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PhD Genetics University of California, Davis
Bachelors Biology University of California, Davis

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According to Wikipedia, Margaret Gale Kidwell is a British American evolutionary biologist and Regents' Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She grew up on a farm in the English Midlands during World War II. After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 1953, she worked in the British Civil Service as an Agricultural Advisory Officer from 1955 to 1960. She moved to the US in 1960 under the auspices of a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to study Genetics and Statistics at Iowa State University. She married quantitative geneticist James F. Kidwell in 1961, obtained her MS degree in 1962 and moved with her husband to Brown University in 1963. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of Masatoshi Nei. From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of anomalous genetic phenomena in Drosophila which later lead to collaborative studies resulting in the discovery of hybrid dysgenesis and the isolation of transposable P elements. After appointment as Professor of Biology at Brown University in 1984 she moved to the University of Arizona in 1985 as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Additional positions included Chair of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program from 1988 to 1991 and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 1992 to 1997. Research at the University of Arizona has increasingly focused on the evolutionary significance of transposable genetic elements.

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Margaret Kidwell's Published Works

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Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: A Syndrome of Aberrant Traits Including Mutation, Sterility and Male Recombination. (1977) (780)
PERSPECTIVE: TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS, PARASITIC DNA, AND GENOME EVOLUTION (2001) (612)
Transposable elements and the evolution of genome size in eukaryotes (2002) (571)
Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants. (1997) (556)
The molecular basis of P-M hybrid dysgenesis: The role of the P element, a P-strain-specific transposon family (1982) (530)
The molecular basis of P-M hybrid dysgenesis: The nature of induced mutations (1982) (442)
Evidence for horizontal transmission of the P transposable element between Drosophila species. (1990) (413)
Evolution of hybrid dysgenesis determinants in Drosophila melanogaster. (1983) (302)
Molecular characteristics of diverse populations are consistent with the hypothesis of a recent invasion of Drosophila melanogaster by mobile P elements. (1988) (235)
CHAPTER 9 – Hybrid Dysgenesis Determinants (1983) (221)
KP elements repress P‐induced hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1987) (207)
Lateral transfer in natural populations of eukaryotes. (1993) (188)
A phylogenetic perspective on P transposable element evolution in Drosophila. (1997) (137)
Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: Sterility Resulting from Gonadal Dysgenesis in the P-M System. (1979) (130)
Horizontal transfer and selection in the evolution of P elements. (2000) (129)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster : the relationship between the P – M and I – R interaction systems (1979) (125)
Phylogenetic analysis supports horizontal transfer of P transposable elements. (1994) (113)
Horizontal transfer (1992) (113)
Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: Morphological and Cytological Studies of Ovarian Dysgenesis. (1979) (111)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: nature and inheritance of P element regulation. (1985) (105)
Transposable elements as population drive mechanisms: specification of critical parameter values. (1994) (101)
Mobile elements and chromosomal evolution in the virilis group of Drosophila. (2000) (83)
Horizontal transfer of P elements and other short inverted repeat transposons (2004) (80)
P Element-Mediated Transformation with the rosy Gene in Drosophila melanogaster (1995) (79)
Selection for male recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. (1976) (79)
Phylogeny of the subgenus sophophora (Diptera: drosophilidae) based on combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial sequences. (2002) (77)
Can transposable elements be used to drive disease refractoriness genes into vector populations? (1992) (76)
Genetic transformation of Drosophila melanogaster with an autonomous P element: phenotypic and molecular analyses of long-established transformed lines. (1987) (72)
Genetic change of recombination value in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Artificial selection for high and low recombination and some properties of recombination-modifying genes. (1972) (72)
Transposable Elements as Sources of Genomic Variation (2002) (70)
Non-mendelian female sterility and hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1978) (69)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: the genetics of cytotype determination in a neutral strain. (1981) (68)
Phylogeny of the Drosophila saltans species group based on combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. (1998) (62)
Rapid unidirectional change of hybrid dysgenesis potential in Drosophila. (1981) (61)
Cytoplasm–chromosome interactions in Drosophila melanogaster (1975) (60)
The Wilhelmine E. Key 1991 Invitational Lecture. The evolutionary history of the P family of transposable elements. (1994) (55)
Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: Factors Affecting Chromosomal Contamination in the P-M System. (1983) (54)
