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Kevin G. Jones
Associate Professor of Biology
 
"I realized that if we [Iggy and the Stooges] played at a University, people who were highly intelligent and creative, like the prof's, might get it."  
  - Iggy Pop
 

 
Education
 

Ph.D., Reading University, 1992

B.S., Reading University, 1983

 

 

 
Contact Information
 

1 College Ave.

Department of Natural Sciences
University of Virginia's College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
276-328-0201 (ofc)
276-376-4603 (fax)
kgj3c@uvawise.edu
 

 
Research Interests
  Molecular biology, ecology, and systematics of slime molds and fungi; phylogeny of the genus Sempervivum
 

Courses Taught
 

BIOL 103 Principles of Biology

BIOL 113 Principles of Biology Laboratory
BIOL 210 Topics in Cell Biology
BIOL 308 Plant Cell Function
BIOL 322 Symbiosis
BIOL 335 Local Flora
BIOL 336 Evolutionary Morphology of Plants
BIOL 360 Molecular Genetics
BIOL 405 Mycology
BIOL 420 Microbial Diversity
BIOL 458 Medicinal Plants
BIOL 499 Senior Seminar
 
 
 

 
Representative Publications
 

Rollins, F., K.G. Jones, P. Krokene, and M. Blackwell. 2000. Phylogeny of asexual fungi associated with bark and ambrosia beetles. Mycologia 93:991-996.

Benjamin, R.K., M. Blackwell, R.A. Humber, K.G. Jones, K.A. Klepzig, R.W. Lickwardt, D. Malloch, R.A. Roeper, and J.W. Spatafora. 2000. The search for diversity of insects and other arthropod-associated fungi. In Fungal Diversity, eds. G.M. Mueller and G.F. Bills. Smithsonian, Wash., D.C.

Jones, K.G., P.F. Dowd, and M. Blackwell. 1999. Polyphyletic origins of yeast-like endocytobionts from anobiid and cerambycid beetles. Mycol. Res. 103:542-546.

Suh, S-O, K.G. Jones, and M. Blackwell. 1999. A Group I intron in nuclear small subunit rRNA gene of Cryptendoxyla hypophloia: Evidence for a new major class of Group I introns. J. Mol. Evol. 48:493-500.

Blackwell, M. and K.G. Jones. 1996. Taxonomic diversity and interactions of insect-associated ascomycetes. Biodiversity Conserv. 6:689-699.

Jones, K.G. and M. Blackwell. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of ambrosial species in the genus Rafflaelea based on 18S rDNA sequences. Mycol. Res. 102:661-665.

Jones, K.G. and M. Blackwell. 1996. Ribosomal DNA sequence analysis places the yeast-like genus Symbiotaphrina within filamentous ascomycetes. Mycologia 88:212-218.

 

 

 

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