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Rachel J. Atkinson
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 19
Citations - 1116
Rachel J. Atkinson is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gall & Cynipini. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 15 publications receiving 1032 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel J. Atkinson include Charles Darwin Foundation & University of Stirling.
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The Population Biology of Oak Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
TL;DR: This work assesses the importance of gall traits in structuring oak cynipid communities and summarize the evidence for bottom-up and top-down effects across trophic levels, and identifies major unanswered questions and suggest approaches for the future.
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Out of Anatolia: longitudinal gradients in genetic diversity support an eastern origin for a circum-Mediterranean oak gallwasp Andricus quercustozae
Antonis Rokas,Antonis Rokas,Rachel J. Atkinson,Rachel J. Atkinson,Lucy M.I. Webster,György Csóka,Graham N. Stone +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that A. quercustozae was present in five distinct refugia with recent genetic exchange between Italy and Hungary, suggesting that European populations are either (a) derived from Asia Minor, or (b) subject to more frequent population bottlenecks.
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Differential success in northwards range expansion between ecotypes of the marble gallwasp Andricus kollari: a tale of two lifecycles.
TL;DR: The Marble gallwasp Andricus kollari has a native range divided into two geographically separated lifecycles as mentioned in this paper, in Eastern Europe and Turkey, the lifecycle involves a sexual generation on Turkey oak, Quercus cerris, while in Iberia and North Africa the sexual generation host is cork oak, Q. suber.
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Understanding patterns of genetic diversity in the oak gallwasp Biorhiza pallida: demographic history or a Wolbachia selective sweep?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data on Wolbachia infection status and phylogeographic patterning for a widely distributed insect host, the oak gallwasp Biorhiza pallida (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae).
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The phylogeographical clade trade: tracing the impact of human-mediated dispersal on the colonization of northern Europe by the oak gallwasp Andricus kollari.
Graham N. Stone,Richard Challis,Rachel J. Atkinson,György Csóka,Alexander Hayward,George Melika,Serap Mutun,Sonja Preuss,Antonis Rokas,Ebrahim Sadeghi,Karsten Schönrogge +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that while populations in France were colonized from sources in Italy and Hungary, populations in the UK and neighbouring parts of coastal northern Europe encompass allozyme and sequence variation absent from the known native range, which is compatible with leptokurtic models of population establishment.