Jana N. Thoma

Ph.D. Student
Graduate Program in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Biology - UL Lafayette

Office: Billeaud Hall 216
Phone: (337) 482-6494
jana.thoma -at -louisiana -dot -edu

I am working on molecular systematics of deep-water paramuriceid octocorals and developing nuclear markers for studies of intra-specific variation of paramuriceids from North Atlantic canyons and seamounts.

Education

B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, Berry College
M.S. in Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi

Publications

McFadden, C.S., Y. Benayahu, E. Pante, J.N. Thoma, P.A. Nevarez and S.C. France. 2011. Limitations of Mitochondrial Gene Barcoding in Octocorallia. Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 19-31

Thoma, J.N., E. Pante, M.R. Brugler and S.C. France. 2009. Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 397: 25-35

Thoma, J.N., S.E. LeCroy, & R.W. Heard. In prep. Description of a new species in the genus Eophrixus Caroli, 1930 (Epicaridea: Bopyridae). Zootaxa.

Thoma, J.N. & R.W. Heard. In prep. Description of a new species in the genus Clypeoniscus Giard & Bonnier, 1895 (Epicaridea: Cabiropidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.

Two Paramuricea sp. (at left) at 814 meters depth in Oceanographer Canyon (southern edge of Georges Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean).