W. Ford Doolittle
| Autor: | W. Ford Doolittle |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Nova scotia
Molecular complexity Male Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Environmental ethics Art and design Biology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Genealogy Experimental research Birds Sexual Behavior Animal Spare time Animals Female General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Selfish DNA Social Behavior |
| Zdroj: | Current Biology. 14(5):R176-R177 |
| ISSN: | 0960-9822 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.010 |
| Popis: | Ford Doolittle grew up in Urbana, Illinois, and obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees, respectively, at Harvard and Stanford (the latter with Charley Yanofsky). After a postdoc with Norm Pace, he moved to Canada, taking a position at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He has been there ever since, for the last 17 years as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Director of its Program in Evolutionary Biology. His experimental research has focused variously on proving the endosymbiotic origin of plastids, developing the molecular biology of cyanobacteria and genetics of haloarchaea, probing origins of eukaryotes, and now exploring microbial environmental genomics. He also theorizes about such molecular evolutionary topics as ‘selfish DNA’, the origins of introns and molecular complexity, lateral gene transfer and the meaning of phylogeny. In his spare time, he attends the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|