F. Thomas Ledig
Adjunct Professor
tledig@ucdavis.edu

Plant Science

Office
1110 Environmental Horticulture
(530) 752-8053


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Degrees:
1967 PhD North Carolina State University Genetics
1965 MS North Carolina State University Genetics
1962 BS Rutgers University Plant Science
Awards:
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2002
Barrington Moore Memorial Award, Society of American Foresters, 1992
Department and Center Affiliations:
Plant Sciences
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Society for Conservation Biology
Botanical Society of America
Society of American Foresters
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Geography  
Publications:
  • Ledig FT, Conkle MT, Bermejo-Velázquez B, Eguiluz-P T, Hodgskiss PD, Johnson DR and WS Dvorak. 1999. Evidence for an extreme bottleneck in a rare Mexican pinyon: genic diversity, disequilibrium, and the mating system in Pinus maximartinezii. Evolution 53: 91-99.
  • Ledig FT. 2000. Founder effects and the genetic structure of Coulter pine. Journal of Heredity. 91:307-315
  • Ledig, F. T., B. Bermejo-Velázquez, P. D. Hodgskiss, D. R. Johnson, C. Flores-López, and V. Jacob-Cervantes. 2000. Mating system and genic diversity in Martínez spruce, an extremely rare endemic of México's Sierra Madre Oriental: an example of facultative selfing and survival in interglacial refugia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 1156-1164.
  • Ledig F, MA Capó-Arteaga, PD Hodgskiss, H Sbay, C Flores-López, MT Conkle and B Bermejo-Velázquez. 2002. Genetic diversity and the mating system of a rare Mexican piñon, Pinus pinceana, and a comparison with Pinus maximartinezii. American Journal of Botany 88: 1997-1987.
  • Ledig, F. T., P. D. Hodgskiss, and V. Jacob-Cervantes. 2002. Genic diversity, the mating system, and conservation of a Mexican subalpine relict, Picea mexicana Martínez. Conservation Genetics 3: 113-122.
  • Lee, S.-W., F. T. Ledig, and D. R. Johnson. 2002. Genetic variation at allozyme and RAPD markers in Pinus longaeva of the White Mountains, California. American Journal of Botany 89: 566-577.
  • Ledig, F.T., P.D. Hodgskiss, K.V. Krutovskii, D. B. Neale, and T. Eguiluz-Piedra. 2004. Relationships among the spruces (Picea, Pinaceae) of southwestern North America. Systematic Botany 29: 275-295.
  • Ledig, F.T., P.D. Hodgskiss, and D.R. Johnson. 2005. Genic diversity, genetic structure, and the mating system of Brewer spruce (Pinaceae), a relict of the Arcto-Tertiary forest. American Journal of Botany 92: 1975-1986.
  • Ledig, F.T., P.D. Hodgskiss, and D.R. Johnson. 2006. Genetic diversity and seed production in Santa Lucia fir, a relict of the Miocene boadleaved evergreen forest. Conservation Genetics 7: 383-398.
  • Jaramillo-Correa, J.P., J. Beaulieu, F.T. Ledig, and J. Bousquet. 2006. Postglacial history, population structure and considerations for the conservation of a threatened Mexican endemic conifer inferred with mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA markers. Molecular Ecology 15: 2787-2800.
  • Ledig, F.T., P.D. Hodgskiss, and D.R. Johnson. 2006. The structure of genetic diversity in Engelmann spruce and a comparison with blue spruce. Canadian Journal of Botany: 84: 1806-1828.
Field Sites:
Institute of Forest Genetics http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/ifg/
Teaching Interests:
Conservation and population genetics.
Courses:
ENH 150 Genetics and Plant Conservation Spring