Adam Bjork

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Email: bjork@email.arizona.edu
Office Telephone: 520- 621-4881

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Wertheim, J., M. Worobey, M. Sanderson and A. Bjork. In press.Relaxed molecular clocks, the bias-variance trade-off, and the quality of phylogenetic inference. Systematic Biology.

Worobey, M., A. Bjork and J. O. Wertheim. 2007. Point, counterpoint: the evolution of pathogenic viruses and their human hosts. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38: 515-540.

Bjork, A. and S. Pitnick. 2007. Adaptive modulation of sperm production rate in Drosophila bifurca, a species with giant sperm. Biology Letters. 3: 517-519.

Bjork, A., W. T. Starmer, D. M. Higginson, C. J. Rhodes and S. Pitnick. 2007. Complex interactions with females and rival males limit the evolution of sperm offence and defence. Proc. R. Soc., B. 274: 1779-1788.

Bjork, A. and S. Pitnick. 2006. Intensity of sexual selection along the anisogamy-isogamy continuum. Nature. 441: 742-745. [Accompanying review of this paper: Pizzari, T. 2006. The paradox of sperm leviathans. Current Biology. 16: R462-R464.]

Pattarini, J. M., W. T. Starmer, A. Bjork and S. Pitnick. 2006. Mechanisms underlying the sperm quality advantage in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 60: 2064-2080.

Brown, W. D., A. Bjork, K. Schneider and S. Pitnick. 2004. No evidence that polyandry benefits females in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 58: 1242-1250.