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Dr. David P. Mindell,
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1079 USA
Tel: 734-647-2209, office; 734-763-0310, lab; 734-763-4080, fax
Email: mindell@umich.edu; http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/molsys/Dr.Mindell.html
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1987-88, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ph.D., 1986, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
M.S., 1978, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
B.S., 1975, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona
Research Interests
Evolutionary genetics and systematics of birds; systematics theory; molecular evolution; genomics; rates of evolution; macroevolution; coevolution of retroviruses and avian hosts; evolution and phylogeny of viruses
Career Profile
| 2003-2005 |
Director,
Museum of Zoology and Herbarium, University of Michigan
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2002-2003 |
Interim
Director, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan |
1998-present |
Director,
Genomic Diversity Laboratory, University of Michigan Museum
of Zoology |
1994-present |
Full,
Associate and Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology and Curator of Birds, University of Michigan, Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology |
1989-1994 |
Associate
and Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Cincinnati;
Adjunct Curator of Birds Cincinnati Museum of Natural History |
1988-1989 |
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University; Visiting Postdoctoral
Fellow in A. C. Wilson's laboratory, University of California
at Berkeley |
1987-1988 |
Post-doctoral
Fellow, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology,
and Biological Laboratories; and Teaching Fellow, Dept. of
Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Awards
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University (2006-2007)
Visiting Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany (2000)
Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan, (1999)
Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1999)
Visiting Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan (1998)
Young Investigator Award, Sigma Xi, University of Cincinnati (1993)
George S. Wise Post-doctoral Fellow Tel Aviv University, Israel (1986)
Scientific Papers and Books
84) Mindell, D. P. 2006. The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life. Harvard University Press. 341 pp.
83) Johnson, J. A., H. R. L. Lerner, Pamela C. Rasmussen and D. P. Mindell. 2006. Systematics within Gyps vultures: a clade at risk. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:65.
82) Watanabe M., M. Nikaido, T. T. Tsuda, T. Kobayashi, D. P. Mindell, Y. Cao, N. Okada, and M. Hasegawa. 2006. New candidate species most closely related to penguins. Gene 378: 65-73.
81) Watanabe, M., M. Nikaido, T. T. Tsuda, H. Inoko, D. P. Mindell, K. Murata and N. Okada. 2006. The rise and fall of the CR1 subfamily in the lineage leading to penguins. Gene. 365:57-66.
80) Johnson, J. A., R. T. Watson, and D. P. Mindell. 2005. Prioritizing species conservation: does the Cape Verde kite exist? Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 272:1365-1371.
79) Lerner, H. L. and D. P. Mindell. 2005. Phylogeny for eagles, Old World vultures and other Accipitridae taxa based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:327-346.
78) Mindell, D. P. 2005. Evolution helps solve crimes. Pp. 173-177 in Cracraft, J. and R. Bybee (eds.) Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation. Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
77) Hietpas, J., L. K. McMullan, D. P. Mindell, J. L. Hanson, and C. M. Rice. 2005. Keeping track of viruses. Pp. 55-97 in R. G. Breze, B. Budowle and S. E. Schutzer (eds.), Microbial and Viral Forensics. Wiley-Liss.
76) Mindell, D. P., J. S. Rest, and L. P. Villarreal. 2004. Viruses and the tree of life. Pp. 107-118 in Cracraft, J. and M. J. Donoghue (eds.), Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
75) Cracraft, J., F. Keith Barker, M. J. Braun, J. Harshman, G. Dyke, J. Feinstein, S. Stanley, A. Cibois, P. Schikler, P. Beresford, J. García-Moreno, M. D. Sorenson, T. Yuri, and D. P. Mindell. 2004. Phylogenetic Relationships Among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life. Pp. 468-489 in Cracraft, J. and M. J. Donoghue (eds.), Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
74) Rest J. S., and D. P. Mindell. 2003. SARS-CoV has a recombinant polymerase and coronaviruses have a history of host shifting. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 3:219-225.
