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	Robin James Smith

Research Group
Biotic and Human Interaction Research Group
Degree
Ph.D (Geology)
Photograph Explanation
Standing in front of the 'Jumon Sugi', an ancient cedar, while on field work on Yakushima island.

Homepage / E-MAIL: smith@lbm.go.jp

	Career

After graduating from Leicester University (UK) with a doctorate degree, I was a Royal Society Post Doctoral Fellow for four years, working at Kanazawa University (Japan), Greenwich University (UK) and the Natural History Museum in London (UK). Afterwards I worked as a COE Postdoctoral Researcher at Kanazawa University before joining the Lake Biwa Museum in December, 2004.

Specialty

1. The development and phylogeny of ostracods (Crustacea).
2. The taxonomy of Asian lake dwelling ostracods.
3. The taxonomy and ecology of spring dwelling ostracods.

Key Words of Research

Ostracoda, taxonomy, ecology, phylogeny, evolution.

Professional Society Membership

The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

Smith, R. J. ,Kamiya, T. & Horne, D. J. 2006. Living males of the 'ancient' asexual Darwinulidae (Ostracoda, Crustacea). Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 273, 1569 - 1578.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2006. Six new species of fresh and brackish water ostracods (Crustacea) from Yaksuhima, Southern Japan. Hydrobiologia, 559, 331 - 355.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2005. The ontogeny of the entocytherid ostracod Uncinocythere occidentalis (Kozloff & Whitman, 1954) Hart, 1962 (Crustacea). Hydrobiologia, 538, 217 - 229.

Smith, R. J., Kamiya, T. Horne, D. J. & Tsukagoshi, A. 2005. Evaluation of a new character for the phylogenetic analysis of Ostracoda (Crustacea): the podocopan maxillular branchial plate. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 243, 139 - 153.

Smith, R. J. & Tsukagoshi, T. 2005. The ontogeny and musculature of the antennule of podocope ostracods (Crustacea). Journal of Zoology, 265, 157 - 177.