Antonovics, J. 2009. The effect of sterilizing diseases on host abundance and distribution along environmental gradients. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276: 1443-1448.
Bernasconi, G., Antonovics, J., Biere, A., Charlesworth, D., Delph, L.F., Filatov, D., Giraud, T., Hood, M.E., Marais, G. A. B., McCauley, D., Pannell, J., Shykoff, J.A., Vyskot, B., Wolfe, L., and Widmer, A. 2009. Re-emergence of Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution. Heredity 103: 5-14.
Cameron, D. D., White, A., Antonovics, J. 2009. Parasite-grass-forb interactions and rock-paper-scissor dynamics: predicting the effects of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor on host plant communities. Journal of Ecology 97: 1311-1319.
Fenton, A., Antonovics, J., Brockhurst, M.A. 2009. Host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics under gene-for-gene and inverse gene-for-gene infection genetics. American Naturalist 174: E230–242.
Hood, M.E., Mena-Ali, J.I., Gibson, A. K., Oxelman, B., Giraud, T., Yockyeng, R., Arroyo, M., Conti, F., Pedersen, A., Gladieux, P., and Antonovics, J. 2010. The global distribution of the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum on species of the Caryophyllaceae as assessed from natural history collections. New Phytologist 187:217-229.
Best, A., White, A., Kisdi, E., Antonovics, J., Brockhurst, M. A., and Boots, M. 2010. The coevolution of host range. .American Naturalist 176: 63-71.
Antonovics, J., Thrall, P. H., Burdon, J. J, and Laine, A. 2011. Partial resistance in natural populations of the Linum-Melamspora host-pathogen system: does partial resistance make the red queen run slower? Evolution 65: 512-522.
Williams, A., Antonovics, J., and Rolff, J. 2011. Dioecy, hermaphrodites and pathogen load in plants. Oikos 120: 657-660.
Antonovics, J. and Edwards, M. 2011. Spatio-temporal dynamics of bumblebee nest parasites (Bombus subgenus Psythirus spp.) and their hosts (Bombus spp.). Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 999-1011.
Antonovics, J., Boots, M., Abbate, J., Baker, C., McFrederick, Q., and Panjeti, V. 2011. Biology and evolution of sexual transmission. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1230: 12-24.
Borer, E. T, Antonovics, J., Kinkel, L. L., Hudson, P. J., Daszak, P., Ferrari, M. J., Garrett, K.A., Colin R. Parrish, C. R., Read, A. F., Rizzo, D. M. 2011. Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease. EcoHealth (DOI: 10.1007/s10393-011-0718-6). Online publication.
Best, A., Webb, S., Antonovics, J. and Boots, M. 2012. Local transmission processes and disease-driven host extinctions. Theoretical Ecology 5: 211-217.
Alexander, H. M., Foster, B. L., Ballantyne, F., Collins, C.D., Antonovics, J., Holt, R.D. 2012. Metapopulations and metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology. Journal of Ecology 100: 88-103.
Baker, C., and Antonovics, J. 2012. Evolutionary determinants of genetic variation in susceptibility to infectious diseases in humans PlosOne 7 (1) e29089 1-9.
In press or submitted:
Fenton, A., Antonovics, J., Brockhurst, M.A. Implications of two-step infection processes for host- pathogen coevolution. Evolution (in press).
Antonovics, J., Boots, M., Ebert, D., Koskella, B., Poss, M., Sadd, B. M. The origin of specificity by means of natural selection: evolved and non-host resistance in host-pathogen systems. Evolution (in revision).
Pedersen A. and Antonovics, J. Anti-helminthic treatment alters the parasite community in a wild mouse host. Biology Letters (submitted).
Chung, E., Petit, E., Antonovics, J., Pedersen, A., Hood, M. Variation in resistance to multiple pathogen species: anther-smuts of Silene uniflora. Ecology and Evolution (submitted).
Graduate Theses
University of Stirling, Scotland
1972: G. C. Craig. The population genetics of Agrostis canina with respect to lead tolerance. M. S.