73) Rest, J. R., J. C. Ast, C. C. Austin, P. J. Waddell, E. A. Tibbetts, J. M. Hay and D. P. Mindell. 2003. Molecular systematics of Reptilia and the tuatara mitochondrial genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29:289-297.
72) Lee, S-I. C. S. Parr, Y. Hwang, D. P. Mindell, and J. C. Choe. 2003. Phylogeny of magpies (genus Pica) inferred from mtDNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29:250-257.
71) Sorenson, M. D., E. Oneal, J. García-Moreno, and D. P. Mindell. 2003. More taxa, more characters: the hoatzin problem is still unresolved. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1484-1499.
70) García-Moreno, J., M. D. Sorenson and D. P. Mindell. 2003. Congruent avian phylogenies inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57:27-37.
69) Rest, J. S. and D. P. Mindell. 2003. Retroids in Archaea: phylogeny and lateral origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1134-1142.
68) Metzker, M. L., D. P. Mindell, X.-M. Liu, R. G. Ptak, R. A. Gibbs and D. M. Hillis. 2002. Molecular evidence of HIV-1 transmission in a U.S. criminal case. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99:14292-14297.
67) Dimcheff, D. D., S. V. Drovetski, and D. P. Mindell. 2002. Molecular evolution and systematics of tetraoninae and other Galliformes using mitochondrial 12S and ND2 genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 24:203-215.
66) Dimmic, M. W., J. S. Rest, D. P. Mindell, and R. A. Goldstein. 2002. rtREV: a substitution matrix for inference of retrovirus and reverse transcriptase phylogeny. Journal of Molecular Evolution 55:65-73.
65) Yuri, T. and D. P. Mindell. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nine-primaried oscines (Aves: Passeriformes: Fringillidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:229-243.
64) Mindell, D.P. 2002. Birds. In M. Pagel, ed. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Vol. 1, pp. 110-117. Oxford University Press.
63) Meshnick, S. R., P. A. Hossler, K. S. Enger, P. Kazanjian, J. S. Rest, D. P. Mindell, B. Li, C.-H. Lee, L. F. Nimri, J. L. Carter, C. B. Beard, C. Del Rio,L. Huang. 2001. Distribution of DHPS Mutations Among ITS Subtypes of P. carinii f. sp. hominis. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 126S-128S Suppl. S 2001.
62) Herlocher M. L., S. Elias, R. Truscon, S. Harrison, D. P. Mindell, C. Simon, and A. S. Monto. 2001. Ferrets as a transmission model for Influenza: Sequence changes in Type A (H3N2) virus. Journal of Infectious Diseases 184:542-546.
61) Mindell, D. P. and A. Meyer. 2001. Homology evolving. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:434-440.
60) Dimcheff, D. E., M. Krishnan, and D. P. Mindell. 2001. Evolution and characterization of Tetraonine Endogenous Retrovirus (TERV): a new virus related to avian sarcoma and leukosis viruses. Journal of Virology 75:2002-2009.
59) Cao, Y., M. D. Sorenson, Y. Kumazawa, D. P. Mindell, and M. Hasegawa. 2000. Phylogenetic position of turtles among amniotes: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Gene 259:139-148.
58) García-Moreno, J. and D. P. Mindell. 2000. Using homologous genes on opposite sex chromosomes (gametologs) in phylogenetic analysis: a case study with avian CHD. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:1826-1832.
57) Dimcheff, D. E., S. V. Drovetski, M. Krishnan, and D. P. Mindell. 2000. Cospeciation and horizontal transmission of Avian Sarcoma and Leukosis Virus gag genes in galliform birds. Journal of Virology 74:3984-3995.
56) Dimmic, M. W., D. P. Mindell, R. A. Goldstein. 2000. Modeling evolution at the protein level using an adjustable amino acid fitness model. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 5:18-29.
55) Morey, R. N., D. P. Mindell, and D. A. Bloom. 2000. The leech and the physician: biology, etymology and medical practice with Hirudinea medicinalis. World Journal of Surgery 24:878-883.
