The Mindell Lab

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Recent publications

Brown, J. W., J. S. Rest, J. Garcia-Moreno, M. D. Sorenson, and D. P. Mindell. 2008. Dating the origins of major clades of birds with increased taxon sampling, multiple fossil calibrations, alternative topologies and relaxed molecular clocks. BMC Biology In Press. (Download figures and data)
Lerner, H. R. L., M. C. Klaver and D. P. Mindell. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of Buteoninae birds of prey (Aves: Accipitridae). The Auk In Press.
Johnson, J. A., K. K. Burnham, W. A. Burnham, and D. P. Mindell. 2007. Genetic structure among continental and island populations of gyrfalcons. Molecular Ecology. (Download PDF 244Kb)
Mindell, D.P. 2007. This Land is Your Land, A review of David Sloan Wilson's, "Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives." Evolutionary Psychology 5(3): 605-611 (Download PDF 44Kb)
Johnson, J. A., R. Thorstrom, and D. P. Mindell. 2007. Systematics and conservation of the hook-billed kite including the island taxa from Cuba and Grenada. Animal Conservation. (Download PDF 216Kb)
Brown, J. W., R. B. Payne, and D. P. Mindell. 2007. Nuclear DNA does not reconcile 'rocks' and 'clocks' in Neoaves: A Comment on Ericson et al. Biology Letters 2007 3:3; DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0611 (Download PDF 156Kb)
Mindell, D. P. 2006. The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life. Harvard University Press. 341 pp.
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. (Download PDF 546Kb)
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. (Download PDF 396Kb)
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. (Download PDF 1.1Mb)
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. (Download PDF 360Kb)
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. (Download PDF 1.1Mb)
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.
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.
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. (Download PDF 7.7Mb)
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. (Download PDF 4.9Mb)
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.
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. (Download PDF 208Kb)
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.
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.
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.
Rest, J. S. and D. P. Mindell. 2003. Retroids in Archaea: phylogeny and lateral origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1134-1142. (Download PDF 460Kb)
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. (Download PDF 112Kb)
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. (Download PDF 220Kb)
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. (Download PDF 648Kb)
Yuri, T. and D. P. Mindell. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nine-primaried oscines (Aves: Passeriformes: Fringillidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:229-243. (Download PDF 436Kb)
Mindell, D. P. 2002. Birds. In M. Pagel, ed. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Vol. 1, pp. 110-117. Oxford University Press.
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.
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.
Mindell, D. P. and A. Meyer. 2001. Homology evolving. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:434-440. (Download PDF 660Kb)
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. (Download PDF 660Kb)
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. (Download PDF 360Kb)