Mark Kirkpatrick

Short description: American geneticist

Mark Kirkpatrick

Born|

Mark A. Kirkpatrick

Alma mater|

* University of Washington

Scientific career
Fields|

* Population genetics

Institutions| University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor| Montgomery Slatkin
Other academic advisors| Joe Felsenstein
Website| https://kirkpatricklab.org/

Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He currently holds the T. S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] His research touches on a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of sex chromosomes, sexual selection, and speciation. Kirkpatrick is the co-author, along with Douglas J. Futuyma, of a popular undergraduate evolution textbook.[2] He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Research
* 3 Notable awards
* 4 Representative works
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## Education

Kirkpatrick earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Harvard University in 1978 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1983. His doctoral advisor was Montgomery Slatkin.

## Research

Kirkpatrick’s research focuses on fundamental questions in theoretical evolutionary genetics. He has studied the evolution of female mating preferences from a population genetic perspective and, in addition to Russell Lande, formally modeled Ronald Fisher’s runaway concept of arbitrary intersexual selection and its role in speciation.[4][5][6] Kirkpatrick has worked on questions in quantitative genetics, speciation, and chromosome evolution, focusing on the evolution of rearrangements such as inversions and fusions.[7] He has also been actively involved in research on sex chromosome evolution and sex determination.[8]

## Notable awards

Awards received include:[9]

* Guggenheim Fellowship (1997)
* Poste Rouge Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research, France (1997)
* American Society of Naturalists President’s Award (1998)
* College of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching (2002)
* Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
* Miller Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley (2009)
* Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)[3]

## Representative works

* Kirkpatrick, M. (1982). "Sexual selection and the evolution of female choice". Evolution 36 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05003.x. PMID 28581098.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Lande, R. (1989). "The Evolution of Maternal Characters". Evolution 43 (3): 485–503. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1989.tb04247.x. PMID 28568400.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Lofsvold, D.; Bulmer, M. (1990). "Analysis of the inheritance, selection and evolution of growth trajectories.". Genetics 124 (4): 979–993. doi:10.1093/genetics/124.4.979. PMID 2323560.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Ryan, M. J. (1991). "The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek.". Nature 350 (6313): 33–38. doi:10.1038/350033a0. Bibcode: 1991Natur.350...33K.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Barton, N. H. (1997). "Evolution of a species' range". The American Naturalist 150 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1086/286054. PMID 18811273.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Ravigné, V. (1997). "Speciation by natural and sexual selection: models and experiments". The American Naturalist 159 (S3): S22–S35. doi:10.1086/338370. PMID 18707367.
* Kirkpatrick, M.; Barton, N. H. (2006). "Chromosome inversions, local adaptation and speciation". Genetics 173 (1): 419–434. doi:10.1534/genetics.105.047985. PMID 16204214.

## Bibliography

* Evolution, Douglas J. Futuyma & Mark Kirkpatrick, 2017, 594 pages, Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates; 4th edition, ISBN 9781605356051

## References

1. ↑ "Mark A Kirkpatrick - Integrative Biology Faculty page". https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/component/cobalt/item/7-integrative-biology/220-kirkpatrick-mark-a.
2. ↑ Futuyma, Douglas J.; Kirkpatrick, Mark. (2017). Evolution. Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 9781605356051.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Evolutionary Biologist Mark Kirkpatrick Elected to National Academy of Sciences". https://cns.utexas.edu/news/evolutionary-biologist-mark-kirkpatrick-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences.
4. ↑ Kirkpatrick, M. (1989). "Sexual selection and the evolution of female choice". Evolution 36 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05003.x. PMID 28581098.
5. ↑ Lande, R. (1981). "Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78 (6): 3721–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.6.3721. PMID 16593036. Bibcode: 1981PNAS...78.3721L.
6. ↑ Fisher, R.A. (1930). The genetical theory of natural selection. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
7. ↑ "Professor Mark Kirkpatrick". https://www.amacad.org/person/mark-kirkpatrick.
8. ↑ "Research". https://kirkpatricklab.org/software.
9. ↑ "Mark Kirkpatrick's CV (2012)". https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/nlogon/download/1854182/.

## External links

* UT Austin Bio
* Kirkpatrick Lab Website
* Mark Kirkpatrick publications indexed by Google Scholar

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