Tuesday, 5th July Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016
Registration
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Foyer
Medical and human genetics
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Emily Wong
- Down-regulation of EPAS1 transcription explains genetic adaptation of Tibetans to high-altitude hypoxia - Bing Su
- Extreme distribution of deleterious variation in a historically small and isolated population – insights from the Greenlandic Inuit - Casper-Emil T. Pedersen
- The African roots of Mexico: Genetic structure and health of Mexicans of African descent - Christopher Gignoux
- Dynamic Genetic Control of Gene Expression and DNA Methylation in Human Aging - Trevor Martin
- Diagnostic sequence motifs distinguish all point mutations in humans - Yicheng ZHU
- A novel approach for assessing genetic burden and constraint in protein structures leveraging large sequencing cohorts: insights from MYH7 and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Julian R Homburger
- Gene ORGANizer: Linking Genes to the Organs They Affect - David Gokhman
- Probabilistic inference of positive and negative selection in cancer - Donate Weghorn
David Penny and Mike Hendy Symposium
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 5
Chair: Barbara Holland
- David Penny & Mike Hendy - David Penny and Michael Hendy
- RNA evolution is dominated by rapid turnover, not molecular fossils. - Anthony Poole
- The problems with distance-based phylogenetic relationships - David Bryant
- “The data are good but the models are bad!”: examples from recent phylogenomic studies. - Frederic Delsuc
- Hadamard conjugation and phylogenetic inference. - Michael Charleston
- Geomolecular Dating and the Origin of Placental Mammals - Matthew J Phillips
- From the genome to biodiversity: molecular evolutionary insights into macroevolution - Lindell Bromham
- Synergistic roles of rapid warming events and human impacts in the megafaunal extinctions - Alan Cooper
The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes: new pieces of an enigmatic puzzle
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 6
Chair: Thijs Ettema
- The archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes - Thijs J.G. Ettema
- Natural history of eukaryotic viruses and transposons: What do they tell us about eukaryogenesis? - Eugene V Koonin
- Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes - Chuan Ku
- Mitochondrial origin of eukaryotic membrane complexity - Sven B Gould
- The early origin of the eukaryotic cell according to the Viral Eukaryogenesis hypothesis: an update in light of recent discoveries - Philip J L Bell
- Origin of the Andalucia godoyi mitochondrial cox15 gene by horizontal transfer from bacteria - Sandra L Baldauf
Structural variation in the light of new sequencing technologies
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 7
Chair: Hideki Innan
- Do retroCNVs resolve intralocus sexually antagonistic conflicts in Drosophila? - Esther Betran
- Accumulation of structural mutations in an invasive fish of hybrid origin - Stefan Dennenmoser
- Non-allelic gene conversion is ten times faster than the rate of point mutations in humans - Arbel Harpak
- Characterizing complex structural variation at the human glycophorin receptors for Plasmodium falciparum - Ellen M Leffler
- Structural variation at the TEP anti-pathogen locus in African malaria mosquitoes - Eric Smith
- A second look at the chimpanzee genome - Lukas FK Kuderna
- Exploring the role of segmental duplications in the phenotypic differences between humans and other great apes - Marina Brasó-Vives
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Hall 1
Plenary - Sally Dunwmoodie
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Jeremy Brownlie
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Hall 1
Workshop: Writing for the Conversation
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 5
GSA AGM Meeting
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 6
SMBE Business Meeting
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 7
Ecological and conservation genetics
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Lee Rollins
Sponsored by:
- An environmental DNA (eDNA) based method for monitoring spawning activity: a case study using the endangered Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) - Dianne Gleeson
- From faeces to foxes: using genetics to manage an invasive predator for wildlife conservation - Anna J MacDonald
- Landscape Conservation Genomics: from invasive to foundation species - Justin O Borevitz
