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Dr. David Coltman

Biography

Dr. David Coltman is a “molecular ecologist” – a scientist who uses molecular biological tools and population genetic approaches to study ecological questions. He has a broad range of research interests that span fundamental questions in ecology and evolution to more applied topics in wildlife conservation and management. His students and he have used DNA to study mating systems, kinship, heritability, population structure, and phylogeography of many wildlife species that inhabit mountain regions of North America. Study species include bighorn sheep, thinhorn sheep, mountain goats, wolves, red squirrels, and the mountain pine beetle system. Dave and his students have published 171 papers cited over 9,700 times in his career, with 84 of these papers appearing in press since 2011.

Selected Publications

Parasite-mediated selection against inbred Soay sheep in a free-living, island population

DW Coltman, JG Pilkington, JA Smith, JM Pemberton

Evolution, 1259-1267 (1999)

Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting

David W Coltman, Paul O’donoghue, Jon T Jorgenson, John T Hogg, Curtis Strobeck, Marco Festa-Bianchet

Nature 426 (6967), 655-658 (2003)

A quantitative review of heterozygosity–fitness correlations in animal populations

JR Chapman, S Nakagawa, DW Coltman, J Slate, BC Sheldon

Molecular Ecology 18 (13), 2746-2765 (2009)

Birth weight and neonatal survival of harbour seal pups are positively correlated with genetic variation measured by microsatellites

DW Coltman, WD Bowen, JM Wright

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265 (1398), 803-809 (1998)

For a complete list of publications please see here.

Contact

Canadian Mountain Network Researcher Dr David Coltman

CCIS 6-189
University of Alberta
Edmonton , Alberta
Canada T6G 2E9

Associate Dean of Research
Faculty of Science
1-001 CCIS
University of Alberta
Edmonton , Alberta
Canada T6G 2E9

 

Emaildavid.coltman@ualberta.ca
Office780-492-3169

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