Jason A. Wilder
 

e-mail: jawilder@email.arizona.edu; Link to Jason's personal webpage
 

B.A. in Biology, June 1997, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Ph.D., June 2002, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Ph.D. Thesis Title:
The genetics of speciation and adaptation in the Drosophila dunni species subgroup
 

Current Position:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721
 

Publications from time in Hollocher lab:

Wilder, J. A. and H. Hollocher 2001. Mobile elements and the genesis of microsatellites in Dipterans.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:384-392.

Wilder, J. A., T. Diaz, R. W. O’Neill, J. Kenney, and H. Hollocher 2002. Characterization and isolation of novel microsatellites from the Drosophila dunni subgroup. Genetical Research, Cambridge 80:177-185.

Sainz, A., J. A. Wilder, M. R. Wolf, and H. Hollocher 2003. Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans rescue strains produce fit offspring, despite divergent centromere-specific histone alleles. Heredity 91:28-35.

Bridgham, J. T., J. A. Wilder, H. Hollocher, and A. L. Johnson 2003. All in the family: evolutionary and functional relationships among vertebrate death receptors. Cell Death and Differentiation 10:19-25.

Wilder, J. A. and H. Hollocher 2003. Recent radiation of endemic Caribbean Drosophila of the dunni subgroup inferred from multilocus DNA sequence variation. Evolution 57:2566-2579.

Wilder, J. A., E. G. Dyreson, R. J. W. O’Neill, M. L. Spangler, R. Gupta, A. S. Wilder, and H. Hollocher 2004. Contrasting modes of natural selection acting on pigmentation genes in the Drosophila dunni subgroup. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol), in press.

Brisson, J. A., J. A. Wilder, D. P. Kutzler, and H. Hollocher 2005. Phylogeny of the cardini group of Drosophila with respect to changes in pigmentation. (In preparation for Systematic Biology).

Wilder, J. A. and H. Hollocher 2005. Evolutionary dynamics of microsatellites across the Drosophila cardini group (In preparation for Heredity).

Wilder, J. A. and H. Hollocher 2005. Characterization of a recent mini-me retrotransposition event in the genome of Drosophila arawakana kittensis (In preparation for Insect Molecular Biology).
 
 

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