Dr. Bruce Walsh
Associate Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Biological Science West Building, Room 321
P.O. Box 210106
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621-1915
Email: jbwalsh@u.arizona.edu

 

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Background and Interests
 
Bruce Walsh received a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Washington. Here at the University of Arizona he teaches Genetics, Statistics, Molecular Evolution and Quantitative Genetics. His research interests include plant and animal breeding, genetics of complex traits and statistical analysis in genetics (e.g., QTLS, microarrays, ect.). His work has been in several publications including Genetics and Theoretical Population Biology.

 
Selected Publications
 
Lynch, M and B Walsh. 1998. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Sinauer Associates, 990 pp.

Walsh, B. 2001. Estimating the time to the MRCA for the Y chromosome or mtDNA
for a pair of individuals. Genetics 158: 897--912.

Lynch, M., M. O'Hely, B. Walsh, and A. Force. 2001. The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplication. Genetics 159: 1789-1804.

Walsh, B. 2001. Quantitative genetics in the age of genomics. Theoretical Population Biology 59: 175--184.

Walsh, B. 2002. Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and the Future of Plant Breeding. In M. Kang (ed), Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding, CABI Publishing.
pp. 23-32.

Walsh, B. 2003. Population-genetic models of the fates of duplicate genes. Genetica 118: 279-294. (Special issue on Origin and Evolution of New Gene Function).

Walsh, B. 2003. Population- and Quantitative-Genetic Models of Selection Limits. Plant Breeding Reviews (in press)

Walsh, B. 2003. Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics. In, Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 2nd. edition. D. J. Balding, M. Bishop, and C. Cannings (Eds) Chapter 14 (pp. 389-442).


 



 

       
 
 


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