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Under each of these major 'themes' is a list of a few selected (mainly the most recent) publications. A more complete list of publications is available via the 'publications' link at the end of each topic. You can use the links above to jump to a particular topic or scroll down to look through the various problems we work on
.jason.wolf.
PhD: University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA (1998)
Contact details:
Department of Biology & Biochemistry
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
phone: +44.(0).1225.385.012
e-mail: jason(a.t)evolutionarygenetics.org
skype: jason(dot)wolf.back.to.top.
.graduate.students.
The Wolf Lab is currently recruiting students to work on all aspects of the research described on the research page. Please contact Jason Wolf if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in one of these research areas. We can also provide help developing project proposals focused in these research areas that can be submitted to various international funding sources.
Students:
Neil Buttery (PhD 2010, expected) - Fixed and facultative social strategies in Dictyostelium
Buttery N, DE Rozen, JB Wolf & CR Thompson. 2009. Quantification of social behavior in Dictyostelium discoideum reveals complex fixed and facultative strategies. Current Biology 19:1373-1377.
Joshua Mutic (PhD 2007) - The quantitative genetics of intraspecific ecological interactions
Mutic, JJ, & JB Wolf. 2007. Indirect genetic effects from ecological interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Ecology 16(11):2371-2381 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03259.x
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Reinmar Hager - funded by a grant from the BBSRC - genome-wide analysis of genomic imprinting in mice. Now a NERC Fellow at the University of Manchester
Wolf JB & R Hager. 2009. Selective abortion and the evolution of genomic imprinting. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(12):2519-2523
Hager R, JM Cheverud & JB Wolf. 2009. Change in maternal environment induced by cross-fostering alters genetic and epigenetic effects on complex traits in mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:2949-1954.
Hager R. JM Cheverud & JB Wolf. 2009 Relative contribution of additive, dominance and imprinting effects to phenotypic variation in body size and growth between divergent selection lines of mice. Evolution 63:1118-1128
Hager R, JM Cheverud, LJ Leamy & JB Wolf. 2008. Sex dependent imprinting effects on complex traits in mice. BMC Evolutionary Biology,8:303 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-303.
Wolf, JB, R Hager & JM Cheverud. 2008. Genomic imprinting effects on complex traits: a phenotype based perspective. Epigenetics 3(6):295-299
Wolf, JB, JM Cheverud, C Roseman & R Hager 2008. Genome-wide analysis reveals a complex pattern of genomic imprinting in mice. PLoS Genetics, 4:e1000091 (doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000091)
Hager, R, JM Cheverud, & JB Wolf 2008. Maternal effects as the cause of parent-of-origin dependent effects that mimic genomic imprinting. Genetics, 178:1755-1762
Cheverud, JM, R Hager,
G Fawcett, B Wang & JB Wolf. 2008 Genomic imprinting effects
on adult body composition in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 105:4253-4258.
Wolf JB & R. Hager. 2006. A maternal-offspring coadaptation theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting. PLoS Biology, 4(12): e380 . DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040380
Ed Harris - funded by a NERC grant focused on the evolutionary genetics of competition dependent traits. Now a Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University
Harris, WE, AJ McKane & JB Wolf. 2007. The maintenance of heritable variation through social competition. Evolution, 62:337-347
Wolf, JB Harris WE & NJ Royle. 2007. The capture of heritable variation for genetic quality through social competition. Genetica, doi:10.1007/s10709-007-9214-x.
Nick Royle- funded by (and co-PI on) a NERC
grant focused on the evolutionary genetics of competition dependent
traits. Now a lecturer at the University of Exeter in Cornwall
Wolf, JB Harris WE & NJ Royle. 2007. The capture of heritable variation for genetic quality through social competition. Genetica, doi:10.1007/s10709-007-9214-x.
.collaborators.
We have worked closely with a number of valued collaborators. Listed below are the collaborations that have produced papers, along with a brief description of the collaboration. This is not a comprehensize list, so apologies to anyone who isn't on the list. The list only includes collaborations that have resulted in published papers, so some ongoing collaborations are not yet listed.
Jim Cheverud -
Washington University School of Medicine - We work with the CHeverud
lab on a variety of questions focused on the genetic architecture of
complex traits, including factors such as genomic imprinting, maternal
effects and epistasis. (see a few representative publications
below - follow the publications link for a full list)
Wolf JB & JM Cheverud. 2009 A framework for detecting and characterizing genetic background dependent imprinting effects. Mammalian Genome. 20:681-698 (DOI 10.1007/s00335-009-9209-2).
Wolf, JB, R Hager & JM Cheverud. 2008. Genomic imprinting effects on complex traits: a phenotype based perspective. Epigenetics 3(6):295-299
Wolf, JB, JM Cheverud, C Roseman & R Hager 2008. Genome-wide analysis reveals a complex pattern of genomic imprinting in mice. PLoS Genetics, 4:e1000091 (doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000091)
Cheverud, JM, R Hager,
G Fawcett, B Wang & JB Wolf. 2008 Genomic imprinting effects
on adult body composition in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 105:4253-4258.
