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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael Turelli is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's primary areas of focus include insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insect and pesticide research, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, plant and animal studies, and genetic diversity and population structure. Subfields of specialization include insect science, genetics, molecular biology, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

Recent publications reflect an emphasis on ecological and evolutionary biology topics, particularly relating to Wolbachia, bacterial endosymbionts of insects. Notable papers include:

  • "Why Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility is so common" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Why did the Wolbachia transinfection cross the road? drift, deterministic dynamics, and disease control" (2022), published in Evolution Letters
  • "ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography" (2021), published in Ecography
  • "A phylogeny for the Drosophila montium species group: A model clade for comparative analyses" (2020), published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Rapid host switching of Wolbachia and even more rapid turnover of their phages and incompatibility-causing loci" (2023), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Coauthorship patterns indicate frequent collaboration with researchers such as Paul Ginsberg, Brandon S. Cooper, William R. Conner, Ary A. Hoffmann, and Dan L. Warren.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Evolution Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Michael Turelli has received recognition including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 as well as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution.

    Dan L. Warren;Richard E. Glor;Michael Turelli

  • ENMTools: a toolbox for comparative studies of environmental niche models

    Dan L. Warren;Richard E. Glor;Michael Turelli

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

    Ary Hoffmann;Brian Montgomery;Jean Popovici;Jean Popovici;Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe;Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe

  • Theory and speciation

    Michael Turelli;Nicholas H. Barton;Jerry A. Coyne

  • Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics: How Little Do We Know?

    N. H. Barton;Michael Turelli

  • Genotype-environment interactions and the maintenance of polygenic variation.

    John H. Gillespie;Michael Turelli

  • Heritable genetic variation via mutation-selection balance: Lerch's zeta meets the abdominal bristle.

    Michael Turelli

  • THE EVOLUTION OF POSTZYGOTIC ISOLATION: ACCUMULATING DOBZHANSKY-MULLER INCOMPATIBILITIES

    H. Allen Orr;Michael Turelli

  • Cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila simulans: dynamics and parameter estimates from natural populations.

    M Turelli;A A Hoffmann

  • Factors affecting the distribution of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila simulans.

    A A Hoffmann;M Turelli;L G Harshman

  • PERSPECTIVE: A CRITIQUE OF SEWALL WRIGHT'S SHIFTING BALANCE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

    Jerry A. Coyne;Nicholas H. Barton;Michael Turelli

  • Dominance, Epistasis and the Genetics of Postzygotic Isolation

    M Turelli;H A Orr

  • EVOLUTION OF INCOMPATIBILITY-INDUCING MICROBES AND THEIR HOSTS.

    Michael Turelli

  • From parasite to mutualist: rapid evolution of Wolbachia in natural populations of Drosophila.

    Andrew R Weeks;Michael Turelli;William R Harcombe;K. Tracy Reynolds

  • The dominance theory of Haldane's rule.

    Michael Turelli;H A Orr

  • Asymmetric Postmating Isolation: Darwin's Corollary to Haldane's Rule

    Michael Turelli;Leonie C Moyle

  • UNIDIRECTIONAL INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA SIMULANS

    Ary A. Hoffmann;Michael Turelli;Gail M. Simmons

  • Phenotypic evolution, constant covariances, and the maintenance of additive variance

    Michael Turelli

  • Genetic and statistical analyses of strong selection on polygenic traits: what, me normal?

    M Turelli;N H Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ary A. Hoffmann
Ary A. Hoffmann University of Melbourne
Nicholas H. Barton
Nicholas H. Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne University of Chicago
Richard E. Glor
Richard E. Glor University of Kansas
Scott Leslie O'Neill
Scott Leslie O'Neill Monash University
Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe
Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe Monash University
David J. Begun
David J. Begun University of California, Davis
Armando Caballero
Armando Caballero Universidade de Vigo
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley
Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute

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