Department of Integrative Biology
Faculty profile web page: http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/faculty/faculty_danzmann.shtml
Evolutionary, developmental and physiological genetics of fishes
Current and Recent Grad Students
B.Sc. 1978 (Guelph)
M.Sc. 1982 (Guelph)
Ph.D. 1986 (Montana)
My research focuses on examining the adaptive significance of genetic variation in fishes. My studies are concentrated on identifying, characterizing, and investigating the mechanism of action, of genes that have important influences on fitness traits in salmonid fishes.
Selected Publications
- Danzmann, R.G., M.M. Ferguson and F.W. Allendorf. 1988. Heterozygosity and components of fitness in a strain of rainbow trout. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 33: 285-304.
- Danzmann, R.G., and P.E. Ihssen. 1995. A phylogeographic survey of brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Algonquin Park, Ontario based upon mitochondrial DNA variation. Mol. Ecol. 4: 681-697.
- Allendorf, F.W., and R.G. Danzmann. 1997. Secondary tetrasomic segregation of MDH-B and preferential pairing of homeologues in rainbow trout. Genetics 145: 1083-1092.
- Danzmann, R.G. 1997. PROBMAX: A computer program for assigning unknown parentage in pedigree analysis from known genotypic pools of parents and progeny. J. Hered. 88: 333. (See 'link' to software below)
- Danzmann, R.G. 1998. MTDIS: A computer program to estimate genetic distances among populations based upon variation in single copy DNA. J. Hered. 89: 283-284. (See 'link' to software below)
- Danzmann, R.G., R.P. Morgan II, M.W. Jones, L. Bernatchez, and P.E. Ihssen. 1998. A major sextet of mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic assemblages extant in eastern North American brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis): distribution and postglacial dispersal patterns. Can. J. Zool. 76: 1300-1318.
- Jackson, T.R., M.M. Ferguson, R.G. Danzmann, A.G. Fishback, P.E. Ihssen, M.O'Connell, and T.J. Crease. 1998. Identification of two QTL influencing upper temperature tolerance in three rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) half-sib families. Heredity 80: 143-151.
- Sakamoto, T., R.G. Danzmann, N. Okamoto, M.M. Ferguson, and P.E. Ihssen. 1999. Linkage analysis of quantitative trait loci associated with spawning time in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Aquaculture 173: 33-43.
- Danzmann, R.G., T.R. Jackson, and M.M. Ferguson. 1999. Epistasis in allelic expression at upper temperature tolerance QTL in rainbow trout. Aquaculture 173: 45-58.
- Sakamoto, T., R.G. Danzmann, K. Gharbi, P. Howard, A. Ozaki, S-K. Khoo, R.A. Woram, N. Okamoto, M.M. Ferguson, L-E. Holm, R. Guyomard, and B. Hoyheim. 2000. A microsatellite linkage map of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) characterized by large sex-specific differences in recombination rates. Genetics 155: 1331-1345.
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