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Josephine M. Pemberton

Josephine M. Pemberton

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
99
Citations
38619
World Ranking
291
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Josephine M. Pemberton is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals, and Immunology.

Their work covers topics such as Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Helminth infection and control, and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions.

Pemberton has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Evolution Letters, and Heredity.

Recent papers include:

  • "Genetic architecture and lifetime dynamics of inbreeding depression in a wild mammal," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals," 2022, Science
  • "Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal," 2020, The American Naturalist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pemberton include Jill G. Pilkington, Susan E. Johnston, Daniel H. Nussey, Seán Morris, and Gregory F. Albery.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, since 2017 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations

    T. C. Marshall;J. Slate;L. E. B. Kruuk;J. M. Pemberton

  • Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep

    Tim Coulson;Edward A. Catchpole;Steve D. Albon;Byron J. T. Morgan

  • Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

    Stephen J. Thackeray;Peter A. Henrys;Deborah Hemming;James R. Bell

  • Parasite-mediated selection against inbred Soay sheep in a free-living, island population

    David W. Coltman;Jill G. Pilkington;Judith A. Smith;josephine M. Pemberton

  • Nonamplifying alleles at microsatellite loci: a caution for parentage and population studies.

    J. M. Pemberton;J. Slate;D. R. Bancroft;J. A. Barrett

  • Revealing the history of sheep domestication using retrovirus integrations

    Bernardo Chessa;Filipe Pereira;Frederick Arnaud;Antonio Amorim

  • Why large-scale climate indices seem to predict ecological processes better than local weather

    T B Hallett;T Coulson;Jill Pilkington;T H Clutton-Brock

  • Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics

    B T Grenfell;K Wilson;B F Finkenstadt;T N Coulson

  • ANTLER SIZE IN RED DEER: HERITABILITY AND SELECTION BUT NO EVOLUTION

    Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Jon Slate;Josephine M. Pemberton;Sue Brotherstone

  • Major histocompatibility complex variation associated with juvenile survival and parasite resistance in a large unmanaged ungulate population (Ovis aries L.)

    S. Paterson;K. Wilson;J. M. Pemberton

  • Wild pedigrees: the way forward.

    Josephine Pemberton

  • Heritability of fitness in a wild mammal population.

    Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Tim H. Clutton-Brock;Jon Slate;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • Microsatellites reveal heterosis in red deer

    T. N Coulson;J. M Pemberton;S. D Albon;M Beaumont

  • Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer

    Katharina Foerster;Tim Coulson;Ben C. Sheldon;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • Population density affects sex ratio variation in red deer

    Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Tim H. Clutton-Brock;Steve D. Albon;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion

    Brian T. Preston;Ian R. Stevenson;Josephine M. Pemberton;Kenneth Wilson

  • A retrospective assessment of the accuracy of the paternity inference program CERVUS

    Jon Slate;Tristan Marshall;Josephine Pemberton

  • Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast–slow life‐history continuum

    Owen R. Jones;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Jussi S. Alho

  • Inbreeding depression influences lifetime breeding success in a wild population of red deer (Cervus elaphus)

    J. Slate;L. E. B. Kruuk;T. C. Marshall;J. M. Pemberton

  • The dynamics of phenotypic change and the shrinking sheep of St. Kilda.

    Arpat Ozgul;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Tim G. Benton;Josephine M. Pemberton

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Jill G. Pilkington
Jill G. Pilkington University of Edinburgh
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Daniel H. Nussey
Daniel H. Nussey University of Edinburgh
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Steve D. Albon
Steve D. Albon James Hutton Institute
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Alastair J. Wilson
Alastair J. Wilson University of Exeter
Fiona E. Guinness
Fiona E. Guinness University of Cambridge
Jacob Gratten
Jacob Gratten University of Queensland

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