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Morin, Phillip

Adjunct Professor

Research Molecular Geneticist, SWFSC

Degrees:

• B.S., University of Puget Sound
• Ph.D., UCSD - Biology

Research Interests:

• Marine mammal population genetics and phylogeography
• Genomics and genetics technologies for conservation biology
• Conservation genetics

Mentoring:

• Leslie, Matthew (Graduate; 2009-)
• McGinness, Anelah (Undergrad; 2009-2010)
• Roden, Suzanne (Masters; 2006-2009)
• Iyengar, Arati (Post Doc; 2000-2002)
• Roeder, Amy (Post Doc; 2000-2002)

Taylor, B. L., K. K. Martien and P. A. Morin. 2010. Identifying units to conserve using genetic data. Pages 306-324 in I. Boyd, D. Bowen and S. Iverson eds. Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A handbook of techniques. Techniques in Ecology and Conservation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Morin, P. A., F. I. Archer, A. D. Foote, J. Vilstrup, E. E. Allen, P. Wade, J. Durban, K. Parsons, R. Pitman, L. Li, P. Bouffard, S. A. Nielsen, M. Rasmussen, E. Willerslev, M. T. P. Gilbert and T. Harkins. 2010. Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research 20: 908-916.

Foote, A. D., P. A. Morin, J. W. Durban, R. L. Pitman, P. Wade, E. Willerslev, M. T. P. Gilbert and R. R. Da Fonseca. 2010. Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0638.

Morin, PA, Martien, KK, Archer, FI, Cipriano, F, Steel, D, Jackson, J, Taylor, BL. 2010. Applied conservation genetics and the need for quality control and reporting of genetic data used in fisheries and wildlife management. Journal of Heredity 10: 1-10.

Roden, SE, Dutton, PH, Morin, PA. 2009. Characterization of SNP markers for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1055-1060.

Roden, SE, Dutton, PH, Morin, PA. 2009. AFLP fragment isolation technique as a method to produce random sequences for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in the green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Journal of Heredity 100: 390 - 393.

Morin, PA, Martien, KK, Taylor, BL. 2009. Assessing statistical power of SNPs for population structure and conservation studies. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 66-73.

Morin, PA, Manaster, C, Mesnick, SL, Holland, R. 2009. Normalization and binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: overcoming the problems of allele size shift with ALLELOGRAM. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1451-1455.

Morin, PA, LeDuc, RG, Archer, FI, Martien, KK, Huebinger, R, Bickham, JW, Taylor, BL. 2009. Significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium caused by low levels of microsatellite genotyping errors. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 498-504.

Morin, PA and Dizon, AE. 2009. Genetics for management. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Second Edition (eds. Perrin, WF Würsig, B, Thewissen, JGM), pp. 477-483. Elsevier Inc., Amsterdam.

LeDuc, RG, Martien, KK, Morin, PA, Hedrick, NM, Robertson, KM, Taylor, BL, Mugue, NS, Borodin, RG, Zelenina, DA, George, JC. 2008. Mitochondrial genetic variation in bowhead whales in the western Arctic. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10: 93-97.

Morin, PA and McCarthy, M. 2007. Highly accurate SNP genotyping from historical and low-quality samples. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 937-946.

Morin, PA, Hedrick, NM, Robertson, KM, LeDuc, CA. 2007. Comparative mitochondrial and nuclear quantitative PCR of historical marine mammal tissue, bone, baleen, and tooth samples. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 404-411.

Morin, PA, Aitken, NC, Rubio-Cisneros, N, Dizon, AE, Mesnick, SL. 2007. Characterization of 18 SNP markers for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 626-630.

Morin, PA, LeDuc, RG, Robertson, KM, Hedrick, NM, Perrin, WF, Etnier, M, Wade, P, Taylor, BL. 2006. Genetic analysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) historical bone and tooth samples to identify western U.S. ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science 22: 897-909.

