C.V.
| Year |
Description |
2008-2011 |
Handling Editor, Evolution |
2006 |
Royal Society Darwin Medal |
2003 |
Editorial Board, Public Library of Science |
1998 |
American Society of Naturalists President's Award |
1995 |
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh |
1994 |
Fellow, Royal Society of London |
1994 |
David Starr Jordan Prize |
Research groupings
Population genetics
Teaching
M.Sc. in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis
Honours Programme in Evolutionary Biology
Research interests
My research centres on understanding the evolution of traits which depend on interactions between large numbers of genes. Such interactions determine the way populations adapt in response to natural and artificial selection, and also the way they diverge to form separate species. The research involves theoretical work on a variety of topics:
- Analysis of DNA sequence variation, using models of genealogies
- Theory of speciation
- Evolution of sex
- Analysis of hybrid zones in a variety of species
- Quantitative genetics - especially, understanding maintenance of variation, and long-term selection response
- Population structure and social evolutio
Representative publications
Barton, N.H., Briggs, D.E.G., Eisen, J.A., Goldstein, D.B., Patel, N.H. (2007) Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Yanchukov, A. W., S. Hofman, J. M. Szymura, S. Y. Morozov-Leonov, N. H. Barton, (2006) Hybridization of Bombina bombina and B. variegata (Anura, Discoglossidae) at a sharp ecotone in western Ukraine: comparisons across transects and over time. Evolution 60: 583-600.
Davison, A., S. Chiba, N.H. Barton and B. Clarke. (2005) Speciation and gene flow between snails of opposing chirality. PLoS Biology 3 e282 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030282
Barton, N. H., and S. P. Otto, (2005) Evolution of recombination due to random drift. Genetics 169: 2353-2370
Gardner, M.P., K. Fowler, N.H. Barton, and L. Partridge. (2005). Genetic variation for total fitness in Drosophila melanogaster: complex yet replicable patterns. Genetics 169: 1553-1571.
Barton, N.H. and Turelli, M. (2004) Effects of allele frequency changes on variance components under a general model of epistasis. Evolution 58: 2111-2132.
Barton, N.H. and Etheridge, A.M. (2004) The effect of selection on genealogies Genetics 166: 1115-1131
Charlesworth, B., Charlesworth, D. and Barton, N.H. (2003). The effects of geographic and genetic structure on neutral variation. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 34: 99–125.
Barton, N.H. & Keightley, P.D. (2002) Understanding quantitative genetic variation. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 11-21.
Turelli, M., Barton, N.H. & Coyne, J.A., (2001) Theory and speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:330-343
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