Joshua B. Plotkin

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Joshua B. Plotkin

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#15399

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#2599

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Joshua B. Plotkin's Degrees

PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Joshua B. Plotkin is an evolutionary biologist and applied mathematician. He is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Plotkin's research includes the study of the evolution of adaptation in populations, virus ecology, genetic drift, protein translation, and social norms.

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Joshua B. Plotkin's Published Works

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Published Works

Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias (2011) (1261)
Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli (2009) (781)
The Population Genetics of dN/dS (2008) (764)
Seed Dispersal and Spatial Pattern in Tropical Trees (2006) (452)
Rate-Limiting Steps in Yeast Protein Translation (2013) (399)
Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics. (2004) (345)
Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record (2011) (336)
Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation (2010) (327)
Species-area curves, spatial aggregation, and habitat specialization in tropical forests. (2000) (319)
The evolution of syntactic communication (2000) (318)
Improved ribosome-footprint and mRNA measurements provide insights into dynamics and regulation of yeast translation (2015) (304)
Mortality due to influenza in the United States--an annualized regression approach using multiple-cause mortality data. (2006) (287)
Redundancy, antiredundancy, and the robustness of genomes (2002) (260)
Hemagglutinin sequence clusters and the antigenic evolution of influenza A virus (2002) (250)
Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community. (2013) (239)
Tissue-specific codon usage and the expression of human genes. (2004) (214)
Predicting species diversity in tropical forests. (2000) (213)
Inferring the Dynamics of Diversification: A Coalescent Approach (2010) (209)
The evolutionary language game. (1999) (197)
Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies (2005) (194)
HABITAT PATTERNS IN TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS: A COMPARISON OF 105 PLOTS IN NORTHWEST BORNEO (2002) (192)
Cluster Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Malaysian Tree Species (2002) (191)
From extortion to generosity, evolution in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (2013) (191)
Prevalence of Epistasis in the Evolution of Influenza A Surface Proteins (2011) (187)
Codon bias and frequency-dependent selection on the hemagglutinin epitopes of influenza A virus (2003) (182)
Extortion and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma (2012) (174)
Aging and Gene Expression in the Primate Brain (2005) (173)
Immune history shapes specificity of pandemic H1N1 influenza antibody responses (2013) (160)
SAMPLING THE SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A LANDSCAPE (2002) (155)
Contingency and entrenchment in protein evolution under purifying selection (2014) (147)
Isolation and Characterization of Adenoviruses Persistently Shed from the Gastrointestinal Tract of Non-Human Primates (2009) (138)
Why Transcription Factor Binding Sites Are Ten Nucleotides Long (2012) (135)
A statistical theory for sampling species abundances. (2007) (133)
The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations (2012) (131)
Inferring the shape of global epistasis (2018) (131)
Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions (2019) (123)
The dynamics of adaptation on correlated fitness landscapes (2009) (119)
Collapse of cooperation in evolving games (2014) (118)
Variations in the progranulin gene affect global gene expression in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. (2008) (113)
Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks (2018) (105)
Using protein complexes to predict phenotypic effects of gene mutation (2007) (105)
Optimal, near-optimal, and robust epidemic control (2020) (102)
Detecting selection using a single genome sequence of M. tuberculosis and P. falciparum (2004) (99)
Identifying Signatures of Selection in Genetic Time Series (2013) (90)
