个人简历

Dr Anita Malhotra is a molecular ecologist and evolutionary geneticist. She developed the first robust molecular phylogenies for Asian pitvipers based on both mitchodondrial and nuclear markers, revealing new cryptic species and resulting in the radical revision of the taxonomy of the group (funded by the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, and NERC). More recently, she has used this phylogeny to test hypotheses about the evolution of specific venom components such as the phospholipase A2 enzymes (funded by NERC), using a multidisciplinary genomic, proteomic and functional approach. She has active collaborations all over the world with other academic institutions and research-based SMEs (particularly in Europe, India, China and Japan). She has also studied the molecular ecology and population genetics of island lizards to investigate the dynamics of natural selection, vicariance and evolutionary response to changing environmental conditions, including that experienced by invasive species such as Anolis cristatellus in Dominica, West Indies. Both aspects of the work have attracted media attention and been covered by BBC Wildlife, the Sunday Telegraph, and Radio 4 as well as in local news media. More recently, she has been involved in investigation of honeybee genetics, both in relation to tracking the results of bee breeding programs for stock improvement as well as providing genetic tools for distinguishing between native and imported races of honeybees in the UK.
Offices held
CNS Graduate School Director
Committees:
SBS Research Committee
SBS Board of Studies
SBS Executive Committee
Groups:
SBS Academic Staff
SBS Teaching Staff

