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Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Genetics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, James Jeffrey Bull is Johann Friedrich Miescher Regents Professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his influential 1983 monograph, Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms.

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An Empirical Test of Bootstrapping as a Method for Assessing Confidence in Phylogenetic Analysis (1993) (4153)
Evolution of sex determining mechanisms (1983) (1443)
Partitioning and combining data in phylogenetic analysis (1993) (972)
Sex Determination in Reptiles (1980) (729)
When is sex environmentally determined? (1977) (678)
Combining data in phylogenetic analysis. (1996) (558)
The Evolution of Cooperation (2004) (481)
Distinguishing mechanisms for the evolution of co-operation. (1991) (464)
Population and evolutionary dynamics of phage therapy (2004) (443)
Why be an hermaphrodite? (1976) (423)
Different trajectories of parallel evolution during viral adaptation. (1999) (358)
Fighting change with change: adaptive variation in an uncertain world (2002) (341)
A Model of Population Growth, Dispersal and Evolution in a Changing Environment (1989) (340)
Temperature-dependent sex determination in turtles. (1979) (329)
Short-sighted evolution and the virulence of pathogenic microorganisms. (1994) (328)
Exceptional convergent evolution in a virus. (1997) (322)
SELECTION OF BENEVOLENCE IN A HOST–PARASITE SYSTEM (1991) (316)
Challenging the trade-off model for the evolution of virulence: is virulence management feasible? (2003) (303)
Experimental phylogenetics: generation of a known phylogeny. (1992) (269)
Iteroparous Animals that Skip Opportunities for Reproduction (1979) (258)
Theory of Lethal Mutagenesis for Viruses (2007) (249)
Synergy and Order Effects of Antibiotics and Phages in Killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms (2017) (230)
A Likelihood Ratio Test to Detect Conflicting Phylogenetic Signal (1996) (229)
Chronology and morphology of temperature-dependent sex determination. (1991) (213)
How fundamental are Fisherian sex ratios (1988) (211)
HERITABILITY OF SEX RATIO IN TURTLES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SEX DETERMINATION (1982) (206)
Evolutionary reversals during viral adaptation to alternating hosts. (2000) (200)
Virulence evolution in a virus obeys a trade off (1999) (198)
The Evolution of Live-Bearing in Lizards and Snakes (1979) (181)
Quasispecies Made Simple (2005) (176)
Estrogen and sex reversal in turtles: a dose-dependent phenomenon. (1991) (175)
Temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles: proximate mechanisms, ultimate outcomes, and practical applications. (1994) (173)
Temperature-sensitive periods of sex determination in Emydid turtles. (1981) (159)
Sex reversal by estradiol in three reptilian orders. (1988) (154)
Synergism between temperature and estradiol: a common pathway in turtle sex determination? (1991) (133)
Changes in the heterogametic mechanism of sex determination (1977) (130)
Ecology of Hatchling Sex Ratio in Map Turtles (1984) (118)
TESTING OPTIMALITY WITH EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION: LYSIS TIME IN A BACTERIOPHAGE (2007) (112)
Non-fisherian sex ratios with sex change and environmental sex determination (1989) (108)
Profiles of adaptation in two similar viruses. (2001) (108)
SEX RATIO AND NEST TEMPERATURE IN TURTLES: COMPARING FIELD AND LABORATORY DATA' (1985) (104)
Adaptive Molecular Evolution for 13,000 Phage Generations (2005) (103)
Temperature‐sensitive periods of sex determination in a lizard: Similarities with turtles and crocodilians (1987) (99)
Synergy as a rationale for phage therapy using phage cocktails (2014) (97)
Phenotypic Resistance and the Dynamics of Bacterial Escape from Phage Control (2014) (96)
Is character weighting a Panacea for the problem of data heterogeneity in phylogenetic analysis (1994) (94)
Experimental evolution recapitulates natural evolution. (2000) (93)