Reconstructing influenza incidence by deconvolution of daily mortality time series (2009) (90)
Vaccinating to Protect a Vulnerable Subpopulation (2007) (85)
Persistent expression of Pax3 in the neural crest causes cleft palate and defective osteogenesis in mice. (2008) (80)
Matrix Dimensions Bias Demographic Inferences: Implications for Comparative Plant Demography (2010) (79)
Detecting evolutionary forces in language change (2016) (77)
Genome Landscapes and Bacteriophage Codon Usage (2007) (77)
Language evolution and information theory. (2000) (72)
SELECTION BIASES THE PREVALENCE AND TYPE OF EPISTASIS ALONG ADAPTIVE TRAJECTORIES (2012) (72)
Generalized population models and the nature of genetic drift. (2011) (70)
Single Hemagglutinin Mutations That Alter both Antigenicity and Receptor Binding Avidity Influence Influenza Virus Antigenic Clustering (2013) (69)
Inferring fitness landscapes by regression produces biased estimates of epistasis (2014) (68)
Young proteins experience more variable selection pressures than old proteins. (2010) (63)
Codon usage influences fitness through RNA toxicity (2018) (62)
Evolution and persistence of influenza A and other diseases. (2004) (58)
Host-Pathogen Coevolution and the Emergence of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies in Chronic Infections (2015) (56)
Some Consequences of Demographic Stochasticity in Population Genetics (2010) (55)
Coordinated Evolution of Influenza A Surface Proteins (2014) (53)
Small groups and long memories promote cooperation (2016) (52)
Spatiotemporal correlations in criminal offense records (2011) (50)
The Structure of Genealogies in the Presence of Purifying Selection: A Fitness-Class Coalescent (2010) (49)
Transcriptional regulation is only half the story (2010) (47)
Assessing the determinants of evolutionary rates in the presence of noise. (2007) (47)
Epistasis and the Dynamics of Reversion in Molecular Evolution (2016) (46)
Codon Usage and Selection on Proteins (2006) (45)
The role of epistasis in protein evolution (2013) (41)
Dynamics of Neutral and Selected Alleles When the Offspring Distribution Is Skewed (2012) (41)
Evolutionary consequences of behavioral diversity (2016) (38)
riboviz: analysis and visualization of ribosome profiling datasets (2017) (38)
Spatial structure and genetic diversity of three tropical tree species with different habitat preferences within a natural forest (2006) (37)
Evolution, Safety, and Highly Pathogenic Influenza Viruses (2012) (37)
Absorption and fixation times for neutral and quasi-neutral populations with density dependence. (2008) (36)
Age-Correlated Gene Expression in Normal and Neurodegenerative Human Brain Tissues (2010) (36)
The Polymorphism Frequency Spectrum of Finitely Many Sites Under Selection (2008) (36)
Experimentally guided models reveal replication principles that shape the mutation distribution of RNA viruses (2015) (35)
EXPLOSIVE RADIATION OF A BACTERIAL SPECIES GROUP (2012) (35)
Formal properties of the probability of fixation: identities, inequalities and approximations. (2013) (30)
A machine-vision approach for automated pain measurement at millisecond timescales (2020) (30)
The evolutionary advantage of heritable phenotypic heterogeneity (2015) (28)
The different effects of apoptosis and DNA repair on tumorigenesis. (2002) (27)
Rational spatio-temporal strategies for controlling a Chagas disease vector in urban environments (2010) (26)
Genome-Wide Analysis of Natural Selection on Human Cis-Elements (2008) (26)
Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Balanced Polymorphism in Periodic Environments by a Genomic Storage Effect (2016) (26)
Spatial patterns in discordant diagnostic test results for Chagas disease: links to transmission hotspots. (2009) (25)
Evolution of empathetic moral evaluation (2018) (25)
Epistasis Increases the Rate of Conditionally Neutral Substitution in an Adapting Population (2011) (25)
Retracing Micro-Epidemics of Chagas Disease Using Epicenter Regression (2011) (24)
The evolution of genetic architectures underlying quantitative traits (2012) (24)
Directionality in the evolution of influenza A haemagglutinin (2008) (22)
Weak 5′-mRNA Secondary Structures in Short Eukaryotic Genes (2012) (22)
Structure and Age Jointly Influence Rates of Protein Evolution (2012) (21)
