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Wesley Brown
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1976
U-M affiliations
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Museum of Zoology
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Contact information
21277 Metompkin View Lane
Parksley VA 23421-3459
Phone: (757) 665-4364
Email: wbrown@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Molecular biology, evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA, and metazoan phylogeny
Research interests
Characterization of types and rates of change of mitochondrial DNA among metazoans; relationships among metazoan phyla, classes and orders.
Academic background
B.S., 1958, Political Science, U. Colorado; M.S., 1964, Biology, U. Colorado
Ph.D., 1976,Biophysics, California Institute of Technology
Postdoc, 1976, U. California San Francisco; Research Associate, 1978. U. California Berkeley
Professor, Univ. Michigan, 1980-2002, Emeritus, 2002 - present.
Select publications
Brown, W. M. and J.W. Wright. 1979. Mitochondrial DNA analyses and the origin and relative age of parthenogenetic lizards (genus Cnemidophorus). Science. 203:1247-1249.
Brown, W. M., M. George Jr., and A.C. Wilson. 1979. Rapid evolution of mitochondrial DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76:1967-1971.
Brown, W. M. 1980. Polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA of humans as revealed by restriction endonuclease analysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77: 3605-3609.
Brown, W. M., E.M. Prager, A. Wang and A.C. Wilson. 1982. Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution. J. Mol. Evol. 18:225-239.
Vawter, L. and W.M. Brown. 1986. Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA comparisons reveal extreme rate variation in the molecular clock. Science. 234:194-196.
Hoeh, W. R., K.H. Blakley and W.M. Brown. 1991. Heteroplasmy suggests limited biparental inheritance of Mytilus mitochondrial DNA. Science. 251:1488-1490.
Boore, J. L., T. Collins, D. Stanton, L.L. Daehler and W.M. Brown. 1995. Arthropod phylogeny: a mitochondrial genome rearrangement supports monophyly of the mandibulata. Nature. 376:163-165.
Lavrov, D. V., J.L. Boore and W.M. Brown. 2002. Complete mtDNA sequences of two millipedes suggest a new model for mitochondrial gene rearrangements: Duplication and non-random loss. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(2):163-169.
Lavrov, D. V., W.M. Brown, and J.L. Boore. 2004. Phylogenetic position of the Pentastomida and [pan]crustacean relationships. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 271:537-544.
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