Dr Jack Da Silva
Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Sciences
My research and teaching are focused on evolutionary genetics. Current topics of interest are:
evolution of sex and recombination
evolution of sexes (anisogamy)
evolution of senescence (ageing)
evolution of eusociality
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2003 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 1986 - 1989 University of Oxford United Kingdom DPhil -
Postgraduate Training
Date Title Institution Country 1990 - 1992 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow McGill University, Montreal Canada -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2019 da Silva, J. (2019). Plastic senescence in the honey bee and the disposable soma theory. American Naturalist, 194(3), 367-380.
2018 da Silva, J. (2018). The evolution of sexes: A specific test of the disruptive selection theory. Ecology and Evolution, 8(1), 207-219.
Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC12018 da Silva, J. (2018). Reports of the Death of Extrinsic Mortality Moulding Senescence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Evolutionary Biology, 45(2), 140-143.
Scopus3 WoS22018 Da Silva, J., & Drysdale, V. (2018). Isogamy in large and complex volvocine algae is consistent with the gamete competition theory of the evolution of anisogamy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1890), 6 pages.
Scopus1 WoS12017 da Silva, J., & Galbraith, J. (2017). Hill-Robertson interference maintained by Red Queen dynamics favours the evolution of sex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(5), 994-1010.
WoS1 Europe PMC12014 Da Silva, J., & Wyatt, S. (2014). Fitness valleys constrain HIV-1's adaptation to its secondary chemokine coreceptor. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(3), 604-615.
Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC52012 Da Silva, J. (2012). Antibody selection and amino acid reversions. Evolution, 66(10), 3079-3087.
WoS1 Europe PMC12012 Da Silva, J. (2012). BRCA1/2 mutations, fertility and the grandmother effect. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, 279(1740), 2926-2929.
Scopus3 WoS4 Europe PMC22012 Da Silva, J. (2012). The dynamics of HIV-1 adaptation in early infection. Genetics, 190(3), 1087-1099.
Scopus13 WoS13 Europe PMC122010 Da Silva, J., Coetzer, M., Nedellec, R., Pastore, C., & Mosier, D. (2010). Fitness epistasis and constraints on adaptation in a human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 protein region. Genetics, 185(1), 293-303.
Scopus78 WoS81 Europe PMC702010 Da Silva, J. (2010). An adaptive walk by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 through a fluctuating fitness landscape. Evolution, 64(4), 1160-1165.
Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC22009 Da Silva, J. (2009). Amino acid covariation in a functionally important human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protein region is associated with population subdivision. Genetics, 182(1), 265-275.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC32009 Summers, K., Roney, K., Da Silva, J., Capraro, G., Cuthbertson, B., Kazianis, S., . . . McConnell, T. (2009). Divergent patterns of selection on the DAB and DXB MHC class II loci in Xiphophorus fishes. Genetica, 135(3), 379-390.
Scopus5 WoS7 Europe PMC52006 Da Silva, J. (2006). Site-specific amino acid frequency, fitness and the mutational landscape model of adaptation in human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Genetics, 174(3), 1689-1694.
Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC102003 Da Silva, J. (2003). The evolutionary adaptation of HIV-1 to specific immunity. Current HIV Research, 1(3), 363-371.
Scopus19 WoS20 Europe PMC142002 Summers, K., Da Silva, J., & Farwell, M. (2002). Intragenomic conflict and cancer. Medical Hypotheses, 59(2), 170-179.
Scopus16 WoS17 Europe PMC142002 Burke Da Silva, K., Mahan, C., & Da Silva, J. (2002). The Trill of the Chase: Eastern Chipmunks call to warn kin. Journal of Mammalogy, 83(2), 546-552.
Scopus12 WoS112001 Hughes, A., Westover, K., Da Silva, J., O'Connor, D., & Watkins, D. (2001). Simultaneous positive and purifying selection on overlapping reading frames of the tat and vpr genes of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. Journal of Virology, 75(17), 7966-7972.
Scopus53 WoS54 Europe PMC422001 Ferguson, M., Maxwell, J., Vincent, T., Da Silva, J., & Olson, J. (2001). Comparison of the exoS gene and protein expression in soil and clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa. Infection and Immunity, 69(4), 2198-2210.