The primary sex ratio under environmental sex determination. (1989) (88)
Impact of Phages on Two-Species Bacterial Communities (2005) (88)
Temperature-dependent sex determination : a mechanistic approach (1994) (82)
Theory and Empiricism in Virulence Evolution (2014) (82)
Temperature controlled sex-determination in turtles: ecological and behavioral aspects. (1982) (80)
Steroid hormones reverse sex in turtles. (1986) (79)
Parallel molecular evolution of deletions and nonsense mutations in bacteriophage T7. (1997) (76)
Population Dynamics Constrain the Cooperative Evolution of Cross-Feeding (2009) (73)
Optimal Foraging by Bacteriophages through Host Avoidance (2008) (69)
Experimental genomic evolution: extensive compensation for loss of DNA ligase activity in a virus. (2002) (68)
Experimental evolution of conflict mediation between genomes. (2005) (66)
Evolutionary Dynamics of Viral Attenuation (2002) (65)
Sex determining mechanisms: An evolutionary perspective (1985) (63)
Phage Inhibit Pathogen Dissemination by Targeting Bacterial Migrants in a Chronic Infection Model (2017) (59)
Sex Chromosomes in Haploid Dioecy: A Unique Contrast to Muller's Theory for Diploid Dioecy (1978) (59)
Wolbachia versus dengue Evolutionary forecasts (2013) (58)
The habits of highly effective phages: population dynamics as a framework for identifying therapeutic phages (2014) (58)
Distributions of Beneficial Fitness Effects in RNA (2005) (57)
Male heterogamety in kinosternid turtles (genus staurotypus). (1974) (56)
Karyotypes of side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) (1980) (56)
Invasion thresholds and the evolution of nonequilibrium virulence (2008) (55)
The evolution of XY females in mammals (1981) (54)
The evolution and expression of virulence (2007) (54)
Mode and tempo in environmental sex determination in vertebrates. (2009) (54)
Sex allocation, pollinator attraction and fruit dispersal in cosexual plants* (1986) (54)
Steroid hormone-induced male sex determination in an amniotic vertebrate. (1992) (51)
Estrogen- and temperature-induced medullary cord regression during gonadal differentiation in a turtle. (1993) (51)
Evolutionary Robustness of an Optimal Phenotype: Re-evolution of Lysis in a Bacteriophage Deleted for Its Lysin Gene (2005) (51)
Temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles: validity of sex diagnosis in hatchling lizards (1987) (49)
Evolutionary reversion of live viral vaccines: Can genetic engineering subdue it? (2015) (49)
Therapeutic Application of Phage Capsule Depolymerases against K1, K5, and K30 Capsulated E. coli in Mice (2017) (48)
Lethal gene drive selects inbreeding (2016) (48)
Experimental Evolution Yields Hundreds of Mutations in a Functional Viral Genome (2003) (48)
Parasite Evolution and Life History Theory (2010) (47)
Transmissible Viral Vaccines (2017) (46)
Evolution at a High Imposed Mutation Rate: Adaptation Obscures the Load in Phage T7 (2010) (46)
A tale of tails: Sialidase is key to success in a model of phage therapy against K1-capsulated Escherichia coli. (2010) (45)
From Bad to Good: Fitness Reversals and the Ascent of Deleterious Mutations (2006) (44)
SEX CHROMOSOME DIFFERENTIATION: AN INTERMEDIATE STAGE IN A LIZARD (1978) (44)
Karyotypic Studies of Thirty-Eight Species of North American Snakes (1972) (43)
Lethal Mutagenesis of Bacteria (2008) (42)
Wolbachia versus dengue (2013) (41)
The intrinsic rate of increase of HIV/AIDS: epidemiological and evolutionary implications. (1996) (39)
Skewed Sex Ratios in Snakes (1977) (39)
Incubation Temperature Influences Sex Determination in Kinosternid Turtles (1982) (39)
Non-temperature dependent sex determination in two suborders of turtles (1985) (37)
Deathly Drool: Evolutionary and Ecological Basis of Septic Bacteria in Komodo Dragon Mouths (2010) (37)
Gene-drive-mediated extinction is thwarted by population structure and evolution of sib mating (2019) (37)
Evolution of phage with chemically ambiguous proteomes (2003) (37)
A Model for Natural Selection of Genetic Migration (1987) (36)
Sex determination: Are two mechanisms better than one? (2008) (34)
