Judith Mank

Research Interests

I have broad interests in evolutionary biology, especially in the relationship between the genome and the phenotype, and I use genomic, transcriptomic, and comparative methods in order to understand how selection pressures acting on the organism shape the underlying genes and gene expression patterns.

For more information, please see my lab page

Other Interests

I serve in the NERC Peer Review College and am a member of the Edward Grey Institute (http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi/people/faculty/judith_mank.htm). I was awarded the Young Investigator Prize from the American Society of Naturalists in 2008, and the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution in 2009.

Contacts

Websites

• Lab pages
• EGI

Selected Publications

• Charlesworth D, Mank JE (2010) The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees: Lessons from genetic mapping of sex determination in plants and animals. Genetics in press
• Mank JE, Nam K, Brunström B, Ellegren H (2010) Ontogenetic complexity of sexual dimorphism and sex-specific selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 1570-1578
• Mank JE, Vicoso B, Berlin S, Charlesworth B (2010) Effective population size and the Faster-X Effect: Empirical results and their interpretation. Evolution 64: 663-674
• Mank, JE (2009) Sexual selection and Darwin’s mystery of mysteries. Science 326: 1639-1640
• Mank JE (2009) Sex chromosomes and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: lessons from the genome. American Naturalist 173: 141-150
• Mank JE, Ellegren H (2009) Sex-linkage of sexually antagonistic genes is predicted by female, but not male, effects in birds. Evolution 63: 1464-1472
• Mank JE, Axelsson E, Ellegren H (2007) Fast-X on the Z: Rapid evolution of sex-linked genes in birds. Genome Research 17: 618-62
• Mank, JE, Hall DW, Kirkpatrick M, Avise JC (2006) Sex chromosomes and male ornaments: a comparative evaluation in ray-finned fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 273: 233-236