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Ronald W. DeBry
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Michigan State University
Molecular Evolution, Molecular Systematics

[Publications]

2001 DeBry, R. W. Improving interpretation of the decay index for DNA sequence data. In press Systematic Biology.

2001 DeBry, R. W. and R. M. Sagel. Phylogeny of Rodentia (Mammalia) inferred from the nuclear-encoded gene IRBP. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19:290-301.

2001 Madsen, O., M. Scally, C. Douady, D. Kao, R. W. DeBry, R. Adkins, H. Amrine, M. J. Stanhope, W. W. de Jong and M. S. Springer. Parallel adaptive radiations in two major clades of placental mammals. Nature 409:610-614.

2001 Springer, M. S., R. W. DeBry, H. M. Amrine, C. Douady, O. Madsen, W. W. de Jong, and M. J. Stanhope. Mitochondrial versus nuclear gene sequences in deep level phylogeny reconstruction. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:132-143.

2001 DeBry, R. W. and S. Seshadri. Nuclear intron sequences for phylogenetics of closely related mammals: an example using the phylogeny of Mus. Journal of Mammalogy 82:280-288.

2000 DeBry, R. W. and R. G. Olmstead. A simulation study of reduced tree-search effort in bootstrap resampling analysis. Syst. Biol. 49:171-179.

1999 DeBry, R. W. Maximum likelihood analysis of gene-based and structure-based process partitions, using mammalian mitochondrial genomes. Syst. Biol. 48:286-299.

1998 DeBry, R. W. Comparative Analysis of Evolution in a Rodent Histone H2a Pseudogene. J. Mol. Evol. 46:355-360.

1996 Wang, Z.-F., R. Tisovec, R. W. DeBry, M. R. Frey, A. G. Matera and W. F. Marzluff. Characterization of the 55 kilobase mouse histone gene cluster on chromosome 3: 45 histone genes in three patches spread over 1 Mb. Genome Research 6:702-714.

1996 DeBry, R. W. and M. F. Seldin. Human/mouse homology relationships. Genomics 33:337-351.

1995 DeBry, R. W. and L. G. Abele. The relationship between parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses: tree scores and confidence estimates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:291-297.

1994 DeBry, R. W. and W. F. Marzluff. Selection on silent sites in the rodent H3 histone gene family. Genetics 138:191-202.

1993 DeBry, R. W., L. G. Abele, S. H. Weiss, M. D. Hill, M. Bouzas, E. Lorenzo, F. Graebnitz, L. Resnick. Dental HIV transmission? Nature 361:691.

1992 DeBry, R. W. Biogeography of New World taiga-dwelling Microtus (Mammalia: Arvicolidae): a hypothesis test that accounts for phylogenetic uncertainty. Evolution 46:1347-1357.

1992 DeBry, R. W. The consistency of several phylogeny-inference methods under varying evolutionary rates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 9:537-551.

1989 Zelditch, M. L., R. W. DeBry, and D. O. Straney. Triangulation-measurement schemes in the multivariate analysis of size and shape. J. Mamm. 70:571-579.

1988 Williams, S. M., R. W. DeBry, and J. L. Feder. A commentary on the use of ribosomal DNA in systematic studies. Syst. Zool. 37:60-62.

1985 DeBry, R. W., and N. A. Slade. Cladistic analysis of restriction endonuclease cleavage map data within a maximum likelihood framework. Syst. Zool. 31:21-34

1983 Junge, J. A., R. S. Hoffmann, and R. W. DeBry. Relationships within the Holarctic Sorex arcticus - Sorex tundrensis species complex. Acta Theriol. 28:339-350.

1982 Snajberk, K., E. Zavarin, and R. DeBry. Terpenoid and morphological variability of Pinus quadrifolia and its natural hybridization with Pinus monophylla in the San Jacinto mountains of California. Biochem. Syst. and Ecol. 10:121-132.

1980 Zavarin, E., K. Snajberk, and R. DeBry. Terpenoid and morphological variability of Pinus quadrifolia and its natural hybridization with Pinus monophylla in northern Baja California and adjoining United States. Biochem. Syst. and Ecol. 8:225-235.

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