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W. Ford Doolittle

W. Ford Doolittle

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
93
Citations
32812
World Ranking
970
National Ranking
26

Molecular Biology

D-Index
93
Citations
32812
World Ranking
674
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

W. Ford Doolittle is primarily affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. The scientist's research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 20 publications recorded in these areas. Within these, emphasis is placed on the subfields of Molecular Biology, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The central topics explored in their work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

They have authored multiple papers including:

  • Evolution: Two Domains of Life or Three? (2020) published in Current Biology
  • Getting clear about the F-word in genomics (2020) published in PLoS Genetics
  • 'Species' without species (2021) published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  • The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function (2021) published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  • A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy (2022) published in Philosophy of Science

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Current Biology
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  • Philosophy Theory and Practice in Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Genetics

Frequent collaborators include Joseph P. Bielawski, Celso Neto, Stefan Linquist, Alexander F. Palazzo, and Aaron Novick.

W. Ford Doolittle has received several awards over the course of their career, including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from the Canada Council in 2017. The scientist is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with fellowships awarded in 1985 and 2005. They were elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and are a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recognized in 1991 under the Academy of Science. Additionally, they were a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree

    W. Ford Doolittle

  • Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer

    J. Peter Gogarten;W. Ford Doolittle;Jeffrey G. Lawrence

  • The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.

    Qunxin She;Rama K. Singh;Fabrice Confalonieri;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Use of 16S rRNA and rpoB genes as molecular markers for microbial ecology studies.

    Rebecca J. Case;Yan Boucher;Ingela Dahllöf;Carola Holmström

  • You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes.

    W Ford Doolittle

  • Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis.

    W. Ford Doolittle;Eric Bapteste

  • Differences between Tissue-Associated Intestinal Microfloras of Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Uri Gophna;Katrin Sommerfeld;Sharon Gophna;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Comparison of Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Bootstrap Measures of Phylogenetic Reliability

    Christophe J. Douady;Frédéric Delsuc;Yan Boucher;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Genes in pieces: were they ever together?

    W. Ford Doolittle

  • Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven

    M W Gray;W F Doolittle

  • Origin and evolution of the slime molds (Mycetozoa)

    Sandra L. Baldauf;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;J. Peter Gogarten;Robert L. Charlebois;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Transformation methods for halophilic archaebacteria.

    S W Cline;W L Lam;R L Charlebois;L C Schalkwyk

  • The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny

    S L Baldauf;J D Palmer;W F Doolittle

  • Archaea and the Origin(s) of DNA Replication Proteins

    David R Edgell;W.Ford Doolittle

  • Uprooting the tree of life.

    W. Ford Doolittle

  • The role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways.

    Yan Boucher;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Cell biology. Irremediable complexity

    M. W. Gray;J. Lukes;J. M. Archibald;P. J. Keeling

  • On the origin of prokaryotic species

    W. Ford Doolittle;Olga Zhaxybayeva

  • Computing prokaryotic gene ubiquity: Rescuing the core from extinction

    Robert L. Charlebois;W. Ford Doolittle

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Mark A. Ragan
Mark A. Ragan University of Queensland
Eric Bapteste
Eric Bapteste Sorbonne University
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University
Uri Gophna
Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray Dalhousie University
David A. Walsh
David A. Walsh Concordia University
Terry Gaasterland
Terry Gaasterland University of California, San Diego
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University

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