54) Waddell, P. J., Y. Cao, M. Hasegawa, and D. P. Mindell. 1999. Assessing the Cretaceous superordinal divergence times within birds and placental mammals using whole mitochondrial protein sequences and an extended statistical framework. Systematic Biology 48:119-137.
53) Mindell, D. P., M. D. Sorenson, D. E. Dimcheff, M. Hasegawa, J. C. Ast, and T. Yuri. 1999. Interordinal relationships of birds and other reptiles based on whole mitochondrial genomes. Systematic Biology 48:138-152.
52) Koshi, J. M., D. P. Mindell, and R. A. Goldstein. 1999. Using physical-chemistry based substitution models in phylogenetic analyses of HIV-1 subtypes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:173-179.
51) Sorenson, M. D., J. C. Ast, D. E. Dimcheff, T. Yuri, and D. P. Mindell. 1999. Primers for a PCR-based approach to mitochondrial genome sequencing in birds and other vertebrates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12:105-114.
50) Miranda, H.C., D.P. Mindell and R.S. Kennedy. 1999. The molecular phylogeography of Philippine Scops-Owl and implications for ornithology. Sylvatrop. 7:12-26.
49) Mindell, D. P., M. D. Sorenson, D. E. Dimcheff. 1998. An extra nucleotide is not translated in mitochondrial ND3 of some birds and turtles. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15:1568-1571.
48) Mindell, D. P., M. D. Sorenson, D. E. Dimcheff. 1998. Multiple independent origins of mitochondrial gene order in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95:10693-10697.
47) Mindell, D. P., and M. D. Sorenson. 1998. Testing the root of the avian tree and the phylogenetic position of Passeriformes. In N. J. Adams and R. H. Slotow, eds. Proceedings 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, South Africa.
46) Koshi, J. M., D. P. Mindell, R. A. Goldstein. 1997. Beyond mutation matrices: Physical-chemistry based evolutionary models. Pp. 80-89 in S. Miyano and T. Takagi, eds. Genome Informatics Series, No. 8. Universal Academy Press, Tokyo.
45) Mindell, D. P., ed. 1997. Avian Molecular Evolution and Systematics. Academic Press, New York.
44) Miranda, H. R. S. Kennedy and D. P. Mindell. 1997. The phylogenetic placement of Mimizuku gurneyi inferred from mitochondrial DNA. Auk 114:315-323.
43) Mindell, D.P., M. D. Sorenson, C. J. Huddleston, H. Miranda, A. Knight, S. J. Sawchuk, and T. Yuri. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships among and within select avian orders based on mitochondrial DNA. Pp. 211-245 in D. P. Mindell, ed. Avian Molecular Evolution and Systematics. Academic Press, New York.
42) Lane, B. R., Ast, J. C., Hossler, P. A., Mindell D. P., Bartlett, M. S., Smith, J. W., and S. R. Meshnick. 1997. Dihydropteroate synthase polymorphisms in human-derived Pneumocystis carinii: suggest a response to selective pressure from sulfa drugs. Journal of Infectious Disease 175:482-485.
41) Mindell, D. P. and C. E. Thacker. 1996. Rates of molecular evolution: phylogenetic issues and applications. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:279-303.
40) Mindell, D. P. 1996. Positive selection and rates of evolution in immunodeficiency viruses from humans and chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:3284-3288.
39) Quinn, T. W., and D. P. Mindell. 1996. Mitochondrial gene order adjacent to the control region in crocodile, turtle and tuatara. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5:344-351.
38) Mindell, D. P., A. Knight, C. Baer, and C. J. Huddleston. 1996. Slow rates of molecular evolution in birds and the metabolic rate and body temperature hypotheses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13:422-426.
