Hung-Jui Sophia Shih

Research Specialist
MS, UC Davis

Ms. Shih’s work focuses on looking at patterns of population genetic variation in Drosophila. She is currently focusing on the genetic changes underlying the evolution of octanoic acid and ethanol tolerance in D. sechellia and D. simulans. For her Master’s thesis she developed a prototype database for comparative analysis of Drosophila mitochondrial DNA.

Publications:

• Shih, H-J and C. D. Jones. 2008. Patterns of amino acid evolution in Drosophila ananassae chimeric gene, siren, parallel those of other Adh derived chimeras. Genetics. 2008 Oct;180(2):1261-3. Epub 2008 Sep 9. HERE