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Research Interests
Fish Genetics and Reproduction
Representative Publications
Hansen, J.D., Landis, E.G. and Phillips, R.B. 2005. Discovery of a new Ig heavy chain isotype in rainbow trout: implications for a novel B cell developmental pathway in teleost fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 6919-6924.
Phillips, R.B., Morasch, M.R., Park, L.K., Naish, K.A., and R.H. Devlin. 2005. Identification of the sex chromosome pair in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch): lack of conservation of the sex linkage group with chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha). Cytogenetics and Genome Research.111:166-170.
Phillips, R.B . Morasch, M., Wheeler, P., and G. H. Thorgaard. 2005. Rainbow trout of Idaho and Alaskan origin (2n=58) share a chromosome fusion relative to trout of California origin (2n=60). Copeia 2005-3:661-664.
Ohta, Y., Landis, E., Boulay, T., Phillips, R.B., Collet, B., Secombes, C.J., Flajnik, M. F., and Hansen, J.D. 2004. Homologs of CD83 from elasmobranch and teleost fish. J. Immunology 173:4553-4560.
Phillips, R. B. 2004. Chromosome Morphology. In Stock Identification Methods, edited by Kevin Friedland, John Waldman and Steve Cadrin. Academic Press.
Phillips, R. B. 2004. Adaptive evolution or genetic drift? Does genome complexity produce organismal complexity? (Invited commentary paper) Heredity 93:122-123.
Phillips, R. B., Noakes, M.A., Morasch, M., Felip, A. and G. H. Thorgaard. 2004. Does differential selection on the 5S rDNA explain why the rainbow trout sex chromosome heteromorphism is NOT linked to the SEX locus? Cytogenetics and Genome Research 105:122-125..
Felip, A., Fujiwara, A., Young, W.P., Wheeler, P. A., Noakes, M., Phillips, R.B. and G.H. Thorgaard. 2004. Polymorphism and differentiation of rainbow trout Y chromosomes (Genome, in press).
Phillips, R. B., Zimmerman, A., Noakes, M., Palti,Y. Morasch, M., Eiben, L., Ristow, S. , Thorgaard, G. H. and J. D. Hansen. 2003. Physical and genetic mapping of the rainbow trout major histocompatibility regions: evidence for duplication of the class I region. Immunogenetics 91:561-569.
Phillips, RB, MP Matsuoka, NR Konkol, and S McKay. 2003. Molecular systematics and evolution of the growth hormone introns in the Salmoninae. Environmental Biology of Fishes 69:433-440.
Phillips, R. B. and K. M. Reed. 2003. Chromosome Variation. In Genetic Principles and Practices for Fisheries Scientists. American Fisheries Society.
Noakes, M. A. and Phillips, R. B. 2003. OtY1 is a Y-linked marker in chinook salmon but not in rainbow trout. Animal Genetics 34:156-157.
Nichols, KM, Young, WP, Danzmann, RG, Robison, BD, Rexroad, C, Noakes, M, Phillips, RB, Bentzen, P, Knudsen, K, Allendorf, F, Cunningham, B, Brunelli, J, Ristow, S, Drew, R, Brown, KH, Wheeler, PA, and GH Thorgaard. 2003. An updated genetic linkage map for rainbow trout. Animal Genetics 134:102-115., in press.
Noakes, M.A., Reimer, T. R., and Phillips, R. B. 2003. Analysis of an MHC Class II locus in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) from Lake Superior by single stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and reference strand conformational analysis (RSCA). Marine Biotechnology 5:1-9., in press.
Woram, R.A., Gharbi, K., Sakamoto, T., Hoyheim, B., Holm, Lars-Erik, Naish, K., McGowan, C., Ferguson, M.M., Phillips, R. B., Stein, J., Guyomard, R, Ciarney, M, Taggart, J., Powell, R., Davidson, W, and RG Danzmann. 2003. Comparative genome analysis of the primary sex determining locus in salmonid fishes. Genome Research 13:272-280.
Stein, J. D., Reed, K. M., and Phillips R. B. 2002. Isolation and characterization of a sex-linked microsatellite locus from the lake trout Y chromosome. Environmental Biology of Fishes 64:211-216.
Phillips, R. B., Matsuoka, M. P., and Reed, K. M. 2002. Characterization of charr chromosomes using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Environmental Biology of Fishes 64:223-228.
Westrich, K. M., Konkol, N. R., Matsuoka, M. P. and R. B. Phillips. 2002. Interspecific relationships among charrs based on phylogenetic analysis of nuclear growth hormone introns. Environmental Biology of Fishes 64:217-222.
Phillips, R. B., N. R. Konkol, K. M. Reed, and J. D. Stein. 2001. Chromosome painting supports independent evolution of sex chromosomes in Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus. Genetica 111:119-123 (invited paper).
Phillips, R. B. 2001. Application of fluorescence in situ hybridization to fish genetics and genome mapping. Marine Biotechnology 3:S145-S152. (invited paper).
Phillips, R. B. and P. Rab. 2001. Chromosome evolution in the Salmonidae (Pisces): an update Biological Reviews 76:1-25.