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Robert L. Unckless
Researcher at University of Kansas
Publications - 76
Citations - 2937
Robert L. Unckless is an academic researcher from University of Kansas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Gene. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 71 publications receiving 2436 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert L. Unckless include Cornell University & State University of New York System.
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Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a maternally transmitted bacterium, Spiroplasma, protects Drosophila neotestacea against the sterilizing effects of a parasitic nematode, both in the laboratory and the field, demonstrating the profound and potentially rapid effects of defensive symbionts.
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The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive
Anna K. Lindholm,Kelly A. Dyer,Renée C. Firman,Lila Fishman,Wolfgang Forstmeier,Luke Holman,Hanna Johannesson,Ulrich Knief,Hanna Kokko,Amanda M. Larracuente,Andri Manser,Catherine Montchamp-Moreau,Varos G. Petrosyan,Andrew Pomiankowski,Daven C. Presgraves,L. D. Safronova,Andreas Sutter,Robert L. Unckless,Rudi L. Verspoor,Nina Wedell,Gerald S. Wilkinson,Tom A. R. Price +21 more
TL;DR: Current knowledge of how natural drive systems function, how drivers spread through natural populations, and the factors that limit their invasion are reviewed.
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Population Extinction and the Genetics of Adaptation
H. Allen Orr,Robert L. Unckless +1 more
TL;DR: This work derives simple, though approximate, solutions to the probability of successful adaptation (population survival) when adaptation involves new mutations, the standing genetic variation, or a mixture of the two.
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Evolution of Resistance Against CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Drive.
TL;DR: It is shown that resistance to standard CGD approaches should evolve almost inevitably in most natural populations, unless repair of CGD-induced cleavage via NHEJ can be effectively suppressed, or resistance costs are on par with those of the driver.
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The population genetics of evolutionary rescue.
H. Allen Orr,Robert L. Unckless +1 more
TL;DR: This work extends the mathematical theory of evolutionary rescue to a sudden environmental change when adaptation involves evolution at a single locus and considers adaptation using either new mutations or alleles from the standing genetic variation that begin rare.