Sex-determining potencies vary among female incubation temperatures in a turtle. (1990) (33)
Sex determining mechanisms: an evolutionary perspective. (1985) (33)
Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (1998) (33)
Gene order constrains adaptation in bacteriophage T7. (2005) (33)
Phage-Bacterial Dynamics with Spatial Structure: Self Organization around Phage Sinks Can Promote Increased Cell Densities (2018) (32)
Experimental approaches to phylogenetic analysis (1993) (32)
Genetic Sex Determination in the Spiny Softshell Trionyx spiniferus (Testudines: Trionychidae) (?) (1982) (32)
The Phenotype-Fitness Map in Experimental Evolution of Phages (2011) (32)
Origin of mutants disputed (1988) (31)
Recombinant vector vaccine evolution (2019) (30)
Arresting Evolution. (2017) (29)
Pharmacodynamics of non-replicating viruses, bacteriocins and lysins (2006) (29)
Karyotypes and evolutionary relationships of trionychoid turtles. (1983) (28)
Evolutionary Stability of a Refactored Phage Genome (2012) (27)
Antibiotic Therapy Using Phage Depolymerases: Robustness Across a Range of Conditions (2018) (25)
Evolutionary principles and synthetic biology: avoiding a molecular tragedy of the commons with an engineered phage (2012) (25)
MULTIPLE GENETIC PATHWAYS TO SIMILAR FITNESS LIMITS DURING VIRAL ADAPTATION TO A NEW HOST (2012) (25)
Sex allocation in a patchy environment: a marginal value theorem. (1985) (23)
Mice Are Not Furry Petri Dishes (2000) (23)
Eradicating infectious disease using weakly transmissible vaccines (2016) (22)
ALGAE FOR BIOFUEL: WILL THE EVOLUTION OF WEEDS LIMIT THE ENTERPRISE? (2012) (22)
Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution (2020) (20)
The gene drive bubble: New realities (2017) (20)
Experimental evolution of UV resistance in a phage (2018) (20)
Evolutionary decay and the prospects for long-term disease intervention using engineered insect vectors (2015) (19)
Challenges in predicting the evolutionary maintenance of a phage transgene (2014) (18)
Evolutionarily Stable Attenuation by Genome Rearrangement in a Virus (2013) (18)
Reduced Protein Expression in a Virus Attenuated by Codon Deoptimization (2017) (18)
Layers of Evolvability in a Bacteriophage Life History Trait (2009) (18)
Self-disseminating vaccines to suppress zoonoses (2020) (16)
Experimental Evolution of Gene Duplicates in a Bacterial Plasmid Model (2007) (15)
VIRULENCE (1994) (15)
Promises and Pitfalls of In Vivo Evolution to Improve Phage Therapy (2019) (15)
Sex determination: Some like it hot (and some don't) (2008) (13)
Intraspecific genome size variation in a turtle (Trachemys scripta) exhibiting temperature-dependent sex determination (1991) (13)
Evading resistance to gene drives (2021) (12)
The first steps in adaptive evolution (2005) (12)
A Note on Sex and Life Histories (1981) (11)
Evolution and containment of transmissible recombinant vector vaccines (2019) (11)
Evolutionary Insights from Reptilian Sexual Differentiation (1987) (11)
Reply from j.p. Huelsenbeck, j.j. Bull and C.w. Cunningham. (1996) (10)
Spatial structure undermines parasite suppression by gene drive cargo (2019) (10)
Why is the polymerase chain reaction resistant to in vitro evolution? (2004) (9)
Epidemics-in-waiting (2003) (9)
Evolutionary Recovery of a Recombinant Viral Genome (2012) (8)
Is science logical (1992) (8)
CHAPTER 9 – Lethal Mutagenesis (2008) (7)
Partitioning and Combining Data in Phylogenetic (2011) (7)
Sex Determination in Desert Iguanas: Does Incubation Temperature Make a Difference? (1981) (7)
Empirical Complexities in the Genetic Foundations of Lethal Mutagenesis (2013) (7)
Gene-drive-mediated extinction is thwarted by evolution of sib mating (2019) (7)
Lethal mutagenesis failure may augment viral adaptation. (2014) (6)
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES AT HIGH MUTATION RATES (2012) (6)
Parasites on the move. (1994) (5)
Combinatorial Approaches to Viral Attenuation (2018) (5)
A Binding Contract for Anthrax (2002) (5)
Transmissible vaccines whose dissemination rates vary through time, with applications to wildlife. (2019) (4)
