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Phil Spinks pqspinks@ucdavis.edu Research:My research revolves around conservation genetics and systematics. Specifically, I am interested in applying molecular genetic techniques to problems in conservation biology, and also understanding processes that lead to and maintain patterns of genetic diversity at various levels from populations to deep phylogenetic history. My work combines laboratory and field studies to investigate phylogeography and ecology of the western pond turtle (Emys marmorata), and conservation phylogenetics and systematics of freshwater turtles. |
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Degrees:2004- PhD - University of California, Davis - Ecology1997- BS - University of California, Davis - Evolution and Ecology Publications:Spinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, Geoff A. Lovely and H. Bradley Shaffer. 2009. Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:56. PDFSpinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, and H. Bradley Shaffer. 2009. A reassessment of Cuora cyclornata Blanck, McCord and Le, 2006 (Testudines, Geoemydidae) and a plea for taxonomic stability. Zootaxa 2018: 58–68 PDF Spinks, P.Q. and H. B. Shaffer. 2007. Conservation phylogenetics of the Asian box turtles (Geoemydidae, Cuora): mitochondrial introgression, numts, and inferences from multiple nuclear loci. Conservation Genetics 8:641-657. PDF Spinks, P.Q. and H.B. Shaffer. 2005. Rangewide molecular analysis of the western pond turtle (Emys marmorata): cryptic variation, isolation by distance, and their conservation implications. Molecular Ecology, 14:2047-2064. PDF |
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