David G. King, associate professor emeritus
Department of Zoology, College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences;
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine
B.S., Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 1970.
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, 1975.
Retired, Southern Illinois University, 2014.
Office: Life Science II 354A
Phone:618-453-1509
Email: dgking@siu.edu
Areas of special interest:
Evolution | Neurobiology | HistologyResearch statement: How do complex behaviors and other evolutionary adaptations emerge from the molecular organization of cells and genomes? I have addressed this question by asking another. How has selection shaped genetic patterns to constrain "random" mutational mechanisms, thereby reducing the risk of severely deleterious mutation while increasing the probability of beneficial mutation? Recent publications have reviewed evidence that supports a functional and evolutionary "tuning knob" role for tandem repetitive DNA.
Publication list
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(more nature photographs) "Ad astra per alia muscae."
(with apologies to John Steinbeck)The Lord in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden NashFlies were made so fools like me
Might wonder how such things could be --
With tiny wings and eyes and brains
Evolved in such diversity.
DGK
(more nature photographs)
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