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Sean Nee

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Ecology

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#946

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Sean Nee's Degrees

PhD Biology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Ecology Stanford University
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sean Nee is an evolutionary biologist and theoretical ecologist. He has been a Lecturer at Oxford University and Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has published scientific research papers with ecologist Robert May, theoretical biologist John Maynard Smith and epidemiologist and novelist Sunetra Gupta.

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Sean Nee's Published Works

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The reconstructed evolutionary process. (1994) (747)
THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES II. THE “HANDICAP” PRINCIPLE (1991) (733)
Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure. (2006) (732)
More than meets the eye (2004) (677)
Dynamics of metapopulations : habitat destruction and competitive coexistence (1992) (504)
Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence (2001) (475)
Tempo and mode of evolution revealed from molecular phylogenies. (1992) (475)
Phylogenetics and speciation. (2001) (438)
THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES I. FISHER AND BIASED MUTATION (1991) (432)
Extinction rates can be estimated from molecular phylogenies. (1994) (406)
Extinction and the loss of evolutionary history. (1997) (343)
Sexual selection and taxonomic diversity in passerine birds (1995) (337)
The great chain of being (2005) (336)
The relationship between abundance and body size in British birds (1991) (318)
Birth-Death Models in Macroevolution (2006) (310)
The maintenance of strain structure in populations of recombining infectious agents (1996) (293)
Correlates of Introduction Success in Exotic New Zealand Birds (1996) (286)
PHYLOGENIES WITHOUT FOSSILS (1994) (235)
INFERRING SPECIATION RATES FROM PHYLOGENIES (2001) (214)
New uses for new phylogenies (1993) (202)
Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria (2004) (180)
Fluctuating asymmetry (1993) (179)
Beautiful models (2006) (171)
Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies. (1995) (161)
Imperfect vaccination: some epidemiological and evolutionary consequences (2003) (145)
Why Ecologists Need to be Phylogenetically Challenged (1995) (144)
Macroevolutionary inferences from primate phylogeny (1995) (143)
Controlling for non-independence in comparative analysis of patterns across populations within species (2011) (136)
Lifting the veil on abundance patterns (1991) (134)
Gametocyte sex ratios as indirect measures of outcrossing rates in malaria (1992) (122)
Two-Species Metapopulation Models (1997) (113)
The neutral theory of biodiversity: do the numbers add up? (2005) (110)
The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories (2005) (109)
Core and satellite species: theory and artefacts (1991) (107)
Inference from binary comparative data (1995) (106)
The generation of influenza outbreaks by a network of host immune responses against a limited set of antigenic types (2007) (105)
Rate of rbcL gene sequence evolution and species diversification in flowering plants (angiosperms) (1996) (103)
Revealing the history of infectious disease epidemics through phylogenetic trees. (1995) (99)
Antagonistic co-evolution and the evolution of genotypic randomization. (1989) (97)
Population genetics and dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum: an ecological view (1992) (93)
Uncorrelated DNA walks (1992) (84)
FERTILITY INSURANCE AND THE SEX RATIOS OF MALARIA AND RELATED HEMOSPORORIN BLOOD PARASITES (2002) (76)
How populations persist (1994) (74)
Sex allocation and population structure in malaria and related parasitic protozoa (1995) (70)
Daily partitioning of pollinators in an African Acacia community (1996) (63)
The evolutionary biology of molecular parasites (1990) (60)
End-Epi: an application for inferring phylogenetic and population dynamical processes from molecular sequences (1997) (52)
The evolution of multicompartmental genomes in viruses (2007) (52)
Inbreeding and parasite sex ratios (2002) (50)
Mutualism, parasitism and competition in the evolution of coviruses. (2000) (44)
The end of the beginning for neutral theory (2003) (43)
