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Gregory A. Backus
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 12
Citations - 376
Gregory A. Backus is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biological dispersal. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications receiving 288 citations. Previous affiliations of Gregory A. Backus include North Carolina State University & Bard College.
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Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.
Arik Kershenbaum,Arik Kershenbaum,Daniel T. Blumstein,Marie A. Roch,Çağlar Akçay,Gregory A. Backus,Mark A. Bee,Kirsten M. Bohn,Yan Cao,Gerald G. Carter,Cristiane Cäsar,Michael H. Coen,Stacy L. DeRuiter,Laurance R. Doyle,Shimon Edelman,Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho,Todd M. Freeberg,Ellen C. Garland,Morgan L. Gustison,Heidi E. Harley,Chloé Huetz,Melissa Hughes,Julia Hyland Bruno,Amiyaal Ilany,Dezhe Z. Jin,Michael T. Johnson,Chenghui Ju,Jeremy Karnowski,Bernard Lohr,Marta B. Manser,Brenda McCowan,Eduardo Mercado,Peter M. Narins,Alex K. Piel,Megan G. Rice,Roberta Salmi,Kazutoshi Sasahara,Laela S. Sayigh,Yu Shiu,Charles T. Taylor,Edgar E. Vallejo,Sara Waller,Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez,Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez +43 more
TL;DR: A uniform, systematic, and comprehensive approach to studying sequences is proposed, with the goal of clarifying research terms used in different fields, and facilitating collaboration and comparative studies.
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Developing gene drive technologies to eradicate invasive rodents from islands
C. Leitschuh,Dona Kanavy,Gregory A. Backus,Rene X. Valdez,Megan Serr,Elizabeth A. Pitts,David W. Threadgill,John Godwin +7 more
TL;DR: The only effective technology for eradicating rodents from islands is toxicants, and though effective, they are expensive and time-consuming to implement.
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Genetic engineering to eradicate invasive mice on islands: modeling the efficiency and ecological impacts
Gregory A. Backus,Kevin Gross +1 more
TL;DR: A mathematical model was constructed to analyze the population dynamics of eradication with this genetically engineered mouse and found that there is a trade-off between the speed of an eradication and the intensity of increased disruptive ecological interactions.
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Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in the Wild: Spread, Controllability, and Ecological Uncertainty
TL;DR: In the face of ecological uncertainty, the inability to estimate gene drive fitness in a real-world context could prove problematic because gene drives designed to be localized could spread to fixation in neighboring populations if ecological conditions unexpectedly favor the gene drive.
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Global biogeographic regions in a human-dominated world: the case of human diseases
Michael G. Just,Jacob F. Norton,Amanda L. Traud,Tim Antonelli,Aaron S. Poteate,Gregory A. Backus,Andrew Snyder-Beattie,R. Wyatt Sanders,Robert R. Dunn,Robert R. Dunn +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the presence of biogeographic regions for diseases of humans due to pathogens using country-level disease composition data and compared the regions for vectored and non-vectored diseases.