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W. Ford Doolittle, PhD

Affiliations: 
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 
Area:
genome evolution
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Parents

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Charles Yanofsky grad student 1967
Norman R. Pace post-doc (Chemistry Tree)
Sol Spiegelman post-doc (Chemistry Tree)

Children

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Andrew Roger grad student Dalhousie University
James Brown grad student 1996 Dalhousie University
Patrick J. Keeling grad student 1996 Dalhouise University
John M. Archibald grad student 2001 Dalhousie University
Yan Boucher grad student 2003 Dalhousie University
Joel B. Dacks grad student 2003 Dalhousie University
Sandra L. Baldauf post-doc Uppsala universitet
Olga Zhaxybayeva post-doc Dartmouth
John M. Logsdon post-doc 1995-1999 Dalhousie
Maureen O'Malley post-doc 2000-2004 Dalhousie University
Austin G. Booth post-doc 2014-2016 Dalhousie University (Physics Tree)
Carlos Mariscal post-doc 2014-2016 Dalhousie University

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Carlos Mariscal collaborator 2014- Dalhouise University
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Booth A, Mariscal C, Doolittle WF. (2016) The Modern Synthesis in the Light of Microbial Genomics. Annual Review of Microbiology
Eme L, Doolittle WF. (2015) Archaea. Current Biology : Cb. 25: R851-5
Mariscal C, Doolittle WF. (2015) Eukaryotes first: how could that be? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370: 20140322
Booth A, Doolittle WF. (2015) Reply to Lane and Martin: Being and becoming eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: E4824
Keeling PJ, McCutcheon JP, Doolittle WF. (2015) Symbiosis becoming permanent: Survival of the luckiest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 10101-3
Brunet TD, Doolittle WF. (2015) Multilevel Selection Theory and the Evolutionary Functions of Transposable Elements. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7: 2445-57
Booth A, Doolittle WF. (2015) Eukaryogenesis, how special really? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Eme L, Doolittle WF. (2015) Microbial diversity: a bonanza of phyla. Current Biology : Cb. 25: R227-30
Doolittle WF. (2015) Rethinking the tree of life: Even though lateral gene transfers tend to undermine this beloved metaphor, the underlying theory of evolution is very much intact Microbe. 10: 319-323
Hillesland KL, Lim S, Flowers JJ, et al. (2014) Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 14822-7
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