Monday, 4th July Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016
Registration
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Foyer
Extracting Evolutionary Patterns and Processes from Genomic Data
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Arena 1B
Chairs: Lars Jermiin & Arndt von Haeseler
- Branch-heterogeneous models of sequence evolution - Bastien Boussau
- Methods to find similar sites in alignments - Rob Lanfear
- Among genes heterogeneity of the phylogenetic signal in genome data: causes, symptoms, and treatments - Omar Rota-Stabelli
- Assessing Methods for Outlier Detection in Phylogenetic Inference - Daisy Shepherd
- Resolving the Phylogenetic Position of Coelacanth: The Closest Relative Is Not Always the Most Appropriate Outgroup - Naoko Takezaki
- Decay of Accuracy of Genomic Prediction with Genetic Distance - David J Balding
Developmental and cellular genetics
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Room 5
Chair: Philip Batterham
- Coordinating robust with plastic developmental responses in the developing fly wing - Christen Mirth
- The role of complex and young genes in the formation of organismal complexity during embryonic development - Dong Yang
- Transcriptomics of developmental evolution following long term selection - Josh Alpern
- The transcriptional and developmental landscape of male and female mosquitoes - Jaroslaw Krzywinski
- Natural variation in expression and function at a Drosophila melanogaster odorant receptor locus alters olfactory responses - Coral G Warr
- Title: The molecular language of peptide communication in the marine sponge - Michael Hammond
- Early stages of diversification in the Rab GTPase gene family revealed by genomic and functional studies in Paramecium species - Lydia Bright
- Transcriptional activation of Wnt and Tgfb signaling pathways in regeneration of sponges - Maja Adamska
Mitochondria in the age of genomics: genome architecture, inheritance, and functions
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Room 6
Chair: Marco Passamonti
- Animal mtDNA as we don’t know it: unusual mt-genomes in non-bilaterian lineages - Dennis V. Lavrov
- Mitochondrial variation and the evolution of the germline - Andrew Pomiankowski
- Mito-nuclear incompatibilities at early stages of species formation - Ricardo J Pereira
- The Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondria: a useful model for mitochondrial biology and evolution. - Fabrizio Ghiselli
- Unexpectedly high and variable tempo of plastid DNA integration in mitochondrial genomes of angiosperms - Logan W. Cole
- A mitonuclear ‘supergene’ explains mitonuclear discordance and nuclear gene flow between two climate-associated forms of a bird species - Paul Sunnucks
Beyond Selective Sweeps
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Room 7
Chair: Kelley Harris
- Evolution of gene expression: from mutation to polymorphism to divergence - Patricia J Wittkopp
- Detection of human adaptation during the past 2,000 years - Jonathan Pritchard
- Yeast populations adapt at different rates, with a different DFE under different nutrient limitations - Gavin Sherlock
- Functional characterization of evolutionarily advantageous sequence divergence between MHC alleles - Federica Pierini
- Cooperation between distinct viral variants promotes growth of H3N2 influenza in cell culture - Katherine S Xue
- Causes and consequences of recombination rate variation across the Drosophila melanogaster genome - Josep Comeron
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 4th July
Hall 1
Plenary - Kathy Belov
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Rebecca Johnson
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Hall 1
Workshop: BEAST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 5
GSA Executive Meeting
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Organisers office
Extracting Evolutionary Patterns and Processes from Genomic Data
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Arena 1B
Chairs: Lars Jermiin & Arndt von Haeseler
- Disentangling Kimura's 3-parameter model of nucleotide evolution. - Michael Hendy
- GST: A mixture model for phylogenetic inference of heterogeneously evolved sequence data - Stephen M Crotty
- Incipient speciation of the grey shrike-thrush, Colluricincla harmonica, revealed by multi-locus phylogeography - Annika Lamb
- Morphological and molecular convergences in phylogenetic inference - Zhengting Zou
- The evolution of bioluminescence and light detection in deep-sea decapods - Heather Bracken-Grissom
