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158

Overview

Michael J. Adams is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with significant focus on various subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Language and Linguistics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work often centers on topics related to Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Lexicography and Language Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael J. Adams include:

  • Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) not detected in an intensive survey of wild North American amphibians, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Looking ahead, guided by the past: The role of U.S. national parks in amphibian research and conservation, 2022, Ecological Indicators
  • Broad-Scale Assessment of Methylmercury in Adult Amphibians, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Estimation of metademographic rates and landscape connectivity for a conservation-reliant anuran, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Chytrid infections exhibit historical spread and contemporary seasonality in a declining stream-breeding frog, 2024, Royal Society Open Science

Michael collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors including Christopher A. Pearl, Jennifer C. Rowe, Brome McCreary, Evan H. Campbell Grant, and Brian J. Halstead.

Their publications appear in various scientific venues, notably Scientific Reports, Environmental Science & Technology, Ecological Indicators, Royal Society Open Science, and Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science.

Michael J. Adams has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Indiana University Press: Problems in Lexicography (2022), which has accumulated citations over 100.

Best Publications

  • Virus taxonomy: classification and nomenclature of viruses

    A.M.Q. King;M.J. Adams;E.B. Carstens;E.J. Lefkowitz

  • Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

    Andrew M. Q. King;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian;Michael J. Adams

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

    M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

  • Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

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  • Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

    Peter Simmonds;Mike J. Adams;Mária Benkő;Mya Breitbart

  • Molecular criteria for genus and species discrimination within the family Potyviridae

    M. J. Adams;J. F. Antoniw;C. M. Fauquet

  • The new plant virus family Flexiviridae and assessment of molecular criteria for species demarcation

    MJ Adams;JF Antoniw;M Bar-Joseph;AA Brunt

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2016)

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  • Overview and analysis of the polyprotein cleavage sites in the family Potyviridae

    Michael J. Adams;John F. Antoniw;Frederic Beaudoin

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Potyviridae.

    Stephen J Wylie;Mike Adams;Celia Chalam;Jan Kreuze

  • Family Flexiviridae: a case study in virion and genome plasticity.

    Giovanni P. Martelli;Michael J. Adams;Jan F. Kreuze;Valerian V. Dolja

  • A universal PCR primer to detect members of the Potyviridae and its use to examine the taxonomic status of several members of the family

    J. Chen;M. J. Adams

  • The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks

    Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Mart Krupovic;Arcady Mushegian;Andrew M. Kropinski

  • An analysis of differential display shows a strong bias towards high copy number mRNAs

    D. J. Bertioli;U. H. A. Schlichter;M. J. Adams;P. R. Burrows

  • A black-streaked dwarf disease on rice in China is caused by a novel fijivirus

    Heng-Mu Zhang;Jian Yang;Jian-Ping Chen;M. J. Adams

  • Virgaviridae: a new family of rod-shaped plant viruses

    Michael J. Adams;John F. Antoniw;Jan Kreuze

  • Polymyxa graminis and the cereal viruses it transmits: a research challenge.

    Konstantin Kanyuka;Elaine Ward;Michael J. Adams

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Virgaviridae.

    Michael J. Adams;Scott Adkins;Claude Bragard;David Gilmer

  • The Complete Genome Sequence of Two Isolates of Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus, a New Member of the Genus Fijivirus

    Qiang Wang;Jian Yang;Guo-Hui Zhou;Heng-Mu Zhang

  • Evidence that the recessive bymovirus resistance locus rym4 in barley corresponds to the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E gene

    Konstantin Kanyuka;Arnis Druka;David G. Caldwell;Anna Tymon

  • Molecular characterisation of segments 1 to 6 of Rice black-streaked dwarf virus from China provides the complete genome

    H. M. Zhang;J. P. Chen;M. J. Adams

  • Sequence Analysis Shows that a Dwarfing Disease on Rice, Wheat and Maize in China is Caused by Rice Black-streaked Dwarf Virus

    Hengmu Zhang;Jianping Chen;Juanli Lei;Michael J. Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander E. Gorbalenya
Alexander E. Gorbalenya Leiden University
Elliot J. Lefkowitz
Elliot J. Lefkowitz University of Alabama at Birmingham
Andrew J. Davison
Andrew J. Davison University of Glasgow
Max L. Nibert
Max L. Nibert Harvard University
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Sead Sabanadzovic
Sead Sabanadzovic Mississippi State University
Arcady Mushegian
Arcady Mushegian National Science Foundation

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