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1049
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Michael J. Wade publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael J. Wade sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 233 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Michael J. Wade D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael J. Wade sits on this spectrum.

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88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael J. Wade is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their published work primarily explores the genetic and evolutionary dynamics influencing animal behavior, reproduction, and genetic engineering techniques.

Their research fields include:

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

They engage with subfields such as genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, sociology and political science, and insect science.

Research topics frequently addressed in their publications cover:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

The scientist has contributed multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Relaxed Selection and the Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Genes" (2020) published in Trends in Genetics
  • "Niche construction in quantitative traits: heritability and response to selection" (2022) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Niche construction and the environmental term of the price equation: How natural selection changes when organisms alter their environments" (2023) published in Evolution & Development
  • "Generating and testing the efficacy of transgenic Cas9 in Tribolium castaneum" (2022) published in Insect Molecular Biology
  • "When is Offspring Viability Fitness a Measure of Paternal Fitness and When is it not?" (2021) published in Journal of Heredity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include Kennedy J. Helms, Gabriel E. Zentner, Andrew C. Zelhof, Amy L. Dapper, and Laurel Fogarty.

Publication venues where the scientist has regularly appeared include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Heredity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Genetics
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Over the course of their career, Michael J. Wade has been recognized by election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Mating Systems and Strategies

    Stephen M. Shuster;Michael John Wade

  • ON THE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: THEORY.

    Stevan J. Arnold;Michael J. Wade

  • ON THE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: APPLICATIONS.

    Stevan J. Arnold;Michael J. Wade

  • Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects

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

  • EXTINCTION AND RECOLONIZATION: THEIR EFFECTS ON THE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF LOCAL POPULATIONS

    Michael J. Wade;David E. McCauley

  • A Critical Review of the Models of Group Selection

    Michael J. Wade

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

    Jason B Wolf;Michael J Wade

  • THE CAUSES OF NATURAL SELECTION.

    Michael J. Wade;Susan Kalisz

  • The intensity of sexual selection in relation to male sexual behaviour, female choice, and sperm precedence

    Michael J. Wade;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process

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

  • Sexual Selection and Variance in Reproductive Success

    Michael J. Wade

  • Soft Selection, Hard Selection, Kin Selection, and Group Selection

    Michael J. Wade

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF GROUP SELECTION.

    Michael J. Wade

  • PERSPECTIVE: THE THEORIES OF FISHER AND WRIGHT IN THE CONTEXT OF METAPOPULATIONS: WHEN NATURE DOES MANY SMALL EXPERIMENTS.

    Michael J. Wade;Charles J. Goodnight

  • Equal mating success among male reproductive strategies in a marine isopod

    Stephen M. Shuster;Stephen M. Shuster;Michael J. Wade

  • Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection.

    Adam M. Siepielski;Michael B. Morrissey;Mathieu Buoro;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

    Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

  • Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

    Emilie C. Snell-Rood;James David Van Dyken;Tami Cruickshank;Michael J. Wade

  • The joint effects of kin, multilevel selection and indirect genetic effects on response to genetic selection

    P. Bijma;M. J. Wade

  • The evolutionary origin and elaboration of sociality in the aculeate Hymenoptera: maternal effects, sib-social effects, and heterochrony.

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Michael J. Wade

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Shuster
Stephen M. Shuster Northern Arizona University
David E. McCauley
David E. McCauley Vanderbilt University
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Timothy A. Linksvayer Arizona State University
Jason B. Wolf
Jason B. Wolf University of Bath
Felix Breden
Felix Breden Simon Fraser University
Edmund D. Brodie
Edmund D. Brodie University of Virginia
Andrew D. C. MacColl
Andrew D. C. MacColl University of Nottingham
Sonya M. Clegg
Sonya M. Clegg University of Oxford
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of California, Berkeley
Piter Bijma
Piter Bijma Wageningen University & Research

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