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Michael T. Clegg

Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences

Foreign Secretary, US National Academy of Sciences


Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1972

Phone: (949) 824-4490
Email: mclegg@uci.edu

University of California

Mail Code: 2525
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Plant Genetics; population genetics; molecular evolution
   
URL Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   
Academic
Distinctions
Member, National Academy of Science, Elected 1990
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected 1992
Darwin Prize, Edinburgh University 1995
President, Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, 2000
Foreign Secretary, US National Academy of Sciences, 2002-2010
Nei Lecturer, Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution
Elected Associate Fellow, Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS), 2006
Elected Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina, 2007
Elected Corresponding Member of the Academia de Agronomia and Veterinaria of Argentina, 2007
   
Publications Vogl, C., J. Badger, P. Kearney, M. Li, M. T. Clegg and T. Jaing. 2003. Probabilistic Analysis Indicates Discordant Gene trees in Chloroplast Evolution. J. Molec Evol. 56(3): 330-340.

Clegg, M. T. and M. L. Durbin. 2003. Tracing floral adaptations from ecology to molecules. Nature Reviews Genetics. 4: 206-215.

Durbin, M. L., K. E. Lundy, P. L. Morrell, C. L. Torres-Martinez, and M.T. Clegg. 2003. Flower color determining genes: the role of regulatory changes in the evolution pf phenotypic adaptations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29: 507-518.

Jia, L., M. T. Clegg and T. Jaing. 2003. Excess nonsynonymous substitutions suggest that positive selection episodes operated in the DNA-binding domain evolution of Arabidopsis R2R3-MYB genes. Plant Molec. Biol.52: 627-642.

Morrell, P. L., K. E. Lundy and M. T. Clegg. 2003. Distinct geographic patterns of genetic diversity are maintained in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) despite migration. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA100: 10812-10817.

Ashworth, V. E. T. M. and M. T. Clegg. 2003. Microsatellite markers in avocado (Persea americana Mill.). Genealogical relationships among cultivated avocado genotypes. J. Heredity 94: 407-415.

Ashworth, V. E. T. M., M. C. Kobayashi, M. de la Cruz and M. T. Clegg. 2004. Microsatellite markers in avocado (Persea americana Mill.). Developing dinucleotide and trinucleotide markers. Scientia Horticulturae 101: 255-267.

Jia, L., M.T. Clegg and T. Jaing. 2004. Evolution dynamics of the DNA-binding domains in putative R2R3-MYB genes identified from Oryza sativa ssp. indicca and japonica genomes. Plant Physiol. 134: 575-585.

Clegg, M. T., P. Barten, I. A. Fleming, M. R. Gross, L. S. Incze, A. R. Kapuscinski, P. O'Brien, B. Neis, N. Ryman, P. E. Smouse, J. L. Speckler, R. P. Stockney and J. G. Sutinen.. 2004. pp 275. Atlantic Salmon in Maine. National Academy of Sciences Press, Washington DC.

Morrell, P. L., Toleno, D. M., Lundy, K. E. and Clegg, M. T. 2005. Low levels of linkage disequilibrium in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum), despite high rates of self-fertilization Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 2442-2447.
   
  Morrell, P. L., D. M. Toleno, K. E. Lundy and M. T. Clegg. 2006. Estimating the contribution of mutation, recombination, and gene conversion in the generation of haplotypic diversity. Genetics 173: 1705-1723.

Clegg, M. T. 2006. Science and the future of humanity. Pp 47-58 in “Energy for Sustainable Development and Science for the Future of the Islamic World and Humanity” Eds. Mehmet Ergin and Moneef Zou’bi. Published by Islamic World Academy of Sciences. Amman, Jordon ISBN 9957-412-08-6. pp 465.

Morrell, P. L. and M. T. Clegg. 2007. Genetic evidence for a second domestication of barley (Hordeum vulgare) east of the Fertile Crescent. Proc Natl Acad Sci 104: 3289-3294.

Toleno, D. M., P. L. Morrell and M. T. Clegg. 2007. Error detection in SNP data by considering the likelihood of recombinational history implied by three-site combinations. Bioinformatics 23:1807-1814.

Chen, H., Ashworth, V. E. T. M., Xu, S. and M. T. Clegg. 2007. Quantitative genetic analysis of growth rate in avocado. J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 132(5):691–696.

Chanderbali, A. S., V. A. Albert, V. E. T. M. Ashworth, M. T. Clegg, R. E. Litz, D. E. Soltis and P. S. Soltis. 2008. Persea americana (avocado): bringing ancient flowers to fruit in the genomics era. Bioessays 29: 1-11.

Chen, H., Morrell, P. L., de la Cruz, M. and M. T. Clegg. 2008. Nucleotide Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium in Wild Avocado (Persea americana Mill.). J. Heredity 99: 382-389.

Clegg, M. T. 2008. What can genetics tell us about plant domestication? Anales de la Academia de Agronomia y Veterinaria. Buenos Aires, Republica Argentina. Tomo LXI pp 402-412.

Chen, H., P. L. Morrell, V. E. T. M. Ashworth, M. de la Cruz, and M. T. Clegg 2008.Tracing the geographic origins of major avocado cultivars. (J. Heredity, in press).
   
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Last updated 08/20/2008