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Overview

Adam Jones is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's subfields of study include Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aquatic Science, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their work integrates diverse biological disciplines to explore complex natural phenomena.

The main topics Adam Jones addresses in their publications cover Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Aquatic life and conservation, Plant and animal studies, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Adam Jones are the following:

  • Correlational selection in the age of genomics, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Pharmacogenomics of GLP-1 receptor agonists: a genome-wide analysis of observational data and large randomised controlled trials, 2022, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • The 150th anniversary of The Descent of Man: Darwin and the impact of sex-role reversal on sexual selection research, 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • The evolution of mating preferences for genetic attractiveness and quality in the presence of sensory bias, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quantifying the causal pathways contributing to natural selection, 2020, Evolution

Adam Jones frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including Evolution, Journal of Heredity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Africa, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

The scientist collaborates regularly with a network of co-authors, the most frequent being Bernadette D. Johnson, Jonathan M. Henshaw, Emily Rose, Andrew P. Anderson, and Clayton M. Small.

Best Publications

  • Methods of parentage analysis in natural populations

    Adam G. Jones;William R. Ardren

  • The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro- and macroevolution.

    Stevan J. Arnold;Michael E. Pfrender;Adam G. Jones

  • A practical guide to methods of parentage analysis.

    Adam G. Jones;Clayton M. Small;Kimberly A. Paczolt;Nicholas L. Ratterman

  • Understanding the evolution and stability of the G-matrix.

    Stevan J. Arnold;Reinhard Bürger;Paul A. Hohenlohe;Beverley C. Ajie

  • Mate choice and sexual selection: What have we learned since Darwin?

    Adam G. Jones;Nicholas L. Ratterman

  • gerud 2.0: a computer program for the reconstruction of parental genotypes from half‐sib progeny arrays with known or unknown parents

    Adam G. Jones

  • Genetic mating systems and reproductive natural histories of fishes: lessons for ecology and evolution.

    John C Avise;Adam G Jones;DeEtte Walker;J Andrew DeWoody

  • Stability of the G-matrix in a population experiencing pleiotropic mutation, stabilizing selection, and genetic drift.

    Adam G. Jones;Stevan J. Arnold;Reinhard Bürger

  • ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SEXUAL SELECTION, THE BATEMAN GRADIENT AND THE MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF SEXUAL SELECTION

    Adam G. Jones

  • The future of parentage analysis: From microsatellites to SNPs and beyond.

    Sarah P. Flanagan;Adam G. Jones

  • THE MUTATION MATRIX AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY

    Adam G. Jones;Stevan J. Arnold;Reinhard Bürger

  • EVOLUTION AND STABILITY OF THE G-MATRIX ON A LANDSCAPE WITH A MOVING OPTIMUM

    Adam G. Jones;Stevan J. Arnold;Reinhard Burger

  • Microsatellite analysis of maternity and the mating system in the Gulf pipefish Syngnathus scovelli, a species with male pregnancy and sex‐role reversal

    A. G. Jones;J. C. Avise

  • How cuckoldry can decrease the opportunity for sexual selection: data and theory from a genetic parentage analysis of the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus.

    Adam G. Jones;DeEtte Walker;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Kai Lindström

  • Mating Systems and Sexual Selection in Male-Pregnant Pipefishes and Seahorses: Insights from Microsatellite-Based Studies of Maternity

    Adam G Jones;J C Avise

  • The Bateman gradient and the cause of sexual selection in a sex–role–reversed pipefish

    Adam G. Jones;Gunilla Rosenqvist;Anders Berglund;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Epistasis and natural selection shape the mutational architecture of complex traits.

    Adam G. Jones;Reinhard Bürger;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Patterns of multiple paternity and maternity in fishes

    Seth W. Coleman;Adam G. Jones

  • Validation of Bateman's principles: a genetic study of sexual selection and mating patterns in the rough–skinned newt

    Adam G. Jones;J. Roman Arguello;Stevan J. Arnold

  • POLYGYNANDRY IN THE DUSKY PIPEFISH SYNGNATHUS FLORIDAE REVEALED BY MICROSATELLITE DNA MARKERS

    Adam G. Jones;John C. Avise

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Stevan J. Arnold
Stevan J. Arnold Oregon State University
Charlotta Kvarnemo
Charlotta Kvarnemo University of Gothenburg
Reinhard Bürger
Reinhard Bürger University of Vienna
Gunilla Rosenqvist
Gunilla Rosenqvist Uppsala University
Gil G. Rosenthal
Gil G. Rosenthal University of Padua
Niclas Kolm
Niclas Kolm Stockholm University
Agostinho Antunes
Agostinho Antunes University of Porto
Paul A. Hohenlohe
Paul A. Hohenlohe University of Idaho
Jeffrey A. Johnson
Jeffrey A. Johnson University of Alberta

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