Scopus35 WoS38 Europe PMC282001 Hughes, A., Da Silva, J., & Friedman, R. (2001). Ancient genome duplications did not structure the human Hox-bearing chromosomes. Genome Research, 11(5), 771-780.
Scopus99 WoS92 Europe PMC741999 Evans, D., O'Connor, D., Jing, P., Dzuris, J., Sidney, J., Da Silva, J., . . . Watkins, D. (1999). Virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses select for amino-acid variation in simian immunodeficiency virus Env and Nef. Nature Medicine, 5(11), 1270-1276.
Scopus349 WoS323 Europe PMC2511999 Gardezi, T., & Da Silva, J. (1999). Diversity in relation to body size in mammals: A comparative study. American Naturalist, 153(1), 110-123.
Scopus77 WoS76 Europe PMC81999 Da Silva, J., & Hughes, A. (1999). Molecular phylogenetic evidence of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) selection on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) [4]. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 16(10), 1420-1422.
Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC51998 Da Silva, J., & Hughes, A. (1998). Conservation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes as a host strategy to constrain parasite adaptation: Evidence from the nef gene of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 15(10), 1259-1268.
Scopus20 WoS22 Europe PMC171996 Da Silva, J., & Bell, G. (1996). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. VII. The effect of sex on the variance in fitness and mean fitness. Evolution, 50(4), 1705-1713.
Scopus121996 DaSilva, J., & Bell, G. (1996). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas .7. The effect of sex on the variance in fitness and mean fitness. EVOLUTION, 50(4), 1705-1713.
WoS13 Europe PMC41995 Woodroffe, R., Macdonald, D., & da Silva, J. (1995). Dispersal and philopatry in the European badger, Meles meles. Journal of Zoology, 237(2), 227-239.
Scopus111 WoS841994 ZEYL, C., BELL, G., & DASILVA, J. (1994). TRANSPOSON ABUNDANCE IN SEXUAL AND ASEXUAL POPULATIONS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS-REINHARDTII. EVOLUTION, 48(4), 1406-1409.
WoS9 Europe PMC31994 DASILVA, J., MACDONALD, D., & EVANS, P. (1994). NET COSTS OF GROUP LIVING IN A SOLITARY FORAGER, THE EURASIAN BADGER (MELES-MELES). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 5(2), 151-158.
WoS611994 Zeyl, C., Bell, G., & da Silva, J. (1994). Transposon abundance in sexual and asexual populations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Evolution, 48(4), 1406-1409.
Scopus101993 da Silva, J., Woodroffe, R., & Macdonald, D. (1993). Habitat, food availability and group territoriality in the European badger, Meles meles. Oecologia, 95(4), 558-564.
Scopus95 WoS92 Europe PMC121992 da Silva, J., Bell, G., & Burt, A. (1992). Sources of variance in protein heterozygosity: the importance of the species-protein interaction.. Heredity, 68(3), 241-252.
Scopus3 WoS7 Europe PMC31992 Da Silva, J., & Bell, G. (1992). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas VI. Antagonism between natural selection and sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 249(1326), 227-233.
Scopus16 WoS171991 Da Silva, J., Winquist, S., Weary, D., Inman, A., Mountjoy, D., Krebs, E., & Basolo, A. (1991). Male swords and female preferences. Science, 253(5026), 1426-1427.
Scopus30 WoS61988 da Silva, J., & Terhune, J. (1988). Harbour seal grouping as an anti-predator strategy. Animal Behaviour, 36(5), 1309-1316.
Scopus44 WoS411986 DASILVA, J., CAMERON, J., & FANKBONER, P. (1986). MOVEMENT AND ORIENTATION PATTERNS IN THE COMMERCIAL SEA-CUCUMBER PARASTICHOPUS-CALIFORNICUS (STIMPSON) (HOLOTHUROIDEA, ASPIDOCHRITIDA). MARINE BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY, 12(2), 133-147.
WoS311985 DASILVA, J., & NEILSON, J. (1985). LIMITATIONS OF USING OTOLITHS RECOVERED IN SCATS TO ESTIMATE PREY CONSUMPTION IN SEALS. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES, 42(8), 1439-1446.
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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2009 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Chloroplast DNAs Diversify Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes in Plants Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Dong Wang 2008 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Comprehensive Identification and Annotation of Non-Protein-Coding Transcriptomes from Vertebrates Indicates Most ncRNAs are Regulatory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Zhipeng Qu
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