John Jaenike

J. Jaenike
Born	John Jaenike (1949-03-20)20 March 1949
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	Red Queen hypothesis, mushroom-feeding Drosophila
Awards	The trypanosomatid parasite Jaenimonas drosophilae is named in Jaenike's honor
Scientific career
Fields	Ecology, Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Arizona, University of Rochester
Academic advisors	Henry S. Horn Robert H. MacArthur

John Jaenike is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, and currently a professor at the University of Rochester New York. Jaenike was an early proponent of the Red Queen hypothesis, using the idea to explain the maintenance of sex. ^[1] Jaenike is also known for his extensive work on mushroom-feeding Drosophila and the evolution of their inherited bacterial symbionts Wolbachia and Spiroplasma poulsonii . ^{[2] [3]}

In 2015, the trypanosomatid parasite Jaenimonas drosophilae was named in Jaenike's honour. ^[4]

See also

• Drosophila quinaria species group
• Mushroom-feeding Drosophila

References

1. Jaenike, J. (1978). "An hypothesis to account for the maintenance of sex within populations". Evolutionary Theory. 3: 191–194.
2. Jaenike, J.; Unckless, R.; Cockburn, S. N.; Boelio, L. M.; Perlman, S. J. (8 July 2010). "Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont". Science. 329 (5988): 212–215. Bibcode:2010Sci...329..212J. doi:10.1126/science.1188235. PMID   20616278. S2CID   206526012.
3. Unckless, R. L. and J. Jaenike. 2012. Maintenance of a male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila innubila by male-killing dependent and male-killing independent mechanisms. Evolution 66: 678-689.
4. Hamilton; et al. (2015). Keith Gull (ed.). "Infection Dynamics and Immune Response in a Newly Described Drosophila-Trypanosomatid Association". American Society for Microbiology. 6 (5): e01356-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01356-15 . PMC   4600116 . PMID   26374124.