Principles and Parameters of Molecular Robustness (2003) (21)
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations (2020) (21)
Genome-wide survey of natural selection on functional, structural, and network properties of polymorphic sites in Saccharomyces paradoxus. (2011) (20)
Major Transitions in Language Evolution (2001) (17)
ENVIRONMENTAL ROBUSTNESS AND THE ADAPTABILITY OF POPULATIONS (2012) (17)
The evolution of complex gene regulation by low-specificity binding sites (2012) (16)
Evolutionary Rescue Through Partly Heritable Phenotypic Variability (2017) (16)
In Evolution, the Sum Is Less than Its Parts (2011) (15)
Phenotypic plasticity promotes recombination and gene clustering in periodic environments (2016) (15)
THE INEVITABILITY OF UNCONDITIONALLY DELETERIOUS SUBSTITUTIONS DURING ADAPTATION (2013) (14)
The Evolvability of Cooperation under Local and Non-Local Mutations (2015) (14)
On the Accessibility of Adaptive Phenotypes of a Bacterial Metabolic Network (2009) (14)
Regulated CRISPR Modules Exploit a Dual Defense Strategy of Restriction and Abortive Infection in a Model of Prokaryote-Phage Coevolution (2015) (14)
The Lives of Proteins (2011) (14)
The structure of allelic diversity in the presence of purifying selection. (2010) (13)
Moonshots, investment booms, and selection bias in the transmission of cultural traits (2020) (13)
Evolution of cooperation with asymmetric social interactions (2021) (13)
Modeling and Analysis of the Spread of COVID-19 Under a Multiple-Strain Model with Mutations (2021) (13)
Detecting epistasis from an ensemble of adapting populations (2015) (13)
Assortative mating can impede or facilitate fixation of underdominant alleles. (2016) (12)
The Equilibrium Allele Frequency Distribution for a Population with Reproductive Skew (2013) (9)
Estimating selection pressures from limited comparative data. (2006) (9)
What we talk about when we talk about colors (2021) (9)
Inequality, identity, and partisanship: How redistribution can stem the tide of mass polarization (2021) (9)
Molecular evolution: Hidden diversity sparks adaptation (2011) (8)
Assortative mating can impede or facilitate fixation of underdominant alleles (2016) (8)
Adherence to public institutions that foster cooperation (2021) (7)
Evolution of cooperation with contextualized behavior. (2022) (7)
The natural selection of good science (2020) (7)
Escherichia coliin Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression (2009) (7)
Leveraging A Multiple-Strain Model with Mutations in Analyzing the Spread of Covid-19 (2021) (6)
Evolutionary genomics: Codon volatility does not detect selection (reply) (2005) (6)
Theory Rate-Limiting Steps in Yeast Protein Translation (2013) (6)
Transcriptional errors and the drift barrier (2016) (5)
Selection for Protein Stability Enriches for Epistatic Interactions (2018) (5)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease. (2006) (4)
Evolutionary forces in language change (2016) (4)
Molecular evolution: No escape from the tangled bank (2017) (4)
The population genetics of cooperative gene regulation (2012) (4)
Phenotypic plasticity can facilitate evolutionary rescue (2016) (3)
On the role of epistasis in adaptation (2014) (3)
Prosociality in the economic Dictator Game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise (2019) (2)
Quantifying Behavioral Data Sets of Criminal Activity (2010) (2)
Measuring frequency-dependent selection in culture (2021) (2)
The diversity of evolutionary dynamics on epistatic versus non-epistatic fitness landscapes (2014) (2)
Synonymous codon usage and selection on proteins (2004) (2)
Directionality in the evolution of influenza A haemagglutinin (2009) (2)
The evolution of forecasting for decision making in dynamic environments (2021) (2)
Detecting Directional Selection from the Polymorphism Frequency Spectrum (2007) (2)
All data files (2017) (1)
Isolation and characterization of adenoviruses persistently shed from the gastro- intestinal tract of non-human primates (2012) (1)
Selfish optimization and collective learning in populations (2021) (1)
Innovation in an adversarial collective sensing game (2018) (1)
The Structure of Genealogies in the Presence of Purifying Selection: An Effective Coalescent Theory (2010) (1)
Ancel (2000) on the Baldwin effect. (2020) (1)
Evolutionary Dynamics Within and Among Competing Groups (2022) (1)
