C.V.
Ph.D., Department of Zoology, University of Reading, 1983. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, University College London 1985-1986. Postdoctoral Research Associate then Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, 1987-1994. Joined University of Edinburgh 1994.
Appointed to Personal Chair in Molecular Ecology (2005)
Research groupings
Teaching
Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Ecology
Research interests
My research uses molecular techniques to investigate issues in behaviour, ecology and evolution in natural populations. My core research concentrates on individually-monitored populations such as the red deer on the Isle of Rum and Soay sheep on St. Kilda. In such populations, microsatellites and other markers can be used to recover pedigree links in order to investigate many issues such as determinants of reproductive success, the quantitative genetics of traits, including QTL analysis, inbreeding depression and natural selection including host-parasite relationships. Other collaborative projects in the lab include a study of hybridisation between introduced Japanese sika deer and red deer in Scotland (with N. Barton) and the evolutionary genetics of 3-spined sticklebacks in Scotland (with V. Braithwaite). I am currently (2005-6) advertising PhD projects on MHC Variation in Soay sheep and Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping in the wild.
Representative publications
Hansson B., Akesson M., Slate J., Pemberton J.M. (2005) Linkage mapping reveals sex-dimorphic map distances in a passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 272: 2289-2298
Nussey, D. H., D. W. Coltman, T. Coulson, L. E. B. Kruuk, A. Donald, S. J. Morris, T. H. Clutton-Brock and J. Pemberton (2005) Rapidly declining fine-scale spatial genetic structure in female red deer. Molecular Ecology 14:3395-3405.
Overall, A. D. J., K. A. Byrne, J. G. Pilkington, and J. M. Pemberton (2005) Heterozygosity, inbreeding and neonatal traits in Soay sheep on St Kilda. Molecular Ecology 14:3383-3393.
Pemberton, J. (2004) measuring inbreeding depression in the wild: the old ways are the best. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 613-615.
Wimmer. B., Craig, B.H., Pilkington, J.G. and Pemberton, J.M. (2004) Non-invasive assessment of parasitic nematode species diversity in wild sheep using molecular markers. International Journal for Parasitology 34:625-631.
Griffin , A.S., Pemberton, J.M., Brotherton, P.N.M., McIlrath, G, Gaynor, D., Kansky, R., O’Rian, J., Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2003) A genetic analysis of breeding success in the cooperative meerkat (Suricata suricatta) Behavioral Ecology 14:472-480.
Slate, J., Visscher, P.M., MacGregor, S., Stevens, D., Tate, M.L. and Pemberton, J.M. (2002) A genome scan for quantitative trait loci in a wild population of red deer. Genetics 162:1863-1873.
Slate, J, Pemberton, JM. (2002). Comparing molecular measures for detecting inbreeding depression. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15, 20-31.
Slate, J., Kruuk, L.E.B., Marshall, T.C., Pemberton, J.M. and Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2000). Inbreeding depression influences lifetime breeding success in a wild population of red deer (Cervus elaphus). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 267:1757-1662.
Goodman, S.J., Barton, N.H., Swanson, G., Abernethy, K. & Pemberton, J.M. (1999) Introgression through rare hybridisation: a genetic study of a hybrid zone between red and sika deer (genus Cervus), in Argyll, Scotland. Genetics 152:355-371.
Marshall , T.C., Slate, J., Kruuk, L.E.B. and Pemberton, J.M. (1998) Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations. Molecular Ecology 7:639-655.
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