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Rachel E. Simmons

 

Genetics Graduate Group
Department of Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
resimmons@ucdavis.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Genetics, UC Davis (expected 2010).
M.S., Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, UC San Diego, 2005.
B.S., Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, UC San Diego, 2004.

Research

Redband trout conservation genetics - this project examines the phylogeny of redband trout in Northern California and their introgression with hatchery stocks and other rainbow trout.

Publications

Woodruff, D. S., Monda, K., and Simmons, R. E. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation and subspecific taxonomy in the white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar. Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 1:71-8. (pdf)

Plutchak, L. L., Simmons, R. E., and Woodruff, D. S. In press. Multilocus allozyme heterozygote deficiencies in Crepidula onyx: geographic and temporal patterns among adult snails in Mission Bay, California. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 337-348.(pdf)

Monda, K., Simmons, R. E., Kresserir, P., Su, B., and Woodruff, D. S. In press.  Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation and phylogeny of the concolor gibbons, Nomascus. American Journal of Primatology 69:1285-1306. (pdf)

In Preparation

Simmons, R. E., Monda, K., and Woodruff, D. S. Phylogenetics of gibbons (Hylobatidae): mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data resolve long-standing questions. For submission to Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Woodruff, D. S., Monda, K., and Simmons, R. E. DNA genotyping and the identity of gibbons in North American zoos. For submission to Zoo Biology.

Programs

I've written three data conversion programs, available for R or slightly more usable Perl scripts:

    convert2phase (Perl, R)
    convert2structurama (Perl, R)
    phase2convert (Perl, R)

Please contact me with any questions, comments or problems with these scripts.

Professional Memberships

Davis Society for Conservation Biology

American Fisheries Society