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Dr. Xiangjia "Jack" Min Assistant Professor Molecular Biology and Microbiology 330-941-1945 xmin@ysu.edu WBSH 3012 B.S.   Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Crop Science, 1984 M.S.   China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Plant Physiology, 1987 Ph.D.   University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, Plant Physiology, 1995

Research Interests

Bioinformatics (Computational biology) including DNA and protein sequence analysis, gene and genome annotation, molecular evolution, development of bioinformatics tools and databases. He also has interests in plant physiology and genomics.

Selected Publications

Min X, Bartholomew DP. (1996) Effect of plant growth regulators on ethylene production, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase activity, and initiation of inflorescence development of pineapple. J. Plant Growth Regulation. 15:121-128.

Min X, Siddiqi MY, Guy RD, Glass ADM, Kronzucker HJ. (1998) Induction of nitrate uptake and nitrate reductase activity in trembling aspen and lodgepole pine. Plant, Cell Environment. 2 1039-1046.

Min X, Okada K, Brockmann B, Koshiba T, Kamiya Y. (2000) Molecular cloning and expression patterns of three functional aldehyde oxidase genes and isolation of two aldehyde oxidase pseudogenes in tomato. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1493 337-341.

Min XJ, Butler G, Storms R, Tsang A. (2005) TargetIdentifier: a web server for identifying full-length cDNAs from EST sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 33 W669-W672.

Min XJ, Butler G, Storms R, Tsang A. (2005) OrfPredictor: predicting protein-coding regions in EST-derived sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 33 W677-W680.

Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) DNA asymmetric strand bias affects the amino acid composition of mitochondrial proteins. DNA Res. 14 201-206.

Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) DNA barcodes provide a quick preview of mitochondrial genome composition. PlosOne. 2(3) e325.

Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) Assessing the effect of varying sequence length on DNA barcoding of fungi. Mol Ecology Notes. 7 365-373.

Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2008) An evolutionary footprint of age-related natural selection in mitochondrial DNA. J Mol Evol. 67:412-417

Albu M, Min XJ, Hickey D, Golding B. (2008) Uncorrected nucleotide bias in mtDNA can mimic the effects of positive Darwinian selection. Mol Biol Evol. 25:2521-2524.