Comparative Vertebrate Exercise Physiology: Phyletic Adaptations

Jim Jones received his B.A. (1974), B.S. (1974), and M.S. (1976) degrees from the University of Arizona in biology and wildlife ecology. He studied under Knut Schmidt-Nielsen at Duke University, where he received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1979. He conducted postdoctoral studies at the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1980, and then earned a D.V.M. from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University in 1983. Dr. Jones was a Lecturer in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (1983-1996), and since then he has been an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Departments of Physiological Sciences and Surgical and Radiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis.Dr. Jones is currently Chair of the Physiology Graduate Group at Davis, was the first recipient of the American Physiological Society's Scholander Award for Comparative Physiology, and has been on the organizing committees for the first two American Physiological Society Conferences on the Integrative Biology of Exercise. His research interests include respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, energetic, thermoregulatory, environmental, and allometric aspects of comparative physiology, particularly as they apply to exercising animals and understanding the physiological basis for limitations to performance.

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