User:Richard C. Cronn

Contact Info
Richard Cronn Pacific Northwest Research Station USDA Forest Service 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97330 USA
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I lead research in the Forest Plant Molecular Genetics lab (a.k.a., the Cronn Lab), which is part of the Genetics and Silviculture Team in the Landscape and Watershed Management Program at the | PNW Research Station. We're on OpenWetWare to share lab and informatics protocols that are directed primarily at using ultra-high throughput short read sequencers in population genetics and genomics applications.

Education

 * 1997, PhD, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
 * 1991, MSc, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
 * 1986, BS, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA

Research Interests

 * Molecular basis of climatic sensing and adaptation in plants
 * Plant population and landscape genetics
 * Chloroplast genome evolution

Peer Reviewed Research Articles
Multiplexed microsatellite recovery using massively parallel sequencing Molecular Ecology Resources 2011, in press'' Tara N. Jennings, Brian J Knaus, Thomas D. Mullens, Susan M. Haig, Richard Cronn URL | PDF reprint

'Building a model: Developing genomic resources for common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca'') with low coverage genome sequencing ' BMC Genomics 2011, 12:211, doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-211 Shannon CK Straub, Mark Fishbein, Tatyana Livshultz et al. URL | PDF reprint

Mitochondrial genome sequences illuminate maternal lineages of conservation concern in a rare carnivore ''BMC Ecology 2011, 11:10, doi:10.1186/1472-6785-11-10 Brian J Knaus, Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston, Kristine Pilgrim, Michael K. Schwartz URL PDF reprint

Finding a (pine) needle in a haystack: chloroplast genome sequence divergence in rare and widespread pines ''Molecular Ecology 2010, Feb, 19(s1): 100-114, doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04474.x Justen B. Whittall, John V. Syring, Matthew Parks, Jason Buenrostro, Cindy Dick,  Aaron Liston,Richard Cronn URLPDF reprint

'''Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes ' BMC Biology 2009, 7:84, doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-84 Matthew Parks, Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston URL PDF reprint

Other Articles, Not Peer Reviewed
Scientists probe genetic component of climate-hardy species Land Letter April 28, 2011 URL

Useful links

 * OpenWetWare Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages
 * Western Forest Transcriptome Observatory
 * Milkweed Genome Project