Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago,[3][4][5] most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.
Martin Kreitman | |
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Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) University of Florida Stony Brook University (undergraduate) |
Known for | McDonald–Kreitman test |
Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program (1991) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard University Stony Brook University University of Florida |
Thesis | Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Lewontin[1][2] |
Website | profiles |
Kreitman graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Science degree Biology in 1975, and from the University of Florida with a Master of Science degree in Zoology, in 1977. He went on to study at Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Population Genetics, specifically Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster[6] in 1983.[7]
The Kreitman lab does research in four main areas:[8][9][10][11]
"Functional evolution of cis-regulatory sequences (Drosophila)"[12]
"Molecular population genetics and evolution (Drosophila and Arabidopsis)"[12]
"Canalization in development and evolution (Drosophila)"[12]
"Evolutionary dynamics of disease resistance and pathogenicity (Arabidopsis)"[12]