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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gerald S. Wilkinson is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on the study of bats as well as epigenetics, genetics, and ecology.

Their publications have appeared in a range of scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Wilkinson's recent papers reflect their focus on aging, epigenetics, and animal behavior. Notable works include:

  • DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directions, 2022, Aging Cell
  • Male condition and group heterogeneity predict extra-group paternity in a Neotropical bat, 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • DNA Methylation Networks Underlying Mammalian Traits, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Big brown bats experience slower epigenetic ageing during hibernation, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wilkinson include:

  • Danielle M. Adams
  • Jack G. Rayner
  • Josephine A. Reinhardt
  • Nicole C. Riddle
  • Munir Siddiqui

Wilkinson's main fields of study comprise:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Within these broad areas, subfields of focus include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Genetics
  • Ecology

The specific research topics that define Wilkinson's work encompass:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Wilkinson was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Reciprocal food sharing in the vampire bat

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Life history, ecology and longevity in bats

    Gerald S. Wilkinson;Jason M. South

  • Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity

    C. Athena Aktipis;Amy M. Boddy;Gunther Jansen;Urszula Hibner

  • Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

    F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

  • Bat Mating Systems

    Gary F. McCracken;Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Length and Sequence Variation in Evening Bat D-Loop Mtdna

    G S Wilkinson;A M Chapman

  • The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive

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

  • Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly

    Gerald S. Wilkinson;Paul R. Reillo

  • Information transfer at evening bat colonies

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Social calls coordinate foraging in greater spear-nosed bats

    Gerald S Wilkinson;Janette Wenrick Boughman

  • The social organization of the common vampire bat

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • The social organization of the common vampire bat. I: Pattern and cause of association

    G. S. Wilkinson

  • Reciprocal altruism in bats and other mammals

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Greater spear-nosed bats discriminate group mates by vocalizations

    Janette Wenrick Boughman;Gerald S Wilkinson

  • Phylogenetic utility of different types of molecular data used to infer evolutionary relationships among stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae).

    Richard H. Baker;Gerald S. Wilkinson;Rob Desalle

  • Bats and birds: Exceptional longevity despite high metabolic rates

    Jason Munshi-South;Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Social grooming in the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Male eye span in stalk-eyed flies indicates genetic quality by meiotic drive suppression

    Gerald S. Wilkinson;Daven C. Presgraves;Lili Crymes

  • Mating system and brain size in bats

    Scott Pitnick;Kate E Jones;Gerald S Wilkinson

  • Migration and evolution of lesser long‐nosed bats Leptonycteris curasoae, inferred from mitochondrial DNA

    G. S. Wilkinson;G. S. Wilkinson;T. H. Fleming;T. H. Fleming

  • ON ESTIMATING RELATEDNESS USING GENETIC MARKERS.

    Gerald S. Wilkinson;Gary F. McCracken

  • Natural selection in the wild

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Baker
Richard Baker University of Leicester
Dina K. N. Dechmann
Dina K. N. Dechmann Max Planck Society
Steve Horvath
Steve Horvath University of California, Los Angeles
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones University of Bristol
Emma C. Teeling
Emma C. Teeling University College Dublin
Steven H. Ferguson
Steven H. Ferguson Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Rodrigo A. Medellín
Rodrigo A. Medellín National Autonomous University of Mexico
Damien R. Farine
Damien R. Farine University of Zurich
Elaine A. Ostrander
Elaine A. Ostrander National Institutes of Health
Katherine Belov
Katherine Belov University of Sydney

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