James Mallet

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James Louis Borlase Mallet (born March 15, 1955 in London ) is a British evolutionary biologist and entomologist .

Mallet attended Winchester College and studied zoology at Oxford University (Bachelor 1976) and at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Master in Entomology 1978). He received his PhD in zoology ( Population structure and evolution in Heliconius butterflies ) in 1984 from the University of Texas at Austin under Lawrence E. Gilbert . He was a post-doctoral student at Cornell University in 1984/85 and then with Nick Barton at University College London . In 1988 he became an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University in Starkville and in 1991 Professor at University College London. There he was co-director of the Center for Ecology and Evolution. Since 2002 he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum . He also does research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

In 2013 he was a Distinguished Lecturer at Harvard University .

He studies speciation and hybridization mainly on the basis of butterflies (movement of hybrid zones, genotypic cluster criterion for species, role of allopatry in diversification due to climate change in the Pleistocene in America, sympatry ). For example, he undertakes field experiments in the Amazon, uses population genetics and genetic analysis.

He also first described passion flowers with Sandra Knapp .

In 2008 he was one of the recipients of the Darwin Wallace Medal . He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • with RE Naisbit: Disruptive sexual selection against hybrids contributes to speciation between Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Volume 268, 2001, pp. 1849-1854.
  • with CD Jiggins, RE Naisbit, RL Coe: Reproductive isolation caused by color pattern mimicry. Nature, Vol. 411, 2001, pp. 302-305.
  • The speciation revolution, J. Evol. Biol., Vol. 14, 2001, pp. 887-888.
  • with M. Beltran u. a .: Phylogenetic discordance at the species boundary: comparative gene genealogies among rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 19, 2002, pp. 2176-2190.
  • with KK Dasmahapatra u. a .: Inferences from a rapidly moving hybrid zone. Evolution, Vol. 56, 2002, pp. 741-753.
  • with RE Naisbit u. a .: Hybrid sterility, Haldane's rule, and speciation in Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene. Genetics, Vol 161, 2002, pp. 1517-1526.
  • with Sandra Knapp: Refuting Refugia ?, Science, Volume 300, 2003, pp. 71-72
  • with RE Naisbit, CD Jiggins: Mimicry: developmental genes that contribute to speciation. Evolution and Development, Vol. 5, 2003, pp. 269-280.
  • with I. Emelianov, F. Marec: Genomic evidence for divergence with gene flow in host races of the larch budmoth. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B., Volume 271, 2004, pp. 97-105.
  • Hybridization as an invasion of the genome. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 20, 2005, pp. 229-237.
  • with M. Beltrán, W. Neukirchen, M. Linares: Natural hybridization in heliconiine butterflies: the species boundary as a continuum. BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 7, 2007, p. 28
  • with V. Bull, M. Beltrán, CD Jiggins, WO McMillan, E. Bermingham: Polyphyly and gene flow between non-sibling Heliconius species. BMC Biology, Volume 4, 2006, p. 11.
  • with A. Whinnett et al. a .: Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly 'suture zone'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 272, 2005, pp. 2525-2533.
  • Hybrid speciation. Nature, Vol. 446, 2007, pp. 279-283.
  • Hybridization, ecological races and the nature of species: empirical evidence for the ease of speciation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Volume 363, 2008, pp. 2971-2986. PMID 18579473
  • with A. Meyer, P. Nosil, JL Feder: Space, sympatry and speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 22, 2009, pp. 2332-2341.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harvard Botanist Database
personal data
SURNAME Mallet, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallet, James Louis Borlase
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH London