John M. Mercer
Professor of the Practice of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Yale University 1981
Louise Roth, V., and J. M. Mercer. “Themes and variation in sciurid evolution.” In Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development, 221–45, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360150.009. Full Text
Mercer, J. M. “Cooperativity.” In Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition, 183–87, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00339-9. Full Text
Mercer, J. M. “Unequal Crossing Over.” In Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition, 252–56, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.01604-1. Full Text
Fernandez de la Mora, J., J. M. Mercer, D. E. Rosner, and J. B. Fenn. “Simplified kinetic treatment of heavy molecule velocity persistence effects: Application to species separation.” In Rarefied Gas Dynamics: Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, edited by S. S. Fisher, 74:617–26, 1981.
Turck, Charles J., Erin Frazee, Bridgette Kram, Mitchell J. Daley, Sarah A. Day, Deanna Horner, Christine Lesch, et al. “Major publications in the critical care pharmacotherapy literature: February 2012 through February 2013.” American Journal of Health System Pharmacy : Ajhp : Official Journal of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists 71, no. 1 (January 2014): 68–77. https://doi.org/10.2146/ajhp130303. Full Text
Bennett, Sarah M., John M. Mercer, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Slip-sliding away: serial changes and homoplasy in repeat number in the Drosophila yakuba homolog of human cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2.” Plos One 5, no. 6 (June 8, 2010): e11006. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011006. Full Text Open Access Copy
Siegel, Steven J., Caroline M. Percopo, Kimberly D. Dyer, Wei Zhao, V Louise Roth, John M. Mercer, and Helene F. Rosenberg. “RNase 1 genes from the family Sciuridae define a novel rodent ribonuclease cluster.” Mammalian Genome : Official Journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society 20, no. 11–12 (November 2009): 749–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-009-9215-4. Full Text
Louise Roth, V., and J. M. Mercer. “Differing rates of macroevolutionary diversification in arboreal squirrels.” Current Science 95, no. 7 (October 10, 2008): 857–61.
Kronauer, D. J., P. J. Bergmann, J. M. Mercer, and A. P. Russell. “A phylogeographically distinct and deep divergence in the widespread Neotropical turnip-tailed gecko, Thecadactylus rapicauda.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34, no. 2 (February 2005): 431–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.009. Full Text
Mercer, John M., and V Louise Roth. “The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5612 (March 2003): 1568–72. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1079705. Full Text
Louise Roth, V., and J. M. Mercer. “Morphometrics in development and evolution.” American Zoologist 40, no. 5 (January 1, 2000): 801–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/40.5.801. Full Text
Zeng, Z. B., J. Liu, L. F. Stam, C. H. Kao, J. M. Mercer, and C. C. Laurie. “Genetic architecture of a morphological shape difference between two Drosophila species.” Genetics 154, no. 1 (January 2000): 299–310.
Laurie, C. C., J. R. True, J. Liu, and J. M. Mercer. “An introgression analysis of quantitative trait loci that contribute to a morphological difference between Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana.” Genetics 145, no. 2 (February 1997): 339–48.
Liu, J., J. M. Mercer, L. F. Stam, G. C. Gibson, Z. B. Zeng, and C. C. Laurie. “Genetic analysis of a morphological shape difference in the male genitalia of Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana.” Genetics 142, no. 4 (April 1996): 1129–45.
Pages
Selected Grants
Molecular Systematics of the Sciuridae awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 1998 to 2002