David Hall
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (1995) Duke University
Phone: 706-583-5476
Email: davehall@uga.edu
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Research Interests
I am interested in a variety of evolutionary questions that can be addressed using mathematical models or experimental evolution. Currently I am pursuing two main areas of research. The first addresses the evolution of chromosome architecture. Specifically, I am developing mathematical models to address the evolution of chromosome number. The results of this theory will be a set of predictions regarding the conditions in which increases or decreases of chromosome number will evolve. These predictions will be tested by examining chromosome number evolution on known phylogenies. The second area of research addresses trade-offs during adaptation. Specifically, I have adapted yeast lines to various experimental conditions by selecting for high growth rate during their diploid, asexual, life history stage. I am now testing other components of fitness in these lines by measuring sporulation ability (sexual fitness), spore viability and haploid growth rate.
  • Hall, D. W., R. Mahmoudizad, A. W. Hurd and S. B. Joseph. 2008. Spontaneous mutations in diploid yeast: another thousand cell-generations. Genetical Research 90: 229-241.
  • Hall, D. W. and T. M. Harvey. 2007. Mortality at a night roost of Great-tailed Grackles and European Starlings during a Spring hail storm. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119: 309-312.
  • Hall, D.W. and M. Kirkpatrick, 2006. Reinforcement and sex linkage. Evolution 60: 908-921.
  • Mank, J.E., D.W. Hall, M. Kirkpatrick and J.C. Avise. 2006. Sex chromosomes and male ornaments: A comparative evaluation in ray-finned fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 273: 233-236.
  • Hall, D.W. 2004. Meiotic drive and sex chromosome cycling. Evolution 58: 925-931.
  • Joseph, S. and D. W. Hall. 2004. Spontaneous mutations in diploid yeast: More beneficial than expected. Genetics 168: 1817-1825.
  • Kirkpatrick, M. K. and D. W. Hall. 2004. Male-biased mutation, sex linkage, and the rate of adaptive evolution. Evolution 58: 437-440.
  • Kirkpatrick, M. K. and D. W. Hall. 2004. Sexual selection and sex linkage. Evolution 58: 683- 691.
  • Hall, D.W. 2000. The evolution of haploid, diploid and polymorphic haploid-diploid life cycles. The role of meiotic mutation. Genetics 156: 893-896.
  • Hall, D.W., M. Kirkpatrick and B. West. 2000. Runaway sexual selection when female preferences are directly selected. Evolution 54: 1862-1869.
  • Thrall, P., J. Antonovics and D.W. Hall. 1993. Host and pathogen coexistence in sexually transmitted and vector-borne diseases characterized by frequency-dependent disease transmission. American Naturalist 142: 543-552.
  • “Epistasis in Yeast,” University of Georgia Research Foundation