- Adaptive and neutral genomic diversity of the global invader Ambrosia artemisiifolia - Lotte A van Boheemen
- Source dynamics of the naturally re-established carnivore, Canis lupus - Sarah Hendricks
- Discovery of new RNA viruses in healthy honeybee populations with Varroa infection - Emily J Remnant
- Seeds of destruction? The relationship between inbreeding and male fertility in two threatened bird species - Helen R Taylor
- Pedigree analysis reveals a generational decline in reproductive success of captive Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) - Katherine A Farquharson
Open Symposium
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 5
Chair: Barbara Holland
- Revisiting an old evolutionary question: did the S mutation of the β-globin gene result from a single or multiple mutations? - Sandra Oliveira
- Trans-domain horizontal gene transfer from bacterium to animal: the post-transfer evolution of the aspzincins in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica - Simone Higgie
- Tiny changes, big effects: the impact of microexons on neuronal differentiation, function and evolution - Manuel Irimia
- Genome evolution of a parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia symbiont - Amelia Lindsey
- Patterns and mechanisms of diminishing returns of advantageous mutations - Xinzhu Wei
- Divergent patterns of marsupial-eutherian genomic imprinting revealed from RNA-seq analysis in the opossum, Monodelphis domestica - Xu Wang
- Transcriptional changes and the genomics basis of adaptation to an extreme environment - Joanna L Kelley
- Patterns of nucleotide changes in human populations - Sankar Subramanian
Understudied, Undervalued, But Amazingly Interesting: Microbial Eukaryotic Genomic Evolution
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 6
Chair: Xianfa Xie
- Using genomics to study evolutionary biology of the trichomonads - Jane Carlton
- On the quest of elucidating polyketide synthases responsible for ciguatoxin production - Anna L Kretzschmar
- Fragmented evolution of an extremophilic red alga: Massive influx of bacterial DNAs revealed by the segmental landscape of the Galdieria sulphuraria genome - Rajeev K. Azad
- Evolution of the eukaryotic redox sensitive proteome via endosymbiosis - Christian Woehle
- Genetics and evolution of early branching Saccharomyces. - EmilyClare P Baker
- Systems Biology Studies of Yeast Gene Evolution at the Genomic Level Reveal Drivers of Evolution - Xianfa Xie
Understanding domestication in the genomic era
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Room 7
Chairs: Laurent Frantz & Guo-Dong Wang
- Domestication, demography, and deleterious alleles in maize. - Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
- Domestication of the dog - Claire M Wade
- What makes the fungi cheesy: the adaptive genomic toolbox of Penicillium molds revealed by between- and within-species comparisons - Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega
- Selection for tameness in Red Junglefowl causes wide changes in brain gene expression - Johan Bélteky
- Genome analysis of the red fox reveals genetic basis of domesticated behavior. - Anna V Kukekova
- The genome sequence of a 5300-year-old maize cob recovered from the Tehuacan Valley provides insights into the early stages of maize domestication - Jazmin Ramos Madrigal
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Hall 1
Walter Fitch Symposium
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Laura Landweber
- The effect of archaic admixture on inferred human population history - Isabel Alves
- Mutation, migration, standing variation: the where and how of convergent adaptation - Kristin Lee
- Uniparental inheritance promotes adaptive evolution in the mitochondrial genome - Joshua Christie
- Holy Chicken! Selection analysis applied to time series of ancient genotype data reveals how medieval religious reform shaped the genomes of modern chickens. - Liisa Loog
- A novel algorithm for selective sweeps detection in bacteria - Oren Avram
- High-throughput experimental estimation of the effects of all amino-acid mutations to HIV's envelope protein on viral replication in cell culture - Hugh K Haddox
- Functional Sites Induce Long-Range Evolutionary Constraints in Enzymes - Benjamin Jack
- Weakly selected standing variants dominate adaptation for 1000 generations in sexual, laboratory evolved yeast populations - Katya Kosheleva
Poster session B + Refreshments
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Hall 1
Sponsored by:
