Year of arrival 1968. Professor Emeritus.
B.S., Biology, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 1964; M.S., Genetics,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1966; Ph.D., Genetics, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1968. Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics.
Genetic and developmental polymorphisms in peppered-moth larvae; the evolution
of melanism in peppered moths.
Recent
Publications:
38 publications, 1968-2009
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Grant, Bruce S. 2009. Industrial melanism. In: Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, edited by Ruse, M. and J. Travis. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 652-656.
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Noor, M.A.F., R.S. Parnell, and B.S. Grant. 2008. A Reversible Color Polyphenism in American Peppered Moth (Biston betularia cognataria) Caterpillars. PLoS ONE 3(9):e3142 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003142 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003142
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Grant, Bruce S. 2005. Industrial Melanism. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester www.els.net [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0004150]
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Grant, Bruce. 2004. Intentional Deception: Intelligent Design's Wedge of Creationism. Skeptic 11: 84-86. http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/archives/2004/04-06-01.html
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Grant, B. S. 2004. Allelic
melanism in American and British peppered moths. Journal of Heredity
95:97-102.
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Grant, Bruce. 2003. Industrial melanism,
vignette 10.3. In: Newman, M.C. and M.A. Unger, Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology
2e. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers 226-228.
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Grant, B. S. and L. L. Wiseman. 2002.
Recent history of melanism in American peppered
moths. Journal of Heredity 93:86-90.
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Grant, Bruce S. 2002. Sour grapes of wrath.
Science 297:940-941. View summary
or full-text.
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Cook, L. M. & B. S. Grant. 2000. Frequency
of insularia during the decline in melanics in the peppered moth
Biston betularia in Britain. Heredity 85: 580-585.
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Grant, Bruce S. and Cyril A. Clarke, 1999.
An examination of intraseasonal variation in the incidence of melanism
in peppered moths, Biston betularia (Geometridae). Journal
of the Lepidopterists' Society 53: 99-103.
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Grant, Bruce S. 1999. Fine
tuning the peppered moth paradigm. Evolution 53: 980-984.
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Grant, B. S., A. D. Cook, C. A. Clarke,
and D. F. Owen. 1998. Geographic and temporal variation in the incidence
of melanism in peppered moth populations in America and Britain. Journal
of Heredity 89: 465-471.
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Grant, B. S., D. F. Owen, and C. A. Clarke.
1996. Parallel rise and fall of melanic peppered moths in America and Britain.
Journal of Heredity 87: 351-357.
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Grant, Bruce, Denis F. Owen and Cyril
A. Clarke. 1995. Decline of melanic moths. Nature 373: 565.
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Asami, Takahiro and Bruce Grant. 1995.
Melanism has not evolved in Japanese Biston betularia (Geometridae).
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49: 88-91.
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Clarke, Cyril A., Bruce Grant, Frieda
M.M. Clarke and Takahiro Asami, 1994. A long term assessment of Biston
betularia (L.) in one UK locality (Caldy Common near West Kirby, Wirral),
1959-1993, and glimpses elsewhere. Linnean 10: 18-26.
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Clarke, Cyril A., Frieda M.M. Clarke and
Bruce Grant, 1993. Biston betularia (Geometridae), the peppered moth, in
Wirral, England: an experiment in assembling. Journal of the Lepidopterists'
Society 47: 17-21.
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Grant, Bruce and Rory J. Howlett. 1988.
Background selection by the peppered moth (Biston betularia Linn.): individual
differences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 33: 217-232.
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