David M. Hillis
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David Hillis was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and grew up in the Belgian Congo, India, and the United States. His undergraduate training was at Baylor University (BS 1980) and graduate work was at the University of Kansas (PhD 1985). He is currently the Roark Centennial Professor at the University of Texas (Austin). He served as the first Director of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas, and now serves as Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. His research interests encompass many aspects of evolutionary biology, including experimental evolution, molecular mechanisms of evolution, applied evolution, phylogeny of life, systematics, speciation, and computational biology. He has received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award, been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as the President of the Society for the Study of Evolution as well as President of the Society of Systematic Biologists. At present, he is developing approaches to estimate, visualize, and use the Tree of Life.
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The potential role of androgenesis in cytoplasmic-nuclear phylogenetic discordance.
The Potential Role of Androgenesis in Cytoplasmic–Nuclear Phylogenetic Discordance SHANNON M. HEDTKE1,2,∗ AND DAVID M. HILLIS1,2 1Section of Integrative Biology and 2Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; E-mail: [email protected]; ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austi...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006