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Roderic D. M. Page

Roderic D. M. Page

New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist

Roderic Dugald Morton Page (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books.[4] As of 2015 he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal Systematic Biology until the end of 2007.[5] His main interests are in phylogenetics,[6] evolutionary biology and bioinformatics.[7][8]

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Education

Page was born in Auckland and earned a PhD in 1990 from the University of Auckland.[9]

Career and research

Page is known for his work on co-speciation and in particular the development of bioinformatic software such as TreeMap,[10] RadCon,[11][12] and TreeView.[2][13][14][15] Page is a co-author with Eddie Holmes of Molecular Evolution: A phylogenetic approach[1] and editor of Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution.[16]

Awards and honours

He received the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1998,[17] and the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge joint first prize in 2018.[18]

References

  1. [1]
    Page, Roderic D. M.; Holmes, Edward C. (1998). Molecular evolution : a phylogenetic approach. Oxford: Blackwell Science. ISBN 9780865428898. OCLC 47011609.
  2. [2]
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  3. [3]
    Smith, Vincent S. (2000). Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) : a cladistic study based on morphology (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. OCLC 811567404.
  4. [4]
    Anon (2000). "Staff List". University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 26 December 2003.
  5. [5]
    "Editorial Board". Systematic Biology. Retrieved 5 December 2006.
  6. [6]
    Page, R.; Charleston, M. (1997). "From Gene to Organismal Phylogeny: Reconciled Trees and the Gene Tree/Species Tree Problem". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7 (2): 231–240. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.42.7008. doi:10.1006/mpev.1996.0390. PMID 9126565.
  7. [7]
    Page, R. (2009). "BioGUID: Resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics". BMC Bioinformatics. 10 (Suppl 14): S5. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S5. PMC 2775151. PMID 19900301.
  8. [8]
    Page, R. D. M. (2011). "Linking NCBI to Wikipedia: A wiki-based approach". PLOS Currents. 3: RRN1228. doi:10.1371/currents.RRN1228. PMC 3080707. PMID 21516242.
  9. [9]
    Page, Roderic D M (1990). Panbiogeography : a cladistic approach. auckland.ac.nz (PhD thesis). University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1999. OCLC 153589098.
  10. [10]
    "TreeMap".
  11. [11]
    Thorley, J. L.; Page, R. D. M. (2000). "RadCon: phylogenetic tree comparison and consensus". Bioinformatics. 16 (5): 486–487. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/16.5.486. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 10871273.
  12. [12]
    "RadCon". Archived from the original on 13 December 2003.
  13. [13]
    Page, R. (1996). "TreeView: An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers". Computer Applications in the Biosciences. 12 (4): 357–358. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/12.4.357. PMID 8902363.
  14. [14]
    Page, R. D. M. (2002). "Visualizing Phylogenetic Trees Using TreeView". Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. Chapter 6: 6.2.1–6.2.15. doi:10.1002/0471250953.bi0602s01. PMID 18792942. S2CID 29291335.
  15. [15]
    "TreeView".
  16. [16]
    Page, R.D.M. ed. (2002). Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-64467-7
  17. [17]
    "The Bicentenary Medal". The Linnean Society. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  18. [18]
    "Prof Roderic Page Wins Ebbe Nielsen Prize". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
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