Jon Seger
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Jon Seger's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Environmental Science Stanford University
Why Is Jon Seger Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jon Allen Seger is an American evolutionary ecologist, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. He helped develop the theory of bet-hedging in biology. His work has appeared in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, as well as popular magazines such as Scientific American.
Jon Seger's Published Works
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Published Works
- Hedging one's evolutionary bets, revisited. (1989) (814)
- Partial bivoltinism may cause alternating sex-ratio biases that favour eusociality (1983) (171)
- UNIFYING GENETIC MODELS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE CHOICE (1985) (123)
- Isotopic and genetic evidence for culturally inherited site fidelity to feeding grounds in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) (2009) (121)
- Dynamics of some simple host-parasite models with more than two genotypes in each species. (1988) (110)
- Partner choice and fidelity stabilize coevolution in a Cretaceous-age defensive symbiosis (2014) (101)
- Elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution in island birds. (2001) (99)
- Kinship and covariance. (1981) (94)
- The biochemistry of murein and cell wall teichoic acids in the genus Listeria (1984) (84)
- Local mate competition with variable fecundity:dependence of offspring sex ratios on information utilization and mode of male production. (1990) (80)
- Models of sex ratio evolution (2002) (74)
- Evolution of sexual systems and sex allocation in plants when growth and reproduction overlap (1996) (69)
- Imprinting and paternal genome elimination in insects. (1999) (68)
- Regulating general mutation rates: examination of the hypermutable state model for Cairnsian adaptive mutation. (2003) (61)
- Gene Genealogies Strongly Distorted by Weakly Interfering Mutations in Constant Environments (2010) (61)
- Sexual dimorphism in the Hymenoptera (1994) (60)
- INCREASED HARASSMENT OF RIGHT WHALES (EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS) BY KELP GULLS (LARUS DOMINICANUS) AT PENÍNSULA VALDÉS, ARGENTINA (1998) (60)
- Asymmetry in the evolution of female mating preferences (1986) (57)
- Accelerated Evolution of Mitochondrial but Not Nuclear Genomes of Hymenoptera: New Evidence from Crabronid Wasps (2012) (56)
- A continuous-state coalescent and the impact of weak selection on the structure of gene genealogies. (2010) (52)
- Population histories of right whales (Cetacea: Eubalaena) inferred from mitochondrial sequence diversities and divergences of their whale lice (Amphipoda: Cyamus) (2005) (52)
- Unexpected patterns of parentage and relatedness in a primitively eusocial bee (1995) (51)
- All for one, one for all, that is our device (1989) (50)
- Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution (2015) (48)
- Evolution of odorant receptors expressed in mammalian testes. (2000) (46)
- Unexplained recurring high mortality of southern right whale Eubalaena australis calves at Peninsula Valdés, Argentina (2013) (43)
- Sisters in arms (1991) (43)
- Selection on the protein-coding genes of the TBE1 family of transposable elements in the ciliates Oxytricha fallax and O. trifallax. (1997) (42)
- Regulate genome-edited products, not genome editing itself (2016) (41)
- Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calf mortality at Península Valdés, Argentina: Are harmful algal blooms to blame? (2016) (41)
- Temporal, spatial, sex-ratio and body-size heterogeneity of prey species taken by the beewolf Philanthus sanbornii (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). (1993) (41)
- Venom Insulins of Cone Snails Diversify Rapidly and Track Prey Taxa (2016) (40)
- Cause and effect in evolution (1999) (38)
- Increased Wounding of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Calves by Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus) at Península Valdés, Argentina (2015) (32)
- Evidence for a cryptic species complex in the ant parasitoid Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae) (2001) (25)
- The Murein Types of Listeria grayi, Listeria murrayi and Listeria denitrificans. (1983) (25)
- Phenological and Developmental Costs of Male Sex Function in Hermaphroditic Plants (1999) (24)
- The adaptive significance of unproductive alternative splicing in primates. (2010) (23)
- Litter sex ratios in the golden hamster vary with time of mating and litter size and are not binomially distributed (1990) (21)
- Incorporating non-equilibrium dynamics into demographic history inferences of a migratory marine species (2018) (16)
- Evolutionary biology: Sex ratios in wasps and aphids (1985) (16)
- Stable isotopes (δ15N, δ13C, δ34S) in skin reveal diverse food sources used by southern right whales Eubalaena australis (2018) (13)
- Evolution of responses to relative homozygosity (1976) (13)
