Edwin H. McConkey is an American
biologist
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. , he is a
professor emeritus
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at the department for Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the
University of Colorado at
Boulder, Colorado
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.
His contributions to
taxonomy include the original description the northern subspecies of
mole skink
''Plestiodon egregius'', the mole skink, is a species of small lizard endemic to the Southeastern United States.
Taxonomy
The species is subdivided into five subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies:
*Florida Keys mole skink, ''P. e ...
, ''Plestiodon egregius similis''.
Education
*Bachelor of Science from the
University of Florida in 1949.
*Master of Science from the University of Florida in 1951.
Bibliography
*(1976) ''Protein Synthesis: a Series of Advances'' .
*(1993) ''Human Genetics: The Molecular Revolution (The Jones and Bartlett Series in Biology)'' .
*(2004) ''How the Human Genome Works'' .
External links
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Coloradocontact details
University of Florida alumni
People from Boulder, Colorado
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
21st-century American biologists
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