1972: H. Ford. Ecological partitioning by Drosophila populations. Ph. D.
1975: J. Watson. Evolution in heterogeneous environments. Ph. D.
Duke University
1973: S. L. Chen. Selection for competition interactions between Drosophila strains. M. S.
1974: M. C. Grant. Genetic properties of ecologically marginal populations of Anthoxanthum odoratum. Ph. D.
1976: J. A. Silander. The genetic basis of ecological amplitude in Spartina patens on the outer banks of North Carolina. Ph. D.
R. Primack. The evolutionary basis of population dynamics in the genus Plantago. Ph. D.
1977: R. Wyatt. Population dynamics and reproductive biology of butterflyweed, Asclepias tuberosa L. Ph. D.
1978: N. Fowler. Competition and coexistence in an herbaceous plant community. Ph. D.
T. Meagher. Evolutionary consequences of dioecy in Chamaelirium luteum, a perennial plant species. Ph. D.
A. Teramura. Local differentiation and light and temperature acclimation in populations of Plantago lanceolata, the Ribwort Plantain. Ph. D. (co-adviser, B. R. Strain).
1981: J. Reinartz. Biomass partitioning, life-history and population dynamics of common mullein (Verbascum thapsus L.). Ph. D.
1982: K. Clay. Ecological and genetic consequences of cleistogamy in the grass Danthonia spicata. Ph. D.
H. Miller. Demography of and intraspecific variation in Plantago lanceolata in relation to infection by the fungus Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans. Ph. D. (co-adviser, M.D. Rausher)
J. McGraw. Physiological processes determining fecundity and mortality in Dryas octopetala ecotypes. Ph. D. (co-adviser, Dr. B. R. Strain)
1983: S. Via. Genetic basis of polyphagy: genotype x environment interaction in host plant use by an insect herbivore. Ph. D. (co-adviser, M. D. Rausher)
R. Shaw. Ecology and genetics of density dependent regulation in Salvia lyrata. Ph. D.
1984: R. J. Ambrose. Ecologically based agricultural technology in Central America: experiments with polyculture cropping systems. M. S.
D. A. Roach. Ecological genetics of life-history characteristics in Geranium carolinianum. Ph. D.
A. J. Hruska. Plant density, varietal diversity and cyanogenic glucoside level effects in a cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) agroecosystem in Costa Rica. M.S.
1985: S. Kelley. The mechanism of sib-competition for the maintenance of sexual reproduction in Anthoxanthum odoratum. Ph.D.
1986: B. Jacobs. The relative fitness of atrazine resistant biotypes of Solanum nigrum. M. S. (co-adviser, Dr. D. Patterson)
N. Jordan. Components of adaptive differentiation in a weedy plant, Dioidea teres. Ph. D.
K. Moloney. Determinants of species distributions: Danthonia sericea as a model system. Ph. D.
E. Lyons. The evolutionary significance of breeding system variation in Leavanworthia crassa Rollins (Cruciferae). Ph.D.
1989: J. Evans. Population consequences of clonal integration in a heterogeneous environment. Ph. D. (co- adviser, B. Strain.).
F. Levy. Mechanisms of speciation in Phacelia. Ph. D.
A. Kelly. Distribution and crossing relationships within and among diploid and tetraploid populations of Cuthbertia graminea Small. M. S.
1990: L. Broaddus. Natural selection on gynodioecy in Plantago lanceolata. Ph. D.
B. Best. A stochastic model of genetic differentiation at the margin of a finite plant population. M. S.
1991: P. Peroni. Genetic change and persistence of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) during secondary succession in North Carolina piedmont forests. Ph. D. (co-adviser N. Christensen)
1992: R. Del Castillo. Evolutionary consequences of breeding systems in Phacelia dubia. Ph. D.
