Will Goodall-Copestake
BAS Honorary Researcher
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Will Goodall-Copestake
BAS Honorary Researcher
Biography
From 2006 to 2019 I worked as a Population Geneticist at the British Antarctic Survey and have subsequently held positions as a Molecular Ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lecturer in Biological Oceanography at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, and most recently as Barcoding Network Manager and Communications Lead at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
While at BAS I worked on the characterisation of Antarctic and South Atlantic biodiversity using DNA methods. Based within the Ecosystems team, this involved researching pelagic biodiversity, in particular fish, krill and salps. Through cross-over with the Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation team, I also participated in projects studying fungi and plants within terrestrial settings, and continental and island shelf benthos such as brittle stars.
I remain active in the research of both marine and terrestrial biodiversity through ongoing collaborations with multiple scientists across BAS.
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Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2024
Newsham, K.K. ORCID record for K.K. Newsham, Foot, G.W. ORCID record for G.W. Foot, Sands, C.J. ORCID record for C.J. Sands, Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake. (2024) A cosmopolitan Serendipita forms mycothalli with sub-Antarctic leafy liverworts. Fungal Biology, 128 (). 10 pp. 10.1016/j.funbio.2023.11.006
Acuña-Rodríguez, Ian S., Newsham, Kevin K. ORCID record for Kevin K. Newsham, Convey, Peter ORCID record for Peter Convey, Biersma, Elisabeth M. ORCID record for Elisabeth M. Biersma, Ballesteros, Gabriel I., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Goodall-Copestake, Will ORCID record for Will Goodall-Copestake, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.. (2024) The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 188 (). pp. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109249
2021
Newsham, Kevin K. ORCID record for Kevin K. Newsham, Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake. (2021) Liverworts frequently form mycothalli on Spitsbergen in the High Arctic. Polar Research, 40 (). 13 pp. 10.33265/polar.v40.7727
2020
Biersma, Elisabeth M. ORCID record for Elisabeth M. Biersma, Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Newsham, Kevin K. ORCID record for Kevin K. Newsham, Vidal, Marcela A., Collado, Gonzalo A., Acuña-Rodríguez, Ian S., Ballesteros, Gabriel I., Figueroa, Christian C., Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake, Leppe, Marcelo A., Cuba-Díaz, Marely, Valladares, Moisés A., Pertierra, Luis R., Convey, Peter ORCID record for Peter Convey. (2020) Multiple late-Pleistocene colonisation events of the Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis (Caryophyllaceae) reveal the recent arrival of native Antarctic vascular flora. Journal of Biogeography, 47 (). pp. 10.1111/jbi.13843
Halsband, C., Ahyong, S.T., Brandt, A., Kosobokova, K., Ward, P., Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Macpherson, E.. (2020) Biogeography of the oceans.. In: Thiel, M., Poore, G. (eds.). Evolution and Biogeography: Volume 8, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 33 pp. (The Natural History of the Crustacea, ). 10.1093/oso/9780190637842.003.0006
2019
Pérez-Espona, Sílvia, Goodall-Copestake, William Paul ORCID record for William Paul Goodall-Copestake, Savirina, Anna, Bobovikova, Jekaterina, Molina-Rubio, Carles, Pérez-Barbería, F. Javier. (2019) First assessment of MHC diversity in wild Scottish red deer populations. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 65 (). pp. 10.1007/s10344-019-1254-x
2018
Barnes, David K.A. ORCID record for David K.A. Barnes, Morley, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Morley, Bell, J., Brewin, P., Bridgen, K., Collins, M., Glass, T., Goodall-Copestake, Will P. ORCID record for Will P. Goodall-Copestake, Henry, L., Laptikhovsky, V., Piechaud, N., Richardson, A., Rose, P., Sands, Chester J. ORCID record for Chester J. Sands, Schofield, A., Shreeve, R., Small, A., Stamford, T., Taylor, B.. (2018) Marine plastics threatens giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas. Current Biology, 28 (). pp. 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.064
Goodall-Copestake, Will ORCID record for Will Goodall-Copestake. (2018) nrDNA:mtDNA copy number ratios as a comparative metric for evolutionary and conservation genetics. Heredity, 121 (). pp. 10.1038/s41437-018-0088-8
Pérez-Espona, S., Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Berghoff, S.M., Edwards, K.J., Franks, N.R.. (2018) Army imposters: diversification of army ant-mimicking beetles with their Eciton hosts. Insectes Sociaux, 65 (). pp. 10.1007/s00040-017-0588-1
2017
Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake. (2017) One tunic but more than one barcode: evolutionary insights from dynamic mitochondrial DNA in Salpa thompsoni (Tunicata: Salpida). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 120 (). pp. 10.1111/bij.12915
2016
