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Overview

Judith E. Mank is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within biology, primarily focusing on genetics and molecular biology as well as agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses various subfields including genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, plant science, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed to key topics such as genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, animal behavior and reproduction, chromosomal and genetic variations, genetic diversity and population structure, evolution and genetic dynamics, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and amphibian and reptile biology.

Judith E. Mank has published papers in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Genome Research
  • Molecular Ecology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Judith E. Mank include:

  • Sex Chromosome Evolution: So Many Exceptions to the Rules (2020, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directions (2022, Aging Cell)
  • Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Divergence and Remarkable Diversity of the Y Chromosome in Guppies (2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Iulia Darolti
  • Wouter van der Bijl
  • Benjamin A. Sandkam
  • David C. H. Metzger
  • Pedro Almeida

Best Publications

  • Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

    Doris Bachtrog;Judith E. Mank;Catherine L. Peichel;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Are all sex chromosomes created equal

    Doris Bachtrog;Mark Kirkpatrick;Judith E. Mank;Stuart F. McDaniel

  • Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems

    Tia-Lynn Ashman;Doris Bachtrog;Heath Blackmon;Emma E. Goldberg

  • Running with the Red Queen: the role of biotic conflicts in evolution

    Michael A. Brockhurst;Tracey Chapman;Kayla C. King;Judith E. Mank

  • How to make a sex chromosome.

    Alison E. Wright;Rebecca Dean;Fabian Zimmer;Judith E. Mank

  • Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits

    Natasha A. Karp;Natasha A. Karp;Jeremy Mason;Arthur L. Beaudet;Yoav Benjamini

  • Evolution of alternative sex-determining mechanisms in teleost fishes

    Judith E. Mank;Daniel E. L. Promislow;John C. Avise

  • Sexual selection drives evolution and rapid turnover of male gene expression

    Peter W. Harrison;Alison E. Wright;Fabian Zimmer;Rebecca Dean

  • Sex chromosomes and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: lessons from the genome.

    Judith E. Mank

  • The transcriptional architecture of phenotypic dimorphism.

    Judith E Mank

  • EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE AND THE FASTER-X EFFECT: EMPIRICAL RESULTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

    Judith E. Mank;Beatriz Vicoso;Sofia Berlin;Brian Charlesworth

  • Sex Chromosome Evolution: So Many Exceptions to the Rules.

    Benjamin L S Furman;David C H Metzger;Iulia Darolti;Alison E Wright

  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Hermaphroditism in Fishes

    J.C. Avise;J.E. Mank

  • Sex chromosome dosage compensation: definitely not for everyone

    Judith E. Mank

  • PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVES IN THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE IN RAY-FINNED FISHES

    Judith E. Mank;Daniel E. L. Promislow;John C. Avise

  • Evolutionary diversity and turn-over of sex determination in teleost fishes.

    J E Mank;J C Avise

  • The Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the Trees: Lessons from Genetic Mapping of Sex Determination in Plants and Animals

    Deborah Charlesworth;Judith E. Mank

  • All dosage compensation is local: Gene-by-gene regulation of sex-biased expression on the chicken Z chromosome

    J. E. Mank;J. E. Mank;Hans Ellegren

  • Fast-X on the Z: Rapid evolution of sex-linked genes in birds

    Judith E. Mank;Erik Axelsson;Hans Ellegren

  • The W, X, Y and Z of sex-chromosome dosage compensation

    Judith E. Mank

  • Pleiotropic constraint hampers the resolution of sexual antagonism in vertebrate gene expression.

    Judith E. Mank;Lina Hultin‐Rosenberg;Martin Zwahlen;Hans Ellegren

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University
Niclas Kolm
Niclas Kolm Stockholm University
Felix Breden
Felix Breden Simon Fraser University
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick The University of Texas at Austin
Nina Wedell
Nina Wedell University of Exeter
Nicole Valenzuela
Nicole Valenzuela Iowa State University
Catherine L. Peichel
Catherine L. Peichel University of Bern
Doris Bachtrog
Doris Bachtrog University of California, Berkeley
David J. Hosken
David J. Hosken University of Exeter

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