- The Impact of Migratory Flyways on the Spread of Avian Influenza Virus in North America - Mathieu Fourment
- Demographic Inference Using the Large Sample Joint Frequency Spectrum - Hua Chen
- Temporary pulses of accelerated mutagenesis in human and great ape population history - Kelley Harris
Gene regulation and epigenetics
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 5
Chair: Emily Remnant
- Sperm-mediated epigenetic effects in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) - Berrit Kiehl
- Establishing bipotentiality for gonadal differentiation. - Megan Wilson
- DNA methylation and sex chromosome dosage compensation - Paul D Waters
- Epigenetic memory in vertebrates - Timothy A Hore
- Whole-transcriptome profiling in a model sex-changing fish identifies genes that maintain flexible sexual phenotypes. - Erica V Todd
- Aging-associated DNA methylation changes through long term follow-up in African green monkey - Ja-Rang Lee
- Deiodinase type 3 methylation increases in response to thyroid stimulating hormone in a fasting adapted mammal - Bridget Martinez
- The regulatory evolution of the human vocal tract - David Gokhman
Molecular evolution of avian species
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 6
Chair: Lee Rollins
- Avian genome evolution and the origins of species diversity - David W Burt
- Speciation and domestication in the zebra finch, an avian model system for evolutionary genomics - Christopher Balakrishnan
- Evolution of antimicrobial peptides in birds - Yuanyuan Cheng
- Localisation of recombination hotspots at gene promoters and retrotransposons in avian genomes - Takeshi Kawakami
- Genomic basis of tool manufacture and use in New Caledonian crows - Nicolas Dussex
- Avian ecological epigenetics: the role of DNA methylation in the evolution of avian personality - Kees van Oers
Causes and consequences of nonrandom mating
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 7
Chairs: Amy Goldberg & Chris Gignoux
Sponsored by:
- Modeling the biological cost of cousin alliance on human population genetics - Elsa G Guillot
- The genetic basis of female choice in Drosophila - Daniel Matute
- Evolving mutation rate advances invasion speed of sexual species - Marleen Cobben
- Disassortative mating maintains inversion polymorphism and changes the rules of speciation in a mimetic butterfly - Mathieu Joron
- Inbreeding avoidance and dispersal behaviours in humans from Inner Asia - Nina Marchi
- Evolution of effective population size and sex ratio under inbreeding - Marcy K Uyenoyama
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Hall 1
Extracting Evolutionary Patterns and Processes from Genomic Data
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Arena 1B
Chairs: Lars Jermiin & Arndt von Haeseler
- Evolution through successive population isolation and reconnection events: process and signature - Severine Vuilleumier
- Probabilistic macrosynteny model for inferring the structure of ancient pre-WGD genomes - Yoichiro Nakatani
- Standard Codon Substitution Models Overestimate Purifying Selection for Non-Stationary Data - Benjamin D Kaehler
- Multiple nucleotide mutations cause rampant false positive inferences of selection on the human lineage - Aarti Venkat
- Assessing structural awareness in models of protein evolution - Claudia C Weber
- Patterns of adaptive evolution: a structural perspective - Greg Slodkowicz
- Disentangling Sources of Selection on Exonic Transcriptional Enhancers - Rachel Agoglia
- Malaria parasites drive adaptation in mammalian genomes - Emily R Ebel
Gene regulation and epigenetics
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 5
Chair: Emily Remnant
- Evolution of dominance/recessivity interactions between self-incompatibility alleles in Arabidopsis. - Vincent Castric
- Evolutionary changes in the regulatory behaviour of the lac operon - Olin Silander
- Mechanisms underpinning the rapid functional evolution of the human brain - Guy Barry
- Evolutionary constraints reveal stress-triggered gene regulation by poly(A)-binding protein - D. Allan Drummond
Medical and human genetics
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 5
Chair: Jeremy Brownlie
- Recessive selection in complex disease and implications for variant discovery - Daniel M Jordan
- Genomic signatures of soft selective sweeps at human complex traits - Emily Wong
- Molecular Evolution of Human Breasts - Reed A Cartwright
- A dominant TRPV4 variant underlies osteochondrodysplasia in Scottish fold cats - Bianca Haase
The Molecular Evolution of Venom
