Prof Thomas Meagher

Prof Thomas Meagher

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3364
Email
trm3@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Plant evolutionary biology, genealogical reconstruction and analysis (likelihood-based paternity and parentage analysis), quantitative genetics, sexual dimorphism, linkages between molecular variation and phenotypic evolution, ecological and genetic bases for population differentiation and speciation, conservation biology and biodiversity, risk assessment of gene flow and its consequences in genetically modified organisms, public understanding of science.

Professor Meagher has been appointed as the interim Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee .

PhD supervision

  • Luisa Lucresia De Sales Ribeiro

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Lucresia, L., Meagher, T. R. & Sano, P. T., 18 Aug 2025, In: Acta Botanica Brasilica. 39, p. 1-20 20 p., e20240279.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Martin, E., Knotts, S., Phillips, M., Weise, N., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 27 May 2024, In: Evolution Education and Outreach . 17, 6, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Martin, E., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 1 Dec 2024, In: Biological Conservation. 300, 12 p., 110852.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Bain, S., Plaisier, H., Anderson, F., Cook, N., Crouch, K., Meagher, T. R., Ritchie, M. G., Wallace, E. & Barker, D., 20 Jan 2022, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 18, 1, 12 p., e1009705.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Plaisier, H., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 15 Jul 2021, In: BMC Research Notes. 14, 4 p., 273.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Bianchi, M. B., Meagher, T. R. & Gibbs, P. E., 7 May 2021, In: Annals of Botany. 127, 6, p. 723–736 mcab031.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Srivastava, D. S., Winter, M., Gross, L. J., Metzger, J. P., Baron, J. S., Mouquet, N., Meagher, T. R., Halpern, B. S. & Pillar, V. D., 1 Sept 2021, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 5, 9, p. 1188-1189 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Open access
    Martin, E., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 23 Sept 2021, In: BMC Bioinformatics. 22, 17 p., 456.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Meagher, T. R., 1 Dec 2020, In: Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. 4, 1, p. 183-186 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

  • Open access
    Bain, S., Meagher, T. R. & Barker, D., 26 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Biological Education. Latest Articles, 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review