Brandon S. GautProfessor and Chair, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
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Research Interests |
population genetics, molecular evolution, genome evolution | |
| URL | The Gaut Lab | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2008 Professor of the Year, U.C. Irvine 2002 Outstanding Professor, U.C. Irvine (voted by the Senior Class) 2002 Biological Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award 1995-1997 Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Fellowship 1992-1995 NIH postdoctoral fellow |
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Research Abstract |
Research in my laboratory focuses on evolutionary genetics of plant systems, with particular emphasis on molecular evolution, population genetics and comparative genomics. We have ongoing projects on the genetic effects of plant domestication and the evolution of transposable elements. | |
| Publications | Lockton S, J. Ross-Ibarra and B.S, Gaut. Demography and weak selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Sep 16;105(37):13965-70. | |
| Gaut, B.S. and J. Ross-Ibarra. 2008. Selection and Genomic Change in Angiosperms. Science 320:484-486. | ||
| Ross-Ibarra, J., S.I. Wright, J.P. Foxe, A. Kawabe, L. DeRose-Wilson, G. Gos, D. Charlesworth and B.S. Gaut. Patterns of polymorphism and demographic history in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS ONE. 2008 Jun 11;3(6):e2411 | ||
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Gaut, B.S., S.I. Wright, C. Rizzon, J. Dvorak, and L.K. Anderson. 2007. Recombination: An underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes. Nat. Reviews Genetics, 8(1):77-84. |
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Rizzon, C., L. Ponger and B.S. Gaut. 2006. Striking similarities in the genomic distribution of tandemly arrayed genes in Arabidopsis and rice. Plos Comp. Bio., 1;2(9):e115. |
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Anderson, L.K., A. Lai, S.M. Stack, C. Rizzon, and B.S. Gaut. 2006. Uneven distribution of expressed sequence tag loci on maize pachytene chromosomes. Genome Research 16:115-122. |
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Doebley, J.F., B.S. Gaut and B.D. Smith. 2006. The molecular genetics of crop domestication. Cell 127(7):1309-21. |
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| Wright, S.I., I. Vroh Bi, S.G. Schroeder, M. Yamasaki, J.F. Doebley, M.D. McMullen and B.S. Gaut. 2005 The Effects of Artificial Selection on the Maize Genome. Science, 308:1310-1314. | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4561 | |
| Last updated | 09/23/2008 | |