Andrew Meade

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+44 (0) 118 378 8029
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Associate Professor
Lecturer
- Computational biology research
Teaching
- Part 2: Introduction to Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- Part 3: Research Topics in Ecology and evolution
Research centres and groups
Member of the Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- Development of BayesTraits
- Development of BayesPhylogenies
Research projects
- Funding from BBSRC, NERC
- High performance computing
- Comparative methods
- Phylogenetic inference
- Bayesian modelling
- Linguistics
Publications
- Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2022) Ancestral state reconstruction using Bayes traits. In: Luo, H. , (eds.) Environmental Microbial Evolution: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) pp. 255-266. ISSN: 1940-6029 ISBN: 9781071626900 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_12
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Pagel, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7287-8865 , O’Donovan, C.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4770-4227 , Meade, A. (2022) General statistical model shows that macroevolutionary patterns and processes are consistent with Darwinian gradualism. Nature Communications , 13 (1). pp 0. ISSN: 2041-1723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28595-z
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Johnston, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8781-4039 , Meade, A. , Ardö, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9318-0973 , Arriga, N.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5321-3497 , Black, A. , Blanken, P.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7405-2220 , Bonal, D.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9602-8603 , Brümmer, C.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6621-5010 , Cescatti, A. , Dušek, J.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6119-0838 , Graf, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4870-7622 , Gioli, B.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7631-2623 , Goded, I.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1912-325X , Gough, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1227-7731 , Ikawa, H. , Jassal, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6727-5215 , Kobayashi, H.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9319-0621 , Magliulo, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5505-6552 , Manca, G.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9376-0310 , Montagnani, L.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2957-9071 , Moyano, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4090-5838 , Olesen, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6639-1273 , Sachs, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9959-4771 , Shao, C. , Tagesson, T.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3011-1775 , Wohlfahrt, G.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3080-6702 , Wolf, S.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7717-6993 , Woodgate, W. , Varlagin, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2549-5236 , Venditti, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6776-2355 (2021) Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale.. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 5 pp. 487-494. ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01398-z
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Baker, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , Venditti, C. (2021) Nothing wrong with the analysis of clades in comparative evolutionary studies. Systematic Biology , 70 (1). pp. 197-201. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa067
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Venditti, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6776-2355 , Baker, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Benton, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4323-1824 , Meade, A. , Humphries, S.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9766-6404 (2020) 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature , 587 pp. 83-86. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8
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Wang, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7220-7305 , Meade, A. , Lam, H. , Luo, H.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8452-6066 (2020) Evolutionary timeline and genomic plasticity underlying the lifestyle diversity in rhizobiales. mSystems , 5 (4). pp 0. ISSN: 2379-5077 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00438-20
- Campoy, A. , Addamo, A. , Machordom, A. , Meade, A. , Rivadeneira, M. , Hernández, C. , Venditti, C. (2020) The origin and correlated evolution of symbiosis and coloniality in Scleractinian corals. Frontiers in Marine Science , 7 pp. 461. ISSN: 2296-7745 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00461
- Baker, J. , Humphries, S. , Ferguson-Gow, H. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. (2020) Rapid decreases in relative testes mass among monogamous birds but not in other vertebrates. Ecology Letters , 23 (2). pp. 283-292. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13431
- Yu, H. , Meade, A. , Liu, S. (2019) Phylogeny of Clostridium spp. based on conservative genes and comparisons with other trees. Microbiology , 88 (4). pp. 469-478. ISSN: 1608-3237 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S002626171904012X
- Manjunathaiah, M. , Meade, A. , Thavarajan, R. , Protopapas, P. , Dave, R. (2019) Big data scalability of bayesPhylogenies on Harvard’s ozone 12k cores. pp. 143-148.
- Pagel, M. , Beaumont, M. , Meade, A. , Verkerk, A. , Calude, A. (2019) Dominant words rise to the top by positive frequency-dependent selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 116 (15). pp. 7397-7402. ISSN: 1091-6490 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1816994116
- Kubo, T. , Sakamoto, M. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. (2019) Transitions between foot postures are associated with elevated rates of body size evolution in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 116 (7). pp. 2618-2623. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814329116
- Gougoulias, C. , Meade, A. , Shaw, L. (2018) Apportioning bacterial carbon source utilization in soil using 14C isotope analysis of FISH-targeted bacterial populations sorted by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS): 14C-FISH-FACS. Environmental Microbiology Reports , 10 (3). pp. 245-254. ISSN: 1758-2229 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12631
- O’Donovan, C. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. (2018) Dinosaurs reveal the geographical signature of an evolutionary radiation. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2 (3). pp. 452-458. ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0454-6
- Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2018) The deep history of the number words. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 373 (1740). ISSN: 0962-8436 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0517
- Tobias, J. , Sheard, C. , Seddon, N. , Meade, A. , Cotton, A. , Nakagawa, S. (2016) Territoriality, social bonds, and the evolution of communal signaling in birds. Frontiers in ecology and evolution , 4 ISSN: 2296-701X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00074
- Cooper, N. , Thomas, G. , Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Freckleton, R. (2016) A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 118 (1). pp. 64-77. ISSN: 0024-4066 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12701
