About John Jaenike
Born 1949. John Jaenike is an American evolutionary biologist, ecologist and researcher, known for Mushroom-feeding Drosophila and Red Queen Hypothesis.
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. Jaenike is also known for his extensive work on mushroom-feeding Drosophila and the evolution of their inherited bacterial symbionts Wolbachia and Spiroplasma poulsonii.
In 2015, the trypanosomatid parasite Jaenimonas drosophilae was named in Jaenike's honour.
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Who is John Jaenike?
evolutionary biology researcher
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John Jaenike was born on 20 March 1949.
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John Jaenike is an evolutionary biologist, ecologist and researcher.
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John Jaenike is known for Mushroom-feeding Drosophila and Red Queen Hypothesis.
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John Jaenike is American.
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