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Overview

James M. Cook is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences with a strong emphasis on insect science and ecological dynamics.

The main fields of study for Cook include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader categories, their work extensively covers several subfields:

  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Cook's research topics reflect diverse interests in biological interactions and environmental processes:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect behavior and control techniques

Frequent collaborators in Cook's publications include Markus Riegler, Robert Spooner-Hart, Laura E. Brettell, Alihan Katlav, and Jonathan Finch.

Regarding publication venues, Cook often publishes in journals focused on biological and ecological topics. Key venues include:

  • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cook include:

  • "The Role of Flies as Pollinators of Horticultural Crops: An Australian Case Study with Worldwide Relevance" (2020), published in Insects
  • "The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion" (2023), published in Biology Letters
  • "Efficiency and effectiveness of native bees and honey bees as pollinators of apples in New South Wales orchards" (2022), published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Tephritid fruit flies have a large diversity of co-occurring RNA viruses" (2021), published in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • "Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops" (2022), published in Basic and Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Mutualists with attitude: coevolving fig wasps and figs

    James M. Cook;Jean-Yves Rasplus

  • Sex determination in the Hymenoptera: a review of models and evidence

    James M Cook

  • Sex determination and population biology in the hymenoptera

    James M Cook;Ross H Crozier

  • An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

    Astrid Cruaud;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Bhanumas Chantarasuwan;Lien Siang Chou

  • RETROVIRAL DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION IN VERTEBRATES

    Elisabeth Herniou;Joanne Martin;Karen Miller;James Cook

  • The structure of cynipid oak galls: patterns in the evolution of an extended phenotype

    Graham N. Stone;James M. Cook

  • Wolbachia in two insect host–parasitoid communities

    S. A. West;S. A. West;J. M. Cook;J. H. Werren;H. C. J. Godfray

  • 60 million years of co-divergence in the fig–wasp symbiosis

    Nina Rønsted;George D Weiblen;James M Cook;Nicolas Salamin

  • Host niches and defensive extended phenotypes structure parasitoid wasp communities

    Richard G Bailey;Karsten Schönrogge;James M. Cook;James M. Cook;George Melika

  • Extreme Host Plant Conservatism During at Least 20 Million Years of Host Plant Pursuit by Oak Gallwasps

    Graham N. Stone;Antonio Hernandez-Lopez;James A. Nicholls;Erica di Pierro

  • EVOLUTIONARY SHIFTS BETWEEN HOST OAK SECTIONS AND HOST‐PLANT ORGANS IN ANDRICUS GALLWASPS

    James M. Cook;Antonis Rokas;Antonis Rokas;Mark Pagel;Graham N. Stone

  • Speciation in fig wasps

    James M. Cook;Simon T. Segar

  • Interclass Transmission and Phyletic Host Tracking in Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Retroviruses

    Joanne Martin;Elisabeth Herniou;James Cook;Rachel Waugh O’Neill

  • The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids: Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences

    Edward Allen Herre;Stuart A. West;James M. Cook;Steven G. Compton

  • Evolutionary dynamics of host-plant use in a genus of leaf-mining moths.

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;H. Charles J. Godfray;James M. Cook

  • An Ecological Loop: Host Microbiomes across Multitrophic Interactions.

    Hongwei Liu;Catriona A Macdonald;James M Cook;Ian C Anderson

  • Molecular phylogenies of fig wasps: partial cocladogenesis of pollinators and parasites.

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;Jean Yves Rasplus;George D Weiblen;James M Cook

  • Alternative mating tactics and extreme male dimorphism in fig wasps

    James M. Cook;Steven G. Compton;E. Allen Herre;Stuart A. West

  • Development and validation of Burkholderia pseudomallei-specific real-time PCR assays for clinical, environmental or forensic detection applications.

    Erin P. Price;Julia L. Dale;James M. Cook;Derek S. Sarovich

  • The Role of Flies as Pollinators of Horticultural Crops: An Australian Case Study with Worldwide Relevance.

    David F Cook;Sasha C Voss;Jonathan T D Finch;Romina C Rader

  • Deep mtDNA divergences indicate cryptic species in a fig-pollinating wasp

    Eleanor R Haine;Eleanor R Haine;Joanne Martin;James M Cook

  • Fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies reveal that leaf-mining moths radiated millions of years after their host plants.

    C Lopez-Vaamonde;N Wikström;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;H.C.J Godfray

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Riegler
Markus Riegler Western Sydney University
Stuart A. West
Stuart A. West University of Oxford
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Sally A. Power
Sally A. Power Western Sydney University
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Graham N. Stone
Graham N. Stone University of Edinburgh
Jean-Yves Rasplus
Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA Biology Center for Population Management (CBGP)
Tom H. Oliver
Tom H. Oliver University of Reading
Simon R. Leather
Simon R. Leather Harper Adams University
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London

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