Ronald M. Adkins

Biology Department,

306 Morrill Science Center

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003

Current Position (1998 - Present)
Assistant Professor of Biology
Director, Automated DNA Sequencing Facility
Curator of Mammals, Massachusetts Museum of Natural History

Courses being taught at the University of Massachusetts

Genomics and Bioinformatics (Each Spring)
Molecular Evolution and Systematics
Introductory Evolution (Each Fall)

Publications

Adkins, R. M., McBee, K., Porter, C. A., Baker, R. J. 1991. Breakdown in a hybrid zone of Peromyscus leucopus and examination of the recombinational breakdown model. J. Mamm. 72:535-541.

Adkins, R. M., and Honeycutt, R. L. 1991. A molecular phylogeny of the superorder Archonta. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 88:10317-10321.

Adkins, R. M., and Honeycutt, R. L. 1993. A molecular examination of archontan and chiropteran monophyly, pp. 227-250. In Primates and their relatives in phylogenetic perspective (R. D. MacPhee and J. G. Fleagle, eds.) Plenum, New York.

Honeycutt, R. L., and Adkins, R. M. 1993. Higher level systematics of eutherian mammals: an assessment of molecular characters and phylogenetic hypotheses. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24:279-305.

Adkins, R. M., and Honeycutt, R. L. 1994. Evolution of the primate cytochrome c oxidase subunit II gene. J. Mol. Evol. 38:215-231.

Miyamoto, M. M., Allard, M. W., Adkins, R. M., Janecek, L. L., and Honeycutt, R. L. 1994. A congruence test of reliability using linked mitochondrial DNA sequences. Syst. Biol. 43:236-249.

Honeycutt, R. L., Nedbal, M. A., and Adkins, R. M. 1995. Mammalian mitochondrial DNA evolution: a comparison of the cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase II genes. J. Mol. Evol. 40:260-272

Janecek, L. L., Honeycutt, R. L., Adkins, R. M., and Davis, S. K. 1996. Mitochondrial gene sequences and the molecular systematics of the artiodactyl subfamily bovinae. Mol. Phylo. and Evol. 6:107-119.

Adkins, R. M., Honeycutt, R.L., and Disotell, T. R. 1996. Evolution of eutherian cytochrome c oxidase subunit II: heterogeneous rates of protein evolution and altered interaction with cytochrome c. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13:1393-1404.

Bradley, R. D., Adkins, R. M., Honeycutt, R. L., and McDonald, J. H. 1998. Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of pocket gophers, genus Geomys. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15:709-717.

Adkins, R. M., and Li, W.-H. 1998. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Dating the age of the last common ancestor of all living organisms with a protein clock. New York: Chapman and Hall. 12 pp.

Adkins, R. M., Vanedeberg, J., and Li, W.-H. 2000. Molecular evolution of growth hormone and receptor in the guinea pig, a mammal unresponsive to growth hormone. Gene. 246: 357- 363.

Adkins, R. M., Nekrutenko, A. and Li, W.-H. In press. Bushbaby growth hormone is much more similar to nonprimate growth hormones than to rhesus monkey and human growth hormones. Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Madsen, O., Scally, M., Douady, C. J., Kao, D. J., DeBry, R. W., Adkins, R., Amrine, H. M., Stanhope, M. J., de Jong, W. W., and Springer, M. S. Accepted. Molecules untangle the basal divergences of the placental mammals. Nature.

Liu, J.-C., Makova, K. D., Adkins, R. M., Gibson, S., and Li, W.-H. Accepted. Molecular coevolution of growth hormone and its receptor in primates. Mol. Biol. Evol.

Adkins, R. M., Weinstein, D., Gelke, E., and Honeycutt, R. L. Accepted. Multi-gene molecular phylogeny of rodents with estimates of divergence dates. Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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