Francis M. Jiggins

15.3k citations

135 papers · 9.1k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 55

Insect Science top 0.02%
Genetics top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 5%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health top 0.5%
Plant Science top 1%

Co-authors: Gregory D. D. Hurst Darren J. Obbard Ben Longdon Michael E. N. Majerus Kang-Wook Kim William J. Palmer John J. Welch Julien Martinez
Topics: Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (107 papers)Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers)Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (28 papers)
Cited by: Insect Science Horticulture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Journals: Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Immunity
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Spain

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Francis M. Jiggins

132 papers receiving 9.0k citations

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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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1	The evolution of constitutively active humoral immune defenses in Drosophila populations under high parasite pressure 2024 ·PLoS Pathogens ·(unknown),Ramesh Arunkumar,(unknown),Shuai Ding,Alexandre B. Leitão,Francis M. Jiggins	4
2	Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria alter the gut microbiome in the fly Drosophila nigrosparsa 2023 ·Journal of Invertebrate Pathology ·(unknown),Francis M. Jiggins,Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner,Florian M. Steiner	6
3	A novel transposable element-mediated mechanism causes antiviral resistance in Drosophila through truncating the Veneno protein 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),Daniel K. Fabian,Rodrigo Cogni,(unknown),Jonathan P. Day,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Piotr Szkuta,Francis M. Jiggins	14
4	Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods 2020 ·PLoS Genetics ·Samuel H. Lewis,Laura Ross,(unknown),Eleni Pahita,Stephen A. Smith,Richard Cordaux,Eric A. Miska,Boris Lenhard,Francis M. Jiggins,Peter Sarkies	59
5	Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila 2020 ·eLife ·Alexandre B. Leitão,Ramesh Arunkumar,Jonathan P. Day,(unknown),Ismaël Morin-Poulard,Michèle Crozatier,Francis M. Jiggins	28
6	The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont 2019 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Jessamyn I. Perlmutter,Sarah R. Bordenstein,Robert L. Unckless,D. Lepage,Jason A. Metcalf,Tom Hill,Julien Martinez,Francis M. Jiggins,(unknown),(unknown)	59
7	Back and forth Wolbachia transfers reveal efficient strains to control spotted wing drosophila populations 2018 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Julien Cattel,Katerina Nikolouli,(unknown),Julien Martinez,Francis M. Jiggins,Sylvain Charlat,Fabrice Vavre,David P. H. Lejon,Patricia Gibert,Laurence Mouton	23
8	Complex Coding and Regulatory Polymorphisms in a Restriction Factor Determine the Susceptibility of Drosophila to Viral Infection 2017 ·Genetics ·Chuan Cao,Rodrigo Cogni,Vincent Barbier,Francis M. Jiggins	23
9	Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements 2017 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Samuel H. Lewis,Kaycee A. Quarles,Yujing Yang,M. Tanguy,Lise Frézal,Stephen A. Smith,Prashant P. Sharma,Richard Cordaux,Clément Gilbert,Isabelle Giraud,David H. Collins,Phillip D. Zamore,Eric A. Miska,Peter Sarkies,Francis M. Jiggins	187
10	Vertically transmitted rhabdoviruses are found across three insect families and have dynamic interactions with their hosts 2017 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Ben Longdon,Jonathan P. Day,(unknown),Philip T. Leftwich,M. de Jong,Casper J. Breuker,Melanie Gibbs,Darren J. Obbard,Lena Wilfert,Sophia C. L. Smith,(unknown),Thomas M. Houslay,(unknown),Luca Livraghi,Luke C. Evans,(unknown),Tracey Chapman,John Vontas,(unknown),Francis M. Jiggins	32
11	Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene 2016 ·Genetics ·Simon H. Martin,Markus Möst,William J. Palmer,Camilo Salazar,W. Owen McMillan,Francis M. Jiggins,Chris D. Jiggins	65
12	A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides 2016 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·William J. Palmer,Ana Duarte,Matthew Schrader,Jonathan P. Day,Rebecca M. Kilner,Francis M. Jiggins	40
13	Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts 2016 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Julien Martinez,Rodrigo Cogni,Chuan Cao,Sophie Smith,Christopher J. R. Illingworth,Francis M. Jiggins	47
14	The Causes and Consequences of Changes in Virulence following Pathogen Host Shifts 2015 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Ben Longdon,Jarrod D. Hadfield,Jonathan P. Day,Sophia C. L. Smith,(unknown),Rodrigo Cogni,Chuan Cao,Francis M. Jiggins	85
15	The Evolution and Genetics of Virus Host Shifts 2014 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Ben Longdon,Michael A. Brockhurst,Colin A. Russell,John J. Welch,Francis M. Jiggins	231
16	Intraguild predation of non-coccinellid aphid natural enemies by Harmonia axyridis: prey range and factors influencing intraguild predation 2010 ·NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council) ·(unknown),J. Baverstock,Michael E. N. Majerus,Francis M. Jiggins,Helen E. Roy	8
17	Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally 2009 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Lucy A. Weinert,John J. Welch,Francis M. Jiggins	31
18	Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System 2009 ·PLoS Genetics ·Darren J. Obbard,John J. Welch,Kang-Wook Kim,Francis M. Jiggins	177
19	Natural Selection Drives Extremely Rapid Evolution in Antiviral RNAi Genes 2006 ·Current Biology ·Darren J. Obbard,Francis M. Jiggins,Daniel L. Halligan,Tom J. Little	221
20	Sex ratio distortion in Acraea encedon (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is caused by a male-killing bacterium 1998 ·Heredity ·Francis M. Jiggins,Gregory D. D. Hurst,Michael E. N. Majerus	8

About Francis M. Jiggins

Francis M. Jiggins is a scholar working on Insect Science, Immunology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 135 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (107 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Insect Science (5.9k citations), Horticulture (184 citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.5k citations). Francis M. Jiggins has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Frequent 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, Julien Martinez, Lucy A. Weinert and Karl Gordon. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Immunity.

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