John Jaenike

J. Jaenike
J. Jaenike
Born	John Jaenike; 20 March 1949
Nationality	American
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]

References

^ Jaenike, J. (1978). "An hypothesis to account for the maintenance of sex within populations". Evolutionary Theory. 3: 191–194.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.