J. Andrew DeWoody

Professor of Genetics

Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Phone: 765.496.6109
Fax: 765.496.2422
Office: FORS 213
E-mail: dewoody@purdue.edu
Personal Web Page

Area of Expertise: Evolutionary Genetics

Research Group	Facilities	Areas of Excellence
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Genetics Wildlife Science	Genetics Lab	Applied Ecological Genetics

J. Andrew DeWoody did his undergraduate studies in Wildlife and Fisheries at Texas A&M University. After a brief stint as a field biologist with the now-defunct Soil Conservation Service, he returned to A&M to earn an M.S. in Genetics under the tutelage of Rodney Honeycutt and Loren Skow. Andrew's Ph.D. in Zoology is from Texas Tech University, where he worked with a preeminent mammalogist (Robert Baker). DeWoody then did a 3-yr postdoc stint with an obscure geneticist named John Avise at the University of Georgia (Department of Genetics).

At Purdue, DeWoody's graduate students have worked in the fields of molecular evolution (Deb Triant), conservation biology (Dave Glista and Jamie Rudnick), and immunogenetics (Sara Turner). His research has been funded by a variety of organizations including NSF, USDA-NRI, the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the National Geographic Society, and the Joint Transportation Research Program. DeWoody's research has been published in a variety of scientific journals, and electronic reprints are available here.

- Recent Publications

Rudnick, J. A., J. A. DeWoody, & T. E. Katzner (2008). Genetic analyses of noninvasively collected feathers can provide new insights into avian demography. Biological Conservation Research Trends (n/a). Nova Science Publishers.

Williams, R. N., D. H. Bos, D. Gopurenko, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Inbreeding and amphibian malformations. Biology Letters, 4, 549-552.

Rudnick, J. A., T. E. Katzner, E. A. Bragin, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). A noninvasive genetic evaluation of population size, philopatry, and communal roosting behavior of non-breeding imperial eagles (Aquila heliaca). Conservation Genetics, 9, 667-676.

Bos, D. H., D. Gopurenko, R. N. Williams, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Inferring population history and demography using microsatellites, mitochondrial DNA, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes. Evolution, 62, 1458-1468.

Triant, D. A., & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Molecular analyses of mitochondrial pseudogenes within the nuclear genome of arvicoline rodents. Genetica, 132, 21-33.

Glista, D. J., T. L. DeVault, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Vertebrate road mortality and its impact on amphibians. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 3, 77-87.

Busch, J. D., P. M. Waser, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Characterization of expressed class II MHC loci in the banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) reveals multiple DRB loci. Immunogenetics, 60, 677-688.

McCormick, C. R., D. H. Bos, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Multiple molecular approaches yield no evidence for sex-determining genes in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 24, 643-645.

Bulut, Z., C. R. McCormick, D. H. Bos, & J. A. DeWoody (2008). Polymorphism for alternative splicing of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) transcripts in wild tiger salamanders. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 67, 68-75.

Chaves-Campos, J., & J. A. DeWoody (2008). The spatial distribution of avian relatives: do obligate army-ant-following birds roost and feed near family members?. Molecular Ecology, 17, 2963-2974.