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Overview

Trefor Jenkins is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research spans topics primarily within marine biology, ecology, and geological sciences as reflected in recent publications and areas of focus.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • The habitat preferences of Idiosepius pygmaeus and their use of conspecific cues (2024, Marine Ecology)
  • A Life Shaped by Resilience: My Journey to Medicine (2024, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Open Science Education and Practice)
  • Petrologic and Geochemical Characterization of Two Cenozoic Felsic Lava Flows, the Jarbidge Rhyolite and Boies Dacite, in NW Knoll Basin, NE Nevada (2025, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)

They have collaborated with a variety of coauthors on different aspects of their research, including Jan M. Strugnell, Blake L. Spady, Andrew M. Clark, S. Robinson, and Stefanie Cannan.

The primary publication venues for their work have been:

  • Marine Ecology
  • The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Open Science Education and Practice
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Their fields of study encompass Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; and Global and Planetary Change. Within these, specific subfields and topics of focus include cephalopods and marine biology, marine and coastal plant biology, and marine and fisheries research.

These thematic areas highlight an interdisciplinary approach that bridges marine biology and environmental geology.

Best Publications

  • A Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel

    Howard M. Cann;Claudia De Toma;Lucien Cazes;Marie Fernande Legrand

  • Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations

    Underhill Pa;Shen P;Lin Aa;Jin L

  • Detection of Numerous Y Chromosome Biallelic Polymorphisms by Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

    Peter A. Underhill;Li Jin;Alice A. Lin;S. Qasim Mehdi

  • Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins

    S. A. Tishkoff;E. Dietzsch;W. Speed;A. J. Pakstis

  • Out of Africa and back again: nested cladistic analysis of human Y chromosome variation.

    M F Hammer;T Karafet;A Rasanayagam;E T Wood

  • Alu insertion polymorphisms and human evolution: evidence for a larger population size in Africa.

    Mark Stoneking;Jennifer J. Fontius;Stephanie L. Clifford;Himla Soodyall

  • Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes

    M. F. Hammer;A. J. Redd;E. T. Wood;M. R. Bonner

  • High polymorphism at the human melanocortin 1 receptor locus.

    Brinda K. Rana;David Hewett-Emmett;Li Jin;Benny H J Chang

  • The Geographic Distribution of Human Y Chromosome Variation

    M F Hammer;A B Spurdle;T Karafet;M R Bonner

  • Lipoid proteinosis maps to 1q21 and is caused by mutations in the extracellular matrix protein 1 gene (ECM1)

    Takahiro Hamada;W. H. Irwin McLean;Michele Ramsay;Gabrielle H. S. Ashton

  • The structure of human mitochondrial DNA variation.

    D. Andrew Merriwether;Andrew G. Clark;Scott W. Ballinger;Theodore G. Schurr

  • Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians

    Ning Yu;Feng Chi Chen;Feng Chi Chen;Satoshi Ota;Lynn B. Jorde

  • Additional support for schizophrenia linkage on chromosomes 6 and 8: A multicenter study

    Dieter B. Wildenauer;Sibylle G. Schwab;Margot Albus;Joachim Hallmayer

  • Lactase Haplotype Diversity in the Old World

    Edward J. Hollox;Mark Poulter;Marek Zvarik;Vladimir Ferak

  • A global survey of haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium at the DRD2 locus

    Kenneth K. Kidd;Bharti Morar;Carmela M. Castiglione;Hongyu Zhao

  • A Global Haplotype Analysis of the Myotonic Dystrophy Locus: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Humans and for the Origin of Myotonic Dystrophy Mutations

    S. A. Tishkoff;A. Goldman;F. Calafell;W. C. Speed

  • Mismatch distributions of mtDNA reveal recent human population expansions.

    S T Sherry;A R Rogers;H Harpending;H Soodyall

  • Albinism and skin cancer in Southern Africa

    Jennifer G. R. Kromberg;David Castle;Esther M. Zwane;Trefor Jenkins

  • The Peoples of Southern Africa and Their Affinities

    George T. Nurse;J. S. Weiner;Trefor Jenkins

  • mtDNA control-region sequence variation suggests multiple independent origins of an "Asian-specific" 9-bp deletion in sub-Saharan Africans

    H. Soodyall;Linda Vigilant;A.V. Hill;Mark Stoneking

Frequent Co-Authors

Michèle Ramsay
Michèle Ramsay University of the Witwatersrand
Amanda B. Spurdle
Amanda B. Spurdle QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Brien P. Riley
Brien P. Riley Virginia Commonwealth University
Sue Povey
Sue Povey University College London
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer University of Arizona
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
Robin M. Murray
Robin M. Murray King's College London
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne

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