Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny of the Gonads and Gametogenesis, Sex Accessory Structures, and Secondary Sexual Characters of Amphibians and Reptiles
Study Group
This site emphasizes results and progress from National Science Foundation grant DEB-0809831 "RUI: The Evolution of Sperm Ducts and Accessory Sex Glands in Squamate Reptiles: An Empirical Study of Cellular Complexity" to David M. Sever.
COLLABORATORS

From left to right: Kevin Gribbins (Wittenberg University), Dustin Siegel (St. Louis University), and Justin Rheubert and David Sever (Southeastern Louisiana University) in the Sever Lab at Southeastern, June 2008. Dustin is holding a cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorous.

From left to right: Kevin Gribbins, David Sever, Brian Crother (Southeastern Louisiana University), and Stan Trauth (Arkansas State University) on Rich Mountain, Arkansas, in April 2009.

David Sever with graduate student Justin Rheubert at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, July 2009, with their poster, "Preliminary Report of Reproductive Morphology of Iguanian Lizards as Displayed by
Phrynosomatidae and Polychrotidae".

David Sever with graduate student Layla Freeborn at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, July 2009 with their poster, "Reproductive Morphology of Colubroid Snakes".
Symposium: "Reproductive Biology of the Ophidia"
Organized by Robert D. Aldridge (St. Louis University) and David M. Sever
Sponsored by the Herpetologists' League
Joint Meeting of Herpetologists and Herpetologists, Portland, Oregon, 25 July 2009

Robert Aldridge (left) and David Sever

AM Speakers and the Organizers
From left to right: D. Sever, X. Bonnet, S. Trauth, D. Blackburn, T. Ecay, E. Taylor, M. Parker, R. Aldridge, R. Mason

PM Speakers and the Organizers
From left to right: R. Aldridge, D. Sever, N. Ford, K. Gribbins, A. Bronikowski, D. Siegel, S. Graham, Z. Stahlschmidt, B. Jellen,
R. Krohmer
Click here to see titles of talks and pictures of the presentations
Edited Volume: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes
Edited by Robert D. Aldridge and David M. Sever
Series Editor: Barrie G.M. Jamieson
To be published in Spring 2010 by Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, NH
Click here to see the list of authors and chapters
D. M. Sever proposes to standarize nomenclature for squamate testicular ducts
In the first paper from his NSF grant, Sever demonstrates that the testicular ducts in snakes and lizards are homologous to those in other amniotes
Click here for a preprint from "Early View" of the Journal of Morphology
The Vertebrate Museum at Southeastern Louisiana University
Click here to see figures from Trauth and Sever, "Male Urogenital Ducts and Cloacal Anatomy" from the forthcoming volume, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes