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260
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Overview

Terry Burke is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The work contributes extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Selected recent publications by Terry Burke include:

  • Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater to evaluate the success of lockdown measures for controlling COVID-19 in the UK, 2021, Water Research
  • Gut microbiome composition, not alpha diversity, is associated with survival in a natural vertebrate population, 2021, Animal Microbiome
  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Immunogenetic variation shapes the gut microbiome in a natural vertebrate population, 2022, Microbiome
  • Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations are:

  • Hannah L. Dugdale
  • Jan Komdeur
  • David S. Richardson
  • Julia Schroeder
  • Mirre J. P. Simons

Publications by Terry Burke commonly appear in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Evolution
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • The genome of a songbird

    Wesley C. Warren;David F. Clayton;Hans Ellegren;Arthur P. Arnold

  • Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit.

    Bart Kempenaers;G. R. Verheyen;M. van den Broeck;Terry Burke;Terry Burke

  • Single-locus and multilocus DNA fingerprinting.

    M. W. Bruford;O. Hanotte;J. F. Y. Brookfield;T. Burke

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • DNA fingerprinting in birds.

    T. Burke;Michael William Bruford

  • Noninvasive genetic tracking of the endangered Pyrenean brown bear population.

    P. Taberlet;J.-J. Camarra;S. Griffin;E. Uhrès

  • A consensus linkage map of the chicken genome

    Martien A.M. Groenen;Hans H. Cheng;Nat Bumstead;Bernard F. Benkel

  • Parental care and mating behaviour of polyandrous dunnocks Prunella modularis related to paternity by DNA fingerprinting

    T. Burke;N. B. Davies;Michael William Bruford;B. J. Hatchwell

  • A supergene determines highly divergent male reproductive morphs in the ruff

    Clemens Küpper;Clemens Küpper;Michael Stocks;Judith E Risse;Natalie Dos Remedios

  • Using spatial Bayesian methods to determine the genetic structure of a continuously distributed population: clusters or isolation by distance?

    A. C. Frantz;S. Cellina;A. Krier;L. Schley

  • Empirical Evaluation of Genetic Clustering Methods Using Multilocus Genotypes From 20 Chicken Breeds

    Noah A. Rosenberg;Terry Burke;Kari Elo;Marcus W. Feldman

  • Parentage assignment and extra-group paternity in a cooperative breeder: the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis)

    DS Richardson;FL Jury;K Blaakmeer;K Blaakmeer;Jan Komdeur;Jan Komdeur

  • First report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2000

    M Schmid;I Nanda;M Guttenbach;C Steinlein

  • Sperm mobility determines the outcome of sperm competition in the domestic fowl.

    T. R. Birkhead;J. G. Martinez;T. Burke;D. P. Froman

  • Paternal investment inversely related to degree of extra-pair paternity in the reed bunting

    Andrew Dixon;Douglas Ross;Sean L. C. O'Malley;Sean L. C. O'Malley;Terry Burke

  • Genetic polymorphism for alternative mating behaviour in lekking male ruff Philomachus pugnax

    David B. Lank;Constance M. Smith;Olivier Hanotte;Terry Burke

  • Extra-pair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in wild zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, revealed by DNA fingerprinting

    T. R. Birkhead;T. Burke;R. Zann;F. M. Hunter

  • Biodiversity of 52 chicken populations assessed by microsatellite typing of DNA pools

    Jossi Hillel;Martien A.M. Groenen;Michèle Tixier-Boichard;Abraham B. Korol

  • Towards unbiased parentage assignment: combining genetic, behavioural and spatial data in a Bayesian framework.

    J. D. Hadfield;D. S. Richardson;T. Burke

  • Reliable microsatellite genotyping of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) using faecal DNA

    A. C. Frantz;L. C. Pope;P. J. Carpenter;T. J. Roper

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah A. Dawson
Deborah A. Dawson University of Sheffield
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen
Olivier Hanotte
Olivier Hanotte University of Nottingham
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Tim R. Birkhead
Tim R. Birkhead University of Sheffield
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Ben J. Hatchwell
Ben J. Hatchwell University of Sheffield
Simon C. Griffith
Simon C. Griffith Macquarie University
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath

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