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Christopher Wills's Degrees
- PhD Biology University of California, San Diego
- Masters Biology University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Biology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher J. Wills is Professor Emeritus of Biology at UCSD. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. As a Guggenheim Fellow, he worked at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, on protein chemistry and evolution.
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- Selection against frameshift mutations limits microsatellite expansion in coding DNA. (2000) (492)
- Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominoids. (1999) (323)
- Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests. (2006) (310)
- Strong density- and diversity-related effects help to maintain tree species diversity in a neotropical forest. (1997) (304)
- Scaling of Connectivity in Marine Populations (2010) (256)
- Abundant microsatellite polymorphism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and the different distributions of microsatellites in eight prokaryotes and S. cerevisiae, result from strong mutation pressures and a variety of selective forces. (1998) (214)
- Principles of Population Genetics, 4th edition (2007) (209)
- Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models. (2006) (200)
- Long, polymorphic microsatellites in simple organisms (1996) (180)
- DNA microsatellites: agents of evolution? (1999) (145)
- Evidence for the Adaptive Evolution of Mutation Rates (2000) (141)
- Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests (2006) (92)
- Regulation of sugar and ethanol metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1990) (90)
- Production of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes by selection (1976) (90)
- Characterization of the two alcohol dehydrogenases of Zymomonas mobilis. (1981) (87)
- The runaway brain : the evolution of human uniqueness (1993) (83)
- Similar non–random processes maintain diversity in two tropical rainforests (1999) (79)
- ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA POLYMORPHISMS AMONG CHANNEL ISLAND DEER MICE (1987) (73)
- A technique for the isolation of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase mutants with altered substrate specificity. (1975) (73)
- The Evolutionary Biology of Flies (2006) (70)
- Maintenance of Multiallelic Polymorphism at the MHC Region (1991) (64)
- Use of polymorphic short and clustered coding-region microsatellites to distinguish strains of Candida albicans. (1996) (62)
- Microsatellites in the eukaryotic DNA mismatch repair genes as modulators of evolutionary mutation rate. (2001) (61)
- Molecular Analysis of Adenovirus Isolates from Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Young Adults (2004) (61)
- Human origins (1948) (59)
- A river runs through it (1995) (54)
- The two major isozymes of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. (1979) (54)
- The Spark Of Life: Darwin And The Primeval Soup (2000) (52)
- Numerous Length Polymorphisms at Short Tandem Repeats in Human Cytomegalovirus (1999) (49)
- Fatal Saccharomyces cerevisiae Aortic Graft Infection (2002) (48)
- Sm/Lsm Genes Provide a Glimpse into the Early Evolution of the Spliceosome (2009) (45)
- The microsatellites of Escherichia coli: rapidly evolving repetitive DNAs in a non‐pathogenic prokaryote (2001) (44)
- The Evolutionary Origin and Maintenance of Sexual Recombination: A Review of Contemporary Models (2003) (44)
- Significant competitive advantage conferred by meiosis and syngamy in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1996) (44)
- Domain-level differences in microsatellite distribution and content result from different relative rates of insertion and deletion mutations. (2002) (42)
- In Defense of Naive Pan-Selectionism (1973) (41)
- Single-gene Heterosis in Drosophila revealed by Inbreeding (1971) (41)
- A Genetic Herd‐Immunity Model for the Maintenance of MHC Polymorphism (1995) (41)
- Sequence analysis of a compound coding-region microsatellite in Candida albicans resolves homoplasies and provides a high-resolution tool for genotyping. (1998) (39)
- A computer model allowing maintenance of large amounts of genetic variability in mendelian populations. I. Assumptions and results for large populations. (1970) (37)
- WHEN DID EVE LIVE? AN EVOLUTIONARY DETECTIVE STORY (1995) (37)
- Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues (1996) (32)
- How genetic background masks single-gene heterosis in Drosophila (polymorphism-selection-isoenzymes-inbreeding-fly). (1972) (32)
- Which Came First (1993) (32)
- Genetic load. (1970) (32)
- Contingency Loci, Mutator Alleles, and Their Interactions: Synergistic Strategies for Microbial Evolution and Adaptation in Pathogenesis a (1999) (31)
- Rank-order selection is capable of maintaining all genetic polymorphisms. (1978) (30)
