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Joy Bergelson
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Ecology and evolution of resistance in plants, plant-enemy interactions, coevolution. |
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Justin Borevitz
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Quantitative and population genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana related to adaptation in natural light environments. |
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Charles Boyce
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The record of physiological and developmental evolution in extant and fossil plants. |
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Michael Coates
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Early vertebrate diversity and evolution, morphology and interrelationships of the major fish groups: basal sharks and bony fishes; the origin and early radiation of tetrapods; anatomical transformations in the early vertebrate record. |
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Jerry Coyne
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Experimental population and evolutionary genetics, speciation, ecological genetics, molecular evolution. |
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Martin Feder
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Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics of
heat-shock proteins and the heat-shock response in Drosophila; heat-shock protein-mediated protection of development against environmental stress; evolutionary physiology. |
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Edwin Ferguson
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Evolution of dorsoventral patterning mechanisms in arthropods and vertebrates. |
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*Lance Grande
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My primary research interests involve multidisciplinary studies (comparative anatomy, development, neontology, paleontology, and biogeography) of ray finned fishes (Actinopterygii) to look for historically generated patterns (e.g. phylogenies, homologies, biogeographic connections). |
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Elizabeth Grove
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The mechanisms of cerebral cortical patterning. |
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Melina Hale
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Movement control in fish. |
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Robert Ho
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The roles of T-box genes and Hox genes during the ontogeny of diverse body plans in vertebrate embryos. |
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David Jablonski
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Origin and fates of evolutionary novelties in the fossil record, especially marine invertebrates. |
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*Maureen Kearney
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Comparative anatomy, systematics, and evolution of reptiles and amphibians/ theory and methods of phylogenetic analysis. |
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Martin Kreitman
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Molecular population genetics, genetics of speciation. |
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Wen-Hsiung Li
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We are interested in the effects of organismal complexity and protein complexity on the rate of gene duplication in an organism. |
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Manyuan Long
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Christopher Lowe
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Reconstructing early deuterostome evolution and the origin of chordates by characterizing the development and evolution of hemichordate and echinoderm adult body plans. |
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Jocelyn Malamy
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We study the development of whole plant architecture and its regulation by intrinsic and environmental cues. Specifically, we focus on the molecular regulation of phenotypic plasticity in plant root system development, focusing on responses to drought and nutritional signals. |
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Victoria Prince
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Axial patterning mechanisms in zebrafish and other vertebrate embryos; hindbrain patterning, the impact of gene duplications on developmental mechanisms. |
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Cliff Ragsdale
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal patterning in animals with large brains (chicks, mice, cuttlefish, octopuses). |
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Olivier Rieppel
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Research currently focuses on three major areas: Triassic marine reptiles from Guizhou Province, P.R. China; the interrelationships of squamates and the origin of snakes; and the phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the Protorosauria. |
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Ilya Ruvinsky
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Evolution of development, particularly the origin and diversification of the nervous system and evolution of transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution |
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Urs Schmidt-Ott
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Research focuses on the evolution of molecular developmental processes using the genetic circuitry of Drosophila segmentation as entry point for comparative and functional evolutionary studies in insects. |
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Neil Shubin
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Mechanisms behind the evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas. |
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Leigh Van Valen
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The phenotype: pattern, integration, variation, asymmetry, plasticity, size, homology within individuals and among groups, evolution at all scales, etc. |
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*Peter Wagner
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We examine differential rates of morphologic evolution over time, among clades and among character types. |
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*Mark Westneat
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My research combines functional morphology with phylogenetic systematics, with specific projects addressing the evolution of feeding and locomotion in coral reef fishes, the biomechanics of the skull in vertebrates, molecular phylogenetics of reef fishes, and the evolution of regulatory gene sequences in wrasses and parrotfishes. |
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Chung-I Wu
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Speciation, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, genomics, sexual selection. |
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