Cheverud JM & JB Wolf. 2009. Genetics and evolutionary consequences of maternal effects. Pages 11-37 In: Maternal Effects in Mammals, D. Maestripieri & J. M. Mateo eds., University of C h i c a g o Press
Allen Moore - University of Exeter in Cornwall - We work with the Moore Lab on various projects focused on the quantitative genetics of social evolution.
Bleakley, BH, JB, Wolf & Moore AJ Quantitative genetics of social behavior. In. Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution. T. Szekely, J Komdeur & AJ Moore eds. Cambridge University Press. in press.
Wolf JB & AJ Moore. Interacting phenotypes and indirect genetic effects: a genetic perspective on the evolution of social behavior. In. Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. CW Fox and DF Westneat Eds. in press.
Wolf, JB, Moore, AJ & ED Brodie III. 1999. Maternal and paternal effects in sexual selection and the evolution of parental investment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12: 1157-1167
Wolf, JB, Brodie, EDIII., & AJ, Moore 1999. Interacting phenotypes and the evolutionary process II: Selection resulting from social interactions. The American Naturalist 153:254-266
Moore, AJ, Wolf JB & ED Brodie III. 1998. The influence of direct and indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social behavior: Sexual and social selection meet maternal effects. Pp. 22-41 In: Maternal Effects as Adaptation, T Mousseau & C Fox Editors., Oxford University Press
Wolf, JB, Brodie EDIII., Cheverud, JM, Moore AJ & MJ Wade. 1998 Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:64-69
Wolf, JB, Moore AJ & ED Brodie III. 1997. The evolution of indicator traits for parental quality: the role of maternal and paternal effects. The American Naturalist 150: 639–649
Moore, AJ, Brodie, EDIII & JB Wolf. 1997. Interacting phenotypes and the evolutionary process I: Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of social interactions. Evolution 51:1352-1362
Larry Leamy - University of North Carolina at Charlotte - We have been collaborating with the Leamy Lab to look at the evolutionary genetics of pleiotropy.
Leamy LJ, CP Klingenberg, E Sherratt, JB Wolf & JM Cheverud. 2008. A search for quantitative trait loci exhibiting imprinting effects on mouse mandible size and shape. Heredity, 101:518-526. doi:10.1038/hdy.2008.79
Hager R, JM Cheverud, LJ Leamy & JB Wolf. 2008. Sex dependent imprinting effects on complex traits in mice. BMC Evolutionary Biology,8:303 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-303.
Wolf, JB Pomp D, Eisen EJ, Cheverud JM & LJ Leamy 2006 The contribution of epistatic pleiotropy to the genetic architecture of covariation among polygenic traits in mice. Evolution & Development 8:468-76
Wolf, JB, Leamy, LJ, Routman, EJ & JM Cheverud. 2005. Epistatic pleiotropy and the genetic architecture of covariation within early- and late-developing skull trait complexes in mice. Genetics, 171:683-694
Chris Thompson - University of Manchester - We have been working with the Thompson Lab on a project looking at the genetics of fixed and facultative social strategies in Dictyostelium discoideum.
Buttery N, DE Rozen, JB Wolf & CR Thompson. 2009. Quantification of social behavior in Dictyostelium discoideum reveals complex fixed and facultative strategies. Current Biology 19:1373-1377.
Mike Wade - Indiana University - We have been working with the Wade Lab on various aspects of maternal effects and more generally on intraspecific interactions.
Wolf JB & MJ Wade. 2009. What are maternal effects (and what are they not)? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 364:1107-1116
Wolf, JB., Wade MJ & ED Brodie III. 2004. The genotype-environment interaction and evolution when the environment contains genes. Pp. 173-190 In: Phenotypic Plasticity. Functional and Conceptual Approaches, TJ DeWitt & SM Scheiner, eds. Oxford University Press.
Wolf, JB, & MJ Wade. 2001. On the assignment of fitness to parents and offspring: Whose fitness is it and when does it matter?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 347-356
Wolf, JB, ED Brodie III & MJ Wade. 2000 Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process. Oxford University Press, NY
Wolf, JB, Brodie EDIII., Cheverud, JM, Moore AJ & MJ Wade. 1998 Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:64-69
Charles Fox - University of Kentucky - We have worked with the Fox Lab to look at the evolution of cross-environment genetic correlations and on the book "Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies".
Czesak, ME Fox CW & JB Wolf. 2006. Experimental evolution of phenotypic plasticity: How predictive are cross-environment genetic correlations?. The American Naturalist 168(3):323-335
Fox CW & JB Wolf. 2006. Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies. Oxford University Press, NY
Buttery N, DE Rozen, JB Wolf & CR Thompson. 2009. Quantification of social behavior in Dictyostelium discoideum reveals complex fixed and facultative strategies. Current Biology 19:1373-1377.
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.technicians.
Emma Sherratt - currently a PhD student with Chris Klingenberg at the University of ManchesterWill Pitchers - currently a PhD student with John Hunt at the University of Exeter in Cornwall
Clive Darwell - currently a PhD student with James Cook at the University of Reading
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