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 6
Chair: Yehu Moran
- The Evolution of Venoms: Lessons from Cone Snails - Baldomero Olivera
- Evolution and Development of Venom in Snakes - Michael K Richardson
- The rise and fall of an evolutionary innovation - Kartik Sunagar
- Toxin composition in the tentacles of the Australian cold temperate sea anemone, Oulactis sp. - Michela L. Mitchell
- When sex matters: Dramatic sexual dimorphism in the venom and venom system of the centipede Scolopendra hardwickei - Eivind Undheim
- Going with the flow? The genetic basis for snake venom evolution - Giulia Zancolli
Sexual selection on the gamete level: the evolution of egg-sperm interactions
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Room 7
Chair: Christina Zakas
- Green eggs and sperm: gamete chemoattraction and sexual isolation in wild Solanum species - Leonie C Moyle
- The evolution of sperm size and post-mating pre-zygotic reproductive isolation - Asher D Cutter
- A “sexy” co-evolutionary arms race: insights from structural and biochemical studies of egg-sperm interactions in Pacific abalone - Damien B Wilburn
- Sexual selection for genetic compatibility: new insights into the genetic basis of cryptic female choice in Chinook salmon - Neil Gemmell
- The case for selection at coevolving human gamete-recognition genes (ZP2, ZP3, and C4BPA) - Daryn A Stover
- “Fishing” for vertebrate fertilization genes: proteomic and biochemical characterization of rapidly evolving threespine stickleback egg proteins - Emily E Killingbeck
Poster session A + Refreshments
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Hall 1
Sponsored by:
- Genetic analyses of five late Neandertal individuals - Mateja Hajdinjak
- Insights into South American population history, from ancient DNA from Tierra del Fuego. - Thiseas Christos Lamnidis
- The preliminary report for the deep sequencing of the prehistoric Jomon genome from the Japanese archipelago - Hiroki OOTA
- Genome-wide allele frequency estimates from population level ultra-low coverage aDNA samples. - Luca Pagani
- Uncovering long-term evolutionary dynamics of hepatitis B virus using ancient DNA - Zoe Patterson Ross
- EAGER: Efficient Ancient Genome Reconstruction - Alexander Peltzer
- The mitochondrial genome of an archaic hominin from southwestern Germany - Cosimo Posth
- Signatures of archaic adaptive introgression in present-day human populations - Fernando Racimo
- FINGERPRINT: Computational filtering of targeted sequences from environmental contaminants - Michael S Rosenberg
- The Neolithic in Northeast Asia in light of a 7,700 year-old genome - Veronika Siska
- Signs of mobility and migration in the megalithic graves of Western Sweden? - Emma M Svensson
- The Aboriginal Heritage Project: Reconstructing the Genetic History of Aboriginal Australia with Ancient DNA - Ray Tobler
- Positive selection on balanced standing variation - Aida M Andres
- Hill-Robertson Interference Maintained by Red Queen Dynamics Favours the Evolution of Sex - Jack Da Silva
- Detection of pathways affected by positive selection in primate lineages ancestral to humans - Josephine Daub
- The impact of genetic architecture, demography and genetic load in natural selection inferences - Angeles de Cara
- Temporal clustering of allele frequency trajectories in asexual population under neutral equilibrium versus positive selection - Yuseob Kim
- Sherpas share genetic variations with Tibetans for high-altitude adaptation - Xuebin Qi
- Genome wide association studies with insecticide resistance lead us to selective sweep loci and beyond. - Charles Robin
- Analyzing the “snapshots” of directional selection spreading over space from incomplete selective sweeps in African Drosophila melanogaster - Thi Ha My Vy
- The evolution of genomic content over generations of inbreeding maize lines - Kyria Roessler
- Loss of self-incompatibility in the allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica by degradation of the male component - Chow Lih Yew
- An experimental test of the emergence of Cellular Complexity by Constructive Neutral Evolution - Samuel Elley
- Emergence of RNA editing in an evolution experiment - Alicia Lai
- New insight into human evolution from character compatibility analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of three primate taxa - Shaun Lehmann
- The Origin of Life; solvable problems. - David Penny
- Experimental evidence that translation initiation in bacteria was invaded by a selfish genetic element. - Alannah Rickerby
