Suresh Jayakar
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Suresh Dinker Jayakar was an Indian biologist who pioneered in the use of quantitative approaches in genetics and biology.
He studied Mathematical Statistics, Physics and mathematics at the University of Lucknow and joined the Indian Statistical Institute
in 1959 where he met J. B. S. Haldane
who had just moved to India. He moved to Orissa when Haldane moved. He became the director of the Genetics and Biometry Laboratory after Haldane's death. He made many studies on Yellow-wattled Lapwing
s along with Haldane's wife Helen Spurway
. He also made studies on quantitative genetics, sex-determination mechanisms.
He began work with J. B. S. Haldane working on quantitative aspects of genetics and biology. After Haldane's death, he moved to Italy at the invitation of Luca Cavalli Sforza
at the University of Pavia. Haldane considered him as a star who would rise in the "Indian scientific firmament".
He studied Mathematical Statistics, Physics and mathematics at the University of Lucknow and joined the Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute is a public research institute and university in Kolkata's northern outskirt of Baranagar, India founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1931...
in 1959 where he met J. B. S. Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...
who had just moved to India. He moved to Orissa when Haldane moved. He became the director of the Genetics and Biometry Laboratory after Haldane's death. He made many studies on Yellow-wattled Lapwing
Yellow-wattled Lapwing
The Yellow-wattled Lapwing, Vanellus malabaricus, is a lapwing, a group of medium sized waders in the family Charadriidae. It is a non-migratory breeder restricted to the Indian Subcontinent and is found on the dry plains. Although they do not migrate, they are known to make seasonal movements in...
s along with Haldane's wife Helen Spurway
Helen Spurway
Helen Spurway was a biologist and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with Haldane and conducted research in field biology along with Suresh Jayakar and others....
. He also made studies on quantitative genetics, sex-determination mechanisms.
He began work with J. B. S. Haldane working on quantitative aspects of genetics and biology. After Haldane's death, he moved to Italy at the invitation of Luca Cavalli Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 .-Books:...
at the University of Pavia. Haldane considered him as a star who would rise in the "Indian scientific firmament".
Publications
A partial list of publications includes:- Haldane J. B. S. and Jayakar S. D. 1963 Polymorphism due to selection of varying direction. J. Genet. 58; 237-242
- Haldane J. B. S. and Jayakar S. D. 1963 Polymorphism due to selection depending on the composition of a population. J. Genet. 58: 318-323
- Haldane J. B. S. and Jayakar S. D. 1965 Selection for a single pair of allelomorphs with complete replacement, J. Genet. 59: 81-87
- Jayakar S. D. 1963 Proterandry. in solitary wasps. Nature (London) 198: 208-209
- Jayakar S. D. 1970 A mathematical model for interaction of gene frequencies in a parasite and its host. Theor. Pop. Biol. 1: 140-164
- Jayakar S.. D. 1970 On the detection and estimation of linkage between a locus influencing a quantitative character and a marker locus. Biometrics 26: 451-464
- Jayakar S. D. 1987 Some two locus models for the evolution of sex-determining mechanisms. Theor. Pop. Biol. 32: 188-215
- Jayakar S. D. and Cavalli-Sforza L. L. 1986 Gene frequency variation, population genetic structure, and natural selection. In African pygmies (ed.) L. L. Cavalli-Sforza (New York: Academic Press) pp. 319–338