Kanchon Desmahapatra
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Dr. Kanchon Desmahapatra is an evolutionary biologist in the UK.
Education and career[edit]
Desmahapatra was educated at the University of Cambridge and awarded a Bachelors of science in Zoology in 1999. He then did a Masters of Research in Environmental Science at University College London and was awarded a PhD in 2004 on 'The use of AFLP markers for estimating relatedness and inbreeding' at the University of Cambridge.[1]
He was a postdoctoral researcher and subsequently a lecturer at University College London, with Jim Mallet, before moving to the University of York in 2012 as a senior lecturer in evolutionary biology, his current position.[2]
Research[edit]
Desmahapatra's research looks at speciation of animals, in particular of Heliconius butterflies.[3] He has looked at the genomic evolution of this butterfly genus using RAD marker sequencing[4] and his work has helped to sequence the genome of Heliconius species and to find out when in evolutionary history the genus separated from its sister butterfly genus Eueides.[5]
Desmahapatra has also worked with phylogenetic analysis to look at hybridisation of Heliconius species, showing how the genes controlling the presence of wing colour patterns evolved and then transferred between species[6] and how patterns can vary in shape and size between populations of the same species.[7] More recently his research has helped to unravel the formation of supergenes[8] in Heliconius.
References[edit]
- ↑ "PhD Thesis". ethos.bl.uk. British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon. "Academic Homepage". Department of Biology. University of York. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Heliconius researchers". heliconius.org. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon (2013). "Genome‐wide patterns of divergence and gene flow across a butterfly radiation". Molecular Ecology. 22: 814–826. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05730.x.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon (2016). "Major improvements to the Heliconius melpomene genome assembly used to confirm 10 chromosome fusion events in 6 million years of butterfly evolution". Genes Genomes Genetics. 6: 695–708. doi:10.1101/029199.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon (2016). "Evolutionary Novelty in a Butterfly Wing Pattern through Enhancer Shuffling". PLOS Biology. 14: e1002353. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002353.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon (2019). "The genetic architecture of adaptation: convergence and pleiotropy in Heliconius wing pattern evolution". Heredity. 123: 138–152. doi:10.1038/s41437-018-0180-0.
- ↑ Desmahapatra, Kanchon (2018). "Supergene Evolution Triggered by the Introgression of a Chromosomal Inversion". Current Biology. 28: 1839–1845. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.072.
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