Mark Kirkpatrick

Mark Kirkpatrick
Born
Mark A. Kirkpatrick
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisorMontgomery Slatkin
Other academic advisorsJoe Felsenstein
Websitehttps://kirkpatricklab.org/

Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He currently holds the T. S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] His research touches on a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of sex chromosomes, sexual selection, and speciation. Kirkpatrick is the co-author, along with Douglas J. Futuyma, of a popular undergraduate evolution textbook.[2] He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[3]

Education[edit]

Kirkpatrick earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Harvard University in 1978 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1983. His doctoral advisor was Montgomery Slatkin.

Research[edit]

Kirkpatrick’s research focuses on fundamental questions in theoretical evolutionary genetics. He has studied the evolution of female mating preferences from a population genetic perspective and, in addition to Russell Lande, formally modeled Ronald Fisher’s runaway concept of arbitrary intersexual selection and its role in speciation.[4][5][6] Kirkpatrick has worked on questions in quantitative genetics, speciation, and chromosome evolution, focusing on the evolution of rearrangements such as inversions and fusions.[7] He has also been actively involved in research on sex chromosome evolution and sex determination.[8]

Notable awards[edit]

Awards received include:[9]

Representative works[edit]

  • Kirkpatrick, M. (1982). "Sexual selection and the evolution of female choice". Evolution. 36 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05003.x. PMID 28581098.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Lande, R. (1989). "The Evolution of Maternal Characters". Evolution. 43 (3): 485–503. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1989.tb04247.x. PMID 28568400. S2CID 205777046.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Lofsvold, D.; Bulmer, M. (1990). "Analysis of the inheritance, selection and evolution of growth trajectories". Genetics. 124 (4): 979–993. doi:10.1093/genetics/124.4.979. PMC 1203988. PMID 2323560.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Ryan, M. J. (1991). "The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek". Nature. 350 (6313): 33–38. Bibcode:1991Natur.350...33K. doi:10.1038/350033a0. S2CID 4366707.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Barton, N. H. (1997). "Evolution of a species' range". The American Naturalist. 150 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1086/286054. PMID 18811273. S2CID 28389132.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Ravigné, V. (1997). "Speciation by natural and sexual selection: models and experiments". The American Naturalist. 159 (S3): S22–S35. doi:10.1086/338370. PMID 18707367. S2CID 16516804.
  • Kirkpatrick, M.; Barton, N. H. (2006). "Chromosome inversions, local adaptation and speciation". Genetics. 173 (1): 419–434. doi:10.1534/genetics.105.047985. PMC 1461441. PMID 16204214.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Evolution, Douglas J. Futuyma & Mark Kirkpatrick, 2017, 594 pages, Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates; 4th edition, ISBN 9781605356051

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mark A Kirkpatrick - Integrative Biology Faculty page". integrativebio.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. ^ Futuyma, Douglas J.; Kirkpatrick, Mark. (2017). Evolution. Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 9781605356051.
  3. ^ a b "Evolutionary Biologist Mark Kirkpatrick Elected to National Academy of Sciences". cns.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  4. ^ Kirkpatrick, M. (1989). "Sexual selection and the evolution of female choice". Evolution. 36 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05003.x. PMID 28581098.
  5. ^ Lande, R. (1981). "Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 78 (6): 3721–5. Bibcode:1981PNAS...78.3721L. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.6.3721. PMC 319643. PMID 16593036.
  6. ^ Fisher, R.A. (1930). The genetical theory of natural selection. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
  7. ^ "Professor Mark Kirkpatrick". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  8. ^ "Research". Kirkpatrick Lab Website. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  9. ^ "Mark Kirkpatrick's CV (2012)". Retrieved 2020-12-15.

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