Dolph Schluter

Dolph Schluter
Born (1955-05-22) May 22, 1955 (age 69)
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
AwardsDarwin–Wallace Medal (2014)
Darwin Medal (2021)
Crafoord Prize (2023)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
ThesisDiets, distributions and morphology of galapagos ground finches: the importance of food supply and interspecific competition. (1983)
Doctoral advisorPeter Grant

Dolph Schluter FRS FRSC OBC (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia.[1] Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.[2]

Schluter received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1983, both in Ecology and Evolution.

  1. ^ "Schluter lab". www.zoology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  2. ^ Colosimo, Pamela F.; Hosemann, Kim E.; Balabhadra, Sarita; Villarreal, Guadalupe; Dickson, Mark; Grimwood, Jane; Schmutz, Jeremy; Myers, Richard M.; Schluter, Dolph; Kingsley, David M. (2005-03-25). "Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles". Science. 307 (5717): 1928–1933. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1928C. doi:10.1126/science.1107239. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15790847. S2CID 1296135.