Patterns of overlap in the geographic ranges of Palearctic and British mammals (1994) (39)
The role of wing length in the evolution of avian flightlessness (1998) (38)
The species alias problem (1995) (35)
Population-level Consequences of Conspecific Brood Parasitism in Birds and Insects (1993) (33)
Further Remarks on the Role of Phylogeny in Comparative Ecology (1995) (33)
IS HALDANE'S RULE SIGNIFICANT? (1991) (32)
How to live like a mammal (1991) (30)
Elucidating the Population Histories and Transmission Dynamics of Papillomaviruses Using Phylogenetic Trees (1997) (27)
Unveiling prokaryotic diversity. (2003) (26)
Bi-De: an application for simulating phylogenetic processes (1996) (25)
These hierarchical views of life: phylogenies and metapopulations (1991) (24)
Does the species/area relationship account for the density/area relationship? (2002) (24)
Does Hamilton's rule describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism? (1989) (24)
Extinct meets extant: simple models in paleontology and molecular phylogenetics (2004) (23)
Biodiversity: Thinking big in ecology (2002) (19)
Community construction. (1990) (18)
Body size and biodiversity (1996) (18)
Microbial evolution (Communication arising): Antitoxin vaccines and pathogen virulence (2002) (18)
The evolutionary ecology of molecular replicators (2016) (17)
Male schistosomes: more than just muscle? (1990) (17)
Ecology: Paradox of the clumps (2006) (16)
Infectious Disease and Host–Pathogen Evolution: The Evolution of Pathogen Virulence in Response to Animal and Public Health Interventions (2004) (16)
Sex Ratios: Sex ratios of malaria parasites and related protozoa (2002) (15)
Getting to the roots of flowering plant diversity. (1994) (15)
Explaining "linguistic features" of noncoding DNA. (1996) (14)
Deleterious mutation and genetic recombination (1988) (13)
Inferring the population history of an epidemic from a phylogenetic tree. (1996) (9)
Metapopulations and their spatial dynamics (2007) (8)
ON THE RATE OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION (1985) (8)
Supplementary Information for "Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence" Nature, V414, 751 (2001) (7)
Phylogeny and Conservation: Phylogenetic futures after the latest mass extinction (2005) (7)
Clicking into decline? (1990) (7)
Model phylogenies to explain the real world. (1994) (7)
On the evolution of sex in RNA viruses. (1989) (6)
Extinction, Slime, and Bottoms (2004) (6)
Determining the Influence of Continental Species-Richness, Island Availability and Vicariance in the Formation of Island-Endemic Bird Species (1996) (4)
Life history invariants: broken beyond repair? (2005) (4)
Survival and weak chaos (2018) (4)
HALDANE'S COINCIDENCE: A REPLY TO BROOKFIELD (1993) (4)
Response to Comment on "The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories" (2006) (4)
Genome-wide association studies in Plasmodium species (2010) (4)
The password effect of sex in fungi (1988) (3)
In praise of the big picture (2003) (3)
Professor John Maynard Smith 1920-2004. (2004) (3)
Habitat destruction and the dynamics of metapopulations. Commentary. Authors' reply (1994) (2)
[Habitat Destruction and the Dynamics of Metapopulations]: Reply (1994) (2)
Plankton—Not So Paradoxical After All (2009) (1)
Profiting from biodiversity (1990) (1)
Introducing the extremophiles (2007) (1)
Explorer Genome-wide association studies in Plasmodium species (1)
consequencesvaccination: some epidemiological and evolutionary (2011) (0)
Relative values (1995) (0)
Studies on transmission of tobacco vein-banding mosaic virus by Aphis gossypii. (1980) (0)
Copyrightability of Choreography (2011) (0)
Explaining "linguistic features" of noncoding DNA. (1996) (0)
Lysenko took a dismal view of Malthus (1999) (0)
Time, Space and Pollinators: Resource Partitioning During Flowering in an Acacia Community (2000) (0)
When did we leave apes behind (1986) (0)
Ecology for Accountants@@@A Critique for Ecology. (1992) (0)
Sexual Selection and Taxonomic Diversity in Passerine Birds Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Shaking the tree of life (2002) (0)
Evolutionary ecology. How to live like a mammal. (1991) (0)
Parasite communities: patterns and processes (1990) (0)
Excellency in Modern Ecology (1997) (0)
From Lotka-Volterra to Goal Functions-Whither Modelling? (1994) (0)
Phylogenetic Tree Shape (2005) (0)
How Many Genes Does It Take to Make a Person? (2020) (0)

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