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Jason E. Bond is a Professor of Entomology and the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the University of California, Davis. He was previously Professor of Biology, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History at Auburn University.[1] When he was an associate professor with the Department of Biology at East Carolina University, he discovered the spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi and numerous other species in the genus Aptostichus.[2] He went to undergraduate school at Western Carolina University, majoring in biology in 1993. He then went to receive his M.S. in Biology (1995) and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Systematics and Genetics (1999) from Virginia Tech.[1]
On August 6, 2008, Bond appeared on The Colbert Report, where he named the spider Aptostichus stephencolberti after host Stephen Colbert.[3][4]
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References
- ^ a b "Jason E. Bond" (faculty page). Auburn University. Archived from the original on August 31, 2018.
- ^ Goldsmith, Belinda (May 11, 2008). Tourtellotte, Bob (ed.). "Neil Young gets new honor -- his own spider". Reuters. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
- ^ Melago, Carrie (August 1, 2008). "California spider named for Stephen Colbert". Daily News. Archived from the original on July 5, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
- ^ "New spider species named for Angelina Jolie, Bono". CBS News. Associated Press. January 19, 2013. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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