Peter R. Baverstock

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Peter Raymond Baverstock (born January 17, 1948 in Adelaide ) is an Australian evolutionary biologist and zoologist .

Life

Baverstock is the son of Raymond Bryan and Kathleen Mary Baverstock. In 1969 he earned a Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of Adelaide , where he also received a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1989. In 1972 he was with the dissertation The evolution and maintenance of genetic variability in growth rates in the lizard ornatus Amphibolurus for Ph.D. PhD from the University of Western Australia . From 1972 to 1990 he worked at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science and as head of the Evolutionary Biology unit at the South Australian Museum .

In 1986, he published Allozyme Electrophoresis: A Handbook for Animal Systematics and Population Studies in collaboration with Barry John Richardson and Mark Adams . In 1988 Baverstock became a research associate at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education (from 1994 Southern Cross University ), where he served as Dean from 1993 to 2001 and as Pro- Vice Chancellor and Vice President from 2001 to 2007 for the establishment and growth of research operations and research training was responsible at the university. When Baverstock took up his post at Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, the university had no research grants and no PhD students. Thanks to his contributions, the institution had a total income in grants for research and research training of approximately AU $ 20 million per year in 2007 and supported the work of approximately 250 PhD students. In 2007 he retired as a professor emeritus.

Baverstock conducts population genetic , molecular genetic and zoological studies on Australian animals and their origins, with research ranging from bats , rats, fish and lizards to whales , dingoes and tapeworms . In 1992 he was one of the contributors to a phylogenetic study, which deals with the kinship of the pouch-wolf in the order of the predator-like (Dasyuromorphia) on the basis of the DNA sequencing of the genes of cytochrome b .

In 1981 Baverstock married Lizette Christiaans. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born.

Dedication names

In 1987 Darrell J. Kitchener , Nick Caputi and Brian Jones named the Baverstock wood bat ( Vespadelus baverstocki ) after Baverstock. In 1990, William Ian Beardmore honored Beveridge Baverstock in the type epithet of the tapeworm species Parachristianella baverstocki , which parasitizes the anal area of ​​the great violin stink and the Indo-Australian icicle .

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , p. 32
  • Leanne Sullivan (Ed.): Who's who in Australia. Issue 45, Crown Content, 2009. ISBN 1-74095-166-2 , p. 214

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Southern Cross University News: Emeritus Professor 'Bav' is going fishing!
  2. Jump up ↑ Carey Krajewski, Amy C. Driskell, Peter R. Baverstock, Michael J. Braun: Phylogenetic relationships of the thylacine (Mammalia: Thylacinidae) among dasyuroid marsupials: evidence from cytochrome b DNA sequences. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 250, No. 1327, 1992, pp. 19-27, PMID 1361058 , doi : 10.1098 / rspb.1992.0125
  3. ↑ DJ Kitchener, N. Caputi, B. Jones: Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, 13, 1987, pp. 427-500
  4. ^ Ian Beveridge: Taxonomic revision of Australian Eutetrarhynchidae Guiart (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha). Invertebrate Systematics, 4 (4), 1990, pp. 785-845 doi: 10.1071 / it9900785
personal data
SURNAME Baverstock, Peter R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baverstock, Peter Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian evolutionary biologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide