Tom Quinn
Director,
Rocky Mountain Center for Conservation Genetics and Systematics
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Denver
E-mail: tquinn@du.edu
Tel. 303.871.3466
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkley, 1992.
Ph.D., Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1988.
B.Sc., Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 1980.
Research Interests
One major research pursuit of my lab is to investigate the patterns and rates of change of DNA sequence on autosomes and sex chromosomes of birds. These data are being collected in order to clarify the influence of number of replicative rounds of division on the rate of DNA sequence divergence among vertebrates. Another major pursuit centers around population and phylogenetic studies of extant and extinct vertebrates. In performing these studies, we use a wide variety of molecular biological tools.
Publications
St. John, J. and T.W. Quinn. 2008. Rapid Capture of DNA Targets. BioTechniques 44.
Oyler-McCance, S.J., F. A. Ransler, L. K. Berkman and T. W. Quinn. 2007 A Rangewide Population Genetic Study of Trumpeter Swans.Conservation Genetics 8: 1339-1353.
St John J., F.A. Ransler, T.W. Quinn, and S.J. Oyler-McCance. 2006. Characterization of microsatellite loci isolated in trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator). Molecular Ecology Notes 6:1083-1085.
St. John, J., J. P. Cotter, and T. W. Quinn. 2005. A recent chicken repeat 1 (CR1) retrotransposition confirms the Coscoroba-Cape Barren Goose clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:83-90.
Oyler-McCance, S. J., S. E. Taylor, and T. W. Quinn. 2005. A Multilocus Survey of Greater Sage-Grouse Across Their Range. Molecular Ecology 14:1293-1310.
Oyler-McCance, S. J., J. St. John, S. E. Taylor, and T. W. Quinn. 2005. Population Genetics of Gunnison Sage-Grouse: Implications for Management. Journal of Wildlife Management (in press).
Oyler-McCance, S. J., S. E. Taylor, and T. W Quinn. 2005. A Multilocus Population Genetic Survey of Greater Sage-grouse Across Their Range. Molecular Ecology (in press).
Oyler-McCance, S. J., J. St. John, F. L. Knopf, and T. W. Quinn. 2005. Population Genetic Analysis of Mountain Plover Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data. Condor (in press)
Benedict, N.G., S.J. Oyler-McCance, S.E. Taylor, C.E. Braun and T.W. Quinn. (2003). Evalutation of the Eastern (Centrocercus urophasianus urophasianus) and Western (Cenrrocercus urophasianus phaios) subspecies of Sage-Grouse using mitochondrial control region sequence data. Conservation Genetics 4: 301-310.
Taylor, S.E., S. J. Oyler-McCance and T.W. Quinn. (2003) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 262-264.
Cotter, J-P., J. St. John, and T. W. Quinn (2001). Primers to the avian Z-linked growth hormone receptor gene. Conservation Genetics 2: 73-75.
Young, J.R., C.E. Braun, S.J. Oyler-McCance, T.W. Quinn and J.W. Hupp (2000). A new species of sage grouse (Phasianidae: Centrocercus) from southwestern Colorado, USA. Wilson Bulletin 112: 445-453.
Sorenson, M.D., A. Cooper, E. Paxinos, T.W. Quinn, H.F. James, S.L. Olson and R.C. Fleischer. (1999). Relationships of the extinct moa-nalos, flightless Hawaiian waterfowl, based on ancient DNA. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 266: 2187-2193.
Kahn, N.W. and T.W. Quinn (1999). Male driven evolution among eoaves? - A test of the replicative division hypothesis in a heterogametic female (ZW) system. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49: 750-759.
Oyler-McCance, S.J., N.W. Kahn, K.P. Burnham, C.E. Braun and T.W. Quinn. (1999). A population genetic comparison of large and small-bodied sage grouse in Colorado using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers. Molecular Ecology 8: 1457-1466.
Kahn, N.W., C. Braun, J. Young, S. Wood, D. Mata, and T.W. Quinn. (1999). Molecular analysis of genetic variation among large- and small-bodied sage grouse using mitochondrial control-region sequences. The Auk 116: 819-824.
Quinn, T.W. (1999). Sex and the single chromosome. In: Adams, N. and Slotow, R. (Eds.) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr. Durban: 434-449. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.
Kahn, N.W., J. St. John and T.W. Quinn. (1998). Chromosome-specific intron size differences in the avian CHD gene provide a simple and efficient method for sexing birds. Auk 115: 1074-1078.
Sorenson, M.D. and T.W. Quinn (1998). Numts: A challenge for avian systematics and population biology. Auk 115: 214-221.
Quinn, T.W. (1997). Molecular evolution of the avian mitochondrial genome. IN "Avian Evolution and Molecular Characters" (D.P. Mindell, ed.). Academic Press, Orlando. pp. 3-28.
Quinn, T.W. and D.P. Mindell (1996). Mitochondrial gene order adjacent to the control region in crocodile, turtle and tuatata. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 5: 344-351.
Dores, R.M., D.A. Rubin, and T. W. Quinn (1996). Is it possible to construct phylogenetic trees using polypeptide hormone sequences? Gen. Comp. End. 103: 1-12.
Zimmer, R., B. Erdtmann, W.K. Thomas and T.W. Quinn. (1994). Phylogenetic analysis of the Coscoroba coscoroba using mitochondrial srRNA gene sequences. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 3: 85-91.
Quinn, T.W. and Wilson, A.C. (1993). Sequence evolution in and around the mitochondrial control region of birds. J. Mol. Evol. 37: 417-425.
Quinn, T.W. (1992). The genetic legacy of mother goose: phylogeographic patterns of lesser snow goose Chen caerulescens caerulescens maternal lineages. Mol. Ecol. 1: 105-117.
Quinn, T.W., G.F. Shields and A.C. Wilson. (1991). Affinities of the Hawaiian Goose based on two types of mitochondrial DNA data. Auk 108: 585-593.
Quinn, T.W., F. Cooke and B.N. White. (1990). Molecular sexing of geese using a cloned Z chromosomal sequence with homology to the W chromosome. Auk 107: 199-202.