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Richard A. Nichols is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, their main subfields include Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Recent papers by Richard A. Nichols include:

  • Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants, 2020, eLife
  • Evidence for the Widespread Occurrence of Bacteria Implicated in Acute Oak Decline from Incidental Genetic Sampling, 2021, Forests
  • Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Whi3 mnemon association with endoplasmic reticulum membranes confines the memory of deceptive courtship to the yeast mother cell, 2022, Current Biology
  • Non-Lethal Detection of Frog Virus 3-Like (RUK13) and Common Midwife Toad Virus-Like (PDE18) Ranaviruses in Two UK-Native Amphibian Species, 2022, Viruses

Their publications most frequently appear in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forests
  • Viruses

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Richard J. A. Buggs
  • Jonathan Stocks
  • Laura J. Kelly
  • Carey L. Metheringham
  • Carlos Martínez-Ruiz

Best Publications

  • Hybridization and speciation

    R. Abbott;D. Albach;S. Ansell;J. W. Arntzen

  • Evaluating Loci for Use in the Genetic Analysis of Population Structure

    Mark A. Beaumont;Richard A. Nichols

  • Spatial patterns of genetic variation generated by different forms of dispersal during range expansion

    Kamal M Ibrahim;Richard A Nichols;Godfrey M Hewitt

  • Gene trees and species trees are not the same

    Richard Nichols

  • DNA profile match probability calculation: how to allow for population stratification, relatedness, database selection and single bands

    David J. Balding;Richard A. Nichols

  • Immunization of Mice with Urease Vaccine Affords Protection against Helicobacter pylori Infection in the Absence of Antibodies and Is Mediated by MHC Class II–restricted Responses

    Thomas H. Ermak;Paul J. Giannasca;Richard Nichols;Gwendolyn A. Myers

  • Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model

    Lounès Chikhi;Richard A. Nichols;Guido Barbujani;Mark A. Beaumont

  • Safety and Efficacy of Chimeric Yellow Fever-Dengue Virus Tetravalent Vaccine Formulations in Nonhuman Primates

    F. Guirakhoo;K. Pugachev;Z. Zhang;G. Myers

  • The genetic consequences of long distance dispersal during colonization

    Richard A Nichols;Godfrey M Hewitt

  • Chimeric live, attenuated vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (ChimeriVax-JE): phase 2 clinical trials for safety and immunogenicity, effect of vaccine dose and schedule, and memory response to challenge with inactivated Japanese encephalitis antigen.

    Thomas P. Monath;Farshad Guirakhoo;Richard Nichols;Sutee Yoksan

  • Dates from the molecular clock: how wrong can we be?

    Mário J.F. Pulquério;Richard A. Nichols

  • Live attenuated chimeric yellow fever dengue type 2 (ChimeriVax-DEN2) vaccine: Phase I clinical trial for safety and immunogenicity: effect of yellow fever pre-immunity in induction of cross neutralizing antibody responses to all 4 dengue serotypes.

    Farshad Guirakhoo;Scott Kitchener;Dennis Morrison;Remi Forrat

  • Culex pipiens in London underground tunnels: differentiation between surface and subterranean populations

    Katharine Byrne;Richard A Nichols

  • Collapse of Amphibian Communities Due to an Introduced Ranavirus

    Stephen J. Price;Stephen J. Price;Trenton W.J. Garner;Richard A. Nichols;François Balloux

  • ‘Ghost’ alleles of the Mauritius kestrel

    Jim J. Groombridge;Carl G. Jones;Michael William Bruford;Richard A. Nichols

  • Safety and immunogenicity of increasing doses of a Clostridium difficile toxoid vaccine administered to healthy adults.

    Karen L. Kotloff;Steven S. Wasserman;Genevieve A. Losonsky;William Thomas

  • Application of DNA Microarrays to Study the Evolutionary Genomics of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

    Stewart J. Hinchliffe;Karen E. Isherwood;Richard A. Stabler;Michael B. Prentice

  • Bringing genetic diversity to the forefront of conservation policy and management

    Sean M. Hoban;Heidi C. Hauffe;SIlvia Perez-Espona;Jan W. Arntzen

  • Transition-transversion bias is not universal: A counter example from grasshopper pseudogenes

    Irene Keller;Douda Bensasson;Richard A Nichols

  • Interpreting DNA Evidence: Statistical Genetics for Forensic Scientists. Ian W. Evett and Bruce S. Weir. Sinaur Associates Inc, Sunderland, Massachusetts. 1998. Pp. 278. Price £25.95, paperback. ISBN 0 87893 155 4.

    Richard A Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael William Bruford
Michael William Bruford Cardiff University
Andrew R. Leitch
Andrew R. Leitch Queen Mary University of London
Trenton W. J. Garner
Trenton W. J. Garner Zoological Society of London
David J. Balding
David J. Balding University of Melbourne
Judith Breuer
Judith Breuer University College London
Francois Balloux
Francois Balloux University College London
Godfrey M. Hewitt
Godfrey M. Hewitt University of East Anglia
Carl G. Jones
Carl G. Jones Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Anne A. Gershon
Anne A. Gershon Columbia University
Sharon Steinberg
Sharon Steinberg Columbia University

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