Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus, PhD
Affiliations: | 1980-2009 | Department of Genetics | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
Area:
natural selection, ladybirds, peppered mothsGoogle:
"Michael Majerus"Cross-listing: Entomology Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| A. John Pontin | grad student | 1978 | Royal Holloway College (Entomology Tree) | |
| (The control of larval colour in Phlogophora meticulosa L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and some of its consequences) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Gregory David Douglas Hurst | grad student | 1994 | Cambridge |
| John Julian Sloggett | grad student | 1998 | Cambridge (Entomology Tree) |
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| Elnagdy S, Messing S, Majerus ME. (2014) The Japanese ladybirds, Coccinula crotchi and Coccinula sinensis, are infected with very closely related strains of male-killing Flavobacterium. Insect Science. 21: 699-706 |
| Hassan SS, Idris E, Majerus ME. (2013) Male-killer dynamics in the tropical butterfly, Acraea encedana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Insect Science. 20: 717-22 |
| Elnagdy S, Messing S, Majerus ME. (2013) Two strains of male-killing Wolbachia in a ladybird, Coccinella undecimpunctata, from a hot climate. Plos One. 8: e54218 |
| Majerus TM, Majerus ME. (2010) Intergenomic arms races: detection of a nuclear rescue gene of male-killing in a ladybird. Plos Pathogens. 6: e1000987 |
| Majerus TM, Majerus ME. (2010) Discovery and identification of a male-killing agent in the Japanese ladybird Propylea japonica (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 10: 37 |
| Tinsley MC, Majerus ME. (2007) Small steps or giant leaps for male-killers? Phylogenetic constraints to male-killer host shifts. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 7: 238 |
| Jiggins FM, Randerson JP, Hurst GD, et al. (2002) How can sex ratio distorters reach extreme prevalences? Male-killing Wolbachia are not suppressed and have near-perfect vertical transmission efficiency in Acraea encedon. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 56: 2290-5 |
| Jiggins FM, Bentley JK, Majerus ME, et al. (2002) Recent changes in phenotype and patterns of host specialization in Wolbachia bacteria. Molecular Ecology. 11: 1275-83 |
| v d Schulenburg JH, Hurst GD, Tetzlaff D, et al. (2002) History of infection with different male-killing bacteria in the two-spot ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata revealed through mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis. Genetics. 160: 1075-86 |
| Von Der Schulenburg HG, Majerus TM, Dorzhu CM, et al. (2000) Evolution of male-killing Spiroplasma (Procaryotae: Mollicutes) inferred from ribosomal spacer sequences. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 46: 95-98 |