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.

Link to Quinn Publication List

Recent Publications:

• St. John, J., and T. W. Quinn (2008) Identification of novel CR1 subfamilies in an avian order with recently active elements. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 49: 1008-1014.
• St. John, J. and T.W. Quinn (2008) Rapid Capture of DNA Targets. BioTechniques 44: 259-264.
• St. John, J. and T. W., Quinn (2008) Recent CR1 non-LTR retrotransposon activity in Coscoroba reveals an insertion site preference. BMC Genomics 9: 567.
• Oyler-McCance, S. J., F. A. Ranlser, L. K. Berkman, and T. W. Quinn. (2007) A rangewide genetic survey of trumpeter swans. Conservation Genetics 8: 1339-1353.
• St John J., Ransler F.A., Quinn T.W., Oyler-McCance S.J. (2006) Characterization of microsatellite loci isolated in trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator). Mol Ecol Notes. 6: 1083-1085.
• St. John, J., J-P. Cotter and T.W. Quinn. (2005) A recent chicken repeat 1 retrotransposition confirms the Coscoroba – Cape Barren goose clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 83-90.