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51
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13873
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3567
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Andrew Pomiankowski is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key subfields include Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Plant Science.

The topics addressed in Pomiankowski's work cover a range of biological and genetic areas such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Frequent publication venues for Pomiankowski include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, eLife, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Genetics, each hosting multiple of their papers.

The scientist has coauthored extensively with several researchers, most notably:

  • Nick Lane (10 coauthored works)
  • Marco Colnaghi (8 coauthored works)
  • Sasha L. Bradshaw (5 coauthored works)
  • Carl Mackintosh (4 coauthored works)
  • Michael Scott (4 coauthored works)

Significant recent papers include:

  • Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • The need for high-quality oocyte mitochondria at extreme ploidy dictates mammalian germline development, 2021, eLife
  • The limits of metabolic heredity in protocells, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Genome expansion in early eukaryotes drove the transition from lateral gene transfer to meiotic sex, 2020, eLife
  • X-linked meiotic drive can boost population size and persistence, 2020, Genetics

Andrew Pomiankowski was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Why have birds got multiple sexual ornaments

    A.P. Moller;A. Pomiankowski

  • THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES II. THE "HANDICAP" PRINCIPLE.

    Yoh Iwasa;Andrew Pomiankowski;Sean Nee

  • A resolution of the lek paradox

    A. Pomiankowski;Anders Pape Møller

  • Do sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition-dependent expression as predicted by the handicap hypothesis?

    Samuel Cotton;Kevin Fowler;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Sexual selection and condition-dependent mate preferences.

    Samuel Cotton;Jennifer Small;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES I. FISHER AND BIASED MUTATION

    Andrew Pomiankowski;Yoh Iwasa;Sean Nee

  • Fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection

    A. P. Møller;A. Pomiankowski

  • The costs of choice in sexual selection.

    Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Causes of Sex Ratio Bias May Account for Unisexual Sterility in Hybrids: - a New Explanation of Haldane's Rule and Related Phenomena

    Laurence D. Hurst;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive

    Anna K. Lindholm;Kelly A. Dyer;Renée C. Firman;Lila Fishman

  • Sexual Selection: The Handicap Principle Does Work -- Sometimes

    Andrew Pomiankowski

  • The evolution of female mating preferences for male genetic quality

    A Pomiankowski

  • Condition-dependent signalling of genetic variation in stalk-eyed flies

    Patrice David;Patrice David;Tracey Bjorksten;Tracey Bjorksten;Kevin Fowler;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • THE EVOLUTION OF MATE PREFERENCES FOR MULTIPLE SEXUAL ORNAMENTS.

    Yoh Iwasa;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • The genetic basis of female mate preferences

    Theo C. M. Bakker;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Continual change in mate preferences

    Yoh Iwasa;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • What does sexual trait FA tell us about stress

    Tracey A Bjorksten;Kevin Fowler;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Good Parent and Good Genes Models of Handicap Evolution

    Yoh Iwasa;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Condition dependence of sexual ornament size and variation in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Diptera: Diopsidae).

    Samuel Cotton;Kevin Fowler;Andrew Pomiankowski

  • Evolution of Multiple Sexual Preferences by Fisher's Runaway Process of Sexual Selection

    Andrew Pomiankowski;Yoh Iwasa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Fowler
Kevin Fowler University College London
Yoh Iwasa
Yoh Iwasa Kwansei Gakuin University
Tracey Chapman
Tracey Chapman University of East Anglia
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Mark Pagel
Mark Pagel University of Reading
Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz University College London
Richard Baker
Richard Baker University of Leicester
Neil J. Gemmell
Neil J. Gemmell University of Otago
Gregory D. D. Hurst
Gregory D. D. Hurst University of Liverpool

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