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76
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23350
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373

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David C. Queller is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work spans several related subfields including molecular biology, insect science, genetics, sociology and political science, and endocrinology. The central topics of their research include insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, protist diversity and phylogeny, evolution and genetic dynamics, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, legionella and Acanthamoeba research, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, as well as slime mold and myxomycetes research.

David C. Queller has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PeerJ
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Evolution Letters
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Recent significant publications include:

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Amoeba-Bacterium Interactions, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov, 2020, PeerJ
  • Context dependence in the symbiosis between Dictyostelium discoideum and Paraburkholderia, 2022, Evolution Letters
  • Novel Chlamydiae and Amoebophilus endosymbionts are prevalent in wild isolates of the model social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, 2021, Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • Loss and resiliency of social amoeba symbiosis under simulated warming, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

David C. Queller has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including:

  • Joan E. Strassmann
  • Debra A. Brock
  • Tyler J. Larsen
  • Trey J. Scott
  • Suegene Noh

Over the course of their career, they have been recognized as a fellow by several prestigious organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2004), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988).

Best Publications

  • ESTIMATING RELATEDNESS USING GENETIC MARKERS.

    David C. Queller;Keith F. Goodnight

  • Microsatellites and kinship

    David C. Queller;Joan E. Strassmann;Colin R. Hughes

  • KIN SELECTION AND SOCIAL INSECTS

    David C. Queller;Joan E. Strassmann

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers

    K. F. Goodnight;D. C. Queller

  • Beyond society: the evolution of organismality.

    David C. Queller;Joan E. Strassmann

  • QUANTITATIVE GENETICS, INCLUSIVE FITNESS, AND GROUP SELECTION

    David C. Queller

  • Why do females care more than males

    David C. Queller

  • A GENERAL MODEL FOR KIN SELECTION.

    David C. Queller

  • Genetic relatedness in viscous populations

    David C. Queller

  • Kinship, reciprocity and synergism in the evolution of social behaviour

    David C. Queller

  • Relatedness and the fraternal major transitions.

    David C. Queller

  • Single-gene greenbeard effects in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

    David C. Queller;Eleonora Ponte;Salvatore Bozzaro;Joan E. Strassmann

  • Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba

    Debra A. Brock;Tracy E. Douglas;David C. Queller;Joan E. Strassmann

  • Detection of highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in a species with little allozyme polymorphism

    C. R. Hughes;D. C. Queller

  • Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation

    Kevin R. Foster;Gad Shaulsky;Joan E. Strassmann;David C. Queller

  • Unrelated helpers in a social insect.

    David C. Queller;Francesca Zacchi;Rita Cervo;Stefano Turillazzi

  • High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants

    Owen M. Gilbert;Kevin R. Foster;Natasha J. Mehdiabadi;Joan E. Strassmann

  • Evolution of microbial markets

    Gijsbert D. A. Werner;Joan E. Strassmann;Aniek B. F. Ivens;Daniel J. P. Engelmoer

  • Sexual Selection In A Hermaphroditic Plant

    David C. Queller;David C. Queller

  • Kin Discrimination and Cooperation in Microbes

    Joan E. Strassmann;Owen M. Gilbert;David C. Queller

  • Evolution of cooperation and control of cheating in a social microbe

    Joan E. Strassmann;David C. Queller

  • Does population viscosity promote kin selection

    David C. Queller

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan E. Strassmann
Joan E. Strassmann Washington University in St. Louis
Gad Shaulsky
Gad Shaulsky Baylor College of Medicine
Stefano Turillazzi
Stefano Turillazzi University of Florence
Rita Cervo
Rita Cervo University of Florence
Adam Kuspa
Adam Kuspa Welch Foundation
Kevin R. Foster
Kevin R. Foster University of Oxford
Perttu Seppä
Perttu Seppä University of Helsinki
Marcus R. Kronforst
Marcus R. Kronforst University of Chicago
Christina M. Grozinger
Christina M. Grozinger Pennsylvania State University
Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca
Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca Universidade de São Paulo

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