37) Farris, J. S., M. Källersjö, V. A. Albert, M. Allard, A. Anderberg, B. Bowditch, C. Bult, J. M. Carpenter, T. M. Crowe, J. De Laet, K. Fitzhugh, D. Frost, P. Goloboff, C. J. Humphries, U. Jondelius, D. Judd, P. O. Karis, D. Lipscomb, M. Luckow, D. P. Mindell, J. Muona, K. Nixon, W. Presch, O. Seberg, M. E. Siddall, L. Strue, A. Tehler, J. Wenzel, Q. Wheeler, W. Wheeler. 1995. Explanation. Cladistics 11:211-218.
36) Govindaswami, M., D. J. Feldhake, B. K. Kinkle, D. P. Mindell, and J. C. Loper. 1995. Phylogenetic comparison of two polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) degrading Mycobacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61:3221-3226.
35) Mindell, D. P., J. W. Shultz, and P. Ewald. 1995. The AIDS pandemic is new, but is HIV new? Systematic Biology 44:77-92.
34) Knight, A. and D. P. Mindell. 1995. Weighting of nucleotide sequences: a reply. Systematic Biology 44:112-116.
33) Seutin, G., B. F. Lang, D. P. Mindell, and R. Morais. 1994. Evolution of the WANCY region in amniote mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11:329-340.
32) Knight R. A., and D. P. Mindell. 1994. The phylogenetic relationship of Colubrinae, Elapidae and Viperidae and the evolution of front-fanged venom systems in snakes. Copeia 1994:1-9.
31) Mindell, D.P. 1993. Merger of taxa and the definition of monophyly. BioSystems 31:130-133.
30) Knight, A., D. Styer, S. Pelikan, J. A. Campbell, L. D. Densmore III, and D. P. Mindell. 1993. Choosing among hypotheses of rattlesnake phylogeny: a best-fit rate test for DNA sequence data. Systematic Biology 42:356-367.
29) Knight R. A., and D. P. Mindell. 1993. Substitution bias, a priori weighting of DNA sequence change, and the phylogenetic position of Azemiops feae. Systematic Biology 42:18-31.
28) Mindell, D. P. 1992. Phylogenetic consequences of symbioses: Eukarya and Eubacteria are non-monophyletic taxa. BioSystems 27:53-62.
27) Mindell, D. P. 1992. DNA-DNA hybridization and avian phylogeny. Systematic Biology 41:126-134.
26) Mindell, D. P., C. W. Dick, and R. J. Baker. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships among megabats, microbats and primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 88:10322-10326.
25) Mindell, D. P. 1991. Similarity and congruence as criteria for molecular homology. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8:897-900.
24) Mindell, D. P. 1991. DNA sequence alignments and the role of homology. Pp. 73-89 in Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA sequences. M. M. Miyamoto and J. Cracraft, eds. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
23) Ellis, D. H., C. H. Ellis, and D. P. Mindell. 1991. Raptor responses to low-level jet aircraft and sonic booms. Environmental Pollution 74:53-83.
22) Mindell, D. P., J. W. Sites, Jr., and D. Graur. 1990. Assessing the relationship between speciation and evolutionary change. Cladistics 6:393-398.
21) Mindell, D. P., and R. L. Honeycutt. 1990. Ribosomal RNA in vertebrates: evolution and phylogenetic applications. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21: 541-566.
20) Mindell, D. P., J. W. Sites, Jr., and D. Graur. 1990. Mode of allozyme evolution: Increased genetic distance associated with speciation events. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 3:125-131.
19) Mindell, D. P., and R. L. Honeycutt. 1989. Variability in transcribed regions of rDNA and early divergences in birds. Auk 106:539-549.
18) Cracraft, J., and D. P. Mindell. 1989. The early history of modern birds: a comparison of molecular and morphological evidence. Pp. 389-403 In The hierarchy of life. B. Fernholm, K. Bremer and H. Jörnvall, eds. Proc. of Nobel Symposia. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.
17) Mindell, D. P., J. W. Sites, Jr., and D. Graur. 1989. Speciational evolution: a phylogenetic test with allozymes in Sceloporus (REPTILIA). Cladistics 5:49-61.
