Brian Charlesworth
professor
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Brian Charlesworth teaches Genomes and Genomics .He took 3 lectures in Evolutionary Biology Honours Elective: and 4 lectures and 2 discussions) in The Evolution of Sex and Breeding Systems.
Research Interest
Evolutionary genetics Molecular evolution and variation The evolution of genetic and sexual systems The quantitative genetics of life-history traits.
Publications
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Bartolome, C. & Charlesworth, B. (2006). Evolution of amino-acid sequences and codon usage on the Drosophila miranda neo-sex chromosomes. Genetics 174: 2033-2044.
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Cutter, A.D. & Charlesworth, B. (2006). Selection intensity on preferred codons correlates with overall codon usage bias in Caenorhaditis remanei. Curr. Biol. 16: 2053-2057.
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Dolgin, E.S. & Charlesworth, B. (2006). The fate of transposable elements in asexual populations. Genetics 174: 817-827.
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Loewe, L., Charlesworth, B., Bartolom & V. Nol, V. (2006). Estimating selection on nonsynonymous mutations. Genetics 172: 1079-1092.
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Haddrill, P.R., Charlesworth, B., Halligan, D.L. & Andolfatto, P. (2005). Patterns of intron sequence evolution in Drosophila are dependent upon length and GC content. Genome Biology 6:R67.
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Sanchez-Gracia, A. Maside, X. & Charlesworth, B. (2005). High rate of horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics 21: 200-203.
