Richard Alan Nichols FLS is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Queen Mary University of London.[2] He is known for the Balding–Nichols model[3] and the Beaumont and Nichols method for detecting natural selection.[4]
Richard Nichols | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University College London University of East Anglia (PhD) |
| Known for | Balding–Nichols model |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Queen Mary University of London |
| Thesis | The ecological genetics of a hybrid zone in an alpine grasshopper (Podisma pedestris) (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Godfrey Hewitt[1] |
He graduated with a first-class degree in zoology from University College London in 1981 and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1984 under the supervision of Godfrey Hewitt.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Nichols Lab". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ "Professor Richard Nichols". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ Balding, DJ; Nichols, RA (1995). "A method for quantifying differentiation between populations at multi-allelic loci and its implications for investigating identity and paternity". Genetica. 96 (1–2). Springer: 3–12. doi:10.1007/BF01441146. PMID 7607457. S2CID 30680826.
- ^ "Evaluating loci for use in the genetic analysis of population structure". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 263 (1377): 1619–1626. 22 December 1996. doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0237.
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