MILNE, Richard - University of Edinburgh - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

1987-1988 Assistant Scientific Officer, Herbarium of Kew Gardens 1988-1991 BSc in Plant Science, University of Bristol 1991-1992 Conducted biodiversity survey in Colombian rainforest 1993-1997 PhD, University of St Andrews 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of St Andrews 2001-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow on series of four small grants written with Dr Richard Abbott, University of St Andrews 2004 Joined University of Edinburgh; NERC Research Fellow 2008-2011 Appointed as Lecturer, jointly employed by University of Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2011 Appointed as Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

研究领域

My reseach interests focus upon various areas of plant evolution, often but not always using Rhododendron as a study organism. I have published a series of papers on hybridisation in Rhododendron, which introduced to the scientific literature the novel concept of an "F1-dominated hybrid zone", in which large numbers of fertile F1 hybrids appear to exclude other genotypes from a specific habitat via superior fitness alone. My recent work on this area has involved collaborations with Chinese researchers, while my recent PhD student Tobias Marczewski conducted a detailed examination of hybrids and problematic Rhododendron taxa in Yunnan, China.

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Mao K, Hao G, Liu JQ, Adams RP, Milne RI (2010). Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus (Cupressaceae): variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals New Phytologist, 188: 254–272. Milne RI, Davies C, Prickett R, Inns LH, Chamberlain DF (2010). Phylogeny of Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes based on Chloroplast DNA markers: between-lineage hybridisation during adaptive radiation? Plant Systematics and Evolution. 285: 233-244. Zha H-G, Milne RI, Sun H. (2010). Asymmetric hybridisation in Rhododendron agastum: a hybrid taxon comprising mainly F1s in Yunnan, China. Annals of Botany 105: 89-100. Gao Z, Zhang C-Q, Milne RI (2010). Size-class structure and variation in seed and seedling traits in relation to population size of an endangered species Craigia yunnanensis (Tiliaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 58: 214–223 Ma Y, Milne RI, Zhang CQ, Yang J Zhou (2010). Unusual patterns of hybridization involving a narrow endemic Rhododendron species (Ericaceae) in Yunnan, China. American Journal of Botany, 97: 1749-1757. Qiao Q, Zhang C-Q, Milne RI (2010). Population genetics and breeding system of Tupistra pingbianensis (Liliaceae), a naturally rare plant endemic to SW China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 48: 47-57. Zha H-G, Milne RI, Sun H: Asymmetric hybridisation in Rhododendron agastum: a hybrid taxon comprising mainly F1s in Yunnan, China. Annals of Botany, provisionally accepted 22nd May, 2009 Milne RI (2009). Can upper limits be placed on divergence times in genera with few species and poor fossil records? Journal of Systematics and Evolution, in press. Zha H-G, Milne RI, Sun H (2008). Morphological and molecular evidence of natural hybridization between two distantly related Rhododendron species from the Sino-Himalaya. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 156:119-129. Milne RI, Abbott RJ (2008). Reproductive isolation among two interfertile Rhododendron species: low frequency of post-F1 hybrid genotypes in alpine hybrid zones. Molecular Ecology, 17: 1108-1121.