Emmanuel Ladoukakis
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

+44 (0)1273 872954

5B21 JMS Building

Supervisor

Dr Adam Eyre-Walker

Mutational processes

I am interested in the role of mutational processes in genome evolution. I am planning to investigate if sequence- or template- directed mutagenesis is prevalent in the human genome, whether it causes disease associated mutations and whether it is responsible for compensatory evolution. Finally, I will investigate if there is variation in the mutation rate on a fine scale, such that adjacent bases can have different mutation rates.

Selected publications

Ladoukakis E.D., M. Dramountani, D. Margaritoulis and E. Zouros. 2004. Microsatellite scoring of dead hatchlings from Greek beaches reveals no nesting-site related population structure in the endangered sea turtle Caretta caretta. (Submitted).

Rokas A., Ladoukakis E.D. And E. Zouros 2003. Animal mitochondrial DNA recombination revisited. TREE 18:411-417. PDF

Ladoukakis E.D., C. Saavedra A. Magoulas and E. Zouros. 2002. Mitochondrial DNA variation in a species with two mitochondrial genomes: the case of Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Molecular Ecology 11: 755-769. PDF

Touraki M., Ladoukakis M. and C. Prokopiou. 2001. High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of oxolinic acid and flumequine in the live fish feed Artemia. J. of Chromatography B 751: 247-256. PDF

Ladoukakis E.D. and E. Zouros. 2001. Direct evidence for homologous recombination in mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) mitochondrial DNA. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18: 1168-1175. PDF

Ladoukakis E.D. and E. Zouros. 2001. Recombination in animal mitochondrial DNA: evidence from published sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18: 2127-2131. PDF

Sawidis T., Stratis G., and E.D Ladoukakis. 1993. Mosses as biological indicators for monitoring of heavy metal pollution. Fresenius Envir. Bull. 2:193-199