- The wisdom of the genes : new pathways in evolution (1989) (28)
- Exons, Introns, And Talking Genes: The Science Behind The Human Genome Project (1991) (28)
- MONTHLY FREQUENCY CHANGES OF DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA THIRD CHROMOSOME GENE ARRANGEMENTS IN A CALIFORNIA LOCALITY (1966) (26)
- Further evidence for selective differences between isoalleles in Drosophila. (1975) (24)
- MHC and Captive Breeding: A Rebuttal (1991) (23)
- Conditional overdominance at an alcohol dehydrogenase locus in yeast. (1987) (22)
- The Runaway Brain (1993) (22)
- Amino acid substitutions in two functional mutants of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (1979) (22)
- The wisdom of the genes (1989) (21)
- Evolutionary changes in mutation rates and spectra and their influence on the adaptation of pathogens. (2000) (20)
- Great Ape Phenome Project? (1998) (20)
- The Possibility of Stress-Triggered Evolution (1984) (20)
- Differences in α‐amino acetylation of isozymes of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (1980) (18)
- Plagues : their origin, history and future (1996) (17)
- Confidentiality and the Data Protection Act (1985) (16)
- Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution (1998) (16)
- The mutational load in two natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. (1966) (15)
- Population size bottleneck (1990) (15)
- TOPIARY PRUNING AND WEIGHTING REINFORCE AN AFRICAN ORIGIN FOR THE HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA TREE (1996) (15)
- MITOCHONDRIAL‐DNA AND ALLOZYME DIVERGENCE PATTERNS ARE CORRELATED AMONG ISLAND DEER MICE (1989) (15)
- A Mechanism for Rapid Allopatric Speciation (1977) (14)
- Effect on gluconeogenesis of mutants blocking two mitochondrial transport systems in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1986) (13)
- Alteration in the redox balance of yeast leads to allyl alcohol resistance (1980) (13)
- Functional mutants of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. (1982) (12)
- Pleiotropic effects of heterozygosity at the mating-type locus of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae on repair, recombination and transformation. (1993) (12)
- Another nail in the coffin of the multiple-origins theory? (1996) (12)
- Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency in yeast: a mutant affecting the interaction between the glyoxylate and Krebs cycles. (1985) (12)
- Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests (2016) (11)
- An efficient selection producing structural gene mutants of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase resistant to pyrazole. (1988) (11)
- Extracellular conditions affecting the induction of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase II. (1984) (10)
- SAFETY IN DIVERSITY (1996) (10)
- Rapid recent human evolution and the accumulation of balanced genetic polymorphisms. (2011) (10)
- The accumulation of genetic variability in yeast. (1971) (9)
- Functional mutants of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase affecting kinetics, cellular redox balance, and electrophoretic mobility (1978) (9)
- Marginal overdominance in Drosophila. (1975) (9)
- Genetic and phenotypic consequences of introgression between humans and Neanderthals. (2011) (9)
- Three kinds of genetic variability in yeast populations. (1968) (8)
- Controlling protein evolution. (1976) (8)
- A computer model allowing maintenance of large amounts of genetic variability in Mendelian populations. II. The balance of forces between linkage and random assortment. (1976) (8)
- The trouble with sex (2003) (8)
- Mismatch repair and the accumulation of deleterious mutations influence the competitive advantage of MAT (mating type) heterozygosity in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1998) (7)
- Some puzzles about carbon catabolite repression in yeast. (1996) (7)
- Selection Against Susceptibility to HIV-1 (1999) (6)
- Is the doubly deleted alpha-thalassemia gene a "fugitive" allele? (1981) (6)
- Evolution Theory and the Future of Humanity (2008) (5)
- The effect of mutagenesis on growth rate in haploid and diploid yeast. (1969) (5)
- Sequence Note: Rapid Sequon Evolution in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Relative to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (1996) (5)
- Alcohol dehydrogenase II and fructose‐1,6‐bisphosphatase appear to be co‐regulated in wild‐type yeast (1985) (4)
- Topiary pruning of the HIV and SIV phylogenetic tree. (1995) (4)
- Effect of mutants and inhibitors on mitochondrial transport systems in vivo in yeast. (1984) (4)
- Rapid sequon evolution in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 relative to human immunodeficiency virus type 2. (1996) (4)
- Review: The 10,000 Year Explosion by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending (2009) (4)
- Correction: Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests (2016) (3)
