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

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Integrating numt pseudogenes into mitochondrial phylogenies: comment on “Mitochondrial phylogeny of Arvicolinae using comprehensive taxonomic sampling yields new insights”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 97.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Next-generation pyrosequencing of gonad transcriptomes in the polyploid lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens): the relative merits of normalization and rarefaction in gene discovery. BMC Genomics, 10.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). The influence of density and sex on patterns of fine-scale genetic structure. Evolution, 63.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Reproductive success and sexual selection in wild tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum). Evolutionary Biology, 36.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Microsatellite mutation rates in the eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) differ 10-fold across loci. Genetica, 136.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Parental relatedness and major histocompatibility effects on early embryo survivorship in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Genetica, 137.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Genetic analyses of noninvasively collected feathers can provide new insights into avian demography and behavior. Handbook of Nature Conservation (181-197). Nova Science Publishers.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Methods and prospects for using molecular data in the genetic management of populations: an empirical example using parma wallabies (Macropus parma). Journal of Heredity, 100.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Breeding chronology, sexual dimorphism, and genetic diversity of congeneric Ambystomatid salamanders. Journal of Herpetology, 43.

DeWoody, J. A. (2009). Demography and phylogenetic utility of numt pseudogenes in the southern red-backed vole (Myodes gapperi). Journal of Mammalogy, 90.