Wyatt Anderson
Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. (1967) Rockefeller University
Phone: 706-542-7001
Email: wyatt@uga.edu

Research Interests
Evolutionary genetics of mating behavior and chromosomal polymorphisms of Drosophila species; evolutionary genomics of Drosophila; science education and minority participation in college science curricula.
  • Drosophila Chromosome Working Group, including W.W. Anderson. 2008. Polytene chromosomal maps of 11 Drosophila species: the order of genomic scaffolds inferred from genetic and physical data. Genetics 179: 1601-1655.
  • Gowaty, P.A., W.W. Anderson, C.K. Bluhm, L.C. Drickamer, Y.-K. Kim and A.J. Moore. 2007. The hypothesis of reproductive compensation and its assumptions about mate preference and offspring viability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:15023-1502.
  • Anderson, W.W., P.A. Gowaty and Y.-K. Kim. 2007. Experimental Constraints on Mate Preferences in Drosophila pseudoobscura Decrease Offspring Viability and Fitness of Mated Pairs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:4484-4488.
  • Anderson, W.W. and Y.-K. Kim. 2006. A Further Analysis of Sexual Isolation between Sympatric and Allopatric Populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura and Drosophila persimilis. Behavior Genetics 36:328-330.
  • Kim, Y.-K., P.A. Gowaty and W.W. Anderson. 2006. Testing for Mate Preference and Mate Choice in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Proc. of 5th Inter. Conf. on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Wageningen, The Netherlands).
  • Anderson, W.W. and Y.-K. Kim. 2005. Sexual isolation between sympatric and allopatric populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Behavior Genetics 35: 305-312.
  • Schaeffer, S.W. and W.W. Anderson. 2005. Mechanisms of genetic exchange within the chromosomal inversions of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics 17: 1-11.
  • Richards, S. and many coauthors, including W.W. Anderson. 2004. Comparative genome sequencing of D. pseudoobscura: chromosomal, gene, and cis-element evolution. Genome Research 95: 1-18.
  • Schaeffer, S.W., M.J. Bernhardt and W.W. Anderson. 2003. Evolutionary rearrangement of the amylase genomic regions between Drosophila melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. J. Heredity 94: 464-471.
  • Schaeffer, S.W., M.P. Goetting-Minesky, M. Kovacevic, J.R. Peoples, J.L. Graybill, J.M. Miller, Y.-K. Kim, J.G. Nelson and W.W. Anderson. 2003. Evolutionary genomics of inversions in Drosophila pseudoobscura: Evidence for epistasis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 8319-8324.
  • Campbell, A., W.W. Anderson and E.W. Jones (eds.). 1992-2007. Annual Review of Genetics, Vols. 26-41.
  • “Beyond Bateman’s Experiment: A Test of Classical Ideas in Sexual Selection Using Modern Molecular Methods”, NSF
  • “Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Science”, NSF