16) Mindell, D. P., and C. M. White. 1988. Fluctuations of observed breeding Rough-legged Hawks and Gyrfalcons: regularity reconsidered. Oecologia 77:14-18.
15) Mindell, D. P. 1988. The Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus). Pp. 152-179 in Handbook of North American Birds Vol. 5. R. S. Palmer, ed. Yale University Press, New Haven.
14) Mindell, D. P., and J. W. Sites, Jr. 1987. Tissue expression patterns of avian isozymes: a preliminary study of phylogenetic applications. Systematic Zoology 36:137-152.
13) Mindell, D. P., J. A. Albuquerque, C. M. White. 1987. Breeding population fluctuations in some raptors. Oecologia 72:382-388.
12) Mindell, D. P. 1987. First record of nesting in Israel for the Namaqua Dove (Oena capensis). Israel Journal of Zoology 34: 237-238.
11) Mindell, D. P. 1985. Biogeography of New World migrant raptors: a review. Pp. 369-385 in M. Harwood, ed. Proceedings of Hawk Migration Conference IV. Hawk Migration Assoc. of North America.
10) Mindell, D. P. 1985. Plumage variation and winter range of the Harlan's Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis harlani). American Birds 39:123-132.
9) Mindell, D. P., and H. L. Black. 1984. Combined-effort hunting by Chestnut-mandibled Toucans. Wilson Bulletin 96:319-321.
8) Mindell, D. P., and M. H. Mindell. 1984. Raptor migration through northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska, Spring 1982. Raptor Research 18:10-15.
7) Springer, A. M., W. Walker II, R. W. Risebrough, D. Benfield, D. H. Ellis, W. G. Mattox, D. P. Mindell, and D. G. Roseneau. 1984. Origins of organochlorines accumulated by Peregrine Falcons breeding in Alaska and Greenland. Canadian Field Naturalist 98:159-166.
6) Mindell, D. P., and D. E. Samuel. 1984. Habitat use by Red-tailed Hawks in surface-mined areas. Minerals and the Environment 6:144-149.
5) Mindell, D. P. 1983. Harlan's Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis harlani): a valid subspecies. Auk 100:161-169.
4) Mindell, D. P. 1983. Nesting raptors in southwestern Alaska; status, distribution and aspects of biology. Technical Publication 8. Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, Anchorage. BLM/AK/TR-83/08. 59 pp.
3) Craighead, F. C., and D. P. Mindell. 1981. Nesting raptors in western Wyoming; 1947 and 1975. Journal of Wildlife Management 45:865-872.
2) Mindell, D. P., and R. A. Dotson. 1981. Distribution and abundance of nesting raptors in western Alaska. Pp. 112-137 in Proceedings of a symposium: Raptor management and biology in Alaska and western Canada. Ladd, W. N. and P. F. Schempf, eds. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. FWS/AK/PROC-82.
1) Craighead, F. L., D. P. Mindell, D. Craighead. 1981. Satellite radiotracking of eagles. Pp. 295-302 in Proceedings of a symposium: Raptor management and biology in Alaska and western Canada. Ladd, W. N. and P. F. Schempf, eds. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. FWS/AK/PROC-82.
Book Reviews and Letters
Mindell, D. P. 2005. Review of "Viruses and the Evolution of Life" by L. P. Villarreal. Quarterly Review of Biology 80:478-479.
Mindell, D. P. and L. P. Villarreal. 2003. Don't forget about viruses. Science 302:1677.
Mindell, D. P. 1997. "Misleading" molecules? Science 276:1629.
Mindell, D. P. 1994. Review of "MacClade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution" by D. Maddison and W. Maddison. Auk 111:1035-1036.
Mindell, D. P. 1991. Review of "Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution" by W.-H. Li and D. Graur. American Journal of Human Genetics 49:1132-1134.
Editorial Boards
2005-present: BMC Evolutionary Biology
2003-present: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Academic Press)
2000-present: Infection, Genetics and Evolution (Elsevier Science Press)
1999-present: Israel Journal of Zoology (Laser Pages Publishing, Ltd.).
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