- Human Rhinovirus Diversity and Evolution: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor (2017) (13)
- Exoskeletons out of the Closet (1996) (10)
- Genetic Diversity and Connectivity of Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis) Found in the Brazil and Chile–Peru Wintering Grounds and the South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) Feeding Ground (2020) (10)
- Against expectation: a short sequence with high signal elucidates cone snail phylogeny. (2011) (10)
- Aerobic and Anaerobic Extremely Thermophilic Autotrophs (1987) (10)
- Evolution of Exploiter–Victim Relationships (2009) (9)
- Eye Evolution (1996) (8)
- Ocean warming threatens southern right whale population recovery (2021) (8)
- Biogeography of a defensive symbiosis (2014) (7)
- Ideas in Ecology (2016) (7)
- Eye evolution [2] (1996) (7)
- Patterns of blubber fat deposition and evaluation of body condition in growing southern right whale calves ( Eubalaena australis ) (2021) (6)
- Snapping social swimmers (1996) (6)
- Adaptive Mutation Requires No Mutagenesis—Only Growth Under Selection: A Response (2003) (6)
- Benevolent sisterhood (1988) (6)
- A very short, functionally constrained sequence diagnoses cone snails in several Conasprella clades. (2012) (5)
- Erratum: Increased wounding of southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) Calves by kelp gulls (Larus dominicanus) at Península Valdés, Argentina (PLoS ONE (2015) 10:10 (e0139291) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139291) (2015) (5)
- Fatty acids and stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N) in southern right whale Eubalaena australis calves in relation to age and mortality at Península Valdés, Argentina (2020) (5)
- Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History.Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology.ByKevin M O’Neill;illustrated by, Catherine Seibert.Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca (New York): Cornell University Press. $39.95. xv + 406 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–8014–3721–0. 2001. (2002) (5)
- El Niño and Darwin's finches (1987) (4)
- Early Days Among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians (2020) (4)
- The Evolution of Individuality.Leo W. Buss (1988) (4)
- Sociobiology's Successes (1996) (3)
- Information and allometry (1998) (3)
- Cellular and ultrastructural characterization of the grey-morph phenotype in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) (2017) (3)
- Contrasting effects of host tree isolation on population connectedness in two tropical epiphytic bromeliads. (2019) (2)
- Who are the drone police? (1989) (2)
- Disruptive or directional selection? (1983) (2)
- Natural Selection: Sex Ratio (2001) (2)
- Correction: Increased Wounding of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Calves by Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus) at Península Valdés, Argentina (2015) (2)
- Theoretical evolutionary ecology: Michael Bulmer. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1994. $65.00 (hardback), $36.95 (paperback), 352 pp. (1996) (1)
- Social scientists and sociobiologists get their lines crossed (1981) (1)
- Macroevolution conference. (1981) (1)
- W.D. Hamilton, 1936–2000 (2000) (1)
- Unexplained recurring high mortality of southern right whale calves (Eubalaena australis) at Península Valdés, Argentina (2013) (1)
- Relatedness, sex ratios, and controls. (1991) (1)
- Gene flow or heterozygote advantage? (1994) (1)
- Book Review:Evolution and Diversity of Sex Ratio in Insects and Mites. Dana L. Wrensch, Mercedes A. Ebbert (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps. Stefano Turillazzi, Mary Jane West-Eberhard (1997) (0)
- Chapter I Models of sex ratio evolution (0)
- Supplementary Material for: Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution (2016) (0)
- GOOD? BETTER? BEST?1 (2002) (0)
- Corrigendum to “Against expectation: A short sequence with high signal elucidates cone snail phylogeny” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 58 (2011) 149–414] (2011) (0)
- Robert M. May (1936–2020) (2020) (0)
- Diversity of little things (1989) (0)
- Genetic Diversity and Connectivity of Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis) Found in the Brazil and Chile–Peru Wintering Grounds and the South Georgia (Islas (2020) (0)
- Bumble bee observation unit. (1989) (0)
- Selection on the Protein-Coding Genes of the TZ ? El Family of Transposable Elements in the Ciliates Oxytricha fallax and 0 . tr $ aZZax (1998) (0)
- Macroevolution conference [1] (1981) (0)
- Cospeciation of whale lice (Curstaces: amphipoda: cyamidae) and their hosts (Cetacea: Eublaena) (2002) (0)
- The science of queens (1990) (0)
- Misciting latest (1980) (0)
- Human Evolutionary Genetics (2015) (0)
- Resolution of Respect Robert M. May (1936–2020) (2020) (0)
- Book reviews (1996) (0)
- Biological richness of deserts (1995) (0)
- Sociobiology's Successes (1996) (0)
- 1998 Sewall Wright Award: William Donald Hamilton (1999) (0)
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