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Overview

Andrew C. Kitchener is affiliated with National Museums Scotland in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. This multidisciplinary approach reflects a significant engagement with both broad and specialized fields across the natural sciences.

Their main subfields of study include Ecology, Genetics, Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology. These subfields underpin a range of research projects and publications concerning wildlife, genetic diversity, evolution, and conservation biology.

The topics covered extensively in their work consist of:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Kitchener has frequently published their work in several scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 13 publications
  • Archives of Natural History, with 7 publications
  • Royal Society Open Science, with 5 publications
  • Scientific Reports, with 5 publications
  • Mammalian Biology, with 4 publications

Their recent scholarly output includes key papers such as:

  • A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species, 2023, Science
  • The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates, 2023, Science
  • Applying genomic data in wildlife monitoring: Development guidelines for genotyping degraded samples with reduced single nucleotide polymorphism panels, 2020, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes, 2023, Nature
  • Range-wide whole-genome resequencing of the brown bear reveals drivers of intraspecies divergence, 2023, Communications Biology

Co-authorship has been an important aspect of Kitchener's research activities. Frequent collaborators include Gérald Mayr, Georg Hantke, Christian Roos, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, and Tomàs Marquès-Bonet.

Among book contributions, Andrew C. Kitchener has published a work titled Bears of the World (2020), released by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication

    Carlos A. Driscoll;Marilyn Menotti-Raymond;Alfred L. Roca;Karsten Hupe

  • A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group

    A.C. Kitchener;C. Breitenmoser-Würsten;E. Eizirik;A. Gentry

  • The Natural History of the Wild Cats

    Andrew Kitchener

  • Genetic diversity and introgression in the Scottish wildcat.

    M. Beaumont;E. M. Barratt;D. Gottelli;A. C. Kitchener

  • The effects of captivity on the morphology of captive, domesticated and feral mammals

    Hannah J. O'regan;Andrew C. Kitchener

  • A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group

    Andrew C Kitchener;C Breitenmoser-Würsten;E Eizirik;A Gentry

  • Reconstructing Mammalian Phylogenies: A Detailed Comparison of the Cytochrome b and Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I Mitochondrial Genes

    Shanan S. Tobe;Andrew C. Kitchener;Andrew C. Kitchener;Adrian M. T. Linacre

  • A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species

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  • Hybridization and the phylogenetic relationship between polecats and domestic ferrets in Britain

    A Davison;J.D.S Birks;H.I Griffiths;A.C Kitchener

  • A diagnosis for the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris): a tool for conservation action for a critically‐endangered felid

    Andrew C. Kitchener;Andrew C. Kitchener;Nobuyuki Yamaguchi;Jennifer M. Ward;David W. Macdonald

  • Spatial and temporal analysis of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide residues in polecats (Mustela putorius) from throughout their range in Britain, 1992-1999.

    R.F. Shore;J.D.S. Birks;A. Afsar;C.L. Wienburg

  • Morphological and pelage characteristics of wild living cats in Scotland: implications for defining the ‘wildcat’

    M. J. Daniels;D. Balharry;D. Hirst;A. C. Kitchener

  • An analysis of the forces of fighting of the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) and the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) and the mechanical design of the horn of bovids

    Andrew Kitchener

  • An archaeological and historical review of the relationships between felids and people.

    Eric Faure;Andrew C. Kitchener

  • Geographical variation in the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, reveals two species.

    Andrew C. Kitchener;Mark A. Beaumont;Douglas Richardson

  • Distinguishing the victim from the threat: SNP‐based methods reveal the extent of introgressive hybridization between wildcats and domestic cats in Scotland and inform future in situ and ex situ management options for species restoration

    Helen V. Senn;Muhammad Ghazali;Jennifer Kaden;David Barclay

  • A fossil protein chimera; difficulties in discriminating dinosaur peptide sequences from modern cross-contamination.

    Michael Buckley;Stacey Warwood;Bart van Dongen;Andrew C. Kitchener;Andrew C. Kitchener

  • Applying genomic data in wildlife monitoring: Development guidelines for genotyping degraded samples with reduced single nucleotide polymorphism panels.

    Alina von Thaden;Alina von Thaden;Carsten Nowak;Annika Tiesmeyer;Annika Tiesmeyer;Tobias E. Reiners;Tobias E. Reiners

  • Biogeographical change in the tiger, Panthera tigris

    Andrew C. Kitchener;Andrew J. Dugmore

  • Planning tiger recovery: Understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation

    Andreas Wilting;Alexandre Courtiol;Per Christiansen;Jürgen Niedballa

  • A comparative study of the influence of social housing conditions on the behaviour of captive tigers (**Panthera tigris**)

    M. de Rouck;A.C. Kitchener;G. Law;M. Nelissen

  • Fracture toughness of horns and a reinterpretation of the horning behaviour of bovids

    Andrew Kitchener

  • Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates

    Luca Pozzi;K Anne-Isola Nekaris;Andrew Perkin;Simon K Bearder

  • How and why species multiply. The radiation of Darwin's finches

    Andrew Kitchener

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Andreas Wilting
Andreas Wilting Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Greger Larson
Greger Larson University of Oxford
William J. Murphy
William J. Murphy Texas A&M University
Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley University of Manchester
Colin P. Groves
Colin P. Groves Australian National University
Patrick Tan
Patrick Tan Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Brian M. Davis
Brian M. Davis University of Pittsburgh
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
Andrew J. Dugmore
Andrew J. Dugmore University of Edinburgh

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