M. Ronsheim. The relative advantages of sexual and asexual reproduction in Allium vineale. Ph. D.
J. Bever. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of plants and their soil community. Ph. D.
P. Thrall. Genetics and population dynamics of the Silene-Ustilago plant pathogen system. Ph. D.
D. Taylor. Sex ratio bias in Silene alba. Ph. D.
1993: J. Molofsky. Population dynamics and pattern formation in populations: theoretical and empirical tests using Cardamine pensylvanica. Ph. D.
1995: Elizabeth Crone. Causes of complex dynamics in long-term experimental populations of Cardamine pensylvanica. Ph. D.
1997: S. St. Amour. Sex-ratio and sex-switching in Jack-in-the-Pulpit. M.S.
C. Richards. Population genetics of the colonisation process in Silene alba. Ph. D.
M. Olson. Genetic basis of sex-determination in Astilbe biternata. Ph. D.
2000: A. Pringle. Genetics and community ecology of mycorrhizal fungi. Ph. D.
M. Gilchrist. Virulence, transmission, and added mortality: measuring and
modeling the relationships that drive parasite evolution . Ph. D.
2002: L. C. Moyle: Evolution and genetics of reproductive isolation in Silene. Ph. D.
A. Heidel: Systemic acquired resistance expression in mutant and natural populations of Arabidopsis. Ph. D.
K. O'Keefe: Evolution of the sterility component of virulence and levels of selection. Ph. D.
2003: D. Hlavaty: Causes and consequences of biased sex-ratios in the ant Leptothorax. M.A.
A. Golonka: Evolutionary and ecological consequences of nectar-inhabiting microorganisms. Ph. D.
University of Virginia
2005: A. B. Pederson. Intestinal parasites and acorn masts in the population dynamics of Peromyscus. Ph.D.
2007: J. Abbate. The evolution of suppressed recombination in the sex chromosomes of Microbotryum. M.S.
2009: V. Panjeti. Spatial dynamics at population margins. Ph. D.
2010: C. Baker: Correlates of genetic variation in susceptibility to infectious disease in humans. M.S.
Current Graduate Students
J. Abbate: Limits to pathogen distribution in Silene vulgaris.
Postdoctoral Associates
1968-70 Heather Dickinson
1973-75 Lin Wu
1978-86 Thomas Meagher
1979-80 Norman Ellstrand
1981-82 Annie Schmitt
1983-84 Ruth Shaw
1983-86 Alex Motten
1984-86 Jon Shaw
1987-88 Francois Felber
1987-89 Don Stratton
1988-89 Arjen Biere
1989-91 Kaius Helenurm
1989-90 Peter van Tienderen
1990-91 Andrew Jarosz
1992-97 Peter Thrall
1992-97 Jim Bever
1995-99 Kristi Westover
1997-00 Shamima Akhter
1997-02 Michael Hood
1999-01 Charlie Nunn
2002-03 Joanna Vondrasek
2004-06 Louise Johnson
Teaching Experience
1963-67 Department of Agricultural Botany, U.C.N.W., Bangor:
Elementary Genetics and Plant Breeding
Evolution and Origin of Crop Plants
Principles of Quantitative Genetics
1967-70 Department of Biology, University of Stirling, Scotland
General Biology
Evolution and Population Genetics
1974-99 Mountain Lake Biological Station
Ecological genetics
Plant Population Biology
Disease in Natural Plant Systems
1970-98 Department of Botany, Duke University
General Biology
Principles of Genetics
Evolutionary Mechanisms
Ecological Genetics
Principles of Evolution
Biology in Changing Human Environments (Freshman seminar)
Biology of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Evolutionary Genetics
Department of Biology, University o f Virginia
1999-present Biology of Infectious Disease
1999-2000 Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
2000-2001 Experimental and Applied Evolution (Laboratory Course)
2001-2005 Concepts in Strategy
2004-2010 Epidemiology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
2007 Modeling in Evolution and Ecology
2007-present Core Biology course on Ecology and Evolution (Population Genetics section)
Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia
1999, 2001 Summer. Plant disease in natural populations
Technical University of Zurich and University of Basel, Switzerland
2007 Summer. Evolutionary Biology Workshop
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