{{Short description|New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist}} {{for|American academic and politician|Rod Paige}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Rod Page | image = Roderic_D_M_Page.jpg | caption = Rod Page | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1962}} | birth_name = Roderic Dugald Morton Page | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = New Zealand | ethnicity = | field = {{Plainlist| * Biodiversity informatics * Phyloinformatics<ref name=googlescholar>{{Google scholar id}}</ref>}} | work_institutions = {{Plainlist| * University of Glasgow * University of Oxford * University of Auckland * Natural History Museum }} | alma_mater = University of Auckland (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Brian McArdle | thesis_title = Panbiogeography: a cladistic approach | thesis_year = 1990 | thesis_url = https://hdl.handle.net/2292/1999 | doctoral_students = Vincent Smith<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Glasgow|title=Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): a cladistic study based on morphology.|first= Vincent S.|last=Smith|date=2000|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323268|oclc=811567404}}</ref> | known_for = ''Molecular evolution : a phylogenetic approach''<ref name=phylobook/> | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | prizes = Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society 1998 | religion = | footnotes = | signature = | website = {{Plainlist| * {{URL|iphylo.blogspot.co.uk}} * {{URL|taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html}} }} | module = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = Roderic Page voice.oga |title = Page's voice |type = speech |description = recorded December 2015}} }} {{Scholia|author}} '''Roderic Dugald Morton Page''' (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=University of Glasgow|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PAPPGd|title=Staff List|author=Anon|year=2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031226124933/http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PAPPGd|archive-date=26 December 2003}}</ref> {{As of|2015}} he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal ''Systematic Biology'' until the end of 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Editorial Board|work=Systematic Biology|url=http://systbio.org/?q=node/12|access-date=2006-12-05}}</ref> His main interests are in phylogenetics,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Page | first1 = R. | last2 = Charleston | first2 = M. | title = From Gene to Organismal Phylogeny: Reconciled Trees and the Gene Tree/Species Tree Problem | doi = 10.1006/mpev.1996.0390 | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 7 | issue = 2 | pages = 231–240 | year = 1997 | pmid = 9126565 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.42.7008 }}</ref> evolutionary biology and bioinformatics.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Page | first1 = R. | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S5 | title = BioGUID: Resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 10 | pages = S5 | year = 2009 | issue = Suppl 14 | pmid = 19900301 | pmc =2775151 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Page | first1 = R. D. M. | doi = 10.1371/currents.RRN1228 | title = Linking NCBI to Wikipedia: A wiki-based approach | journal = PLOS Currents | volume = 3 | article-number = RRN1228 | year = 2011 | pmid = 21516242 | pmc =3080707 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
==Education== Page was born in Auckland and earned a PhD in 1990 from the University of Auckland.<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Roderic D M|last=Page |title=Panbiogeography: a cladistic approach |publisher=University of Auckland |date=1990 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1999 |oclc=153589098|hdl=2292/1999|website=auckland.ac.nz}}</ref>
==Career and research== Page is known for his work on co-speciation and in particular the development of bioinformatic software such as TreeMap,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treemap.html|title=TreeMap|access-date=7 December 2006|archive-date=25 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625143851/http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treemap.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> RadCon,<ref name="ThorleyPage2000">{{cite journal|last1=Thorley|first1=J. L.|last2=Page|first2=R. D. M.|title=RadCon: phylogenetic tree comparison and consensus|journal=Bioinformatics|volume=16|issue=5|year=2000|pages=486–487|issn=1367-4803|doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/16.5.486|pmid=10871273|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.onetel.com/~joethorley/radcon/radcon.html|title=RadCon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031213054032/http://web.onetel.com/~joethorley/radcon/radcon.html|archive-date=13 December 2003}}</ref> and TreeView.<ref name=googlescholar/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Page | first1 = R. | title = TreeView: An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers | journal = Computer Applications in the Biosciences | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 357–358 | year = 1996 | pmid = 8902363 | doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/12.4.357 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Page | first1 = R. D. M. | doi = 10.1002/0471250953.bi0602s01 | title = Visualizing Phylogenetic Trees Using TreeView | journal = Current Protocols in Bioinformatics | volume = Chapter 6 | pages = 6.2.1–6.2.15 | year = 2002 | pmid = 18792942 | s2cid = 29291335 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/%7Erpage/treeviewx/|title=TreeView|access-date=7 December 2006|archive-date=29 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429095427/http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/treeviewx/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Page is a co-author with Eddie Holmes of ''Molecular Evolution: A phylogenetic approach''<ref name=phylobook>{{Cite book|title=Molecular evolution: a phylogenetic approach|last1=Page|first1=Roderic D. M.|first2=Edward C.|last2=Holmes|date=1998|publisher=Blackwell Science|isbn=978-0-86542-889-8|location=Oxford|oclc=47011609}}</ref> and editor of ''Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution''.<ref>Page, R.D.M. ed. (2002). Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution. University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-64467-7}}</ref>
===Awards and honours=== He received the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1998,<ref name="TLS">{{cite web|title=The Bicentenary Medal|url=https://www.linnean.org/the-society/medals-awards-prizes-grants/the-bicentenary-medal|publisher=The Linnean Society|access-date=5 July 2017}}</ref> and the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge joint first prize in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/peopleprojects/headline_617202_en.html|title=Prof Roderic Page Wins Ebbe Nielsen Prize |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref>
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