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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Timothy A. Mousseau is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 32 publications, and Environmental Science, with 25 publications. Subfields of focus include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Effects of Radiation Exposure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Anders Pape Møller
  • Tapio Mappes
  • Anton Lavrinienko
  • Jennifer A. Betz
  • Phillip C. Watts

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • UNC Libraries

Selected recent papers by this researcher include:

  • Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Plants in the Light of Ionizing Radiation: What Have We Learned From Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Other "Hot" Places?, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Applying the Anna Karenina principle for wild animal gut microbiota: Temporal stability of the bank vole gut microbiota in a disturbed environment, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • The Biology of Chernobyl, 2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Comparable response of wild rodent gut microbiome to anthropogenic habitat contamination, 2021, Molecular Ecology

Timothy A. Mousseau has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2008.

Best Publications

  • The adaptive significance of maternal effects

    Timothy A. Mousseau;Charles W. Fox

  • Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components

    Timothy A Mousseau;Derek A Roff

  • Maternal effects as adaptations

    Timothy A. Mousseau;Charles W. Fox

  • Maternal Effects in Insect Life Histories

    T. A. Mousseau;H. Dingle

  • Quantitative genetics and fitness: lessons from Drosophila

    Derek A Roff;Timothy A Mousseau

  • ECTOTHERMS FOLLOW THE CONVERSE TO BERGMANN'S RULE.

    Timothy A. Mousseau

  • EGG SIZE PLASTICITY IN A SEED BEETLE : AN ADAPTIVE MATERNAL EFFECT

    Charles W. Fox;Monica S. Thakar;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • ADAPTATION TO SEASONALITY IN A CRICKET: PATTERNS OF PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC VARIATION IN BODY SIZE AND DIAPAUSE EXPRESSION ALONG A CLINE IN SEASON LENGTH.

    Timothy A. Mousseau;Derek A. Roff

  • Adaptive genetic variation in the wild

    Timothy A. Mousseau;Barry Sinervo;John A. Endler

  • The use of fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of environmentally induced developmental instability: A meta-analysis

    De Anna E. Beasley;Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Biological consequences of Chernobyl: 20 years on

    Anders Pape Møller;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Material and genetic benefits of female multiple mating and polyandry

    Kenneth M. Fedorka;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • IMMUNE SUPPRESSION AND THE COST OF REPRODUCTION IN THE GROUND CRICKET, ALLONEMOBIUS SOCIUS

    Kenneth M. Fedorka;Marlene Zuk;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Female mating bias results in conflicting sex-specific offspring fitness

    Kenneth M. Fedorka;Kenneth M. Fedorka;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Standardized multi-omics of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

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  • Chronic exposure to low-dose radiation at Chernobyl favours adaptation to oxidative stress in birds

    Ismael Galván;Andrea Bonisoli‐Alquati;Shanna Jenkinson;Ghanem Ghanem

  • Evolution of maternal effects: past and present.

    Timothy A Mousseau;Tobias Uller;Erik Wapstra;Alexander V Badyaev

  • The effects of natural variation in background radioactivity on humans, animals and other organisms

    Anders P. Møller;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Home Range and Seasonal Activity of Southern Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata): Implications for Management

    Jacqueline D. Litzgus;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Larval host plant affects fitness consequences of egg size variation in the seed beetle Stator limbatus

    Charles W. Fox;Timothy A. Mousseau

  • Abundance of birds in Fukushima as judged from Chernobyl.

    Anders Pape Møller;Atsushi Hagiwara;Shin Matsui;Satoe Kasahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Charles W. Fox
Charles W. Fox University of Kentucky
Phillip C. Watts
Phillip C. Watts University of Jyväskylä
Tapio Mappes
Tapio Mappes University of Jyväskylä
Derek A. Roff
Derek A. Roff University of California, Riverside
Geir Rudolfsen
Geir Rudolfsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Nicola Saino
Nicola Saino University of Milan
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association
Federico Morelli
Federico Morelli University of Zielona Góra
F. de Lope
F. de Lope University of Extremadura

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