Kenneth L. Chiou

Deptartment of Anthropology
Campus Box 1114
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130

kenneth.chiou[at]wustl.edu

Current Affiliations
Wash U Dept. of Anthropology

Past Affiliations
NYU Dept. of Anthropology
NYU Molecular Primatology Lab
Ometepe Biological Field Station

Collaborators/Colleagues
Christina Bergey
Mary Blair
Anthony Di Fiore
Todd Disotell
Tom Igoe
Clifford Jolly
Jane Phillips-Conroy
Luca Pozzi

Other
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I am a Ph.D. student at Washington University focusing on biological anthropology. While my interests are broad, the majority of my projects concentrate on behavior and evolutionary genetics in primates.

News

New paper published in Journal of Biogeography describes the phylogeography of robust and gracile capuchin monkeys.

Lynch Alfaro, J.W., Boubli, J.P., Olson, L.E., Di Fiore, A., Wilson, B., Gutiérrez-Espeleta, G.A., Chiou, K.L., Schulte, M., Neitzel, S., Ross, V., Schwochow, D., Nguyen, M., Farias, I., Janson, C., Alfaro, M.E. 2012. Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys. Journal of Biogeography 39: 272-288.

New paper published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution describes the surprisingly recent diversification of living squirrel monkeys based on sequence data from complete mitochondrial genomes.

Chiou, K.L., Pozzi L., Lynch Alfaro, J.W., and Di Fiore, A. 2011. Pleistocene diversification of living squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.) inferred from complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 736-745.