Dr. Rebecca A. Reiss
Associate Professor of Biology
Kurowski, S., Reiss, R.A. In Press. Mendel meets CSI: Forensic genotyping as a method to teach
genetics and DNA science. American Biology Teacher.
Reiss, R.A. 2006. Ancient DNA from ice age insects: proceed with caution. Quaternary Science Reviews.
25: 1877-1893.
Reiss, R.A., Guerra, P. 2003. Enzyme assays for estimating first-order rate constants of 1,2-dichloroethane
biodegradation in groundwater. In Water Pollution VIII: Modeling, Measuring and Prediction. Brebbia,
C.A., Almorza, D. and Sales, D., eds. Wessex Institute of Technology Press.
Reiss, R.A., Guerra, P. 2002. Genetic techniques for the verification and monitoring of dihaloethane
biodegradation in New Mexico aquifers. Technical Completion report number 324, New Mexico Water Resource
Research Institute.
Reiss, R.A., Schwert, D.P., and Ashworth, A.C. 1999. Molecular genetic evidence of post-Pleistocene
population divergence of the arctic/alpine ground beetle Amara alpina (paykull) (Coleoptera: Carabidae).
Journal of Biogeography, 26:785-794.
Reiss, R.A. and Rutz. B. 1999. Quality control PCR: A method for detecting inhibitors of Taq DNA
polymerase. BioTechniques, 27(5), 920-926.
Ashworth A.C., Schwert, D.P. and Reiss, R.A. 1996. Biogeography of arctic beetles: integrating the results
of paleontological and molecular population genetic studies. Arctic Insect News 7: 12-15.
Reiss, R.A., Schwert, D.P, and Ashworth, A.C. 1995. Field preservation of Coleoptera for molecular genetic
studies. Environmental Entomology, 24(3), 716-719.
Reiss, R.A., MacIntyre, R.J., and Hagedorn, H. 1995. Three single copy sequences in the Anopheles gambiae
genome. Environmental Entomology. 24(4), 846-850.
Reiss, R.A., and James, A.A. 1993. The glutathione-S-transferase related gene of Anopheles gambiae.
Insect Molecular Biology 2(1), 25-32.
Reiss, R.A. 1990. A method of in situ hybridization to the polytene chromosomes of Anopheles
gambiae. Insect molecular genetics newsletter. 4, 4.
Reiss, R.A., MacIntyre, R.J. and Hagedorn, H.H. 1988. The search for transposons in the malaria vector,
Anopheles gambiae. Genome 30 (suppl.1), 261.
Reiss, R.A. and Jameson, D. 1984. Teaching molecular biology with microcomputers. Collegiate Microcomputer
2, 1-8.
Reiss, R.A. and Klass, M. 1982. An introduction to recombinant DNA techniques: A lab manual for Biology 4211.
University of Houston.
Reiss, R.A., Jameson. D, Grove, K. 1981. Genetics instructional programs: A package for the Apple IIe.
University of Houston.
Reiss, R.A. 1981. Houston U. trains gene workers. Genetic Engineering News 1, 17.