Professor, Department of Biology
Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1975
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Michael J. Wade Professor, Department of Biology Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1975 |
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Most oganisms live in metapopulations, small groups or clusters of breeding individuals distributed across patchy environments.
The populational processes of local extinction, recolonization, and interdemic migration have important affects on the evolutionary trajectory
of any species with this kind of population genetic structure. Social behaviors and host-pathogen coevolution are
two examples of evolutionary processes affected by metapopulation structure. Altruistic social
behaviors are a novel adaptation that can evolve only in kin-structured populations. For endosymbiotic and pathogenic micro-organisms,
each host individual can be viewed as a component of the symbiontis metapopulation. The coevolution of hosts and their
pathogens and symbionts can only be understood from the perspective of evolution in genetically subdivided populations.
Sexual selection is one of the strongest and fastest evolutionary processes even though it operates generally in only one sex and in only one life history stage. Owing to strong frequency-dependent selection during reproductive competition, male reproductive polymorphisms, called alternative mating strategies, are common in many organisms. Often they involve switching during male development from one morphology to another. Both the mating structure of the population and the genetic structure of these male traits are of interest to him. |
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Wade, M.J. 1998. The evolutionary genetics of maternal effects. In T. Mousseau and C. Fox, (Eds.) Maternal Effects. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Wade, M.J. and J.R. Griesemer. 1998. Populational heritability: Empirical studies of evoution in metapopulations. The American Naturalist 151:135-147. (Abstract) Wade, M.J. and C.J. Goodnight. 1998. Genetics and adaptation in metapopulations: When nature does many small experiments. Evolution 52:1537-1553. (Abstract) Michael J. Wade, Norman A. Johnson, and Yukihiko Toquenaqa. 1999. Temperature effects and genotype-by-environment interactions in hybrids: Haldane's rule in flour beetles. Evolution 53(3):855-865. (Abstract) |
| J O U R N A L E D I T O R S H I P Associate Editor, Heredity, until 2003 Associate Editor, American Naturalist, until 2003 |
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