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James C. Cavender is professor emeritus at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA. He studies the taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology, and geographical distribution of dictyostelid cellular slime molds.[1]
Cavender studied biology at Union College and conducted his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with mycologist Kenneth Raper.[2] He taught at Wabash College for five years before joining the faculty of the Plant Biology department at Ohio University in 1970.
Cavender has led research on the global discovery of dictyostelids, also called cellular slime molds or social amoebae. His development of a quantitative method for dictyostelid isolation from soil samples, published in 1965,[3] made possible ecological studies based on frequency and density of occurrence. Cavender has led and collaborated on expeditions in North America,[4][5] South America,[6] Europe,[7] Africa[8][9], Madagascar[10] and Asia[11][12][13][14] to discover new species of slime molds and understand their distributions, ecology and evolution. These efforts contributed to the discovery of more than half of the known species of the Dictyosteliida, including the species within the genus, Cavenderia and the family, Cavenderiaceae.[15] At Ohio University, he taught a range of courses including mycology, introductory botany, tropical botany, medicinal plants, alternative agriculture, soils, and advanced courses in dictyostelids from 1970 until his retirement in 2004.[citation needed]
As indexed by google scholar[1], some of his most impactful publications are:
Cavender, J.C. and Raper, K.B. (1965), The Acrasieae in nature. I. Isolation American Journal of Botany, 52: 294-296. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1537-2197.1965.tb06788.x
Cavender, J.C. and Raper, K.B. (1965), The Acrasieae in nature. II. Forest soil as a primary habitat. American Journal of Botany, 52: 297-302. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1537-2197.1965.tb06789.x
Cavender, J.C. (1973) Geographical Distribution of Acrasieae, Mycologia, 65:5, 1044-1054, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1973.12019526
Cavender, J.C. and Raper, K.B. (1968), The occurrence and distribution of Acrasieae in forests of subtropical and tropical America. American Journal of Botany, 55: 504-513. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1537-2197.1968.tb07405.x
Swanson, A.R., Vadell, E.M. and Cavender, J.C. (1999), Global distribution of forest soil dictyostelids. Journal of Biogeography, 26: 133-148. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00250.x
Schaap, P., T. Winckler, M. Nelson, E. Alvarez-Curto, B. Elgie, H. Hagiwara, J.C. Cavender, A. Milano-Curto, D.E. Rozen, T. Dingermann, R. Mutzel, S.L. Baldauf, (2006) Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Morphology in the Social Amoebas. Science 314,661-663. DOI:10.1126/science.1130670
Romeralo, M., Cavender, J.C., Landolt, J.C. et al. An expanded phylogeny of social amoebas (Dictyostelia) shows increasing diversity and new morphological patterns. BMC Evol Biol 11, 84 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-84
Sheikh, S., M. Thulin, J. C. Cavender, R. Escalante, S.-i. Kawakami, C. Lado, J. C. Landolt, V. Nanjundiah, D. C. Queller, J. E. Strassmann, F. W. Spiegel, S. L. Stephenson, E. M. Vadell, and S. L. Baldauf. 2018. A New Classification of the Dictyostelids. Protist 169:1-28.