DrChris Wilson
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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- Honorary Research FellowDepartment of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 2370 (Work)
- N3.11, Munro, Silwood Park, United Kingdom
BIO
Causes and consequences of obligately asexual evolution
Horizontal gene transfer between bdelloid rotifers questioned, The Scientist, July 2018
Cross-contamination explains "inter and intraspecific horizonal genetic transfers" between asexual bdelloid rotifers. Wilson, C.G., Nowell, R. W. & Barraclough, T. G. 2018. Current Biology 28, 2436-2444.
We still don't know how strange, celibate animals evolve, Imperial College, April 2018
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: The Enigma of Sex, BBC Radio 4 interviews, February 2018
Study sheds new light on sexless creatures, Imperial College, June 2013
(video): The mystery of the celibate rotifer, Science Friday, January 2010 [full story]
(Español) La insólita especie animal que se reproduce solo por clones desde hace 40 millones de años, NCYT, Sep 2013
Science Podcast, AAAS, January 2010 [transcript]
Why asexual organisms are on their last legs, The New York Times, January 2010
How to survive without sex for 50 million years, National Geographic, February 2010
(Deutsch): Selbstverteidigungstrick: Rädertierchen flüchten per Salto, Der Spiegel, January 2010
(Português): Animal revela como sobrevive sem sexo, Folha de Sao Paulo, February 2010
(Español): Un escándalo evolutivo, Xataka Ciencia, September 2010
(Hebrew): Who needs sex anyway?
Horizontal gene transfer between bdelloid rotifers questioned, The Scientist, July 2018
Cross-contamination explains "inter and intraspecific horizonal genetic transfers" between asexual bdelloid rotifers. Wilson, C.G., Nowell, R. W. & Barraclough, T. G. 2018. Current Biology 28, 2436-2444.
We still don't know how strange, celibate animals evolve, Imperial College, April 2018
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: The Enigma of Sex, BBC Radio 4 interviews, February 2018
Study sheds new light on sexless creatures, Imperial College, June 2013
(video): The mystery of the celibate rotifer, Science Friday, January 2010 [full story]
(Español) La insólita especie animal que se reproduce solo por clones desde hace 40 millones de años, NCYT, Sep 2013
Science Podcast, AAAS, January 2010 [transcript]
Why asexual organisms are on their last legs, The New York Times, January 2010
How to survive without sex for 50 million years, National Geographic, February 2010
(Deutsch): Selbstverteidigungstrick: Rädertierchen flüchten per Salto, Der Spiegel, January 2010
(Português): Animal revela como sobrevive sem sexo, Folha de Sao Paulo, February 2010
(Español): Un escándalo evolutivo, Xataka Ciencia, September 2010
(Hebrew): Who needs sex anyway?
FACULTY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Research Fellow