- Yeast populations adapted to periodic stress trade fast growth for stress resistance - Christopher J Graves
- Changes in clock-gene expression, activity, and fecundity in the mosquito Culex pipiens f. molestus exposed to artificial light at night - Ann-Christin Honnen
- What can the gut microbiota community of eastern water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii) tell us about adaptation to urbanisation? - Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun
- Evidence for genetic adaptation to pollution - Alessandra AL Loria
- HMOX2 functions as a modifier gene for high-altitude adaptation in Tibetans - yi peng
- Evolutionary trajectory of a heat sensor TRPV1 in clawed frogs inferred from multispecies comparison and ancestral protein reconstruction - Shigeru Saito
- Comparison of adaptive mechanism between sexual and asexual reproduction in Tetrahymena thermophila based on the experimental evolutionary genomics - Guangying Wang
- HIV epitope prediction provides functional link between HLA genotype and viral load - Jatin Arora
- The role of LINE-1 retrotransposition in Parkinson’s disease - Gabriela-Oana Bodea
- Food and pathogen adaptations: tracing the spread of lactase persistence and human African trypanosomiasis resistance into southwestern Africa - Magdalena Gayà-Vidal
- Insights on Array Design and Genotyping of over 50,000 Diverse Individuals for the Next Generation of Association Studies - Christopher R Gignoux
- Understanding schizophrenia: the role of LINE-1 retrotransposition in disease aetiology - Marie-Jeanne H.C. Kempen
- Effects of rare gene knockouts in a highly endogamous population - Hilary C Martin
- Target enrichment as a tool for wide-scale genome-wide comparison, intra-strain variation and stratification, in genome-integrated Human Herpesvirus 6 - Marco Telford
- Bayesian multivariate analysis of large genetic studies identifies novel associations - Michael C Turchin
- Mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Australian hylaeine bees and its association with the parasite Wolbachia - Olivia Davies
- Investigating the evolutionary pathways towards extremely AT rich mitochondrial genomes - Weilong Hao
- Mitochondrial membrane potential: a trait involved in organelle inheritance? - Liliana Milani
- Detection of ultra-rare mitochondrial variants - Anton Nekrutenko
- Mitochondrial selfish elements and the evolution of biological novelties - Marco Passamonti
- SmithRNAs: could mitochondria ‘bend’ nuclear regulation? - Andrea Pozzi
- Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mitochondria in Dwarf and Giant Rattlesnakes - Sarah Schaack
- Splits and merges of minichromosomes shaped the complex and dynamic mitochondrial genome organization of the sucking lice (Anoplura, Insecta) - Renfu Shao
- Mitochondrial DNA genetic diversity within Australian domestic pigs and their role in determining reproductive capacity. - Tesha Tsai
- Insight into the evolution of the partitioned mitochondrial genome of Myxozoa (Metazoa, Cnidaria). - Dayana Yahalomi
- Population differentiation and local adaptation in the Australian house sparrow. - Samuel C. Andrew
- Tracing the presence of an enzyme essential for de-novo biosynthesis of NAD in the avian lineage: A case study for missing sequences in bird genomes - Toni I Gossmann
- Frequent Inactivation of MOXD2 Genes in Birds - Yoonsoo Hahn
- Local adaptation of the red-browed finch Neochmia temporalis across climatic zones - Kerensa McElroy
- Genomic divergence in allopatry vs. parapatry through the speciation process - Joshua V Penalba
- Delineating the gene birth and death for Mx homologs confers divergent antiviral activity to Influenza Virus - Furong Qi
- The evolution of RNA recognizing Toll-Like Receptors in migratory waders - Nynke Raven
- Evolutionary dynamics of old, homomorphic sex chromosomes in Paleognathous birds. - Tim Sackton
- A genomic approach to examining two avian hybrid zones - Ashlee Shipham
- Sand dunes drive asymmetric gene flow between arid-zone Thick-billed grasswren subspecies - Amy L Slender
- Molecular evolution of dietary diversification in birds - Huabin Zhao
- Averaging over alternative multiple sequence alignments increases the accuracy of phylogenetic tree reconstruction - Haim Ashkenazy
- Alignment-free networks: One step further into the next generation phylogenomics - Guillaume Bernard
- Estimating Mutation Parameters and Population History Simultaneously from Temporally-Spaced Genome Data - Arman Bilge
- Estimating the Effective Population Size from Experimental Evolution Data - Andreas Futschik
