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Timothy Connallon

Timothy Connallon

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
3617
World Ranking
7469
National Ranking
578

Overview

Timothy Connallon is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in research spanning biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. Their work is situated notably within the fields of genetics and ecology, including ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, animal behavior and reproduction, and studies related to plant and animal biology. Additional areas of study encompass genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination, chromosomal abnormalities, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Timothy Connallon has contributed numerous papers in various academic journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Horizontal gene transfer potentiates adaptation by reducing selective constraints on the spread of genetic variation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics," 2020, Evolution Letters
  • "Natural selection and the distribution of chromosomal inversion lengths," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "Is the X chromosome a hot spot for sexually antagonistic polymorphisms? Biases in current empirical tests of classical theory," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Filip Ruzicka
  • Kathryn A. Hodgins
  • Colin Olito
  • Paul Battlay
  • Jonathan Wilson

Timothy Connallon's publications are often found in such outlets as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evolution Letters
  • Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • The faster-X effect: integrating theory and data

    Richard P Meisel;Timothy Michael Connallon

  • Intergenomic conflict revealed by patterns of sex-biased gene expression

    Timothy Connallon;Lacey Lacey Knowles

  • Evolutionary inevitability of sexual antagonism.

    Timothy Michael Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • The Resolution of Sexual Antagonism by Gene Duplication

    Timothy Michael Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • Balancing selection in species with separate sexes: insights from fisher's geometric model

    Timothy Michael Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • Sex linkage, sex-specific selection, and the role of recombination in the evolution of sexually dimorphic gene expression.

    Timothy Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • A General Population Genetic Framework for Antagonistic Selection That Accounts for Demography and Recurrent Mutation

    Timothy Michael Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • Modeling the Manipulation of Natural Populations by the Mutagenic Chain Reaction.

    Robert L Unckless;Philipp W Messer;Timothy Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • Horizontal gene transfer potentiates adaptation by reducing selective constraints on the spread of genetic variation

    Laura C. Woods;Rebecca J. Gorrell;Frank Taylor;Tim Connallon

  • Fitness consequences of sex-specific selection

    Timothy Connallon;Timothy Connallon;Robert M Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Dominance reversals and the maintenance of genetic variation for fitness.

    Timothy Connallon;Stephen Chenoweth

  • The geography of sex‐specific selection, local adaptation, and sexual dimorphism

    Timothy Connallon

  • Genetic correlations and sex-specific adaptation in changing environments.

    Tim Connallon;Matthew D. Hall

  • Coadaptation of mitochondrial and nuclear genes, and the cost of mother’s curse

    Tim Connallon;M. Florencia Camus;M. Florencia Camus;Edward H. Morrow;Damian K. Dowling

  • Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia

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  • Gene Duplication, Gene Conversion and the Evolution of the Y Chromosome

    Timothy Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • Association between Sex-Biased Gene Expression and Mutations with Sex-Specific Phenotypic Consequences in Drosophila

    Timothy Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

  • The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics.

    Filip Ruzicka;Ludovic Dutoit;Peter Czuppon;Peter Czuppon;Crispin Y. Jordan

  • How frequency‐dependent selection affects population fitness, maladaptation and evolutionary rescue

    Erik I. Svensson;Tim Connallon

  • Natural selection and the distribution of chromosomal inversion lengths.

    Tim Connallon;Colin Olito

  • Local adaptation and the evolution of inversions on sex chromosomes and autosomes.

    Timothy Connallon;Colin Olito;Ludovic Dutoit;Homa Papoli

  • Cross-sex genetic correlations for fitness and fitness components: Connecting theoretical predictions to empirical patterns.

    Tim Connallon;Genevieve Matthews

  • Antagonistic versus nonantagonistic models of balancing selection: characterizing the relative timescales and hitchhiking effects of partial selective sweeps.

    Timothy Michael Connallon;Andrew Godfrey B Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Carla M. Sgrò
Carla M. Sgrò Monash University
L. Lacey Knowles
L. Lacey Knowles University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edward H. Morrow
Edward H. Morrow University of Sussex
Erik I. Svensson
Erik I. Svensson Lund University
David G. Chapple
David G. Chapple Monash University
Dustin J. Marshall
Dustin J. Marshall Monash University
Stephen F. Chenoweth
Stephen F. Chenoweth University of Queensland
André Kessler
André Kessler Cornell University
Philipp W. Messer
Philipp W. Messer Cornell University

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