Alistair Blachford
phone: (604) 822-2645 |
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I wear a few hats: |
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recent PhD in Zoology Hopelessly generalist in my interests, but gravitate most toward evolutionary theory, and spatial ecology. My supervisor was Michael Doebeli. Manager of the Zoology Computing Unit Inventor, manufacturer and retailer |
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Papers and patents: |
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Blachford A. and M. Doebeli (in prep) Reproductive restraint when survival is unlikely -- solving the puzzle of lemming cycles
Blachford, A. (submitted) Small mammals in cyclic populations may forecast mortality rates using information from within their own population. Chen, X., A. Schick, M. Doebeli, A. Blachford, and L. Wang (2012) Reputation-based conditional interaction supports cooperation in well-mixed prisoner's dilemmas. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36260. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036260 PDF Blachford, A. and M. Doebeli (2009) On luck and sex. Evolution 63 (1): 40-47 PDF Blachford, A. and A.F. Agrawal (2006) Assortative mating for fitness and the evolution of recombination. Evolution 60 (7): 1337-1343 PDF Blachford, A. (1992) "Kayak righting method and
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Computer code: |
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In Java, an individual-based simulation model of
diploids with 2 alleles at each locus. Settable on the
command line: population size, number of loci, min
recombination rate, recombination modifier, assortative
mating by fitness, forward/reverse mutation, selection,
epistasis, and initial allele frequency. Description here. If you'd like the code, ask.
My recombination code went into the Nemo simulator because it was fast. |