PUBLICATIONS

Below is a complete (up to mid 2002 - needs updating) list of my research publications.

If you have any questions about my work, please e-mail me at m.a.beaumont@reading.ac.uk.


* Storz, J.F. and Beaumont, M.A. (2002)
Testing for genetic evidence of population expansion and contraction: an empirical analysis of microsatellite DNA variation using a hierarchical Bayesian model. Evolution. 56: 154-166.
* Berthier, P., Beaumont, M.A., Cornuet, J.M., Luikart, G. (2002)
Likelihood-based estimation of the effective population size using temporal changes in allele frequencies: a genealogical approach. Genetics. 160: 741 751.
* Langella, O., Chikhi, L., Beaumont, M.A. (2001)
LEA (likelihood-based estimation of admixture): a program to estimate simultaneously admixture and time since the admixture event. Molecular Ecology Notes 1: 357-358.
* Randi, E., Pierpaoli, M., Beaumont, M.A., Ragni, B., and Sforzi, A. (2001)
Genetic identification of wild and domestic cats (Felis silvestris), and their hybrids using Bayesian clustering methods. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18: 1679-1693.
* Chikhi, L., Bruford, M.W., Beaumont, M.A. (2001)
Estimation of admixture proportions: a likelihood-based approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo. Genetics. 158: 1347-1362.
* Beaumont, M.A., Barratt, E.M., Gottelli, D., Kitchener, A.C., Daniels, M.J., Pritchard, J.K., Bruford, M.W. (2001)
Genetic diversity and introgression in the Scottish wildcat. Molecular Ecology. 10: 319-336.
* Daniels, M.J., Beaumont, M.A., Johnson, P.J., Balharry, D., Macdonald D.W. (2001)
Ecology and genetics of wild living cats in the north east of Scotland and the implications for the conservation of the wildcat. Journal of Applied Ecology. 38: 146-161.
* Beaumont, M.A., Barratt, E.M., Gottelli, D., Bruford, M.W.
An analysis of genetic differentiation in the wild-living cat population of Scotland. Scottish Natural Heritage Research, Survey and Monitoring Report. (In press.)
* Keller, L.F., Jeffery, K.J., Arcese, P., Beaumont, M.A., Hochachka, W.M., Smith, J.N.M., Bruford, M.W.
Immigration and the ephemerality of a natural population bottleneck: evidence from molecular markers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. (2001) 268: 1387-1394
* Beaumont, M.A. (2001)
Conservation Genetics, in Balding, D.J., Bishop M., Cannings, C. (eds) Handbook of Statistical Genetics. John Wiley, New York.
* Wilson, L.,...,Beaumont, M.A., et al. (2000)
Inference in molecular population genetics - Discussion. J. R. Statist. Soc. B. 62: 636-655.
* Beaumont, M.A. (1999)
Detecting population expansion and decline using microsatellites. Genetics 153: 2013-2029.
* Ciofi, C., M.A. Beaumont, I.R.Swingland and M.W. Bruford (1999)
Genetic divergence and units for conservation in the Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.: 266, 2269-2274 (Appendix at http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/proc_bio/appendices/)
* Flint, J., J. Bond, D.C. Rees, A.J. Boyce, J.M. Roberts-Thompson, L. Excoffier, J.B. Clegg, M.A. Beaumont, R.A. Nichols, R.M. Harding (1999)
Minisatellite mutational processes reduce Fst estimates. Human Genetics 105: 567-576.
* Burland, T. M., Barratt, E. M., Beaumont, M. A., Racey, P. A. (1999)
Population genetic structure and gene flow in a gleaning bat, Plecotus auritus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 266: 975-980.
* Beaumont, M.A., Bruford, M.W. (1999)
Microsatellites in Conservation Genetics, pp. 165-182. In Microsatellites: Evolution and Applications. Eds. Goldstein, D.B., and Schlotterer, C. , Oxford University Press.
* O'Ryan, C., Harley, E.H., Bruford, M.W., Beaumont, M.A., Wayne, R.K., Cherry, M. I. (1998).
Microsatellite analysis of genetic diversity in fragmented South African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) populations. Animal Conservation 1: 85-94.
* T.N. Coulson, J.M. Pemberton, S.D. Albon, M. Beaumont, T.C. Marshall, J. Slate, F.E. Guinness and T.H. Clutton-Brock. (1998).
Microsatellites reveal heterosis in red deer. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 265: 489-495.
* Bruford, M.W. and Beaumont, M.A. (1998)
Analysis of Binary Data. pp. 329-331. In Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity: Plants and Animals. Eds. Karp, A., Isaac, P.G. Ingram, D.S. Chapman and Hall, London.
* Beaumont, M.A., Ibrahim, K.M., Boursot, P., Bruford, M.W. (1998)
Measuring Genetic Distance. pp. 315-326. In Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity: Plants and Animals. Eds. Karp, A., Isaac, P.G. Ingram, D.S. Chapman and Hall, London.
* Beaumont, M.A. and R.A. Nichols (1996).
Evaluating loci for use in the genetic analysis of population structure. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 263: 1619-1626.
* Nichols, R.A. and M.A. Beaumont (1996)
Is it ancient or modern history that we can read in the genes? Pp. 69-87. In Aspects of the Genesis and Maintenance of Biological Diversity (ed. Hochberg, M., Clobert, J., and Barbault, R.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN: 0-19-854884-2
* Williams, T.R., Harris, S., Chapman, N., Wayne, R., Beaumont, M.A., and Bruford, M.W. (1996).
A molecular analysis of the introduced Reeves' Muntjac in Southern England: Genetic variation in the mitochondrial genome. Pp. 6-22. In Muntjac Deer: Their Biology, Impact and Mangement in Britain (ed. B.A. Mayle). Proceedings of a conference organized jointly by The Forestry Commission Research Division, The British Deer Society, and Forest Enterprises. ISBN: 0-85538-335-6.
* Beaumont, M.A. (1993)
Evolution of optimal behaviour in networks of Boolean automata. J. Theor. Biol. 165: 455-476.
* Butlin, R.K., M.A. Beaumont, and G.M. Hewitt (1992)
Selection for assortative mating between parapatric subspecies of grasshopper. Animal Behaviour 43: 1045-1047.
* Clarke, B.C. and M.A. Beaumont (1992)
Density and frequency dependence: a genetical view. Pp 353-364. In Genes in Ecology (eds. Berry, R.J., T.J. Crawford, and G.M. Hewitt). Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN: 0-632-03504-8.
* Mellanby, J.H, M.A. Beaumont, and P.A. Thompson (1988)
The effect of lanthanum on nerve terminals in goldfish muscle after paralysis with tetanus toxin. Neuroscience 25: 1095-1106.
* Beaumont, M.A. (1988)
Stabilizing selection and metabolism. Heredity 61: 433-438.
* Beaumont, M.A. and J.H. Mellanby (1985)
The effect of lanthanum on the ultrastructure of nerve terminals in goldfish muscles paralysed with tetanus toxin. J. Physiol. 360: 42 P.

THESIS

* Beaumont, M.A. (1988)
A study of reproductive interference between closely related species. Ph.D thesis, University of Nottingham.

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