- Exploring the origin of DNA through synthetic biology: is ribonucleotide reduction essential for deoxyribonucleotide synthesis in vivo? - Nellie Sibaeva
- Time-reversible vs. Lie-Markov phylogenetic models in the presence of inhomogeneous substitution processes. - Michael Woodhams
- Chloroplast Phylogenomic Inference of Green Algae Relationships - Bojian Zhong
- Developmental Genomics of Sponges - Marcin Adamski
- Investigating neuropeptide function during cnidarian development - Nagayasu Nakanishi
- The generation of somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos with different oocyte mtDNA haplotypes - Kanokwan Srirattana
- Identification of the locus responsible for polydactyly in horses using whole-genome re-sequencing - Brandon D Velie
- Investigating the genetic diversity of the Arabian Oryx from Oman - Qais Abdullah Suliman AlRawahi
- Connectivity among New Zealand coastal marine communities - Vanessa Arranz Martinez
- Planktonic Relationships of Rottnest Island – A 5-year metabarcoding survey - Tina Berry
- Sequence capture arrays for studying immunogenetic variation in non-model species - Amanda Y Chong
- Marker choice for zooplankton DNA metabarcoding studies - Laurence J Clarke
- Archaeological forensics: estimating the provenance of ivory from two 17th and 18th century shipwrecks. - Megan Coghlan
- Counting with DNA: can species proportional biomass be estimated using high-throughput amplicon sequencing? - Bruce E Deagle
- Clarifying the phylogeny and phylogeography of two commonly traded cockatoo species and the development of a wildlife forensic toolbox to identify illegal trade in these species - Kyle M Ewart
- Species detection at extremely low densities: the role of environmental DNA surveys - Elise Furlan
- Impact of dams on neutral and adaptive genetic diversity in an Australian freshwater fish - Bertrand B Gauffre
- Optimising the sampling design of landscape genetic analyses using resistance surfaces - Bernd Gruber
- Exploiting conserved genomic elements to create a universal amplicon resource for use in amniote species with no genome assembly - Jessica F Gurr
- Comparative transcriptome analyses of eight endangered amphibians in Ryukyu Archipelago: expression patterns and repertoire of immunity related genes - Takeshi Igawa
- Patterns of gene expression of natural hybrids and parental species of Cottus in different seasons - Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz
- Approaches to restoration of Phragmites australis in the salinizing wetlands of the Gippsland Lakes, southeastern Australia - Elizabeth A James
- Maximizing environmental DNA capture and extraction in the marine environment. - Gert-Jan Jeunen
- Soaring on the wings of giants - rapid evolution of island gigantism in extinct New Zealand birds of prey - Michael Knapp
- The Ne to N ratio is dependent on census population size - Torsten Nygaard TNK Kristensen
- Population genetics and relatedness of Afro-Malagasy Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) at lineage and colony level - Jennifer M Lamb Alport
- Selection acting on major histocompatibility complex class I genes in Japanese Ranidae frogs - Quintin Lau
- Gene duplication and relax from selective constraints of Gcyc genes create high flower diversity in Didymocarpoideae (Gesneriaceae) - Jing-Yi Lu
- Phylogeny and innate immune gene diversity within the Australian parrot genus Neophema - Caitlin Morrison
- Molecular Archaeology: Recycling the rubbish - Dáithí Conall Murray
- Support for the evolutionary speed hypothesis from intraspecific population genetic data in the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius - Ann-Marie Oppold
- Multiple genetic mechanisms contribute to visual sensitivity variation in the Labridae - Genevieve A. C. Phillips
- Replicated island invasions of an invasive species (Rattus rattus). - Florian Pichlmueller
- Naive predators and toxic prey: A population genetic analysis of yellow-spotted goannas (Varanus panoptes) across Australia - Kimberly Pinch
- Comparative analysis of the thermal stress response in two intertidal Neritid snails - Peter J Prentis
- Evolutionary study of bacteriorhodopsin using genomes and metagenomics - Yoshimoto Saito
- Museum occurrence data predicts genetic diversity in a species-rich clade of desert lizards - Sonal Singhal
- Towards marine ecosystem based management through metabarcoding eDNA - Michael Stat
- Is there genomic support for assisted migration of Eucalyptus marginata provenances? - Megan A Supple
- Sea turtle embryos may be able to adapt to climate change through molecular responses to thermal stress - Jamie Tedeschi
