Population Biology Grad Group

Population Biology Graduate Group at UC Davis

Michael Turelli
Professor of Genetics
Evolution and Ecology (College of Biological Sciences)
3244C Storer Hall
Office (530) 752-6233
Lab (530) 752-1272 (message)
mturelli@ucdavis.edu

Degrees:
1977 - PhD - University of Washington - Biomathematics
1972 - BS - University of California, Riverside - Mathematics

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:
Department of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology

Professional Societies:
Genetics Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Population Biology

Publications:
Haygood, R. and M. Turelli. 2009. Evolution of incompatibility-inducing microbes in subdivided host populations. Evolution 63:432-447.

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.

Warren, D. L., R. E. Glor and M. Turelli. 2008. Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution. Evolution 62:2868-2883.

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.

Turelli, M. and L. C. Moyle. 2007. Asymmetric postmating isolation: Darwin's corollary to Haldane's rule. Genetics 176:1059-1088.

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.

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.

Turelli, M. and N. H. Barton. 2006. Will multilocus epistasis and population bottlenecks increase additive genetic variance? Evolution 60:1763-1776

Fitzpatrick, B. M. and M. Turelli. 2006. The geography of mammalian speciation: Mixed signals from phylogenies and range maps. Evolution 60:601-615.

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.

Barton, N. H. and M. Turelli. 2004. Effects of genetic drift on variance components under a general model of epistasis. Evolution 58:2111-2132.

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.

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

Turelli M, NH Barton and JA Coyne. 2001. Theory and speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:330-343

Orr, HA and M Turelli. 2001. The evolution of postzygotic isolation: accumulating Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities. Evolution 55:1085-1094

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

Research Interests:
Theoretical population and quantitative genetics, speciation, and population biology of Drosophila, especially Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility.

Field Sites:
Putah Creek, Edinburgh, London, Melbourne, Cairns, Vienna

Teaching Interests:

Evolution, population and quantitative genetics, speciation and methods in comparative biology and phylogenetic inference

Courses Taught:
PBG 200C Principles of Population Biology - Term(s): Spring
PBG 270 Research Conference in Evolutionary Biology - Term(s): Winter
EVE 103 Phylogeny and Macroevolution - Term(s): Winter
EVE 100 Introduction to Evolution - Term(s): Spring