Martin Kreitman

Martin Kreitman
Alma materHarvard University (PhD)
University of Florida
Stony Brook University (undergraduate)
Known forMcDonald–Kreitman test
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program (1991)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Harvard University
Stony Brook University
University of Florida
ThesisNucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster (1983)
Doctoral advisorRichard Lewontin[1][2]
Websiteprofiles.uchicago.edu/profiles/display/37843

Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago,[3][4][5] most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.

  1. ^ "On the 30th Anniversary of DNA Sequencing in Population Genetics | I wish you'd made me angry earlier". Archived from the original on 2013-08-24.
  2. ^ Keith, T. P.; Riley, M. A.; Kreitman, M.; Lewontin, R. C.; Curtis, D.; Chambers, G. (1987). "Sequence of the structural gene for xanthine dehydrogenase (rosy locus) in Drosophila melanogaster". Genetics. 116 (1): 67–73. doi:10.1093/genetics/116.1.67. PMC 1203122. PMID 3036646.
  3. ^ "Bio". pondside.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. ^ "Martin Kreitman | Recovery Act Funding | the University of Chicago".
  5. ^ Martin Kreitman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)