Francis M. Jiggins

15.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

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Francis M. Jiggins is a scholar working on Insect Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis M. Jiggins has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Insect Science, 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 30 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Francis M. Jiggins's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (107 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (28 papers). Francis M. Jiggins is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (107 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (28 papers). Francis M. Jiggins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Francis M. Jiggins's co-authors include Gregory D. D. Hurst, Darren J. Obbard, Ben Longdon, Michael E. N. Majerus, Kang-Wook Kim, William J. Palmer, John J. Welch, Lucy A. Weinert, Julien Martinez and Amy H. Buck and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Francis M. Jiggins

132 papers receiving 9.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies: the effects of inherited symbionts

2005 675 citations Gregory D. D. Hurst, Francis M. Jiggins Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis M. Jiggins United Kingdom	55	5.9k	2.1k	1.8k	1.6k	1.6k	135	9.1k
Gregory D. D. Hurst United Kingdom	58	8.7k 1.5×	3.3k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	703 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	191	12.0k
Takema Fukatsu Japan	71	14.1k 2.4×	3.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	863 0.5×	3.7k 2.4×	288	16.8k
Michael R. Strand United States	68	11.1k 1.9×	2.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	1.9k 1.2×	3.4k 2.2×	233	14.7k
Rosemary S. Hails United Kingdom	44	2.6k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	522 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	147	6.3k
Anthony A. James United States	53	5.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	5.2k 2.9×	4.8k 2.9×	1.3k 0.8×	223	10.8k
Sassan Asgari Australia	48	3.9k 0.7×	616 0.3×	2.6k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	164	6.5k
Austin Burt United Kingdom	55	2.8k 0.5×	3.7k 1.7×	6.0k 3.3×	1.6k 1.0×	3.6k 2.3×	130	11.7k
Nora J. Besansky United States	49	1.5k 0.3×	2.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.8×	4.1k 2.5×	1.7k 1.1×	124	7.4k
William C. Black United States	50	3.4k 0.6×	976 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	4.1k 2.5×	2.4k 1.6×	173	8.5k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	1.6k 0.3×	3.3k 1.6×	2.4k 1.4×	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	252	8.9k

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Leitão, Alexandre B., et al.. (2024). Recognition of nonself is necessary to activate Drosophila’s immune response against an insect parasite. BMC Biology. 22(1). 89–89. 2 indexed citations

Arunkumar, Ramesh, et al.. (2024). The evolution of constitutively active humoral immune defenses in Drosophila populations under high parasite pressure. PLoS Pathogens. 20(1). e1011729–e1011729. 4 indexed citations

Fabian, Daniel K., et al.. (2022). A novel transposable element-mediated mechanism causes antiviral resistance in Drosophila through truncating the Veneno protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(29). e2122026119–e2122026119. 14 indexed citations

Leitão, Alexandre B., Ramesh Arunkumar, Jonathan P. Day, et al.. (2020). Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila. eLife. 9. 28 indexed citations

Lewis, Samuel H., Laura Ross, Eleni Pahita, et al.. (2020). Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods. PLoS Genetics. 16(6). e1008864–e1008864. 59 indexed citations

Day, Jonathan P., et al.. (2019). Host-pathogen coevolution increases genetic variation in susceptibility to infection. eLife. 8. 40 indexed citations

Perlmutter, Jessamyn I., Sarah R. Bordenstein, Sarah R. Bordenstein, et al.. (2019). The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont. PLoS Pathogens. 15(9). e1007936–e1007936. 59 indexed citations

Jones, Matthew R., L. Scott Mills, Paulo C. Alves, et al.. (2018). Adaptive introgression underlies polymorphic seasonal camouflage in snowshoe hares. Science. 360(6395). 1355–1358. 193 indexed citations

Cattel, Julien, Katerina Nikolouli, Julien Martinez, et al.. (2018). Back and forth Wolbachia transfers reveal efficient strains to control spotted wing drosophila populations. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(5). 2408–2418. 23 indexed citations

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Cao, Chuan, Rodrigo Cogni, Vincent Barbier, & Francis M. Jiggins. (2017). Complex Coding and Regulatory Polymorphisms in a Restriction Factor Determine the Susceptibility of Drosophila to Viral Infection. Genetics. 206(4). 2159–2173. 23 indexed citations

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Longdon, Ben, Jonathan P. Day, Philip T. Leftwich, et al.. (2017). Vertically transmitted rhabdoviruses are found across three insect families and have dynamic interactions with their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1847). 20162381–20162381. 32 indexed citations

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Lewis, Samuel H., Kaycee A. Quarles, Yujing Yang, et al.. (2017). Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(1). 174–181. 187 indexed citations

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Martinez, Julien, Rodrigo Cogni, Chuan Cao, et al.. (2016). Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1833). 20160778–20160778. 47 indexed citations

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Martin, Simon H., Markus Möst, William J. Palmer, et al.. (2016). Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene. Genetics. 203(1). 525–541. 65 indexed citations

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Palmer, William J., Ana Duarte, Matthew Schrader, et al.. (2016). A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1823). 20152733–20152733. 40 indexed citations

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Longdon, Ben, Jarrod D. Hadfield, Jonathan P. Day, et al.. (2015). The Causes and Consequences of Changes in Virulence following Pathogen Host Shifts. PLoS Pathogens. 11(3). e1004728–e1004728. 85 indexed citations

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Baverstock, J., et al.. (2010). Intraguild predation of non-coccinellid aphid natural enemies by Harmonia axyridis: prey range and factors influencing intraguild predation. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 8 indexed citations

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Weinert, Lucy A., John J. Welch, & Francis M. Jiggins. (2009). Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1673). 3619–3627. 31 indexed citations

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Obbard, Darren J., Francis M. Jiggins, Daniel L. Halligan, & Tom J. Little. (2006). Natural Selection Drives Extremely Rapid Evolution in Antiviral RNAi Genes. Current Biology. 16(6). 580–585. 221 indexed citations

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Jiggins, Francis M., Gregory D. D. Hurst, & Michael E. N. Majerus. (1998). Sex ratio distortion in Acraea encedon (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is caused by a male-killing bacterium. Heredity. 81(1). 87–91. 8 indexed citations

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