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Martin Kreitman

Martin Kreitman

American geneticist

Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago,[3][4][5] most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.

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Education

Kreitman graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Science degree Biology in 1975, and from the University of Florida with a Master of Science degree in Zoology, in 1977. He went on to study at Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Population Genetics, specifically Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster[6] in 1983.[7]

Research

The Kreitman lab does research in four main areas:[8][9][10][11]

"Functional evolution of cis-regulatory sequences (Drosophila)"[12]

"Molecular population genetics and evolution (Drosophila and Arabidopsis)"[12]

"Canalization in development and evolution (Drosophila)"[12]

"Evolutionary dynamics of disease resistance and pathogenicity (Arabidopsis)"[12]

Awards and honors

Recent publications

References

  1. [1]
    "On the 30th Anniversary of DNA Sequencing in Population Genetics | I wish you'd made me angry earlier". Archived from the original on 2013-08-24.
  2. [2]
    Keith, T. P.; Riley, M. A.; Kreitman, M.; Lewontin, R. C.; Curtis, D.; Chambers, G. (1987). "Sequence of the structural gene for xanthine dehydrogenase (rosy locus) in Drosophila melanogaster". Genetics. 116 (1): 67–73. doi:10.1093/genetics/116.1.67. PMC 1203122. PMID 3036646.
  3. [3]
    "Bio". pondside.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. [4]
    "Martin Kreitman | Recovery Act Funding | the University of Chicago".
  5. [5]
    Martin Kreitman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. [6]
    Kreitman, Martin Edward (1983). Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster (PhD thesis). Harvard University. ProQuest 303271509.
  7. [7]
    "University of Chicago - Molecular Biosciences". Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  8. [8]
    Kreitman, M. (1983). "Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster". Nature. 304 (5925): 412–417. Bibcode:1983Natur.304..412K. doi:10.1038/304412a0. PMID 6410283. S2CID 4348580.
  9. [9]
    McDonald, J. H.; Kreitman, Martin (1991). "Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila". Nature. 351 (6328): 652–654. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..652M. doi:10.1038/351652a0. PMID 1904993. S2CID 205024070.
  10. [10]
    Hudson, R. R.; Kreitman, M.; Aguadé, M. (1987). "A test of neutral molecular evolution based on nucleotide data". Genetics. 116 (1): 153–159. doi:10.1093/genetics/116.1.153. PMC 1203113. PMID 3110004.
  11. [11]
    Kreitman, Martin (2000). "Methods to detect selection In populations with applications to the human". Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 1: 539–559. doi:10.1146/annurev.genom.1.1.539. PMID 11701640.
  12. [12]
    "Faculty | Ecology & Evolution | University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2014-07-20.
  13. [13]
    "Faculty of 1000 | About". www.f1000biology.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2004. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  14. [14]
    "IGSB senior fellow Martin Kreitman named fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences « News & Events « Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology". www.igsb.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
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