James Bruce Walsh (born 1957) is an American geneticist whose research focuses on

evolutionary Evolution is change in the heredity, heritable Phenotypic trait, characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the Gene expression, expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to ...

and

quantitative genetics Quantitative genetics deals with phenotypes that vary continuously (such as height or mass)—as opposed to discretely identifiable phenotypes and gene-products (such as eye-colour, or the presence of a particular biochemical). Both branches u ...

. He has been Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

since 1986. He discovered the

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

species ''

Lithophane leeae ''Lithophane leeae'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is only found in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the ...

'' in 2009, and another moth species, ''

Drasteria walshi ''Drasteria walshi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is endemic to the Pinaleño Mountains and Chiricahua Mountains in southern Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United St ...

'', is named after him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Bruce Living people 1957 births American geneticists University of Arizona faculty University of California, Davis alumni University of Washington alumni