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List of works by Francis M Jiggins

------Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

A Polymorphism in the Processing Body Component Ge-1 Controls Resistance to a Naturally Occurring Rhabdovirus in Drosophila

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

A screen for immunity genes evolving under positive selection in Drosophila

scientific article published in May 2007

A single introduction of wild rabbits triggered the biological invasion of Australia

scientific article published on 22 August 2022

Adaptive evolution and recombination of Rickettsia antigens

scientific article published on 11 January 2006

Adaptive introgression underlies polymorphic seasonal camouflage in snowshoe hares

scientific article published in Science

Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2016)

An ancient mitochondrial polymorphism in Adalis bipunctata linked to a sex-ratio-distorting bacterium

scientific article

Are we underestimating the diversity and incidence of insect bacterial symbionts? A case study in ladybird beetles

scientific article

Assembly of the genome of the disease vector Aedes aegypti onto a genetic linkage map allows mapping of genes affecting disease transmission

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2012)

Comparative Genomics Reveals the Origins and Diversity of Arthropod Immune Systems

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Complex Coding And Regulatory Polymorphisms In A Restriction Factor Determine The Susceptibility Of Drosophila To Viral Infection

Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally

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Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Contrasting evolutionary patterns in Drosophila immune receptors

scientific article published on 10 November 2006

Deep sequencing reveals extensive variation in the gut microbiota of wild mosquitoes from Kenya

scientific article

Disease association mapping in Drosophila can be replicated in the wild

scientific article

Environmental and genetic factors determine whether the mosquito aedes aegypti lays eggs without a blood meal

scientific article

Estimates of allele-specific expression in Drosophila with a single genome sequence and RNA-seq data

scientific article

Estimating divergence dates and substitution rates in the Drosophila phylogeny

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Evidence for ADAR-induced hypermutation of the Drosophila sigma virus (Rhabdoviridae).

scientific article

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

scientific article

Exome and Transcriptome Sequencing of Aedes aegypti Identifies a Locus That Confers Resistance to Brugia malayi and Alters the Immune Response

scientific article

Exon-Enriched Libraries Reveal Large Genic Differences Between Aedes aegypti from Senegal, West Africa, and Populations Outside Africa

scientific article

Flies on the move: an inherited virus mirrors Drosophila melanogaster's elusive ecology and demography

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

Genetic variation affecting host-parasite interactions: different genes affect different aspects of sigma virus replication and transmission in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on April 2008

Genetic variation affecting host-parasite interactions: major-effect quantitative trait loci affect the transmission of sigma virus in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 28 July 2008

Genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster pathogen susceptibility

scientific article published on 24 February 2006

Genome Sequencing of the Phytoseiid Predatory Mite Metaseiulus occidentalis Reveals Completely Atomized Hox Genes and Superdynamic Intron Evolution

scientific article

Genome-wide association studies reveal a simple genetic basis of resistance to naturally coevolving viruses in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Host phylogeny determines viral persistence and replication in novel hosts

scientific article

Host shifts result in parallel genetic changes when viruses evolve in closely related species.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Host-parasite coevolution: genetic variation in a virus population and the interaction with a host gene

scientific article published on 7 May 2010

Host-pathogen coevolution increases genetic variation in susceptibility to infection

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Host-switching by a vertically transmitted rhabdovirus in Drosophila

scientific article

Host-symbiont conflicts: positive selection on an outer membrane protein of parasitic but not mutualistic Rickettsiaceae

scientific article published in August 2002

How Common Are Meiotically Driving Sex Chromosomes in Insects?

article by Francis M Jiggins et al published October 1999 in The American Naturalist

How can sex ratio distorters reach extreme prevalences? Male-killing Wolbachia are not suppressed and have near-perfect vertical transmission efficiency in Acraea encedon

scientific article published on November 2002

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? Cryptic sex ratio distorters revealed to be common by intensive sampling

scientific article published in June 2001

Identification of Wolbachia strains in mosquito disease vectors

scientific article

Independent effects on cellular and humoral immune responses underlie genotype-by-genotype interactions between Drosophila and parasitoids

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Insect immunity: from pattern recognition to symbiont-mediated host defense

scientific article published in August 2009

Insect immunity: the post-genomic era.

scientific article published in July 2006

Latitudinal clines in gene expression and cis-regulatory element variation in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Male killing can select for male mate choice: a novel solution to the paradox of the lek.

scientific article published in May 2000

Male-Killing Wolbachia and Mitochondrial DNA: Selective Sweeps, Hybrid Introgression and Parasite Population Dynamics ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Male-killing Wolbachia do not protect Drosophila bifasciata against viral infection.

scientific article

Male-killing Wolbachia in two species of insect

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Male-killing bacteria in insects: mechanisms, incidence, and implications

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Melanic through nature or nurture: genetic polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity in Harmonia axyridis

scientific article

Microbiology. Rapid insect evolution by symbiont transfer.

scientific article published in April 2011

Molecular evolution and phylogenetic utility of Wolbachia ftsZ and wsp gene sequences with special reference to the origin of male-killing

scientific article

Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Natural selection and genetic diversity in the butterfly Heliconius melpomene

scholarly article published 8 March 2016

Natural selection drives extremely rapid evolution in antiviral RNAi genes.

scientific article

Open questions: how does Wolbachia do what it does?

scientific article

Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements

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Parallel adaptation of rabbit populations to myxoma virus

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Parallel and costly changes to cellular immunity underlie the evolution of parasitoid resistance in three Drosophila species.

