Yoh Iwasa (born 1952) is a Japanese Mathematical Biologist who is considered the leading mathematical biologist in Japan.
His work includes the evolution of costly mate preferences and the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Notable papers include:
* "The evolution of costly mate preferences II. The 'handicap' principle" ''Evolution'' 1991
* "Demographic theory for an open marine population with space-limited recruitment" with
Joan Roughgarden
Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in '' Anolis'' lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky ...
''Ecology'' 1985
* "Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia" ''Nature'' 2005
* "Prey distribution as a factor determining the choice of optimal foraging strategy" ''The American Naturalist'' 1981 - JSTOR
* "Influence of nonlinear incidence rates upon the behavior of SIRS epidemiological models" with
Simon Levin ''Journal of Mathematical Biology'', 1986
He has mentored more than 20 Ph.D. students and 20 Postdoctoral researchers.
References
External links
official website
1952 births
Living people
21st-century Japanese biologists
Academic staff of Kyushu University
Scientists from Osaka
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