A General Mechanism for Viral Resistance to Suicide Gene Expression (2001) (4)
Microbiology. A binding contract for anthrax. (2002) (4)
Virus wars: using one virus to block the spread of another (2016) (4)
Response to: Eliot and Gandon and Day: Revisiting virulence management (2003) (4)
Gene drive escape from resistance depends on mechanism and ecology (2021) (4)
Evolution: Reptile sex determination goes wild (2015) (3)
Models for the directed evolution of bacterial allelopathy: bacteriophage lysins (2015) (3)
Which ‘imperfect vaccines’ encourage the evolution of higher virulence? (2022) (3)
Evolutionary biology: Déjà vu (2000) (3)
A new reason for having sex (1989) (2)
Evading evolution of resistance to gene drives (2020) (2)
Methods for measuring the evolutionary stability of engineered genomes to improve their longevity (2021) (2)
R)EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE (1995) (2)
Viral resistance evolution fully escapes a rationally designed lethal inhibitor. (2009) (2)
Viral attenuation by engineered protein fragmentation (2018) (2)
Patterns in phage experimental adaptation (2008) (2)
ObituaryRobert James Baker (1942–2018) (2018) (2)
Evolution. Changing the cofactor diet of an enzyme. (2005) (2)
Self-spreading vaccines: Base policy on evidence. (2022) (1)
Using directed attenuation to enhance vaccine immunity (2020) (1)
Modeling the therapeutic potential of defective interfering particles in the presence of immunity (2022) (1)
Optimal Foraging and Host Avoidance by Bacteriophages (2008) (1)
Genetic Constraint Prevents Adaptation to an Optimal Phenotype: Experimental Selection on Lysis Time in a Phage (2007) (1)
Evolutionary principles and synthetic biology: avoiding a molecular tragedy of the commons with an engineered phage (2012) (1)
Challenges in predicting the evolutionary maintenance of a phage transgene (2014) (1)
Directed attenuation to enhance vaccine immunity (2021) (1)
Suppressing evolution in genetically engineered systems through repeated supplementation (2020) (1)
Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms: A Review of Fact and Theory@@@Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms. (1984) (1)
A GEOGRAPHIC COMPARISON (1982) (1)
The University of Chicago Optimal Foraging by Bacteriophages through Host Avoidance (2008) (1)
Predicting Evolution of the Transcription Regulatory Network in a Bacteriophage (2018) (1)
The sterile insect technique is protected from evolution of mate discrimination (2022) (0)
Vector dynamics influence spatially imperfect genetic interventions against disease (2020) (0)
In Memoriam (2011) (0)
Design and engineering of a transmissible antiviral defense (2016) (0)
Recombinant vector vaccines and within-host evolution (2019) (0)
Evolutionary biology. A new reason for having sex. (1989) (0)
Title : The Evolution of Cooperation (2003) (0)
Design and engineering of a transmissible antiviral defense (2016) (0)
Modeling the Directed Evolution of Broad Host Range Phages (2022) (0)
Robert James Baker (1942-2018), Obituary (2018) (0)
Supplementary material from "Eradicating infectious disease using weakly transmissible vaccines" (2016) (0)
Population Structure Affects Outcomes of Gene Drive Interventions Against Vector-Borne Diseases (2020) (0)
How to stop pandemics (2020) (0)
A LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST TO DETECT CONFLICTING (1996) (0)
Investigating viral attenuation by promoter knockout: a systems approach (2017) (0)
Fungal Glycoside Hydrolases Display Unique Specificities for Polysaccharides and Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms (2023) (0)
DETERMINATION IN THE HYMENOPTERA (1981) (0)
PARASITES AT CENTER STAGE1,2 (2003) (0)
Interpreting and de-noising genetically engineered barcodes in a DNA virus (2022) (0)
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health – Embracing the Future (2019) (0)
Charnov's Theories of Sex Allocation (1984) (0)
Distributions of Beneficial Fitness Effects in RNA ( Submitted to Genetics ) (0)

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