Mohamed A. F. Noor

Research in my laboratory strives to understand what genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species, what maintains fitness-related variation in natural populations, and how the process of genetic recombination affects both species formation and molecular evolution. Our approaches combine classical genetic, molecular genetic, and genomic/ bioinformatic analyses, along with occasional forays into areas like animal behavior (in relation to speciation). I am also very interested in helping develop educational activities (K-12 or college) in genetics and evolution. See my lab webpage for more detailed information: https://sites.google.com/site/noorlabduke/

Education

Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1996
B.S., College of William and Mary 1992

Noor, Mohamed A. F. Live Long and Evolve What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Noor, Mohamed A. F. You're Hired! Now What? Sinauer Associates Incorporated, 2012.

McDermott, S., and M. Noor. “Hybrid Sterility.” In Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition, 579–81, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00752-X. Full Text

Korunes, Katharine L., Russell B. Myers, Ryan Hardy, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “PseudoBase: a genomic visualization and exploration resource for the Drosophila pseudoobscura subgroup. (Accepted)” Fly 15, no. 1 (December 2021): 38–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2020.1864201. Full Text

Samuk, Kieran, Brenda Manzano-Winkler, Kathryn R. Ritz, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Natural Selection Shapes Variation in Genome-wide Recombination Rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura.” Current Biology : Cb 30, no. 8 (April 9, 2020): 1517-1528.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.053. Full Text

Korunes, Katharine L., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Pervasive gene conversion in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes.” Molecular Ecology 28, no. 6 (March 2019): 1302–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14921. Full Text

Ballinger, Mallory A., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Are Lethal Alleles Too Abundant in Humans?” Trends in Genetics : Tig 34, no. 2 (February 2018): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.12.013. Full Text

Ravinet, M., R. Faria, R. K. Butlin, J. Galindo, N. Bierne, M. Rafajlović, M. A. F. Noor, B. Mehlig, and A. M. Westram. “Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30, no. 8 (August 2017): 1450–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13047. Full Text

Ritz, Kathryn R., Mohamed A. F. Noor, and Nadia D. Singh. “Variation in Recombination Rate: Adaptive or Not?” Trends in Genetics : Tig 33, no. 5 (May 2017): 364–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.03.003. Full Text

Manzano-Winkler, Brenda, Alexander J. Hish, Emily K. Aarons, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Reproductive interference by male Drosophila subobscura on female D. persimilis: A laboratory experiment.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 7 (April 2017): 2268–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2855. Full Text

Korunes, Katharine L., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Gene conversion and linkage: effects on genome evolution and speciation.” Molecular Ecology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 351–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13736. Full Text

Mittleman, Briana E., Brenda Manzano-Winkler, Julianne B. Hall, Katharine L. Korunes, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “The large X-effect on secondary sexual characters and the genetics of variation in sex comb tooth number in Drosophila subobscura.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 2 (January 2017): 533–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2634. Full Text

Noor, Mohamed A. F. “The (R)Evolution is here!.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 71, no. 1 (January 2017): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13131. Full Text