- The role of molecular biology in human evolutionary studies: current status and future prospects. (1991) (3)
- Research articleUse of polymorphic short and clustered coding-region microsatellites to distinguish strains of Candida albicans (1996) (3)
- Structural Evolution of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase in the Laboratory (1984) (3)
- Phylogenetic Analysis and Molecular Evolution (1994) (3)
- Differences in alpha-amino acetylation of isozymes of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. (1980) (3)
- How Predictable Is Evolution? (2007) (3)
- Green Equilibrium: The Vital Balance of Humans & Nature (2013) (2)
- Functional alcohol dehydrogenase mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae conferring temperature-conditional allyl alcohol resistance. (1987) (2)
- Analysis of simple sequence repeats in mammalian cell cycle genes. (2014) (2)
- Balanced and mutational genetic load in yeast as a function of environment. (1967) (2)
- Improving the Analysis of Phylogenetic Data (1996) (2)
- Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories (2021) (2)
- Systemic Holistic Approach to ICT security (2007) (2)
- SELECTIVE PRESSURES ON ISOZYMES IN DROSOPHILA (1975) (2)
- Microsatélites de ADN (1999) (2)
- The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (2010) (2)
- Patients on Different Fluconazole Regimens Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected spp . from Candida Posttreatment Isolates of Microsatellite Genotyping of Pre-and Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA and (1998) (2)
- Null and electrophoretic mobility mutants in the structural gene for L‐lactate dehydrogenase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1986) (2)
- Scientific Goals of the Human Genome Project. (1993) (1)
- Book Review:Population Genetics: A Concise Guide. John H. Gillespie (1998) (1)
- Similarity landscapes: A way to detect many structural and sequence motifs in both introns and exons (1994) (1)
- Is the Doubly Deleted a-Thalassemia Gene a "Fugitive" Allele? (2006) (1)
- Reply to Dr. Kidwell (1974) (1)
- More long arguments (1994) (1)
- Any old bones? (2000) (1)
- The maintenance of behavioral diversity in human societies (1994) (1)
- (polymorphism/selection/isoenzymes/inbreeding/fly) (2016) (0)
- Use of denaturing gradient electrophoresis to determine the distributions of polymorphisms in entire genes in natural populations. (1995) (0)
- Stages versus continuity (1993) (0)
- Regulation of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase Isozymes (1981) (0)
- Genetic variation and human disease: Principles and evolutionary approaches (1993) (0)
- Truth is the daughter of time (1995) (0)
- Evolution by Metaphor: The Extended Phenotype . The Gene as the Unit of Selection. Richard Dawkins. Freeman, San Francisco, 1982. xii, 308 pp. $22.95. (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Mad Dogs: The New Rabies Plague Don Finley (1999) (0)
- Shiny Pebbles on the Beach (2008) (0)
- Similarity landscapes: An improved method for scientific visualization of information from protein and DNA database searches (1998) (0)
- Book Review:Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View. Roger Lewin (1997) (0)
- Book Review:Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals. Takeru Akazawa, Emoke J. E. Szathmary (1998) (0)
- Genetic drift (2019) (0)
- Strong density- and diversity-re) species diversity in a neotropica (1997) (0)
- Our genetic legacy (1993) (0)
- The selective value of modifiers of the eyeless locus in Drosophila melanogaster (1962) (0)
- A Classic Revisited: Darwin's great idea in the Origin-that life is a series of successful mistakes-is reinforced by a century and a half of evidence. (2000) (0)
- Evolution on a Rampage (2002) (0)
- Evolution by metaphor. (1982) (0)
- The Evolution of Philosophy (2012) (0)
- Hominid economics (2002) (0)
- Forensic DNA typing. (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Genes & Genomes: A Changing Perspective. Maxine Singer, Paul Berg (1992) (0)
- The meaning of wildlife (1999) (0)
- Population size bottleneck [letter] (1990) (0)
- Some Light on the Mystery of Mysteries (2000) (0)
- The Philosophy of Human Evolution (2012) (0)
- Mismatch: Why our World No Longer Fits our Bodies.ByPeter Gluckmanand, Mark Hanson.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.$29.95. xi + 285 p; index. ISBN: 0‐19‐280683‐1. 2006. (2007) (0)
- The systemic-holistic model and approach (2008) (0)
- Evolution's final frontiers (2009) (0)
- Molecular Analysis of Adenovirus Isolates from Previously Vaccinated Young Adults (2004) (0)
- An Argumental Heaven@@@Genetic Variability. (1982) (0)
- A LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION (2005) (0)
- Theories and controversies (1993) (0)
- Old wine in new bottles (1992) (0)
- Körner in the community. (1986) (0)
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