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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1938 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thomas H. Jukes was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work included research related to geology and sedimentology.

The scientist's recent publications include the paper titled CHARACTERIZING THE GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN THE LOWER YAMPA RIVER TO LINK A PARTITIONED FLUX-BASED SEDIMENT BUDGET TO CHANNEL CHANGE, published in 2020 in the venue Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Jukes collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Christina Leonard
  • John C. Schmidt

The publication outlet most frequently associated with their work was:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

In 1938, Thomas H. Jukes was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • CHAPTER 24 – Evolution of Protein Molecules

    Thomas H. Jukes

  • Non-Darwinian Evolution

    Jack Lester King;Thomas H. Jukes

  • Recent evidence for evolution of the genetic code.

    S Osawa;T H Jukes;K Watanabe;A Muto

  • “Homology” in proteins and nucleic acids: A terminology muddle and a way out of it

    Gerald R. Reeck;Christoph de Haën;David C. Teller;Russell F. Doolittle

  • Codon reassignment (codon capture) in evolution

    Syozo Osawa;Thomas H. Jukes

  • Rates of transition and transversion in coding sequences since the human-rodent divergence

    David W. Collins;Thomas H. Jukes

  • Specific nature of hydrolysis of insulin and tobacco mosaic virus protein by thermolysin.

    H. Matsubara;R. Sasaki;A. Singer;T.H. Jukes

  • Amino acid composition of proteins: Selection against the genetic code.

    Thomas H. Jukes;Richard Holmquist;Herbert Moise

  • Evolutionary nucleotide replacements in DNA.

    Thomas H. Jukes;Thomas H. Jukes;Jack Lester King;Jack Lester King

  • Molecules and evolution

    Thomas Hughes Jukes

  • Silent nucleotide substitutions and G+C content of some mitochondrial and bacterial genes

    Thomas H. Jukes;Vikas Bhushan

  • Possibilities for the evolution of the genetic code from a preceding form.

    Thomas H. Jukes

  • Evolutionary changes in the genetic code

    T.H. Jukes;S. Osawa

  • The genetic code in mitochondria and chloroplasts.

    T. H. Jukes;S. Osawa;S. Osawa

  • Silent nucleotide substitutions and the molecular evolutionary clock.

    Thomas H. Jukes

  • Observations on the specificity of a thermostable bacterial protease "thermolysin".

    Hiroshi Matsubara;Alan Singer;Richard Sasaki;Thomas H. Jukes

  • Improved procedures for comparing homologous sequences in molecules of proteins and nucleic acids

    Richard Holmquist;Richard Holmquist;Charles Cantor;Thomas Jukes;Thomas Jukes

  • Evolution of the genetic code as affected by anticodon content

    Syozo Osawa;Thomas H. Jukes

  • Evolution of transfer RNA

    Richard Holmquist;Thomas H. Jukes;Sharon Pangburn

  • Studies on the site of ribosomal binding of f2 bacteriophage RNA

    M. Takanami;Y. Yan;T.H. Jukes

Frequent Co-Authors

Syozo Osawa
Syozo Osawa Nagoya University
Charles R. Cantor
Charles R. Cantor Boston University
Elso S. Barghoorn
Elso S. Barghoorn Harvard University
Isaac R. Kaplan
Isaac R. Kaplan University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Mazur
Peter Mazur University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Harlyn O. Halvorson
Harlyn O. Halvorson Brandeis University
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester University of Washington
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky Stanford University
George M. Martin
George M. Martin University of Washington

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