Roger Kenneth Butlin is a British evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Sheffield.
He is known for his work on speciation. He served as Editor of Heredity from 2009 to 2012, and President of the Society for the Study of Evolution from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal.
Roger Kenneth Butlin | |
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Born | 1955 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Awards | Darwin Wallace Medal, 2015. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Evolutionary biologist |
Institutions | University of Sheffield |
Thesis | The maintenance of an inversion polymorphism in Coelopa frigida (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Tom Day |
Butlin obtained his PhD in 1983 from the University of Nottingham working in the lab of Tom Day. Butlin then took a postdoctoral position in Godfrey Hewitt's lab for two years at the University of East Anglia In 1987 Butlin took a Royal Society Research Fellowship position at the University of Wales in Cardiff. In 1992 he became a lecturer at the University of Leeds and from 1994 as reader for evolutionary biology. He is now a professor at the University of Sheffield and University of Gothenburg.
Butlin's work is concerned with understanding the genetics of speciation, focusing on reproductive isolation. As a model system, he examines insects and their acoustic and chemical signals, the inheritance of signal characteristics and female preferences. Besides insects, he also studies speciation and adaptation in periwinkles (Littorina). His work has contributed greatly to our current understanding of Ecological speciation.
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