Smith, S and Morin, PA. 2005. Optimal storage conditions for highly dilute DNA samples: a role for trehalose as a preserving agent. Journal of Forensic Sciences 50: 1101-1108.

Morin, PA, Nestler, A, Rubio-Cisneros, NT, Robertson, KM, Mesnick, SL. 2005. Interfamilial characterization of a region of the ZFX and ZFY genes facilitates sex determination in cetaceans and other mammals. Mol Ecol 14: 3275-3286.

Iyengar, A, Babu, VN, Hedges, S, Venkataraman, A, MacLean, N, Morin, PA. 2005. Phylogeography, genetic structure, and diversity in the dhole (Cuon alpinus). Molecular Ecology 14: 2281-2297.

Wayne, RK and Morin, PA. 2004. Conservation genetics in the new molecular age. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 89-97.

Smith, S, Aitken, N, Schwarz, C, Morin, PA. 2004. Characterisation of 15 single nucleotide polymorphism markers for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 348-351.

Roeder, AD, Archer, FI, Poinar, H, Morin, PA. 2004. A novel method for collection and preservation of feces for genetic studies. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 761-764.

Nsubuga, AM, Robbins, MM, Roeder, AD, Morin, PA, Boesch, C, Vigilant, L. 2004. Factors affecting the amount of genomic DNA extracted from ape feces and the identification of an improved sample storage method. Molecular Ecology 13: 2089-2094.

Morin, PA, Luikart, G, Wayne, RK, Grp, SW. 2004. SNPs in ecology, evolution and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19: 208-216.

Morin, PA and Goldberg, TL. 2004. Determination of genealogical relationships from genetic data: a review of methods and applications. In Kinship and Behavior in Primates (eds. Chapais, B and Berman, CM), pp. 15-45. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Iyengar, A, Stockwell, CA, Layfield, D, Morin, PA. 2004. Characterisation of microsatellite markers in White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa). Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 191-193.

Aitken, N, Smith, S, Schwarz, C, Morin, PA. 2004. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in mammals: a targeted-gene approach. Molecular Ecology 13: 1423-1431.

Wandeler, P, Morin, PA, Smith, S, Pettifor, RA, Funk, SM. 2003. Patterns of nuclear DNA degeneration over time - a case study in historic teeth samples. Molecular Ecology 12: 1087-1093.

Smith, S, Vigilant, L, Morin, PA. 2002. The effects of sequence length and oligonucleotide mismatches on 5' exonuclease assay efficiency. Nucleic Acids Res 30: e111.

Zhang, YW, Morin, PA, Ryder, OA, Zhang, YP. 2001. Microsatellite loci screening in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) using human primers prescreened on baboons. Cons Genet 3.

Morin, PA, Chambers, KE, Boesch, C, Vigilant, L. 2001. Quantitative PCR analysis of DNA from noninvasive samples for accurate microsatellite genotyping of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Mol Ecol 10: 1835-1844.

Gagneux, P, Goldberg, A, Gonder, K, Morin, PA. 2001. Gene flow in wild chimpanzee populations: what genetic data tell us about chimpanzee movement over space and time. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond B 356: 889-397.

Rogers, J, Mahaney, M, Witt, SM, Nair, S, Newman, D, Wedel, S, Rodriguez, L, Rice, KS, Kammerer, k, Slifer, S et al. 2000. A genetic linkage map of the baboon (Papio hamadryas) genome based on human microsatellite polymorphisms. Genomics 67: 237-247.

Morin, PA. 2000. Genetic resources: Opportunities and perspectives for the new century. Conservation Genetics 1: 271-275.

Morin, PA. 2000. Preservation of DNA from endangered species. Science 289: 725-726.

Koller, DL, Econs, MJ, Morin, PA, Christian, JC, Hui, S, Rodriguez, L, Conneally, PM, Joslyn, G, Curran, ME, Peacock, M et al. 2000. Genome screen for QTLs contributing to normal variation in bone mineral density and osteoporosis. J Clin Endocr Metab 85: 3116-3120.