The Structure and Evolution of Penelope in the virilis Species Group of Drosophila: An Ancient Lineage of Retroelements (2001) (52)
CHAPTER 3 – Transposable Elements (2005) (50)
Distribution and evolution of mobile elements in the virilis species group of Drosophila (1999) (50)
Reciprocal differences in female recombination associated with hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1977) (49)
Molecular analysis of the P-M gonadal dysgenesis cline in eastern Australian Drosophila melanogaster. (1988) (45)
Differences in P element population dynamics between the sibling species Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. (1994) (44)
Molecular evolution of P transposable elements in the genus Drosophila. I. The saltans and willistoni species groups. (1995) (43)
Spontaneous non-reciprocal mutation and sterility in strain crosses of Drosophila melanogaster (1977) (40)
Spontaneous male recombination and mutation in isogenic-derived chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. (1975) (38)
The P-M hybrid dysgenesis cline in Eastern Australian Drosophila melanogaster: discrete P, Q and M regions are nearly contiguous. (1987) (36)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: the evolution of mixed P and M populations maintained at high temperature. (1984) (36)
Testing transposable elements as genetic drive mechanisms using Drosophila P element constructs as a model system (2004) (35)
Invasion of Drosophila virilis by the Penelope transposable element (2000) (33)
Dynamics of correlated genetic systems. I. Selection in the region of the Glued locus of Drosophila melanogaster. (1976) (31)
Hybrid genetics: Transposons unbound (1998) (30)
Drosophila mediopunctata P elements: a new example of horizontal transfer. (2001) (29)
Penelope retroelements from Drosophila virilis are active after transformation of Drosophila melanogaster (2002) (29)
Molecular evolution of P transposable elements in the genus Drosophila. III. The melanogaster species group. (1998) (29)
Evolution of hybrid dysgenesis potential following P element contamination in Drosophila melanogaster. (1988) (27)
Transposon-induced hotspots for genomic instability. (2001) (26)
A case of high rate of spontaneous mutation affecting viability in Drosophila melanogaster. (1973) (26)
Vege and Mar: two novel hAT MITE families from Drosophila willistoni. (2003) (26)
A P element‐homologous sequence in the house fly, Musca domestica (1999) (25)
Voyage of an ancient mariner (1993) (25)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila simulans lines transformed with autonomous P elements. (1989) (24)
Genetic change of recobination value in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Simulated natural selection. (1972) (24)
On the Problem of Correcting Albumen Quality Measures for Egg Weight (1964) (19)
Distribution of Drosophila melanogaster transposable element sequences in species of the obscura group (1992) (19)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: partial sterility associated with embryo lethality in the P-M system. (1984) (16)
GENETIC CHANGE OF RECOMBINATION VALUE IN (1972) (16)
How valuable are model organisms for transposable element studies? (2004) (14)
Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements (2002) (13)
MOLECULAR AND PHENOTYPIC ASPECTS OF THE EVOLUTION OF HYBRID DYSGENESIS SYSTEMS (1986) (13)
An important step forward in the genetic manipulation of mosquito vectors of human disease. (1998) (13)
Variation of the recombination fraction in Drosophila melanogaster females. (1977) (11)
Molecular Evolution of P Transposable Elements in the Genus Drosophila. II. The obscura Species Group (1998) (11)
Variation Among Commercial Strains of Chickens in Loss of Egg Albumen Quality (1964) (9)
POPULATION DYNAMICS OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS: COPY NUMBER REGULATION AND SPECIES INVASION REQUIREMENTS (2005) (9)
Evolutionary aspects of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila. (1990) (8)
The Structure and Evolutionary Role of the PenelopeMobile Element in the Drosophila virilisSpecies Group (2001) (7)
Transposable elements in commercially useful insects: I. Southern hybridization study of silkworms and honeybees using Drosophila probes. (1993) (7)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: no suppressor-X effect on male recombination (1978) (7)
Evolutionary biology. Voyage of an ancient mariner. (1993) (5)
Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: synthesis of RP strains by chromosomal contamination. (1986) (5)
[Structure and evolutionary role of the Penelope mobile element in Drosophila species of the virilis group]. (2001) (4)
Keeping Pace with Opportunistic DNA (2002) (3)
SELECTION FOR MALE RECOMBINATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTERl (2003) (2)
Dynamics of correlated genetic systems III. Behaviour of chromosomal segments under lethal selection (1978) (2)
Dynamics of natural selection on a lethal fourth chromosome of Drosophila. Twelve-generation study of experimental populations of D. melanogaster. (1979) (1)
[The unusual mobile element Penelope and its behavior in distant Drosophila species]. (2003) (1)
Reply to Eichner & Kiszewski (1995) (1)
Transposable elements in commercially useful insects: I. Southern hybridization study of silkworms and honeybees using Drosophila probes (1993) (1)
Molecular evolution of mariner-like elements in the genus Drosophila: the obscura species group (2011) (0)
Evolution of hybrid dysgenesis det4 Drosophila melanogaster (transposable elements/non-Mendelian inheritance/geographic varial (2016) (0)
The Unusual Transposable Element Penelope and Its Behavior in Distant Drosophila Species (2003) (0)
Population genetics of genes with chromosomal inversions in the Anopheles gambiae complex (1995) (0)

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