Michael Turelli
Distinguished Professor
mturelli@ucdavis.edu
Evolution and Ecology
Office
3244C Storer Hall
(530) 752-6233
Lab
(530) 752-1272 (message)
Degrees:
1977
PhD
University of Washington
Biomathematics
1972
BS
University of California, Riverside
Mathematics
Research Contribution to Society:
Pushing back the frontiers of human knowledge. My work on Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility is being applied in an attempt to control the spread of dengue fever.
Research Interests:
Theoretical population and quantitative genetics, speciation, and population biology of Drosophila, especially Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility.
Awards:
Guggenheim Fellowship, University College London, 9/86-8/87
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Fellow 2005
Miller Research Professorship, UC Berkeley, Spring Semester 2006
Department and Center Affiliations:
Center for Population Biology
Department of Evolution and Ecology
Professional Societies:
Genetics Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Population Biology
Publications:
Last updated 12/29/2010
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Haygood, R. and M. Turelli. 2009. Evolution of incompatibility-inducing microbes in subdivided host populations. Evolution 63:432-447.
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Jansen, V. A. A., M. Turelli and H. C. J. Godfray. 2008. Stochastic spread of Wolbachia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 275:2769-2776.
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Warren, D. L., R. E. Glor and M. Turelli. 2008. Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution. Evolution 62:2868-2883.
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Bolnick, D. I., M. Turelli, H. López-Fernández, P. C. Wainwright and T. J. Near. 2008. Accelerated mitochondrial evolution and ‘Darwin’s corollary’: Asymmetric viability of reciprocal F1 hybrids in centrarchid fishes. Genetics 178:1037-1048.
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Turelli, M. and L. C. Moyle. 2007. Asymmetric postmating isolation: Darwin's corollary to Haldane's rule. Genetics 176:1059-1088.
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Weeks, A. R., M. Turelli, W. R. Harcombe, K. T. Reynolds and A. A. Hoffmann. 2007. From parasite to mutualist: rapid evolution of Wolbachia in natural populations of Drosophila. PLoS Biology 5:997-1005.
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Mittelbach, G. M., D. Schemske, H. V. Cornell, al. et M. Turelli. 2007. Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction, and biogeography. Ecology Letters 10:315-331.
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Turelli, M. and N. H. Barton. 2006. Will multilocus epistasis and population bottlenecks increase additive genetic variance? Evolution 60:1763-1776
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Fitzpatrick, B. M. and M. Turelli. 2006. The geography of mammalian speciation: Mixed signals from phylogenies and range maps. Evolution 60:601-615.
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Hill, W. G., N. H. Barton and M. Turelli. 2006. Prediction of effects of genetic drift on variance components under a general model of epistasis. Theoretical Population Biology 70:56-62.
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Barton, N. H. and M. Turelli. 2004. Effects of genetic drift on variance components under a general model of epistasis. Evolution 58:2111-2132.
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Turelli, M. and N. H. Barton. 2004. Polygenic variation maintained by balancing selection: pleiotropy, sex-dependent allelic effects and GxE interactions. Genetics 166:1053-1079.
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Hudson, R. R. and M. Turelli. 2003. Stochasticity overrules the "three-times rule": genetic drift, genetic draft, and coalescence times for nuclear loci versus mitochondrial DNA. Evolution 57:182-190
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Turelli M, NH Barton and JA Coyne. 2001. Theory and speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:330-343
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Orr, HA and M Turelli. 2001. The evolution of postzygotic isolation: accumulating Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities. Evolution 55:1085-1094
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Turelli, M, DW Schemske and P Bierzychudek. 2001. Conditions for stable two-allele polymorphisms with seed banks and fluctuating selection: maintaining the blues in Linanthus parryae. Evolution 55:1283-1298
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Turelli, M. 2010. Cytoplasmic incompatibility in populations with overlapping generations. Evolution 64:232-241
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Warren, D. L., R. E. Glor and M. Turelli. 2010. ENMTools: A toolbox for comparative studies of environmental niche models. Ecography 33:607-611.
Field Sites:
Putah Creek, Edinburgh, London, Melbourne, Cairns, Vienna
Teaching Interests:
Evolution, population and quantitative genetics, speciation and mathemetical methods in comparative biology
Courses:
PBG
200C
Principles of Population Biology
Spring
PBG
270
Research Conference in Evolutionary Biology
Winter
EVE
103
Phylogeny and Macroevolution Winter 2008 (and Winter 2009)
Winter
EVE
100
Intro to Evolution
Spring