- An aukward story of evolution and extinction - the disappearance of the Great Auk - Jessica E Thomas
- The role of immunoglobulins in the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease - Beata Ujvari
- Metabarcoding of Bacterial Pathogens in a Rodent Pest: Which Organ? - Petra Villette
- The geographical distribution of grey wolves in China - Lu Wang
- Black-cockatoos and molecular ecology approaches for conservation - Nicole E White
- Transcriptome sequencing of Crucihimalaya himalaica (Brassicaceae) reveals how Arabidopsis close relative adapt to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - Ticao Zhang
- The genetic architecture of cold tolerance plasticity in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel - Michael Ørsted
- DNA Sequence Evolution Simulation and Phylogenetic Reconstruction Using Pen and Paper - Nicole T Perna
- Re-imagining the Hardy-Weinberg Law - Von Bing Yap
- Molecular characterization of MHC class IIB genes of sympatric Neotropical cichlids in crater lakes of Nicaragua - Marta Barluenga
- Birth of a new gene: the problem of self-tolerance versus autoimmune reaction - Cemalettin Bekpen
- A phylogenomic study of speciation dynamics in a large radiation of Australian skinks - Jason Bragg
- Gene regulatory networks underlying the diversity of cichlid fish vision - Karen L Carleton
- Compositionally heterogeneous codon evolution, concatenation, and cytonuclear discordance significantly alter phylogenetic reconstructions in rapidly diversifying Drosophila - Renee Catullo
- population differentiation, adaptability and heritability in the common sunskink Lampropholis coggeri - Felipe de Mello Martins
- The role of microRNAs in the repeated parallel diversification of lineages of Midas cichlid fish from Nicaragua - Paolo Franchini
- The genetic basis of an adaptive key trait – radula genes in the radiation of Tylomelania - Leon Hilgers
- Whole genome sequencing studies of speciation and selection in the Lake Malawi cichlid radiation - Milan Malinsky
- Species boundaries among Heliconius butterflies reflect the genetic architecture of speciation - Simon H Martin
- Microgeographic adaptation drives the evolution of reproductive isolation in parapatry - Henry L North
- Genomics, Morphology and Ecology of the Lake Tanganyika Cichlid radiation - Fabrizia Ronco
- Speciation gene evolution and the origin of chemical mimicry in a sexually deceptive orchid - Philipp M. Schlüter
- Comparative RNA-seq analysis of antifungal immune responses among Drosophila species - Yosuke Seto
- Speciation with extensive gene flow in Lake Victoria cichlid species - Yohey Terai
- Genomics of adaptive divergence in East African cichlid fishes: a comparative approach - Alexandra A.-T. Weber
- Dominance and selection coefficients inferred from large-scale population data identify candidate recessive genes - Daniel J Balick
- Profiles of low complexity regions in Apicomplexa - fabia ursula battistuzzi
- Assessing the fitness cost of Bt insecticidal toxin resistance over time. - Chris Ward
- Using evolutionary rate covariation to detect novel evolutionary patterns in the eudicot (Brassicaceae) and monocot (Poaceae) plant lineages - Jae Young Choi
- Finding needles in a genomic haystack: targeted capture to identify signatures of selection in a non-model plant species - Matthew J Christmas
- Evolution of Tumor Necrosis Factor Superfamily (TNFSF) genes TNFSF 12 and 13: Phylogenetic clues for the emergence of in genomic fusion of TNFSF12-TNFSF13 - Sabyasachi Das
- Large scale phylogenetic patterns in waterbeetles - Aurélie Désamoré
- Untying the Evolution of Vision Using the Gordian Worms - James Fleming
- Combining Shigella Tn-seq data with Gold-standard E. coli Gene Deletion Data Suggests Rare Transitions between Essential and Non-essential Gene Functionality - Nikki E Freed
- Origins and conservation of mammalian BRAF pseudogenes. - Cian Glenfield
- Transient Receptor Potential Gene Family Evolution in two echinoderms, sea urchin and starfish - Jun Gojobori
- Evolution of Animal Allorecognition: A Case Study in Sponges - Laura F Grice
- Worldwide Genetic Variation in Serotonin Pathway Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder - Jayla Harvey
- Transcriptional evidence for a reproduction_immunity trade-off in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) - Kate E Ihle
- A genomewide survey of genes for muscle structural proteins that enabled the rise of chordates - Jun Inoue
- Population genetic processes affecting the genomic pattern of sequence diversity in influenza virus H3N2 - Kangchon Kim
