Leonard Nunney

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The population genetics of multistage carcinogenesis
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 270:1183-91. 2003
  2. ncbi The evolution of senescence in fish
    David Reznick
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Mech Ageing Dev 123:773-89. 2002
  3. ncbi Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction
    Richard Stouthamer
    Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 10:229. 2010
  4. ncbi Detecting natural selection at the molecular level: a reexamination of some "classic" examples of adaptive evolution
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    J Mol Evol 62:176-95. 2006
  5. ncbi A multigene phylogenetic study of clonal diversity and divergence in North American strains of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
    Erin L Schuenzel
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:3832-9. 2005
  6. ncbi Population genetics of accessory gland proteins and sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster populations from Evolution Canyon
    Tami M Panhuis
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
    Evolution 57:2785-91. 2003
  7. ncbi Population genomic analysis of a bacterial plant pathogen: novel insight into the origin of Pierce's disease of grapevine in the U.S
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e15488. 2010
  8. ncbi Multilocus sequence typing of Xylella fastidiosa causing Pierce's disease and oleander leaf scorch in the United States
    Xiaoli Yuan
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
    Phytopathology 100:601-11. 2010
  9. ncbi Multilocus sequence type system for the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa and relative contributions of recombination and point mutation to clonal diversity
    Mark Scally
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:8491-9. 2005
  10. ncbi Sexual selection and immune function in Drosophila melanogaster
    Kurt A McKean
    Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA
    Evolution 62:386-400. 2008

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Publications12

  1. ncbi The population genetics of multistage carcinogenesis
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 270:1183-91. 2003
    ....
  2. ncbi The evolution of senescence in fish
    David Reznick
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Mech Ageing Dev 123:773-89. 2002
    ..We support this argument with statistical analyses of life history data that show the same patterns of correlation among traits as seen in birds and mammals...
  3. ncbi Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction
    Richard Stouthamer
    Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 10:229. 2010
    ....
  4. ncbi Detecting natural selection at the molecular level: a reexamination of some "classic" examples of adaptive evolution
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    J Mol Evol 62:176-95. 2006
    ..In both tests, we emphasized that the criterion omega1 not equal omega2 is an important additional indicator of a phylogenetic shift in the balance between natural selection and genetic drift between two related lineages...
  5. ncbi A multigene phylogenetic study of clonal diversity and divergence in North American strains of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
    Erin L Schuenzel
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:3832-9. 2005
    ..The low level of variation within the X. fastidiosa subsp. piercei and X. fastidiosa subsp. sandyi clades, despite their antiquity, suggests strong selection, possibly driven by host plant adaptation...
  6. ncbi Population genetics of accessory gland proteins and sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster populations from Evolution Canyon
    Tami M Panhuis
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
    Evolution 57:2785-91. 2003
    ..We discuss our results in light of the discrepancies that have been published on this enigmatic D. melanogaster system from Evolution Canyon...
  7. ncbi Population genomic analysis of a bacterial plant pathogen: novel insight into the origin of Pierce's disease of grapevine in the U.S
    Leonard Nunney
    Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e15488. 2010
    ..In general, geographically mixing of previously isolated subspecies should be avoided...
  8. ncbi Multilocus sequence typing of Xylella fastidiosa causing Pierce's disease and oleander leaf scorch in the United States
    Xiaoli Yuan
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
    Phytopathology 100:601-11. 2010
    ..fastidiosa. Moreover, MLST is the only technique effective in detecting recombination...
  9. ncbi Multilocus sequence type system for the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa and relative contributions of recombination and point mutation to clonal diversity
    Mark Scally
    Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:8491-9. 2005
    ..fastidiosa (www.mlst.net). These loci identified the same six clonal complexes using the strain grouping criterion of identity at five or more loci with at least one other member...
  10. ncbi Sexual selection and immune function in Drosophila melanogaster
    Kurt A McKean
    Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA
    Evolution 62:386-400. 2008
    ..Such costs may be particularly important given the high intersex correlation, because this represents an apparent genetic conflict, preventing males from reaching their sexually selected optimum...
  11. ncbi Bateman's principle and immunity: phenotypically plastic reproductive strategies predict changes in immunological sex differences
    Kurt A McKean
    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
    Evolution 59:1510-7. 2005
    ..We suggest that for species similarly limited in their reproduction, phenotypic plasticity will be an important determinant of sex differences in immune function and other life-history traits...
  12. ncbi Lower group productivity under kin-selected reproductive altruism
    Anne Teyssèdre
    Département d Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Museum national d histoire naturelle, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France
    Evolution 60:2023-31. 2006
    ..We also note that each model predicts a large region of parameter space were polymorphism between altruism and selfishness is maintained, a pattern independent of dominance...