Deborah Charlesworth
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5751
- Email: deborah.charlesworth@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh,
Ashworth Lab., room G.61A - City
- Charlotte Auerbach Road, King's Buildings, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FL
Background
1968 PhD (Genetics) Cambridge University
1968 - 69 MRC Junior Research Fellow, Cambridge University
1969-71 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago
1971-74 Honorary Research Fellow, Liverpool University
1974-84 Temporary Lecturer, University of Sussex
1977-78 Visiting Scientist, NIEHS (NIH) North Carolina
1984-88 Research Associate, University of Chicago
1988-92 Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
1992-1997 Professor, University of Chicago
1997-2002 NERC Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
1997-present Professorial Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
2005 Fellow of the Royal Society
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
Evolutionary and population genetics, particularly topics in the general area of the evolution of breeding systems and sex chromosomes.
Current research interests
The genetics and evolution of the Y chromosome in the guppy (a fish, Poecilia reticulata).Past research interests
Self-incompatibility, the evolution of Y-linked genes in the white campion, Silene latifolia.Research activities
- Genetics (Journal)
- Edinburgh International Science Festival
- Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale
- Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics
- Ecole Normale Superieure
- BBSRC summer school on Molecular Evolution and Diversity
- BMC Genetics (Journal)
- Evolution (Journal)
- Current Biology (Journal)
- PLoS.Genet. (Journal)
- PLoS Biology (Journal)
- Nature (Journal)
- Genetics (Journal)
Current project grants
ERC Advanced grant: Evolutionary genetics of guppy sex chromosomes (695225)
Past project grants
NOT LISTED
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Young sex chromosomes in plants and animals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16002
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Reply to Wright et al.
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Arms races with mitochondrial genome soft sweeps in a gynodioecious plant, Plantago lanceolata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15121
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Exaggerated heterochiasmy in a fish with sex-linked male coloration polymorphisms
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Evolution of sex determination and heterogamety changes in section Otites of the genus Silene
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37412-x
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The importance of the Neutral Theory in 1968 and 50 years on
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Mogens Westergaard's Contributions to Understanding Sex Chromosomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301128
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Has adaptation occurred in males and females since separate sexes evolved in the plant Silene latifolia?
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The guppy sex chromosome system and the sexually antagonistic polymorphism hypothesis for y chromosome recombination suppression
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9050264
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Neutral variation in the context of selection
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Does sexual dimorphism in plants promote sex chromosome evolution?
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The sources of adaptive variation
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Origins of rice cytoplasmic male sterility genes
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Recombination changes at the boundaries of fully and partially sex-linked regions between closely related Silene species pairs
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Evolution of sex-biased gene expression in a dioecious plant
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Hubby and Lewontin on protein variation in natural populations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185975
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Population genetics from 1966 to 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2016.55
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Plant Sex Chromosomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-111911
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Frequent, Geographically Structured Heteroplasmy in the Mitochondria of a Flowering Plant, Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2016.15
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A new physical mapping approach refines the sex-determining gene positions on the Silene latifolia Y-chromosome
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18917
Invited speaker
Invited speaker in Crafoord Prize symposium, Stockholm, May 2015
Invited speaker in symposium on sex chromosomes, annual SMBE Conference, Vienna 2015
Invited speaker in “BarrettFest” symposium honouring SCH Barrett, University of Toronto, September 2018
Participant
Population Genetics Group annual meeting (every year)