- Rapid replacement of centromeres by a variant-type repetitive DNA in a primate taxon - Akihiko Koga
- Demographic impact on genome-wide signatures of selection - Verena E. Kutschera
- Fitness pleiotropy and the phenotypic basis of adaptation in experimentally evolving yeast - Yuping Li
- Gene Duplicability of Core Genes Is Highly Consistent across All Angiosperms - Zhen Li
- Tangled up in two: a burst of genome duplications at the end of the Cretaceous and the consequences for plant evolution - Yves Van de Peer
- Rises and falls of opsin genes in 46 fish genomes and their implications for environmental adaptation - Jinn-Jy Lin
- Single cell and metagenomics help understand early stage archaeal endosymbionts - Anders E Lind
- A molecular palaeobiological approach of arthropod terrestrialisation - Jesus Lozano-Fernandez
- Diversity in gene expression in cell populations in relation to the selectionism view of tumor evolution - Xuemei Lu
- Phylogenies derived from somatic mutations agree with physical topologies in Eucalyptus - Adam J Orr
- Evolution of olfactory receptor gene family in vertebrates - Hardip R Patel
- TreeFam and Ensembl: Phylogenetic resources - Mateus Patricio
- Sponges, not the comb jellies, are the sister group of all the other animals: further evidence from the analyses of compositional biases - Davide Pisani
- Chromosomal speciation in rock-wallabies: linking population processes to evolutionary processes across the phylogeny - Sally Potter
- Lineage specific expansions in detoxification-related and transporter gene families and sub-classes are strongly associated with polyphagy in herbivorous insects - Rahul Rane
- Phylogenetic relationships of the three major teleost lineages - Vydianathan Ravi
- Patterns of gene duplication and loss in the mammalian lineage mirror association with pathogenic CNVs in human - Alan M Rice
- Building an evolutionary framework for the functional characterisation of an arthropod-specific gene family - Jack Scanlan
- Characterizing Sex-Biased Gene Expression in the Green Anole - Shawn Rupp
- Experimental Analysis of GC Content Evolution in Bacteria - Mrudula Sane
- Rapid evolutionary response to Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease - Andrew Storfer
- Whole-genome sequence of the Tibetan frog Nanorana parkeri and the comparative evolution of tetrapod genomes - Yanbo Sun
- The impact of dosage sensitive gene families on plant evolution - Setareh Tasdighian
- The number of prolactin cleavage sites generating vasoinhibins varies in primates - Jakob Triebel
- Evolution of the CRKs and other DUF26-containing gene families in plants - Aleksia Vaattovaara
- Genome-wide analysis of bitter taste receptor genes in birds and the genomic basis of adaptation to a microclimate contrast in the spiny mouse - Kai Wang
- Evolutionally conserved mechanisms of regeneration in chordates: Uncovering signaling pathways required for WBR in Botrylloides leachi. - Megan J Wilson
- Hologenomic adaptations underlying the evolution of sanguivory in the vampire bat - Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza
- Epigenetic variation in interspecific hybrids of the genus Arabidopsis. - Agustin L. Arce
- The evolutionary optimization of polyadenylation by 3’ UTR - Wenqing Cao
- Alignment of biological networks - Michael Charleston
- The role of synonymous codon usage in regulating mRNA level explains the well-known correlation between them in genomes - Siyu Chen
- Identification and Characterization of TYR gene in Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca fascicularis) - Se-Hee Choe
- The sequence determinants of translational readthrough constrains the evolution of 3’ UTR - Xiao Chu
- Early evolution and dynamics of DNA methylation in animals - Alex de Mendoza
- Patterns of chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding in human and chimpanzee pluripotent stem cells. - Irene Gallego Romero
- Estimating the distribution of effect sizes of variants affecting human gene expression - Emily C Glassberg
- Adaptive Rewiring of a Gene Regulatory Network - David Gresham
- Translational regulation constrains the evolution of coding sequences after the start codon in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Qing Huan
- Genome-wide expression profiling analysis identifies aging-associated gene expression change - Jae-Won Huh
- Functional diversity of bZIP transcription factors in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica: insights into the ancestral animal regulatory genome - Katia Jindrich
