Barbara Ann Pytel
Lecturer. Ph.D., New York University
- Research Interests: Research interests have included phylogeny of North American water frogs (Rana), and the evolution of primitive snakes.
My students and I are currently studying color polymorphisms in Plethodon cinereus, the red-backed salamander, by sequencing the gene for the Melanocortin Receptor (MC-1-R). - Courses: BIO 101; BIO 102; BIO 321-Herpetology; BIO 487-Topics in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology
- email: pytelb@union.edu
- Phone: (518) 388-6746