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Angus Davison is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant work in subfields such as Ecology, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include studies on mollusks and parasites, parasite biology and host interactions, cephalopods and marine biology, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, neurobiology and insect physiology research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Davison has contributed to several recent papers, including the following:

  • Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila), 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis, 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis, 2021, BMC Genomics

Frequent collaborators in Davison's research include Margrethe Johansen, Suzanne V. Saenko, Benjamin Noël, Joris M. Koene, and Marie-Agnès Coutellec.

The venues that have published Davison's work most often include:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • BMC Genomics
  • Trends in Genetics
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Best Publications

  • On the origin of faeces: morphological versus molecular methods for surveying rare carnivores from their scats

    Angus Davison;Johnny D. S. Birks;Rachael C. Brookes;Tony C. Braithwaite

  • Ancient Origin of Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 9 Cellulase Genes

    Angus Davison;Mark Blaxter

  • The convoluted evolution of snail chirality

    Menno Schilthuizen;A. Davison

  • Mitochondrial phylogeography and population history of pine martens Martes martes compared with polecats Mustela putorius.

    Angus Davison;Johnny D. S. Birks;Rachael C. Brookes;John E. Messenger

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

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

  • Multilocus genetic models of handedness closely resemble single-locus models in explaining family data and are compatible with genome-wide association studies

    I. C. McManus;Angus Davison;John A. L. Armour

  • Historical demography of Mullerian mimicry in the neotropical Heliconius butterflies.

    N. S. Flanagan;A. Tobler;A. Davison;O. G. Pybus

  • DNA barcoding of stylommatophoran land snails: a test of existing sequences.

    Angus Davison;Rose L. E. Blackie;Gary P. Scothern

  • Conservation genetics and population history of the threatened European mink Mustela lutreola, with an emphasis on the west European population.

    Johan Michaux;O. J. Hardy;F. Justy;P. Fournier

  • Land snails as a model to understand the role of history and selection in the origins of biodiversity

    Angus Davison

  • RAD‐Seq derived markers flank the shell colour and banding loci of the Cepaea nemoralis supergene

    Paul M Richards;M Maureen Liu;Natalie Lowe;John W Davey

  • Sexual selection maintains whole-body chiral dimorphism in snails.

    M. Schilthuizen;P.G. Craze;A.S. Cabanban;A. Davison

  • History or current selection? A molecular analysis of 'area effects' in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.

    Angus Davison;Bryan Clarke

  • Speciation and gene flow between snails of opposite chirality.

    Angus Davison;Satoshi Chiba;Nicholas H Barton;Nicholas H Barton;Bryan Clarke

  • The evolution of extreme shell shape variation in the land snail Ainohelix editha: a phylogeny and hybrid zone analysis.

    Hiroaki Teshima;Angus Davison;Yasuhiro Kuwahara;Jun Yokoyama

  • Sex and darts in slugs and snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)

    Angus Davison;Angus Davison;Angus Davison;Christopher M. Wade;Peter B. Mordan;Satoshi Chiba

  • Mitochondrial DNA and palaeontological evidence for the origins of endangered European mink, Mustela lutreola

    Angus Davison;Huw I. Griffiths;Rachael C. Brookes;Tiit Maran

  • Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird.

    Kang Wook Kim;Benjamin C. Jackson;Hanyuan Zhang;David P. L. Toews;David P. L. Toews

  • Genetic signatures of population change in the British golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

    Brian P. Bourke;Brian P. Bourke;Alain C. Frantz;Christopher P. Lavers;Angus Davison

  • Genetic structure of European pine martens (Martes martes), and evidence for introgression with M. americana in England

    C.J. Kyle;A. Davison;C. Strobeck

  • Are Scat Surveys a Reliable Method for Assessing Distribution and Population Status of Pine Martens

    Johnny Birks;John Messenger;Tony Braithwaite;Angus Davison

  • Mating behaviour in Lymnaea stagnalis pond snails is a maternally inherited, lateralized trait

    Angus Davison;Hayley T Frend;Camile Moray;Hannah Wheatley

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Menno Schilthuizen
Menno Schilthuizen Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Simon C. Griffith
Simon C. Griffith Macquarie University
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Michael J. Blum
Michael J. Blum University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Andrew C. Kitchener
Andrew C. Kitchener National Museums Scotland
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Fengtang Yang
Fengtang Yang Wellcome Sanger Institute
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia

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