- Baker, J. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , Venditti, C. (2016) Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 118 (1). pp. 95-115. ISSN: 0024-4066 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12649
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Baker, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4904-6934 , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , Venditti, C. (2015) Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 112 (16). pp. 5093-5098. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419823112
- Grollemund, R. , Branford, S. , Bostoen, K. , Meade, A. , Venditti, C. , Pagel, M. (2015) Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 112 (43). pp. 13296-13301. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503793112
- Hruschka, D. , Branford, S. , Smith, E. , Wilkins, J. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. , Bhattacharya, T. (2015) Detecting regular sound changes in linguistics as events of concerted evolution. Current Biology , 25 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.064
- Currie, T. , Meade, A. , Guillon, M. , Mace, R. (2013) Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 280 (1762). ISSN: 1471-2954 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0695
- Hernández, C. , Rodríguez-Serrano, E. , Avaria-Llautureo, J. , Inostroza-Michael, O. , Morales-Pallero, B. , Boric-Bargetto, D. , Canales-Aguirre, C. , Marquet, P. , Meade, A. (2013) Using phylogenetic information and the comparative method to evaluate hypotheses in macroecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 4 (5). pp. 401-415. ISSN: 2041-210X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12033
- Altschuler, E. , Calude, A. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. (2013) Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics. Bioessays , 35 (5). pp. 417-420. ISSN: 0265-9247 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200165
- Pagel, M. , Atkinson, Q. , Calude, A. , Meade, A. (2013) Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 110 (21). pp. 8471-8476. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1218726110
- Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. (2011) Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature , 479 pp. 393-396. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10516
- Greenhill, S. , Atkinson, Q. , Meade, A. , Gray, R. (2010) The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 277 (1693). pp. 2443-2450. ISSN: 1471-2954 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.0051
- Venditti, C. , Meade, A. , Pagel, M. (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature , 463 (7379). pp. 349-352. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08630
- Organ, . , Janes, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2009) Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles. Nature , 461 (7262). pp. 389-392. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08350
- Johnson, . , Meade, . , Alexandrov, V. (2009) A lightweight supercomputing web portal for inferring phylogenetic trees. IEEE
- Venditti, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2008) Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts. Systematic Biology , 57 (2). pp. 286-293. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150802044045
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2008) Modelling heterotachy in phylogenetic inference by reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 363 (1512). pp. 3955-3964. ISSN: 0962-8436 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0178
- Meade, . and Pagel, . (2008) A phylogenetic mixture model for heterotachy. In: Pontarotti, . , (eds.) Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application. Springer Verlag , Heidelberg. pp. 29-41 . ISBN: 9783642009518
- Atkinson, . , Meade, . , Venditti, . , Greenhill, . , Pagel, . (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science , 319 (5863). pp. 588-588. ISSN: 0036-8075 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1149683
- Atkinson, . , Meade, . , Venditti, . , Greenhill, . , Pagel, . (2008) Parsing the evolution of language - Response. Science , 320 (5875). pp. 446-446. ISSN: 0036-8075
- Pagel, . , Atkinson, . , Meade, . (2007) Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature , 449 (7163). pp. 717-U7. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06176
- Pagel, . , Meade, . , Scott, . (2007) Assembly rules for protein networks derived from phylogenetic-statistical analysis of whole genomes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology , 7 pp. 11. ISSN: 1471-2148 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-s1-s16
- Organ, . , Shedlock, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . , Edwards, . (2007) Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs. Nature , 446 (7132). pp. 180-184. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05621
- Barker, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2007) Constrained models of evolution lead to improved prediction of functional linkage from correlated gain and loss of genes. Bioinformatics , 23 (1). pp. 14-20. ISSN: 1367-4803 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btl558
- Venditti, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2006) Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology , 55 (4). pp. 637-643. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150600865567
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2006) Bayesian analysis of correlated evolution of discrete characters by reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. American Naturalist , 167 (6). pp. 808-825. ISSN: 0003-0147 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/503444
- Pagel, . , Venditti, . , Meade, . (2006) Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level. Science , 314 (5796). pp. 119-121. ISSN: 0036-8075 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1129647
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2006) Estimating rates of lexical replacement on phylogenetic trees of languages. In: Forster, . and Renfrew, . , (eds.) Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages. McDonald institute Monographs pp. 173-182. ISBN: 9781902937335
- Lester, . , Meade, . , Pagel, . (2006) The slow road to the eukaryotic genome. Bioessays , 28 (1). pp. 57-64. ISSN: 0265-9247 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.20344
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2005) Bayesian estimation of correlated evolution across cultures: a case study of marriage systems and wealth transfer at marriage. In: Mace, . , Holden, . , Shennan, . , (eds.) The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: a phylogenetic approach. University College London Press , London. pp. 235-256. ISBN: 9781844720651
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2005) Mixture models in phylogenetic inference. In: Gascuel, . , (eds.) Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny. Oxford University Press pp. 121-142. ISBN: 9780198566106
- Pagel, . and Meade, . (2004) A phylogenetic mixture model for detecting pattern-heterogeneity in gene sequence or character-state data. Systematic Biology , 53 (4). pp. 571-581. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150490468675
- Pagel, . , Meade, . , Barker, . (2004) Bayesian estimation of ancestral character states on phylogenies. Systematic Biology , 53 (5). pp. 673-684. ISSN: 1063-5157 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150490522232
- Sibly, . , Meade, . , Boxall, . , Wilkinson, . , Corne, . , Whittaker, . (2003) The structure of interrupted human AC microsatellites. Molecular Biology and Evolution , 20 (3). pp. 453-459. ISSN: 0737-4038 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msg056