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Overview

James F. Parham is affiliated with California State University, Fullerton in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including paleontology, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and genetics.

Their scholarly work spans several main topics such as evolution and paleontology studies, amphibian and reptile biology, turtle biology and conservation, wildlife ecology and conservation, paleontology and evolutionary biology, ichthyology and marine biology, and broader marine animal studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Haitao Shi, Andrew D. Gentry, Jian Wang, Walter G. Joyce, and Serjoscha Evers.

James F. Parham's research has been published in a variety of scientific journals. Notable publication venues include The Anatomical Record, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, Genome Biology and Evolution, iScience, and Current Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names, 2021, published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • An Annotated Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans), 2020, published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Integrating and updating wildlife conservation in China, 2020, published in Current Biology
  • Sea turtle demand in China threatens the survival of wild populations, 2021, published in iScience
  • China's turtles need protection in the wild, 2021, published in Science

Best Publications

  • Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

    James F. Parham;James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Christopher J. Bell;Tyler D. Calway

  • DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES

    Walter G. Joyce;James F. Parham;Jacques Armand Gauthier

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • A phylogenomic analysis of turtles

    Nicholas G. Crawford;James F. Parham;Anna B. Sellas;Brant C. Faircloth

  • Trade in live reptiles, its impact on wild populations, and the role of the European market

    Mark Auliya;Sandra Altherr;Daniel Ariano-Sanchez;Ernst H. Baard

  • Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy and Synonymy, 2009 Update, with Conservation Status Summary

    James F. parham;peTer paul;John B. iverson

  • Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

    Rachel C. M. Warnock;James F. Parham;Walter G. Joyce;Tyler R. Lyson

  • A Divergence Dating Analysis of Turtles Using Fossil Calibrations: An Example of Best Practices

    Walter G. Joyce;Walter G. Joyce;James F. Parham;Tyler R. Lyson;Tyler R. Lyson;Rachel C. M. Warnock;Rachel C. M. Warnock

  • Molecular phylogeny of the critically endangered Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons).

    Bryan L Stuart;James Ford Parham

  • Evidence for the massive scale of turtle farming in China

    Shi Haitao;James F. Parham;Fan Zhiyong;Hong Meiling

  • Molecular phylogenetics of emydine turtles: taxonomic revision and the evolution of shell kinesis.

    Chris R. Feldman;James Ford Parham

  • A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names

    Walter G. Joyce;Jérémy Anquetin;Edwin Alberto Cadena;Julien Claude

  • Oldest known marine turtle? A new protostegid from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia

    Edwin-Alberto Cadena;James Parham

  • New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens

    James Ford Parham;W. Brian Simison;Kenneth H. Kozak;Chris R. Feldman

  • New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous

    James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • The phylogeny of Mediterranean tortoises and their close relatives based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences from museum specimens

    James F. Parham;J. Robert Macey;J. Robert Macey;Theodore J. Papenfuss;Chris R. Feldman

  • Age and growth of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) of coastal Georgia : An assessment of skeletochronological age-estimates

    James F. Parham;George R. Zug

  • Farming endangered turtles to extinction in China

    Shi Haitao;Shi Haitao;James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Michael Lau;Chen Tien-Hsi

  • The complete mitochondrial genome of the enigmatic bigheaded turtle (Platysternon): description of unusual genomic features and the reconciliation of phylogenetic hypotheses based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA

    James F Parham;James F Parham;Chris R Feldman;Jeffrey L Boore;Jeffrey L Boore

  • Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions

    Aaron M. Bauer;James F. Parham;Rafe M. Brown;Bryan L. Stuart

  • Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Carolina S. Gutstein;Carolina S. Gutstein;James F. Parham;Jacobus P. Le Roux

  • Recent hybrid origin of three rare Chinese turtles

    Bryan L. Stuart;James F. Parham;James F. Parham

  • Molecular Systematics of Old World Stripe-Necked Turtles (Testudines: Mauremys)

    Chris R. Feldman;James F. Parham

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter G. Joyce
Walter G. Joyce University of Fribourg
Theodore J. Papenfuss
Theodore J. Papenfuss University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Nicholas D. Pyenson
Nicholas D. Pyenson National Museum of Natural History
Bryan L. Stuart
Bryan L. Stuart North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue University of Bristol
Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
Maria A. Gandolfo
Maria A. Gandolfo Cornell University

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