Steve Furches
 
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I am interested in many aspects of plant evolution, population genetics, and conservation.  I am particularly interested in polyploid and homoploid hybridization.  For my M.S. project at the University of South Dakota I studied population genetics in the endangered San Clemente Island endemic Lithophragma maximum (Saxifragaceae). Now in my third year of Ph.D. work at the University of Tennessee, I am studying the effects of hybridization on population- and species-level variation in Sarracenia, the North American Pitcher Plants.
Publications
Furches, M.S., K. Helenurm, and L. Wallace.  2009. Microsatellites reveal genetic diversity in Lithophragma maximum(Saxifragaceae), an endangered, endemic plant of San Clemente Island, California.  Conservation Genetics, Vol. 10 Issue 1. pages 115-126.

Wallace, L., M.S. Furches, and K. Helenurm.  2006.  Polymorphic microsatellite loci Lithophragma maximum (Saxifragaceae), an endemic plant of San Clemente Island.  Molecular Ecology Notes Vol. 6 Issue 2. pages 459-461.