近期论文

Malhotra A, Simon Creer, John B. Harris, Reto Stöcklin, Philippe Favreau, Roger S. Thorpe. 2013. Predicting function from sequence in a large multifunctional toxin family. Toxicon, 72:113-25. Doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.06.019.
Böhm M., Collen B., Baillie J.E.M., Chanson J., Cox N., Hammerson G., Hoffmann M., Livingstone S.R. Ram M., Rhodin A.G.J., Stuart S.N., van Dijk P. P., Young B., Afuang L.E., Aghasyan A., Aguayo A.G., Aguilar C., Ajtic R., Akarsu F., Alencar L.R.V., Allison A., Ananjeva N., Anderson S., Andrén C., Ariano Sánchez D., Arredondo J.C., Auliya M., Austin C.C., Avci A., Baker P.J., Barreto-Lima A.F., Barrio-Amorós C.L., Basu D., Bates M.F., Batistella A., Bauer A., Bennett D., Böhme W., Broadley D., Brown R., Burgess J., Captain A., Carreira S., Castaneda M.R., Castro F., Catenazzi A., Cedeño-Vázquez J.R., Chapple D., Cheylan M., Cisneros-Heredia D.F., Cogalniceanu D., Cogger H., Corti C., Costa G.C., Couper P.J., Courtney T., Crnobrnja-Isailovic J., Crochet P.-A., Crother B., Cruz F., Daltry J., Daniels R.J.R., Das I., de Silva A., Diesmos A.C., Dirksen L., Doan T.M., Dodd K., Doody J.S., Dorcas M.E., Duarte de Barros Filho J., Egan V.T., El Mouden E.H., Embert D., Espinoza R.E., Fallabrino A., Feng X., Feng Z.-J., Fitzgerald L., Flores-Villela O., França F.G.R., Frost D., Gadsden H., Gamble T., Ganesh S.R., Garcia M.A., García-Pérez J.E., Gatus J., Gaulke M., Geniez P., Georges A., Gerlach J., Goldberg S., Gonzalez J.-C.T., Gower D.J., Grant T., Greenbaum E., Grieco C., Guo P., Hamilton A.M., Hammerson G., Hare K., Hedges B., Heideman N., Hilton-Taylor C., Hitchmough R., Hoffmann M., Hollingsworth B., Hutchinson M., Ineich I., Iverson J., Jaksic F.M., Jenkins R., Joger U., Jose R., Kaska Y., Kaya U., Keogh J.S., Köhler G., Kuchling G., Kumlutaş Y., Kwet A., La Marca E., Lamar W., Lane A., Lardner B., Latta C., Latta G., Lau M., Lavin P., Lawson D., LeBreton M., Lehr E., Limpus D., Lipczynski N., Livingstone S., Lobo A.S., López-Luna M.A., Luiselli L., Lukoschek V., Lundberg M., Lymberakis P., Macey R., Magnusson W.E., Mahler D.L., Malhotra A., Mariaux J., Maritz B., Marques O.A.V., Márquez R., Martins M., Masterson G., Mateo J.A., Mathew R., Mathews N., Mayer G., McCranie J.R., Measey G.J., Mendoza-Quijano F., Menegon M., Métrailler S., Milton D.A., Montgomery C., Morato S.A.A., Mott T., Muñoz-Alonso A., Murphy J., Nguyen T.Q., Nilson G., Nogueira C., Nunez H., Orlov N., Ota H., Ottenwalder J., Papenfuss T., Pasachnik S., Passos P., Pauwels O.S.G., Pérez-Buitrago N., Pérez-Mellado V., Pianka E.R., Pleguezuelos J., Pollock C., Ponce-Campos P., Powell R., Pupin F., Quintero Díaz G.E., Radder R., Ramer J., Rasmussen A.R., Raxworthy C., Reynolds R., Richman N., Rico E.L., Riservato E., Rivas G., Rocha P.L.B., Rödel M.-O., Rodríguez Schettino L., Roosenburg W.M., Sadek R., Sanders K., Santos-Barrera G., Schleich H.H., Schmidt B.R., Schmitz A., Sharifi M., Shea G., Shi H., Shine R., Sindaco R., Slimani T., Somaweera R., Stafford P., Stuebing R., Sweet S., Sy E., Temple H., Tognielli M.F., Tolley K., Tolson P.J., Tuniyev B., Tuniyev S., Üzüm N., van Buurt G., Van Sluys M., Velasco A., Vences M., Veselý M., Vinke S., Vinke T., Vogel G., Vogrin M., Vogt R.C., Wearn O.R., Werner Y.L., Whiting M.J., Wiewandt T., Wilkinson J., Wilson B., Wren S., Zamin T., Zhou K., Zug G. (2013) The Conservation Status of the World’s Reptiles. Biological Conservation, 157, 372–385.
Malhotra, A., K. Dawson, P. Guo, R.S. Thorpe. 2011. Phylogenetic structure and species boundaries in the mountain pitviper Ovophis monticola (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) in Asia. Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 59(2):444-57; doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.02.010.
Malhotra, A. Stuart BL, Mrinalini, Thorpe RS. 2011. Two New Species of Pitviper of the Genus Cryptelytrops Cope 1860 (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa, 2757: 1–23.
Guo, P. Liu Q., Li C., Chen X, Jiang K, Wang Y.Z., Malhotra, A. 2011. Molecular phylogeography of Jerdon’s pitviper (Protobothrops jerdonii): importance of the uplift of the Tibetan plateau. J. Biogeog., 38: 2326-2336.
Malhotra, A., S. Creer, C.E. Pook, R.S. Thorpe. 2010. Inclusion of nuclear intron sequence data helps to identify the Asian sister group of New World pitvipers. Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 54: 172–178.
Eales, J., R.S. Thorpe, and A. Malhotra. 2010. Colonisation history and genetic diversity: adaptive potential in early stage invasions. Mol. Ecol., 19: 2858–2869.
Dawson, K., R.S. Thorpe, and A. Malhotra. 2010. Estimating Genetic Variability in Non-Model Taxa: A General Procedure for Discriminating Sequence Errors from Actual Variation. PLoS ONE, 5(12): e15204.
Guo, P., A Malhotra, S Creer, CE Pook. 2009. An evaluation of the systematic value of skull morphology in the Trimeresurus radiation (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) of Asian pitvipers. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 47: 378–384.
Guo, P., RC Jadin, A Malhotra, C Li. 2009. An investigation of the cranial evolution of Asian pitvipers (Serpentes: Crotalinae), with comments on the phylogenetic position of Peltopelor macrolepis. Acta Zoologica, doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00413.x.
Guo P, A Malhotra, C Li, S Creer, CE Pook, T Wen. 2009. Systematics of the Protobothrops jerdonii complex (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae) inferred from morphometric data and molecular phylogeny. Herpetological J., 19: 85-96.
Guo P, A Malhotra, RS Thorpe, S Creer, CE Pook. 2009. Comments on the systematic status of specimens belonging to the genus Viridovipera (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of southwestern China, with special reference to V. yunnanensis. Herpetological J., 19:151-162.