User:Claus O. Wilke

Contact Info



 * Claus O. Wilke
 * Section of Integrative Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
 * The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
 * Wilke lab
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

 * 1999, PhD, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
 * 1996, Diplom, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Research interests

 * 1) Computational evolutionary biology
 * 2) Molecular evolution
 * 3) Virus evolution

Selected Publications

 * 1) W. Gu, T. Zhou, and C. O. Wilke (2010). A universal trend of reduced mRNA stability near the translation-initiation site in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000664. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000664 pmcid: PMC2816680
 * 2) D. A. Drummond and C. O. Wilke (2009). The evolutionary consequences of erroneous protein synthesis. Nature Reviews Genetics 10:715-724. doi:10.1038/nrg2662 pmcid: PMC2764353
 * 3) T. P. Brennan, J. O. Woods, A. R. Sedaghat, J. D. Siliciano, R. F. Siliciano, and C. O. Wilke (2009). Analysis of HIV-1 viremia and provirus in resting CD4+ T cells reveals a novel source of residual viremia in patients on antiretroviral therapy. J. Virol. 83:8470-8481. doi:10.1128/JVI.02568-08 pmcid: PMC2738142
 * 4) T. Zhou, M. Weems, and C. O. Wilke (2009). Translationally optimal codons associate with structurally sensitive sites in proteins. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26:1571-1580. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp070
 * 5) D. A. Drummond and C. O. Wilke (2008). Mistranslation-induced protein misfolding as a dominant constraint on coding-sequence evolution. Cell 134:341-352. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.042 pmcid: PMC2696314
 * 6) A. R. Sedaghat, J. B. Dinoso, L. Shen, C. O. Wilke, and R. F. Siliciano (2008). Decay dynamics of HIV-1 depend on the inhibited stages of the viral life cycle. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105:4832-4837. doi:10.1073/pnas.0711372105 pmcid: PMC2290747
 * 7) J. J. Bull, R. Sanjuán, and C. O. Wilke (2007). Theory of lethal mutagenesis for viruses. J. Virol. 81:2930-2939. doi:10.1128/JVI.01624-06 pmcid: PMC1865999
 * 8) J. D. Bloom, A. Raval, and C. O. Wilke (2007). Thermodynamics of neutral protein evolution. Genetics 175:255-266. doi:10.1534/genetics.106.061754 pmcid: PMC1775007
 * 9) J. D. Bloom, D. A. Drummond, F. H. Arnold, and C. O. Wilke (2006). Structural determinants of the rate of protein evolution in yeast. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23:1751-1761. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl040
 * 10) J. R. Bailey, A. R. Sedaghat, T. Kieffer, T. Brennan, P. K. Lee, M. Wind-Rotolo, C. M. Haggerty, A. R. Kamireddi, Y. Liu, J. Lee, D. Persaud, J. E. Gallant, J. Cofrancesco, Jr., T. C. Quinn, C. O. Wilke, S. C. Ray, J. D. Siliciano, R. E. Nettles, and R. F. Siliciano (2006). Residual Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 viremia in some patients on antiretroviral therapy is dominated by a small number of invariant clones rarely found in circulating CD4 T cells. J. Virol. 80:6441-6457. doi:10.1128/JVI.00591-06 pmcid:PMC1488985
 * 11) D. A. Drummond, A. Raval, and C. O. Wilke (2006). A single determinant dominates the rate of yeast protein evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23:327-337. doi:10.1093/molbev/msj038
 * 12) D. A. Drummond, J. D. Bloom, C. Adami, C. O. Wilke, and F. H. Arnold. (2005). Why highly expressed proteins evolve slowly. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:14338-14343. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504070102 pmcid:PMC1242296
 * 13) C. O. Wilke (2005). Quasispecies theory in the context of population genetics. BMC Evol. Biol. 5:44. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-44 pmcid:PMC1208876
 * 14) D. A. Drummond, J. J. Silberg, M. M. Meyer, C. O. Wilke, and F. H. Arnold (2005). On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:5380-5385. doi:10.1073/pnas.0500729102 pmcid:PMC556249
 * 15) J. D. Bloom, J. J. Silberg, C. O. Wilke, D. A. Drummond, C. Adami, and F. H. Arnold (2005). Thermodynamic prediction of protein neutrality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:606-611. doi:10.1073/pnas.0406744102 pmcid:PMC545518
 * 16) S. S. Chow*, C. O. Wilke*, C. Ofria, R. E. Lenski, and C. Adami (2004). Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms. Science 305:84-86. *Equal contribution.
 * 17) C. O. Wilke (2004). The speed of adaptation in large asexual populations. Genetics 167:2045-2053. pmcid:PMC1470994
 * 18) I. S. Novella, D. D. Reissig, and C. O. Wilke (2004). Density-dependent selection in vesicular stomatitis virus. J. Virol. 78:5799-5804.  pmcid:PMC415817
 * 19) C. O. Wilke (2003). Probability of fixation of an advantageous mutant in a viral quasispecies. Genetics 163:467-474.
 * 20) C. O. Wilke (2001). Selection for fitness vs. selection for robustness in RNA secondary structure folding. Evolution 55:2412-2420.
 * 21) C. O. Wilke, J. L. Wang, C. Ofria, R. E. Lenski, and C. Adami (2001). Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rate leads to survival of the flattest. Nature 412:331-333.
 * 22) C. O. Wilke and C. Adami (2001). Interaction between directional epistasis and average mutational effects. Proc. R. Soc. London B 268:1469-1474.
 * 23) C. O. Wilke (2001). Adaptive evolution on neutral networks. Bull. Math. Biol. 63:715-730.