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List of works by Leonard Nunney

A multigene phylogenetic study of clonal diversity and divergence in North American strains of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa

scientific article published on July 2005

Adapting to a Changing Environment: Modeling the Interaction of Directional Selection and Plasticity

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An Experimental Test of the Host-Plant Range of Nonrecombinant Strains of North American Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Assessing minimum viable population size: Demography meets population genetics.

scientific article published in July 1993

Big houses, big cars, superfleas and the costs of reproduction

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Can neutral molecular markers be used to determine the success of an introduction of a "better" strain into an established population of a biocontrol parasitoid?

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Detecting genetic introgression: high levels of intersubspecific recombination found in Xylella fastidiosa in Brazil.

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

Detecting natural selection at the molecular level: a reexamination of some "classic" examples of adaptive evolution

scientific article published on 13 January 2006

Factors influencing the optimum sex ratio in a structured population

scientific article published in February 1988

Hardy–Weinberg ratios and rare male mating advantage

scientific article published on January 29, 1976

How Do Plant Diseases Caused by Xylella fastidiosa Emerge?

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Increased sexual activity reduces male immune function in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 19 June 2001

Insight into post-mating interactions between the sexes: relatedness suppresses productivity of singly mated female Drosophila melanogaster

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Intersubspecific recombination in Xylella fastidiosa Strains native to the United States: infection of novel hosts associated with an unsuccessful invasion

scientific article published on 2 December 2013

Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction.

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Large-scale intersubspecific recombination in the plant-pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is associated with the host shift to mulberry.

scientific article published on 7 March 2014

Multilocus sequence type system for the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa and relative contributions of recombination and point mutation to clonal diversity

scientific article published on December 2005

Multilocus sequence typing of Xylella fastidiosa causing Pierce's disease and oleander leaf scorch in the United States.

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Overestimating the Role of Environment in Cancers

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Peto's paradox and the hallmarks of cancer: constructing an evolutionary framework for understanding the incidence of cancer

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Peto's paradox and the promise of comparative oncology

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Population genomic analysis of a bacterial plant pathogen: novel insight into the origin of Pierce's disease of grapevine in the U.S.

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Pupal period and adult size in Drosophila melanogaster: a cautionary tale of contrasting correlations between two sexually dimorphic traits

scientific article published in January 2007

Recent evolutionary radiation and host plant specialization in the Xylella fastidiosa subspecies native to the United States

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Reduction in the cumulative effect of stress-induced inbreeding depression due to intragenerational purging in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Resolving Peto's paradox: Modeling the potential effects of size-related metabolic changes, and of the evolution of immune policing and cancer suppression

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Seasonal stress drives predictable changes in inbreeding depression in field-tested captive populations of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Selfish element maintains sex in natural populations of a parasitoid wasp

scientific article published in March 2001

Sex-specific effects of inbreeding in wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster under benign and stressful conditions

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Sexual selection and immune function in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 7 December 2007

Size matters: height, cell number and a person's risk of cancer

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The complex biogeography of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa: genetic evidence of introductions and Subspecific introgression in Central America

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The effect of long time delays in predator-prey systems

scientific article published in April 1985

The effect of neighborhood size on effective population size in theory and in practice

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

The expression of tumour suppressors and proto-oncogenes in tissues susceptible to their hereditary cancers

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The guardians of inherited oncogenic vulnerabilities.

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

The importance of multilocus sequence typing: cautionary tales from the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

The population genetics of multistage carcinogenesis

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

The real war on cancer: the evolutionary dynamics of cancer suppression

scientific article published on 10 October 2012