Brian Charlesworth

Brian Charlesworth
Brian Charlesworth
Born
Brian Charlesworth

(1945-04-29) 29 April 1945 (age 79)[5]
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Spouse
(m. 1967)
Children1 daughter
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
ThesisGenetic variation in viability in Drosophila melanogaster (1968)
Doctoral studentsMichael R. Rose
Other notable studentsGilean McVean (postdoc)[3][4]

Brian Charlesworth FRS FRSE (born 29 April 1945)[5] is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh,[6] and editor of Biology Letters. Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) in Edinburgh.[7][8][9][10] He has been married since 1967 to the British evolutionary biologist Deborah Charlesworth.

  1. ^ Lande, R (2007). "2006 Sewall Wright Award. Brian Charlesworth". The American Naturalist. 169 (1): iii. doi:10.1086/510731. PMID 17209244. S2CID 82746856.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference royal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Charlesworth, D.; Charlesworth, B.; McVean, G. (2001). "Genome sequences and evolutionary biology, a two-way interaction". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 16 (5): 235–242. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02126-7. PMID 11301152.
  4. ^ McVean, G. A.; Charlesworth, B (2000). "The effects of Hill-Robertson interference between weakly selected mutations on patterns of molecular evolution and variation". Genetics. 155 (2): 929–44. doi:10.1093/genetics/155.2.929. PMC 1461092. PMID 10835411.
  5. ^ a b "CHARLESWORTH, Prof. Brian". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Brian Charlesworth at the University of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh. 2015. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015.
  7. ^ Viegas, J (2015). "Profile of Brian Charlesworth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (6): 1652–3. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.1652V. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423862112. PMC 4330764. PMID 25564667.
  8. ^ Charlesworth, B. (1994). Evolution in Age-Structured Populations. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511525711. ISBN 9780511525711.
  9. ^ Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (with Deborah Charlesworth) Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-280251-8
  10. ^ Elements of Evolutionary Genetics (with Deborah Charlesworth) ISBN 978-0-9815194-2-5

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