Person
Butlin, Roger K.
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Biography and Research Interest
Dominic Wright and I are investigating MATE CHOICE in the zebrafish here at Leeds University . We are interested in its potential as a model for behaviour genetics, quantitative genetics and in particular the genetics of ethological isolation. We have stocks collected from the wild in Nepal and Bangladesh. The zebrafish are also being used for studies of shoaling by members of Dr Jens Krause's lab.
Non-Zebrafish Publications
Recent Examples:Tregenza, T, Pritchard, VL & Butlin, RK. The origins of premating reproductive isolation: testing hypotheses in the grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus. Evolution 54:1687-1698. 2000.
Tregenza, T, Butlin, RK and Wedell, N. Sexual conflict and speciation. Nature 407:149-150. 2000.
Butlin, RK. Virgin rotfiers. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15:389-390. 2000.
Schön, I., A. Gandolfi, E. Di Masso, V. Rossi, H.I. Griffiths, K. Martens & R.K. Butlin. Long-term persistence of asexuality through mixed reproduction in Eucypris virens (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Heredity 84: 161-169. 2000.
Tregenza, T, Pritchard, VL & Butlin, RK. Patterns of trait divergence between populations of the meadow grasshopper, Chorthippus parallelus. Evolution 54:574-585. 2000.
Walton, C, Handley, JM, Tun-Lin, W, Collins, FH, Harbach, RE, Baimai, V and Butlin,RK. Population structure and population history in Anopheles dirus mosquitoes in Southeast Asia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 962-974. 2000.
Thelwell, NJ, Huisman, RA, Harbach, RE & Butlin RK. Evidence for mitochondrial introgression between Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles bwambae. Insect Molecular Biology 9:203-210. 2000.