Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits

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Per E. Ahlberg
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Scott E. Fraser
Philip Ingham
Patrick Lemaire
Nori Satoh
Christine Thisse
Sayuri Yonei / Koji Tamura
Shin Aizawa
Ann Burke
James Hanken
Shigeru Kuratani
Yasunori Murakami
Rich Schneider
Cheryll Tickle
H. Joseph Yost
Clare V. H. Baker
Michael J. Depew
Peter Holland
Thurston Lacalli
Filippo Rijli
Yoshiko Takahashi
Hiroshi Wada
Peter Holland  
Peter Holland is the Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, UK. After a degree in Zoology at Oxford, and a PhD in Genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, he took a junior faculty position in the Department of Zoology at Oxford and later a Royal Society Research Fellowship. In 1994, he moved to the University of Reading to become Professor of Zoology, before retuning to Oxford to take his present post in 2002. His research focuses on homeobox gene evolution, comparative genomics, gene duplication and molecular phylogenetics. His research group cloned and mapped the Hox gene cluster in amphioxus, characterized gene duplication in vertebrate evolution and discovered the ParaHox gene cluster. Peter Holland was awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1996), the De Snoo van't Hoogerhuis Medal (1999) and the Genetics Society Medal (2004). He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2003. Peter Holland
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