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Paternally transmitted parasites ⬇️

scientific article published on September 14, 2010

Population genetics of Plasmodium resistance genes in Anopheles gambiae: no evidence for strong selection

scientific article published in August 2007

Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Population genomics reveals that an anthropophilic population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Africa recently gave rise to American and Asian populations of this major disease vector

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2017)

Potential role of the sexually transmitted mite Coccipolipus hippodamiae in controlling populations of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis

article published in 2010

Previous exposure to an RNA virus does not protect against subsequent infection in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies: the effects of inherited symbionts

scientific article

Quantifying adaptive evolution in the Drosophila immune system

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Recent and recurrent selective sweeps of the antiviral RNAi gene Argonaute-2 in three species of Drosophila

scientific article

Recent changes in phenotype and patterns of host specialization in Wolbachia bacteria

scientific article published on August 2002

Recombination confounds interpretations of Wolbachia evolution.

scientific article

Rhabdoviruses in Two Species of Drosophila: Vertical Transmission and a Recent Sweep ⬇️

scientific article published on February 21, 2011

Sex-ratio-distorting Wolbachia causes sex-role reversal in its butterfly host

scientific article published in January 2000

Should Symbionts Be Nice or Selfish? Antiviral Effects of Wolbachia Are Costly but Reproductive Parasitism Is Not.

scientific article published on July 2015

Sigma viruses from three species of Drosophila form a major new clade in the rhabdovirus phylogeny

scientific article published on 7 October 2009

Specific interactions between host and parasite genotypes do not act as a constraint on the evolution of antiviral resistance in Drosophila

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Successive increases in the resistance of Drosophila to viral infection through a transposon insertion followed by a Duplication

scientific article

Symbiont strain is the main determinant of variation in Wolbachia-mediated protection against viruses across Drosophila species

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Symbionts commonly provide broad spectrum resistance to viruses in insects: a comparative analysis of Wolbachia strains

scientific article

The age and evolution of an antiviral resistance mutation in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2007)

The causes and consequences of changes in virulence following pathogen host shifts

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

The dynamics of reciprocal selective sweeps of host resistance and a parasite counter-adaptation in Drosophila

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

The effect of Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility on host population size in natural and manipulated systems

scientific article published in March 2002

The evolution and genetics of virus host shifts

scientific article

The evolution of RNAi as a defence against viruses and transposable elements

scientific article

The evolution of TEP1, an exceptionally polymorphic immunity gene in Anopheles gambiae

scientific article

The evolution of antifungal peptides in Drosophila

scientific article published on 12 September 2005

The evolution of parasite recognition genes in the innate immune system: purifying selection on Drosophila melanogaster peptidoglycan recognition proteins

scientific article published on November 2003

The evolution, diversity, and host associations of rhabdoviruses

scientific article

The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima ⬇️

scientific article

The genetic architecture of resistance to virus infection in Drosophila

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

The intracellular bacterium Wolbachia uses parasitoid wasps as phoretic vectors for efficient horizontal transmission

scientific article

The invasion and coexistence of competing Wolbachia strains.

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The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

The rate of recombination in Wolbachia bacteria

scientific article

The recent spread of a vertically transmitted virus through populations of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 23 August 2007

The spread of Wolbachia through mosquito populations

scientific article

The transcriptional response of Drosophila melanogaster to infection with the sigma virus (Rhabdoviridae).

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Trypanosomatids are common and diverse parasites of Drosophila

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

Two male-killing Wolbachia strains coexist within a population of the butterfly Acraea encedon

scientific article

Vector competence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for filarial nematodes is affected by age and nutrient limitation

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Vertically transmitted rhabdoviruses are found across three insect families and have dynamic interactions with their hosts.

scientific article

Vertically transmitted viral endosymbionts of insects: do sigma viruses walk alone? ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2012)

Virus evolution in Wolbachia-infected Drosophila

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

What causes inefficient transmission of male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila?

scientific article

Which way to manipulate host reproduction? Wolbachia that cause cytoplasmic incompatibility are easily invaded by sex ratio-distorting mutants

scientific article

Wolbachia Blocks Viral Genome Replication Early in Infection without a Transcriptional Response by the Endosymbiont or Host Small RNA Pathways

scientific article

Wolbachia affect behavior and possibly reproductive compatibility but not thermoresistance, fecundity, and morphology in a novel transinfected host, Drosophila nigrosparsa

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Wolbachia in European Populations of the Invasive Pest Drosophila suzukii: Regional Variation in Infection Frequencies ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Wolbachia variants induce differential protection to viruses in Drosophila melanogaster: a phenotypic and phylogenomic analysis

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Wolbachia-mediated protection against viruses in the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

piRNA pathway is not required for antiviral defense in Drosophila melanogaster

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