Francis M. Jiggins

Affiliations: 
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Area:
Population genetics, Sigma virus, Disease resistance
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Anton Suvorov grad student 2009-2009 Cambridge (Evolution Tree)

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Brian Charlesworth collaborator Edinburgh
Darren Jack Obbard collaborator 2004-2008 Edinburgh (Evolution Tree)
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Zhou SO, Arunkumar R, Irfan A, et al. (2024) The evolution of constitutively active humoral immune defenses in Drosophila populations under high parasite pressure. Plos Pathogens. 20: e1011729
Leitão AB, Geldman EM, Jiggins FM. (2023) Activation of immune defences against parasitoid wasps does not underlie the cost of infection. Frontiers in Immunology. 14: 1275923
Arunkumar R, Zhou SO, Day JP, et al. (2023) Natural selection has driven the recurrent loss of an immunity gene that protects against a major natural parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2211019120
Bruner-Montero G, Jiggins FM. (2023) Wolbachia protects Drosophila melanogaster against two naturally occurring and virulent viral pathogens. Scientific Reports. 13: 8518
Bruner-Montero G, Luque CM, Cesar CS, et al. (2023) Hunting Drosophila viruses from wild populations: A novel isolation approach and characterisation of viruses. Plos Pathogens. 19: e1010883
Brosh O, Fabian DK, Cogni R, et al. (2022) A novel transposable element-mediated mechanism causes antiviral resistance in through truncating the Veneno protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2122026119
Cogni R, Ding SD, Pimentel AC, et al. (2021) Wolbachia reduces virus infection in a natural population of Drosophila. Communications Biology. 4: 1327
Leitão AB, Arunkumar R, Day JP, et al. (2020) Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila. Elife. 9
Martinez J, Klasson L, Welch JJ, et al. (2020) Life and death of selfish genes: comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolution of cytoplasmic incompatibility. Molecular Biology and Evolution
Detcharoen M, Arthofer W, Jiggins FM, et al. (2020) affect behavior and possibly reproductive compatibility but not thermoresistance, fecundity, and morphology in a novel transinfected host, . Ecology and Evolution. 10: 4457-4470
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