Morin, PA, Saiz, R, Monjazeb, A. 1999. High throughput single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping by the 5' exonuclease assay. BioTechniques 27: 538-552.

Gagneux, P, Wills, C, Gerloff, U, Tautz, D, Morin, PA, Boesch, C, Fruth, B, Hohmann, G, Ryder, O, Woodruff, DS. 1999. Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominoids. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 5077-5082.

Davis, CL, Field, D, Metzgar, D, Morin, PA, Saiz, R, Smith, IL, Spector, SA, Wills, C. 1999. Numerous length polymorphisms at short tandem repeats in human cytomegalovirus. J. Virol 73: 6265-6270.

Morin, PA, Mahboubi, P, Wedel, S, Rogers, J. 1998. Rapid screening and comparison of human microsatellite markers in baboons: Allele size is conserved, but allele number is not. Genomics 53: 12-20.

Morin, PA, Kanthaswami, S, Smith, DG. 1997. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) polymorphisms for colony management and population genetics in Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Journal of Primatology 42: 199-213.

Morin, PA and Woodruff, DS. 1996. Non-invasive sampling for vertebrate conservation. In Molecular Approaches in Conservation (eds. Wayne, R and Smith, T), pp. 298-313. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

D'Andrade, RG and Morin, PA. 1996. A principle components and individual-by-site analysis of chimpanzee and human mitochondrial DNA. American Anthropologist 98: 352-370.

Morin, PA and Woodruff, DS. 1995. Geneticists out on a limb. Natural History 104: 54.

Morin, PA and Smith, DG. 1995. Non-radioactive detection of hypervariable simple sequence repeats in short polyacrylamide gels. BioTechniques 19: 223-228.

Morin, PA, Moore, JJ, Woodruff, DS. 1995. Chimpanzee Kinship--reply to Jolly et al. Science 268: 186-188.

Morin, PA. 1995. Captive breeding and management of endangered species. In The Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology (ed. Nierenberg, WA), pp. 357-370. Academic Press, San Diego.

Lehman, N, Pfrender, ME, Morin, PA, Crease, TJ, Lynch, M. 1995. A hierarchical molecular phylogeny within the genus Daphnia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 4: 395-407.

Morin, PA, Moore, JJ, Wallis, J, Woodruff, DS. 1994. Paternity exclusion in a community of wild chimpanzees using hypervariable simple sequence repeats. Molecular Ecology 3: 469-478.

Morin, PA, Moore, JJ, Chakraborty, R, Jin, L, Goodall, J, Woodruff, DS. 1994. Kin selection, social structure, gene flow, and the evolution of chimpanzees. Science 265: 1193-1201.

Morin, PA, Messier, J, Woodruff, DS. 1994. DNA extraction, amplification, and direct sequencing from feathers. Journal of the Science Society of Thailand 20: 31-41.

Morin, PA, Wallis, J, Moore, JJ, Chakraborty, R, Woodruff, DS. 1993. non-invasive sampling and DNA amplification for paternity exclusion, community structure, and phylogeography in wild chimpanzees. Primates 34: 347-356.

Morin, PA. 1993. Reproductive strategies in chimpanzees. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36: 179-212.

Morin, PA and Woodruff, DS. 1992. Paternity exclusion using multiple hypervariable microsatellite loci amplified from nuclear DNA of hair cells. In Paternity in Primates: Genetic Tests and Theories (eds. Martin, RD Dixson, AF, Wickings, EJ), pp. 63-81. Karger, Basel.

Morin, PA, Moore, JJ, Woodruff, DS. 1992. Identification of chimpanzee subspecies with DNA from hair and allele specific probes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biology 249: 293-297.

Morin, PA and Ryder, OA. 1991. Founder contribution and pedigree inference in a captive breeding colony of lion-tailed macaques, using mitochondrial DNA and DNA fingerprint analyses. Zoo Biology 10: 341-352.