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Lin Chao is a
Chinese Brazilian American
evolutionary biologist and
geneticist. Chao gained his
PhD in 1977 from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, as a student of Bruce R. Levin (now at
Emory University), and was a
NIH postdoctoral fellow at
Princeton University in the laboratory of Edward C. Cox. He spent most of his career in the Department of Biology of the
University of Maryland, College Park and is currently at the
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section of the
University of California, San Diego.
Chao is best known for his early work on the evolution of
bacteriocins,
[1] his demonstration of
Muller’s ratchet in the
RNA Virus Phi-6
[2] and his work on sex in viruses.
[3] More recently, he was instrumental in the demonstration of the evolution of parasitic genetic elements in co-infecting
bacteriophages
[4]
[5] and experimental tests of
Fisher's geometric model.
[6] He argued that "
life is
evolution by
natural selection".
[7] The approach generally used in his laboratory is called microbial
experimental evolution.
Chao is married to
Camilla Rang, a fellow scientist, T-shirt designer and Swedish children's book author.
- UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award (2014)
[8]
References
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^ Chao, L.; Levin, B. R. (1 October 1981).
"Structured habitats and the evolution of anticompetitor toxins in bacteria". PNAS. 78 (10): 6324–6328.
Bibcode:
1981PNAS...78.6324C.
doi:
10.1073/pnas.78.10.6324.
PMC
349031.
PMID
7031647.
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^ Chao, Lin (29 November 1990). "Fitness of RNA virus decreased by Muller's ratchet". Nature. 348 (6300): 454–455.
Bibcode:
1990Natur.348..454C.
doi:
10.1038/348454a0.
PMID
2247152.
S2CID
4235839.
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^ Chao, Lin; Tran, Thu T.; Tran, Thutrang T. (1 November 1997).
"The Advantage of Sex in the RNA Virus φ6". Genetics. 147 (3): 953–959.
doi:
10.1093/genetics/147.3.953.
PMC
1208270.
PMID
9383044.
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^ Turner, Paul E.; Chao, Lin (1 April 1999). "Prisoner's dilemma in an RNA virus". Nature. 398 (6726): 441–443.
Bibcode:
1999Natur.398..441T.
doi:
10.1038/18913.
PMID
10201376.
S2CID
4422956.
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^ Chao, L; Hanley, K. A.; Burch, C. L.; Dahlberg, C; Turner, P. E. (2000).
"Kin selection and parasite evolution: Higher and lower virulence with hard and soft selection". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 75 (3): 261–75.
doi:
10.1086/393499.
JSTOR
2665189.
PMID
11008699.
S2CID
24404768.
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^ Burch, Christina L.; Chao, Lin (1 March 1999).
"Evolution by Small Steps and Rugged Landscapes in the RNA Virus ϕ6". Genetics. 151 (3): 921–927.
doi:
10.1093/genetics/151.3.921.
PMC
1460516.
PMID
10049911.
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^ Chao, LIN (2000).
"The Meaning of Life". BioScience. 50 (3): 245–250.
doi:
10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0245:tmol]2.3.co;2.
JSTOR
[0245:tmol2.3.co;2 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0245:tmol]2.3.co;2].
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^
"40th Faculty Excellence Awards Honors Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service".
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