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Priscilla K. Tucker
Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Ph: 734-647-2207
FAX: 734-763-4080
email: ptuck@umich.edu
EDUCATION
1970-1974 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, B.A.
1977-1980 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, M.S.
1980-1984 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Ph.D.
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Postdoctoral Trainee with Dr. Eva Eicher, The Jackson Laboratory, 1985-1988.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Instructor, Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, 1984-1985.
Assistant Professor of Biology/Assistant Curator of Mammals, 1988-1995.
Associate Professor of Biology/Associate Curator of Mammals, 1995-2001.
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Associate Curator of Mammals, 2001-2005.
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Curator of Mammals, 2005-present
Senior Fellow, Sweetland Writing Center, Fall 2005-Winter 2006.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1979 Elected to the biological honor society, Phi Sigma
1980 Elected to the honor society, Phi Kappa Phi
1984 Honorable Mention-Wilks Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists
1984 A. Brazier Howell Award from the American Society of Mammalogists, 1984
1991 University of Michigan ADVICE High Honors List, Fall 1991 for my course "Special Topics in Molecular Evolution"
1992 Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation
1997 Career Advancement Award, National Science Foundation
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Tucker, P.K. “Evolutionary History of the genus Mus”(in press). In: Eye, Retina, and the Visual Systems of the Mouse,Chalupa, LM and Williams, R. (eds) The MIT Press, Cambridge.
Johnsen, J.J., G.G. Levy, R.J. Westrick, P.K. Tucker, and D. Ginsburg (2008) The endothelial-cell specific regulatory mutation, Mvwf1, is a common murine founder allele. Mammalian Genome 19:32-40.
Teeter, K.C., B.A. Payseur, L.W. Harris, M.A. Bakewell, L.M. Thibodeau, J.E. O’Brien, J.G. Krenz, M.A. Sans-Fuentes, M.W. Nachman, and P.K. Tucker. (2008) Genome-wide patterns of gene flow across a house mouse hybrid zone. Genome Research 18:67-76.
Tucker, P.K. “Systematics of the genus Mus” (2007) pp. 13-23. In: Mouse in Biomedical Research, 2nd ed. Fox J, Barthold S, Davisson MT, Newcomer C, Quimby F, Smith A (eds.), Elsevier Press, Boston.
Sanstedt, S. and P.K. Tucker (2006) Inefficient purifying selection: the Mammalian Y chromosome in the rodent genus Mus. Mammalian Genome 17:14-21.
Bozikova, E.P., Muncliner, K. Teeter, P.K. Tucker, M. Macholan, and J. Pialek (2005) Mitochondrial DNA in the hybrid zone between Mus musculus musculus and Mus musculus domesticus: a comparison of two transects. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 84:363-378.
Tucker, P.K., S. Sandstedt and B. L. Lundrigan (2005) Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Mus : examining gene trees and species trees. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 84:653-662.
Sanstedt, S. and P.K. Tucker (2005) Male-driven evolution in closely related species of the mouse genus Mus. Journal of Molecular Evolution 61:138-144.
Podlaha, O., D. Webb, P.K.Tucker, and J. Zhang (2005) Positive selection for indel substitutions in the rodent sperm protein Catsper1. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:1845-1852.
Sanstedt, S. and P.K. Tucker (2004) Evolutionary strata on the X chromosome in the mouse genus Mus. Genome Research 14:267-272.
Jansa, S.A., B.L. Lundrigan, P.K. Tucker (2003) Tests for positive selection on immune and reproductive genes in closely related species of the murine genus Mus. Journal of Molecular Evolution 56:294-307.
Tucker, P.K., R.A. Adkins, and J.S. Rest (2003) Differential Rates of Evolution for the ZFY-related zinc finger genes, Zfy, Zfx and Zfa in the mouse genus Mus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:999-1005.
Lundrigan, B., S. Jansa, and P.K. Tucker (2002) Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Mus, based on maternally, paternally, and biparentally inherited characters. Systematic Biology 53:410-431.
Schaner, P., N. Richards, A. Wadhawa, I. Aksentijevich, D. Kastner, P. Tucker, and D. Gumucio (2001) Rapid evolution of pyrin in Primates: Role of positive selection. Nature Genetics 27:318-321
Tucker, P.K., A. Munson, S. Kanekar, H. Schlecht, M. Vetter, L. Laemle, T. Glaser (2001) The eyeless mouse mutation (ey1) removes an alternative start codon from the Rx/rax homeobox gene and acts as a hypomorphic gene. Genesis 31:43-53.
SCIENTIFIC REVIEW ACTIVITIES
Reviewer: 1986-present, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Evolution, Folia Zoologica, Genetical Research, Genetics, Genome, Hereditas, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Plos Biology, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Systematic Biology, Trends in Genetics, Zootaxa.
NSF Advisory Panel Service: 1994, DEB-Planning Grants and Career Advancement Awards; 1994 -1996, Systematic Biology; 1997-1998, DEB Doctoral Dissertation Research; 1999, DEB POWRE; 2000, Systematic Biology; 2002, BAC Library Construction Program; 2003, Population Biology; 2008, Evolutionary Genetics.
Advisory committees: 1993, American Museum of Natural History Search Committee for a Curator of Mammals; 2000-2004, Member of the Peromyscus Stock Center External Advisory Board (Chair in 2001 and 2004)
Systematic Biology Service: 2001-2004, Member of the Editorial Board; 2004 –2006, Elected to Council; 1998 and 2007, Nominations Committee.
CURRENT GRANT SUPPORT
NSF Collaborative Research on the genetic basis of reproductive isolation in house mice. $532,361. 3/1/08-2/28/11.
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