Josephine Pemberton
British evolutionary biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josephine M. Pemberton FRS[3] is a British evolutionary biologist. She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh,[5] where she conducts research in parentage analysis, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, parasite resistance, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection in natural populations.[6] She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep[7][8] on St Kilda, and red deer on the island of Rùm.[9][10][11][12]
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Thesis | An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.) (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert H. Smith[1][4] |
Other academic advisors | Sam Berry |
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