- Developing maps of fitness consequences for plant genomes - Zoé Joly-Lopez
- Instability of 5’ overlaps between protein-coding genes - Izabela Makałowska
- Sequence uniqueness determines the accuracy of isoform resolvability from short read RNA-seq data - Jeremy RB Newman
- Epigenetic age estimation of humpback whale populations - Andrea Polanowski
- Regulation of mRNA level by codon usage bias - Wenfeng Qian
- High-Throughput Identification of Cis-Regulatory Rewiring Events in Yeast - Shrutii Sarda
- Adaptive RNA editing in squid and octopus - mengyi sun
- Creating a New Code: Constructing a Synthetic Epigenetic Memory System in Mammalian Cells - Andrew H.Y. Wang
- Waking the sleeping dragon - molecular insights into the hibernation of the central bearded dragon - Alex Capraro
- Evidence for post-transcriptional regulation of dosage compensation in platypus - William B Horspool
- Unravelling marsupial X inactivation with shRNA knockdowns - Kim L McIntyre
- Genomic evidence for elevated translational efficiency through mRNA looping - Shaohuan Wu
- Partial Translational Gene Regulation in Chicken revealved by Quantitative Mass Spectrometry - Luohao Xu
- Underrepresentation of active histone modification marks in evolutionarily young genes - Daqi Yu
- Comparative Study of Skin Gene Expression Patterns between Humans and Apes - Nami Arakawa
- Emergence of functional novelties in a molecular lock-and-key system: allelic diversification at the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis. - Maxime Chantreau
- A genome-wide test of the modular structure of pleiotropy - Julie Collet
- Seeing colour in the dark: Lessons learned from the evolution of vision in 100 fish species - Fabio Cortesi
- Genomic innovations at the onset of animal multicellularity: insights from the sponge histone PTM landscape - Federico Gaiti
- Light environment change induces differential expression of guppy opsins - Alexandrea M Kranz
- Expansions of ependymin-related proteins in diverse invertebrate taxa and their co-option into novel functions - Carmel McDougall
- Brain of the Blind: Transcriptome evolution in the golden-line cavefish - Fanwei Meng
- Color vision re-evolution in deep-sea fishes: multiple rhodopsin genes as adaptation to an extreme environment - Zuzana Musilova
- Genome-wide detection of morphotype-specific alternative splicing in chicken feather transcriptomes - Chen Siang Ng
- Vertebrate Hox genes evolution: insights from the embryonic transcriptome of the hagfish - Juan Pascual-Anaya
- From Origination to Function: Life-course of Human-specific De Novo Protein - Qing Sunny Shen
- Cell-type specific transcriptomes in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica sheds light on the ancestral metazoan body plan - Shunsuke Sogabe
- Rapid expansion of pigmentation genes in Penaeid prawns with absolute conservation of gene function. - Nicholas M Wade
- Functional diversification of chaperonin paralogs in cyanobacteria with cell differentiation - Julia Weissenbach
- Preliminary insights into selection in the platypus - Portia Westall
- Live birth and the genetic basis of evolutionary innovation - Camilla M Whittington
- Parallel evolution of the auxin pathway in an Australian wildflower - Melanie J Wilkinson
- The genetic basis of evolutionary transitions in early development - Christina Zakas
- Re-categorising the protein structure universe - Jane R Allison
- Domain-swap polymerization drives the self-assembly of the bacterial flagellar motor - Matt AB Baker
- To convert or not to convert: homology requirements for meiotic gene conversion - Diego A Hartasánchez
- Extreme convergent evolution in defensin proteins and quantitative maps of their sequence space - Thomas Shafee
- How Nemo sees its colourful world: variability of visual pigment genes (opsins) in anemomefish (Amphiprioninae) - Sara Stieb
- Retrieval of ancient mammalian mitochondrial DNA from Middle and Late Pleistocene sediment - Viviane Slon
- The landscape of mitochondrial genetic diversity in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park and across the genus Pan - Anne C Stone
- DNA capture of mitogenomes from Sacred Ibis Mummies of Ancient Egypt - Sally Wasef
- Historical phylogeography of mainland and Tasmanian thylacines (Thylacinus cynocephalus) using ancient mitochondrial genomes - Lauren C White
- Functional responses of salt marsh microbial communities to long-term nutrient enrichment - Christopher Graves
- Role of charge in organelle protein targeting evolution - Sriram G Garg