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4801
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520

Overview

Jason B. Wolf is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on evolutionary game theory and cooperation, limits and structures in graph theory, and plant and animal studies.

They have contributed to several fields of study including:

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

Within subfields, their research covers:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science

Jason B. Wolf has explored topics such as:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect behavior and control techniques

Their recent publications include:

  • "Inferring Adaptive Codon Preference to Understand Sources of Selection Shaping Codon Usage Bias," 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Mutant resources for functional genomics in Dictyostelium discoideum using REMI-seq technology," 2021, BMC Biology
  • "Developmental constraints enforce altruism and avert the tragedy of the commons in a social microbe," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Evolutionary robustness of killer meiotic drives," 2021, Evolution Letters
  • "Mendel's laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions?," 2022, Heredity

Frequently, Jason B. Wolf collaborates with other researchers including:

  • Christopher R. L. Thompson
  • Nicole Gruenheit
  • Balint Stewart
  • Philip G. Madgwick
  • C. Terry

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Evolution Letters
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • BMC Biology

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects

    Jason B. Wolf;Edmund D. Brodie;James M. Cheverud;Allen J. Moore

  • INTERACTING PHENOTYPES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS: I. DIRECT AND INDIRECT GENETIC EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS.

    Allen J. Moore;Edmund D. Brodie;Jason B. Wolf

  • What are maternal effects (and what are they not)

    Jason B Wolf;Michael J Wade

  • Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process

    Jason B. Wolf;Edmund D. Brodie;Michael John Wade

  • Interacting Phenotypes and the Evolutionary Process. II. Selection Resulting from Social Interactions.

    Jason B. Wolf;Edmund D. Brodie;Allen J. Moore

  • Interacting phenotypes and the evolutionary process. III. Social evolution.

    Joel W. McGlothlin;Allen J. Moore;Jason B. Wolf;Edmund D. Brodie

  • Genomic imprinting and parent-of-origin effects on complex traits

    Heather A. Lawson;James M. Cheverud;Jason B. Wolf

  • Multilevel Selection 2: Estimating the Genetic Parameters Determining Inheritance and Response to Selection

    Piter Bijma;William M. Muir;Esther D. Ellen;Jason B. Wolf

  • GENETIC MOSAICISM IN PLANTS AND CLONAL ANIMALS

    D E Gill;L Chao;and S L Perkins;J B Wolf

  • A maternal-offspring coadaptation theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting.

    Jason B Wolf;Reinmar Hager

  • THE COADAPTATION OF PARENTAL AND OFFSPRING CHARACTERS

    Jason B. Wolf;Edmund D. Brodie

  • Genetic architecture and evolutionary constraint when the environment contains genes

    Jason B. Wolf

  • On the assignment of fitness to parents and offspring: Whose fitness is it and when does it matter?

    J. B. Wolf;M. J. Wade

  • The evolution of genomic imprinting: theories, predictions and empirical tests

    M M Patten;L Ross;J P Curley;David C Queller

  • Maternal Effects as the Cause of Parent-of-Origin Effects That Mimic Genomic Imprinting

    Reinmar Hager;James M. Cheverud;Jason B. Wolf

  • GENETIC VARIATION IN PLEIOTROPY: DIFFERENTIAL EPISTASIS AS A SOURCE OF VARIATION IN THE ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONG BONE LENGTHS AND BODY WEIGHT

    Mihaela Pavlicev;Jane P. Kenney-Hunt;Elizabeth A. Norgard;Charles C. Roseman

  • Genetic tools for studying adaptation and the evolution of behavior.

    Christine R B Boake;Stevan J Arnold;Felix Breden;Lisa M Meffert

  • Gene interactions from maternal effects.

    Jason B. Wolf

  • Quantification of Social Behavior in D. discoideum Reveals Complex Fixed and Facultative Strategies

    Neil J. Buttery;Daniel E. Rozen;Jason B. Wolf;Christopher R.L. Thompson

  • Evolutionary genetics : concepts and case studies

    Charles W. Fox;Jason B. Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Cheverud
James M. Cheverud Loyola University Chicago
Allen J. Moore
Allen J. Moore University of Georgia
Edmund D. Brodie
Edmund D. Brodie University of Virginia
John Hunt
John Hunt Western Sydney University
Michael J. Wade
Michael J. Wade Indiana University
Clay F. Semenkovich
Clay F. Semenkovich Washington University in St. Louis
Charles W. Fox
Charles W. Fox University of Kentucky
Christian Peter Klingenberg
Christian Peter Klingenberg University of Manchester
Rebecca J. Oakey
Rebecca J. Oakey King's College London
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath

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