversity of cave invertebrates of the Cumberland Plateau.
I have worked with students on research projects studying animals as varied as spiders, snails, millipedes, ants, salamanders, isopods, and clams.
I Co-Direct the Island Ecology Program, which takes place every summer.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(* indicates Sewanee undergraduate author)
Zigler, K.S., M. Byrne, E.C. Raff, H.A. Lessios and R.A. Raff. 2012. Natural hybridization in the sea urchin genus Pseudoboletia between species without apparent barriers to gamete recognition. In press at Evolution.
Wakefield, K.R.* and K.S. Zigler. 2012. Obligate subterranean fauna of Carter State Natural Area, Franklin County, Tennessee. In press at Speleobiology Notes.
Davis, R.A.* and K.S. Zigler. 2012. Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) communities of the southern Cumberland Plateau. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105:484-492. PDF
Cowan, W.M.*, C.R. Croom* and K.S. Zigler. 2012. Observations of Juvenile Anadara (Scapharca) brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Arcidae) on Mellita isometra Harold and Telford (Echinoidea: Mellitidae) at St. Catherines Island, GA, U.S.A. Journal of Molluscan Studies 78:225-226. PDF
Lessios, H.A., S. Lockhart, R. Collin, G. Sotil, P. Sanchez-Jerez, K.S. Zigler, A.F. Perez, M.J. Garrido, L.B. Geyer, G. Bernardi, V.D. Vacquier, R. Haroun and B.D. Kessing. 2012. Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution. Molecular Ecology 21:130–144. PDF
Loria, S.F.*, K.S. Zigler and J.J. Lewis. 2011. Molecular phylogeography of the troglobiotic millipede Tetracion Hoffman, 1956 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Abacionidae). International Journal of Myriapodology 5:35-48. PDF
Dixon, G.B.* and K.S. Zigler. 2011. Cave-obligate biodiversity on the campus of Sewanee: The University of the South, Franklin County, Tennessee. Southeastern Naturalist 10:251-266. PDF
Zigler, K.S. and G.M. Cooper*. 2011. Brood size of the stygobiotic asellid isopod Caecidotea bicrenata bicrenata from Franklin County, Tennessee, USA. Speleobiology Notes 3:1-3. PDF
Shear, W.A., I.S. McPerhson, T.H. Jones, S.F. Loria* and K.S. Zigler. 2010. Chemical defense of a troglobiont milliped, Tetracion jonesi Hoffman (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Abacionidae). International Journal of Myriapodology 3:153-158. PDF
Snowman, C.V.*, K.S. Zigler and M. Hedin. 2010. Caves as islands: Mitochondrial phylogeography of the cave-obligate spider species Nesticus barri (Araneae: Nesticidae). Journal of Arachnology 38:49-56. PDF
You can find a complete list of my publications here.
