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Richard Highton

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#6992

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#9826

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#2143

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Zoology

#360

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#808

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#115

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Ecology

#1110

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#1206

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#285

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Highton is an American herpetologist, an expert on the biological classification of woodland salamanders. Education and personal life Highton was born in Chicago. His father encouraged his son to have an interest in herpetology. In 1950 he was awarded a bachelor's degree in biology, mathematics and sociology from New York University, with his studies interrupted by military service. He received his master's degree and Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Florida. In 1950 he married Anne Adams and they had 4 children together.

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Speciation in Eastern North American Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon (1995) (177)
Biochemical evolution in the slimy salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus Complex in the Eastern United States (1989) (147)
GEOGRAPHIC PROTEIN VARIATION AND DIVERGENCE IN POPULATIONS OF THE SALAMANDER PLETHODON CINEREUS (1976) (134)
SCIENTIFIC AND STANDARD ENGLISH NAMES OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO, WITH COMMENTS REGARDING CONFIDENCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING (2012) (124)
Geographic Protein Variation and Speciation in Salamanders of the Plethodon Jordani and Plethodon Glutinosus Complexes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains with the Description of Four New Species (2000) (117)
The Genetic Relationships of the Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon (1979) (116)
A MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE ORIGINS OF MORPHOLOGICAL NOVELTIES IN THE SALAMANDERS OF THE TRIBE PLETHODONTINI (AMPHIBIA, PLETHODONTIDAE) (1981) (107)
Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico: Update (2003) (86)
Geographic Protein Variation and Divergence in the Salamanders of the Plethodon Weller Group (Amphibia, Plethodontidae) (1978) (76)
Geographic Variation in the Life History of the Slimy Salamander (1962) (72)
Is Ensatina eschscholtzii a ring-species? (1998) (72)
Albumin Evolution and Its Phylogenetic Implications in the Plethodontid Salamander Genera Plethodon and Ensatina (1979) (69)
DETECTING CRYPTIC SPECIES USING ALLOZYME DATA (2000) (67)
Genetic Relationships of the Eastern Large Plethodon of the Ouachita Mountains (1979) (63)
GEOGRAPHIC PROTEIN VARIATION AND SPECIATION IN THE SALAMANDERS OF THE PLETHODON CINEREUS GROUP WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES (1999) (61)
GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN SALAMANDERS OF THE DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS COMPLEX (PLETHODONTIDAE) (1978) (58)
Lineage-specific differences in evolutionary mode in a salamander courtship pheromone. (2005) (55)
Functions of the Brooding Behavior in the Female Red-Backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus (1961) (54)
TAXONOMIC TREATMENT OF GENETICALLY DIFFERENTIATED POPULATIONS (1990) (52)
Declines of Eastern North American Woodland Salamanders (Plethodon) (2005) (48)
GEOGRAPHIC PROTEIN VARIATION AND SPECIATION IN THE PLETHODON DORSALIS COMPLEX (1997) (44)
The Inheritance of the Color Phases of Plethodon cinereus (1959) (44)
The Life History of the Slimy Salamander, Plethodon glutinosus, in Florida (1956) (44)
Snake relationships revealed by slow-evolving proteins: a preliminary survey (1996) (42)
Geographic Variation in Genetic Dominance of the Color Morphs of the Red-Backed Salamander, PLETHODON CINEREUS. (1975) (34)
The relationship between the number of loci and the statistical support for the topology of UPGMA trees obtained from genetic distance data. (1993) (31)
A New Salamander of the Genus Plethodon from Virginia (1967) (30)
Comparison of Microgeographic Variation in Morphological and Electrophoretic Traits (1977) (30)
BREAKDOWN OF POLYMORPHISM OF THE RED‐BACKED SALAMANDER ON LONG ISLAND (1968) (28)
HERITABILITY OF GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN TRUNK SEGMENTATION IN THE RED‐BACKED SALAMANDER, PLETHODON CINEREUS (1960) (26)
Correlating Costal Grooves with Trunk Vertebrae in Salamanders (1957) (26)
Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (Genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes. (2012) (26)
Biochemical evaluation of colubrid snake phylogeny (2009) (23)
A new species of rock-crevice dwelling Plethodon from Pigeon Mountain, Georgia (1988) (20)
Multilocus Phylogeography and Species Delimitation in the Cumberland Plateau Salamander, Plethodon kentucki: Incongruence among Data Sets and Methods (2016) (20)
Phylogenetic Relationships of the Endangered Shenandoah Salamander (Plethodon shenandoah) and Other Salamanders of the Plethodon cinereus Group (Caudata: Plethodontidae) (2004) (18)
Ancient river systems and phylogeographical structure in the spring salamander, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (2016) (18)
PLETHODON KENTUCKI MITTLEMAN: A VALID SPECIES OF CUMBERLAND PLATEAU (1983) (17)
Molecular phylogeny of plethodonine salamanders and hylid frogs: statistical analysis of protein comparisons. (1991) (17)
Disintegrating over space and time: Paraphyly and species delimitation in the Wehrle's Salamander complex (2018) (16)
A controversy in species concepts (1990) (15)
A NEW CRYPTIC SPECIES OF SALAMANDER OF THE GENUS PLETHODON FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN USA AMPHIBIA PLETHODONTIDAE (1979) (12)
The width of the contact zone between Plethodon dorsalis and P. websteri in Jefferson County, Alabama (1985) (11)
HYBRIDIZATION IN THE CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN PLETHODON RICHMONDI AND PLETHODON ELECTROMORPHUS IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY (1999) (11)
A New Genus of Lungless Salamander from the Coastal Plain of Alabama (1961) (10)
Detecting cryptic species in phylogeographic studies: speciation in the California Slender Salamander, Batrachoseps attenuatus. (2014) (10)
Geographic Genetic Variation in the Sacramenlo Mountain Salamander, Aneides hardii (1980) (9)
Relationships among the Eastern Plethodon: Evidence from Immunology (1992) (8)
Geographic Protein Variation in Pseudacris brimleyi (Anura: Hylidae): Analysis by Sequential Electrophoresis (1995) (8)
SNAKE RELATIONSHIPS REVEALED BY SLOWLY-EVOLVING PROTEINS: FURTHER ANALYSIS AND A REPLY (2002) (8)
FREQUENCY OF HYBRIDS BETWEEN INTRODUCED AND NATIVE POPULATIONS OF THE SALAMANDER PLETHODON JORDANI IN THEIR FIRST GENERATION OF SYMPATRY (1998) (6)
Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding (2017) (5)
Immunological Evidence on Genetic Relationships of Plethodon dorsalis (1984) (4)
A Striped Color Phase of Plethodon richmondi in Virginia (1965) (3)
The effect of mating frequency on phenotypic ratios in sibships when only one parent is known. (1966) (1)
Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Richard Highton (2017) (1)
ScientificandStandardEnglishNamesofAmphibiansandReptilesofNorthAmericaNorth ofMexico,withCommentsRegardingConfidenceinOurUnderstanding,SixthEdition (2008) (0)
Book review (2004) (0)
A Record of the Slimy Salamander in New Hampshire (1963) (0)
The Relationships of the Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon (2015) (0)
Biomathematics Mathematical Topics in Population Genetics, Vol. 1, Biomathematics K. Krickeberg R. C. Lewontin J. Neyman M. Schreiber (1971) (0)

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