The population genetics of cooperative gene regulation (2012) (1)
old proteins Young proteins experience more variable selection pressures than Material (2010) (1)
The coercive logic of fake news (2021) (1)
Reproductive variance can drive behavioral dynamics. (2023) (1)
Optimality of intercellular signaling: Direct transport versus diffusion. (2022) (1)
What we talk about when we talk about color (2020) (1)
Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment (2022) (1)
Indirect reciprocity in populations with group structure (2022) (1)
Challenges in cybersecurity: Lessons from biological defense systems (2021) (1)
Persistent expression of Pax3 in neural crest causes cleft palate and defective osteogenesis (2008) (1)
Figure 3—source data 1. (2015) (1)
Inferring Microbial Fitness Landscapes (2016) (0)
Improved Ribosome-Footp rint and mRNA Measurements Provide Insights into Dynamics and Regulation of Yeast Translation Graphical (2016) (0)
Author response: Evolution of empathetic moral evaluation (2019) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Epistatic relationships reveal the functional organization of yeast transcription factors. (2011) (0)
The evolution of robust strategies in iterated multi-player games (2014) (0)
Online Comment #60187 (2013) (0)
Online Comment to Jaffe et al. (2013) (0)
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan (2021) (0)
Data from: Habitat patterns in tropical rain forests: a comparison of 105 plots in northwest Borneo (2017) (0)
The University of Chicago Matrix Dimensions Bias Demographic Inferences : Implications for Comparative Plant (2010) (0)
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations (2022) (0)
HEADLINE FROM THE FUTURE (2004) (0)
Aggregation in ecology and evolutionary biology (2003) (0)
Integrating Theory and Experiment to Explain the Breakdown of Population Synchrony in a Complex Microbial Community (2016) (0)
Small games and long memories promote cooperation (2014) (0)
Diversity of adenoviruses in humans and in non-human primates (2012) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Does negative auto-regulation increase gene duplicability? (2010) (0)
The arrow of evolution when the offspring variance is large (2022) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Evolutionary dynamics on graphs. (2007) (0)
The Di 4 erent E 4 ects of Apoptosis and DNA Repair on Tumorigenesis (2002) (0)
‘Best’ parameter set used in Figure 3—figure supplement 1, and Figure 4—figure supplement 4. (2015) (0)
PERSPECTIVE A statistical theory for sampling species abundances (2007) (0)
Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks (2020) (0)
Evolution of social norms for moral judgment (2022) (0)
Forest profile data (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Regional and cellular gene expression changes in human Huntington's disease brain. (2006) (0)
The evolutionary advantage of heritable phenotypic heterogeneity (2017) (0)
Author Correction: Adherence to public institutions that foster cooperation (2021) (0)
The distorting effects of producer strategies: Why engagement does not reliably reveal consumer preferences for misinformation (2021) (0)
Phenotypic plasticity promotes recombination and gene clustering in periodic environments (2017) (0)
A network of paths toward innovation (2012) (0)
riboviz: analysis and visualization of ribosome profiling datasets (2017) (0)
Quantifying Crime Waves (2009) (0)
How to design institutions that foster cooperation (2019) (0)
Source code 1. (2015) (0)
Voter Coordination Experiment 1 (2017) (0)
Strategy evolution on dynamic networks (2023) (0)
Coordination Experiment 1 (2017) (0)
Environmental robustness and the adaptability of populations : Supporting Information (0)
Author response: Experimentally guided models reveal replication principles that shape the mutation distribution of RNA viruses (2014) (0)
Edinburgh Rate-limiting steps in yeast protein translation (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Comprehensive polymorphism survey elucidates population structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (2009) (0)
The emergence of burstiness in temporal networks (2021) (0)
Aging and Gene Expression in the Primate (2005) (0)
Evolutionary consequences of behavioral diversity-Supporting Information (2016) (0)

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