 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
FACULTY MEMBER
Dr. Peter Beerli
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Assistant
Professor;
Ph.D., Zürich, Switzerland, 1994
Research and Professional
Interests:
Computational and mathematical biology; evolutionary and
population genetics/genomics.
Selected Publications:
Brumfield, R., P. Beerli, D. Nickerson, and S. Edwards.
2003. The utility of single nucleotide polymorphisms in inferences of population history.
Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 18:249-256.
Joy, D. A., X. Feng, J. Mu, T. Furuya, K. Chotivanich, A. U.
Krettli, M. Ho, A. Wang, N. J. White, E. Suh, P. Beerli, and X. Su.
2003. Early origin and recent expansion of Plasmodium falciparum. Science
300:318-321.
Beerli, P., and S. V. Edwards. 2002. When did the Neanderthals and
modern humans diverge?. Centenary Anniversary Anthropology Institute
University of Zurich (1999), Supplement Evolutionary Anthropology.
Arbogast, B., S. Edwards, J. Wakeley, P. Beerli, and J.
Slowinski. 2002. Estimating divergence times from molecular data on
population genetic and phylogenetic time scales. Annual Reviews
in Ecology and Systematics 33:707-740. doi:
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150500.
Beerli, P., and J. Felsenstein. 2001. Maximum likelihood estimation
of a migration matrix and effective population sizes in n
subpopulations by using a coalescent approach. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98:4563-4568.
Hoekstra H., J. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S. Vignieri, C. Hill,
A. Hoang, P. Gibert, P. Beerli, and J. G. Kingsolver. 2001. The strength
and tempo of directional selection in the wild. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98:9157-9160.
Hotz, H., T. Uzzell, G.-D. Guex, D. Alpers, R. D. Semlitsch,
and P. Beerli. 2001. Microsatellites: a tool for evolutionary genetic studies
of western Palearctic water frogs. In: Third International Symposium
on Genetics, Systematics, and Ecology of Western Palearctic Water
Frogs, Eds. J. Plötner and D. Schmeller. Mitteilungen aus dem
Museum fü Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 77:43-50.
Guex, G.-D., H. Hotz, T. Uzzell, G.-D., R. D. Semlitsch, P.
Beerli, and R. Pascolini. 2001. Developmental disturbances in Rana
esculenta tadpoles and metamorphs. In: Third International Symposium
on Genetics, Systematics, and Ecology of Western Palearctic Water
Frogs, Eds. J. Plötner and D. Schmeller. Mitteilungen aus dem
Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 77.
Kingsolver, J. G., H. Hoekstra, J. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S.
Vignieri, C. Hill, A. Hoang, P. Gibert, and P. Beerli. 2001. The strength
of phenotypic selection in natural populations. American
Naturalist 157:245-261.
Beerli, P., N. C. Grassly, M. K. Kuhner, D. Nickle, O. Pybus,
M. Rain, A. Rambaut, A. G. Rodrigo, and Y. Wang. 2000. Population genetics
of HIV: parameter estimation using genealogy-based methods.
Pages 217-252 in: Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV
Molecular Sequences. Eds. A. G. Rodrigo and G. Learn. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston.
Edwards, S. V., and P. Beerli. 2000. Perspective: gene divergence,
population divergence, and the variance in coalescence time in
phylogeographic studies. Evolution 54:1839-1854.
Kuhner, M. K., and P. Beerli. 2000. Comments in Discussion of
paper by Stephens, M. and Donnelly, P. Inference in molecular
population genetics. Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series
B 62(4):605- 635 (comments on pages 642-643).
Kuhner, M. K., P. Beerli, J. Yamato, and J. Felsenstein.
2000. Usefulness of single nucleotide polymorphism data for estimating
population parameters. Genetics 156:439-447.
Beerli, P., and J. Felsenstein. 1999. Maximum likelihood estimation
of migration rates and effective population numbers in two
populations. Genetics 152:763-773.
Felsenstein, J., M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato, and P. Beerli.
1999. Likelihoods on coalescents: a Monte Carlo sampling approach to
inferring parameters from population samples of molecular data.
Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Institute of Mathematical
Statistics 33:163-185.
Hotz, H., R. Semlitsch, G.-D. Guex, and P. Beerli.
1999. Spontaneous heterosis in larval life-history traits of hemiclonal
frog hybrids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
96:2171-2176.
Beerli, P. 1998. Estimation of migration rates and population
sizes in geographically structured populations. Pages 39-53 in Advances in
Molecular Ecology, Ed. G. Carvalho. NATO Science Series A: Life
Sciences, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Schnabel, A., P. Beerli, A. Estoup, and D. Hillis. 1998. A guide to
software packages for data analysis on molecular ecology. Pp 291-303 in Advances in
Molecular Ecology, Ed. G. Carvalho. NATO Science Series A: Life
Sciences, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Beerli, P. 1997. Letter to the editor: Statistical analyses of
population genetic data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:488.
Beerli, P., H. Hotz, and T. Uzzell. 1996. Geologically dated sea
barriers calibrate an average protein clock in water frogs of the
Aegean region. Evolution 50:1676-1687.
Hotz, H., T. Uzzell, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. 1996. Are hybrid
clonals species? A case for enlightened anarchy. Amphibia-Reptilia
17:315-320.
Semlitsch, R. D., S. Schmiedehausen, H. Hotz, and P. Beerli.
1996. Genetic compatibility between sexual and clonal genomes in local
populations of the hybridogenetic Rana esculenta complex. Evolutionary
Ecology 10:531-543.
Beerli, P. 1995. Amphibien in der Umgebung des Nussbaumer Sees.
Pages 319-323 in A. Schläfli, ed. Die Nussbaumer Seen. Eine
Naturmonographie. Ittinger Schriftenreihe 5. Stiftung Kartause
Ittingen, Warth (Switzerland).
Postdoctoral Associates:
Sampson, Koffi
Graduate Students:
MacDonnell, Grant
Palczewski, Michal
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