| Citation | His primary aim has been the analysis of the organisation and evolution of animal genes, to understand the processes of gene evolution, the generation of gene novelty and basic evolutionary behaviour of nuclear DNA in terms of function and population variability. This has included the development of techniques for the detection, isolation and location of genes, the discovery of split genes, the first systematic analysis of variability at the DNA level, analyses of gene cluster evolution and of the complex histories of pseudogenes and the first isolation of the myoglobin gene. His work has extension to the molecular analysis of genetic abnormalities in man. |