Dickinson, Iain, Goodall-Copestake, William ORCID record for William Goodall-Copestake, Thorne, Michael A.S. ORCID record for Michael A.S. Thorne, Schlitt, Thomas, Ávila-Jiménez, Maria L., Pearce, David A. ORCID record for David A. Pearce. (2016) Extremophiles in an Antarctic Marine Ecosystem. Microorganisms, 4 (). 18 pp. doi:10.3390/microorganisms4010008
2015
Seear, P.J., Rosato, E., Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Barber, I.. (2015) The molecular evolution of spiggin nesting glue in sticklebacks. Molecular Ecology, 24 (). pp. doi:10.1111/mec.13317
2014
Newsham, K.K. ORCID record for K.K. Newsham, Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Ochyra, R., Vana, J.. (2014) Mycothalli of the hepatic Barbilophozia hatcheri in Antarctica: distribution and identities of mycobionts. Fungal Ecology, 11 (). pp. 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.05.001
Goodall-Copestake, W. P. ORCID record for W. P. Goodall-Copestake. (2014) Morphological and molecular characterization of salps (Thalia spp.) from the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Journal of Plankton Research, 36 (). pp. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu013
2012
Seear, Paul J., Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake, Fleming, Andrew H. ORCID record for Andrew H. Fleming, Rosato, Ezio, Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling. (2012) Seasonal and spatial influences on gene expression in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 467 (). pp. doi:10.3354/meps09947
Nielsen, Johanna F., English, Sinead, Goodall-Copestake, Will P. ORCID record for Will P. Goodall-Copestake, Wang, Jinliang, Walling, Craig A., Bateman, Andrew W., Flower, Tom P., Sutcliffe, Robert L., Samson, Jamie, Thavarajah, Nathan K., Kruuk, Loeske. E. B., Clutton-Brock, Tim H., Pemberton, Josephine M.. (2012) Inbreeding and inbreeding depression of early life traits in a cooperative mammal. Molecular Ecology, 21 (). pp. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05565.x
Leese, Florian, Brand, Philipp, Rozenberg, Andrey, Mayer, Christoph, Agrawal, Shobhit, Dambach, Johannes, Dietz, Lars, Doemel, Jana S., Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake, Held, Christoph, Jackson, Jennifer A. ORCID record for Jennifer A. Jackson, Lampert, Kathrin P., Linse, Katrin ORCID record for Katrin Linse, Macher, Jan N., Nolzen, Jennifer, Raupach, Michael J., Rivera, Nicole T., Schubart, Christoph D., Striewski, Sebastian, Tollrian, Ralph, Sands, Chester J. ORCID record for Chester J. Sands. (2012) Exploring Pandora’s Box: potential and pitfalls of low coverage genome surveys for evolutionary biology. PLoS One, 7 (). 19 pp. 10.1371/journal.pone.0049202
Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Tarling, G.A. ORCID record for G.A. Tarling, Murphy, E.J. ORCID record for E.J. Murphy. (2012) On the comparison of population-level estimates of haplotype and nucleotide diversity: a case study using the gene cox1 in animals. Heredity, 109 (). pp. 10.1038/hdy.2012.12
2010
Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling, Ensor, Natalie S., Fregin, Torsten, Goodall-Copestake, Will P. ORCID record for Will P. Goodall-Copestake, Fretwell, Peter ORCID record for Peter Fretwell. (2010) An introduction to the biology of Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica Sars). In: Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling (eds.). The biology of Northern krill, London, Academic Press, pp. (Advances in Marine Biology, ).
Seear, Paul J., Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling, Burns, Gavin, Goodall-Copestake, Will P. ORCID record for Will P. Goodall-Copestake, Gaten, Edward, Ozkaya, Ozge, Rosato, Ezio. (2010) Differential gene expression during the moult cycle of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). BMC Genomics, 11 (). 13 pp. 10.1186/1471-2164-11-582
Goodall-Copestake, WP ORCID record for WP Goodall-Copestake, Perez-Espona, S, Clark, MS ORCID record for MS Clark, Murphy, EJ ORCID record for EJ Murphy, Seear, PJ, Tarling, GA ORCID record for GA Tarling. (2010) Swarms of diversity at the gene cox1 in Antarctic krill. Heredity, 104 (). pp. 10.1038/hdy.2009.188
2009
Perez-Espona, S., Perez-Barberia, F.J., Goodall-Copestake, W.P. ORCID record for W.P. Goodall-Copestake, Jiggins, C.D., Gordon, I.J., Pemberton, J.M.. (2009) Are there any native red deer left in mainland Scotland?. Deer Magazine, Spring (). pp.
2008
Sands, Chester J. ORCID record for Chester J. Sands, McInnes, Sandra J. ORCID record for Sandra J. McInnes, Marley, Nigel J., Goodall-Copestake, William P. ORCID record for William P. Goodall-Copestake, Convey, Peter ORCID record for Peter Convey, Linse, Katrin ORCID record for Katrin Linse. (2008) Phylum Tardigrada: an “individual” approach. Cladistics, 24 (). pp. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00219.x
2017
BLOG: All aboard the National Geographic Cruise – Part 3: Fishing for plankton
Blog 30 June, 2017
2019
Marine research expedition sets sail for the South Atlantic
News 12 March, 2019
2018
Increase in plastics reaching remote South Atlantic Islands
News 8 October, 2018
Success in the South Atlantic
News 26 April, 2018
Research cruise heading to study South Atlantic islands
News 16 March, 2018
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