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Overview

Margo Wilson was affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their academic work spanned a variety of topics primarily related to medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and oncology.

Their research interests covered several main fields, including:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these main fields, Wilson focused extensively on certain subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Cancer Research
  • Radiation

The key topics found in their work included:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Wilson's portfolio featured a selection of recent papers that reflected these research interests. Notable papers include:

  • Inflammation and Prostate Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identifying Opportunities for Treatment and Prevention, 2022, published in Cancers
  • The pseudo-caspase FLIP(L) regulates cell fate following p53 activation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Targeting nucleotide metabolism enhances the efficacy of anthracyclines and anti-metabolites in triple-negative breast cancer, 2021, npj Breast Cancer
  • Clinical and functional characterization of CXCR1/CXCR2 biology in the relapse and radiotherapy resistance of primary PTEN-deficient prostate carcinoma, 2020, NAR Cancer
  • Harnessing nucleotide metabolism and immunity in cancer: a tumour microenvironment perspective, 2024, FEBS Journal

Frequent co-authors during their career included:

  • Simon S. McDade
  • Suneil Jain
  • Jamie Z. Roberts
  • M.M. Dominello
  • Fiammetta Falcone

Wilson's work was often published in recurring venues such as:

  • Practical Radiation Oncology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancers
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Cancer Research

In addition to journal articles, Wilson contributed to academic books, including a publication by IntechOpen titled Oligonucleotides - Overview and Applications in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence: the young male syndrome

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Male sexual jealousy

    Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson;Suzanne J. Weghorst

  • Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods.

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide.

    Martin Daly;Margo Wilson

  • Spousal homicide risk and estrangement.

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • The man who mistook his wife for a chattel.

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents

    Martin Daly;Margot Wilson

  • Do pretty women inspire men to discount the future

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States.

    Martin Daly;Margo Wilson;Shawn Vasdev

  • WHO KILLS WHOM IN SPOUSE KILLINGS? ON THE EXCEPTIONAL SEX RATIO OF SPOUSAL HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES*

    Margo I. Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Whom are newborn babies said to resemble

    Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

  • Violence Against Stepchildren

    Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

  • Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives

    Margo Wilson;Holly Johnson;Martin Daly

  • Killing the competition : Female/female and male/male homicide.

    Martin Daly;Margo I Wilson

  • Behavioural modulation of predation risk: moonlight avoidance and crepuscular compensation in a nocturnal desert rodent, Dipodomys merriami

    Martin Daly;Philip R. Behrends;Margo I. Wilson;Lucia F. Jacobs

  • An evolutionary psychological perspective on male sexual proprietariness and violence against wives

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies: Homicide among the Gebusi of New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]

    Bruce M. Knauft;Martin Daly;Margo Wilson;Leland Donald

  • Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives

    Margo I. Wilson;Martin Daly

  • Some differential attributes of lethal assaults on small children by stepfathers versus genetic fathers

    Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

  • Familicide: The killing of spouse and children

    Margo Wilson;Martin Daly;Antonletta Daniele

  • Human evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour.

    Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

  • Household composition and the risk of child abuse and neglect.

    Margo I. Wilson;Martin Daly;Suzanne J. Weghorst

  • Scatter hoarding by kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) and pilferage from their caches.

    Martin Daly;Lucia F. Jacobs;Margo I. Wilson;Philip R. Behrends

  • Homicide and Kinship

    Martin Daly;Margo Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Daly
Martin Daly McMaster University
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Claudia Leite Moraes
Claudia Leite Moraes Rio de Janeiro State University
Michael Eduardo Reichenheim
Michael Eduardo Reichenheim Rio de Janeiro State University

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