- Evolution and diversity of complement genes in crocodilians - Jaime Gongora
- A transcriptome annotation pipeline for non-model organisms - Mariangela Iannello
- VAST-DB: an Atlas of Alternative Splicing Profiles in Vertebrate Tissues and Cell Types - Manuel Irimia
- ModelFinder: A new model-selection method that greatly improves the accuracy of molecular phylogenetic estimates - Lars S Jermiin
- MST -> P: A scalable and accurate method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees - Prabhav Kalaghatgi
- A reversible Polymorphism-aware phylogenetic Model (revPoMo) for species tree estimation - Carolin Kosiol
- Phylogeny-guided genome assembly method for short nucleotide reads from deep sequencing of mixed microbial samples - Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam
- Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I in wild pigs and peccaries - Carol Lee
- Haplotype reconstruction from Short Read Sequences using Vector Quantization - Louis Ranjard
- Comprehensive Annotation of Multigenic Protein-Family Structures (CAMPS) - David F Clarke
- Time-sampled population genetics: an experimental investigation of drug-induced mutational meltdown as an antiviral treatment strategy - Hyunjin Shim
- Enrichme – a gene set enrichment tool that naturally corrects for gene length and clustering - Hannes Svardal
- Measuring Natural Selection on Chromatin Accessibility in 1000 Humans From 10 Populations. - Ashley K. Tehranchi
- Estimating Identical-By-Descent tracts from low coverage NGS data - Filipe G. Vieira
- MetaMIS: a metagenomic microbial interaction simulator based on a microbial community profiles - Daryi Wang
- HAL-HAS 2: A new algorithm that estimates evolution process for heterogeneity across lineages as well as convergent evolution - Lars S Jermiin
- Evolution of the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) motif in prokaryotes - Deepa Agashe
- Population structure of widespread Anopheles mosquitoes in New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands - Luke Ambrose
- Nonmetric ANOVA for Assessing Phylogenies - Ali Amiryousefi
- Experimental evolution with recombining and non-recombining Acinetobacter baylyi - Beth J Brittain
- Inferring symbiotic innovation through a shotgun metagenomics lens: progress and pitfalls of the latest techniques - Amanda M.V. Brown
- The relative role of positive and background selection in shaping genetic variability at linked sites in Drosophila melanogaster - Jose L. Campos
- Comprehensive Annotation of Multigenic Protein-Family Structures (CAMPS) - David Clarke
- 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
- Mechanism and fitness benefits of pyruvate kinase: a recurrent target of evolution - Kristina Duan
- Genetic basis of Lactase Persistence in Ethnically diverse African Populations - Elizabeth Eyermann
- Genetic origins of bushpigs from Madagascar - Jaime Gongora
- COMBINE, bringing together Australian students and early-career researchers in bioinformatics and computational biology - Jane Hawkey
- Biogeography of sex reversal and the effects of climate on sex determination - Clare Holleley
- The Hsp90 chaperone protein is essential in the Shewanella oneidensis bacteria under stress condition - Flora Honoré
- Illuminating Limbodessus: speciation of sister species within a genus of subterranean dytiscid beetles in Western Australia. - Josephine C A Hyde
- Testing the parent-of-origin hypothesis in dasyurid telomere length dimorphism - Emory Ingles
- An evolutionary perspective of AMPK-TOR signaling in the three domains of life - Arpit Jain
- Life history evolution in response to condition-dependent juvenile selection - Chris Kimber
- Historical biogeography of the ancient genus Selaginella ─ Early adaptation to xeric habitats on Pangea - Kristina Vanessa Klaus
- Trait-dependent dispersal models for phylogenetic biogeography, in the R package BioGeoBEARS - Nicholas Matzke
- Comparison of Neanderthal and modern human Y chromosomes: implications for reproductive isolation - Fernando L Mendez
- Evolutionary insights from the marine metagenomics in the Red Sea - Katsuhiko Mineta
- Adaptive Landscapes of Resistant Genes change as Antibiotic Concentration Changes - Portia Mira
- Host response to highly pathogenic avian influenza infection in quails - Katrina Morris
- Risk loci on CFA13 associated with lymphoma in Bullmastiffs - Sally Mortlock
- Experimental and theoretical approaches to elucidate isochore evolution by ENU mutagenesis - Saotoshi Oota
- Molecular co-evolutionary insights into the HIV-1 pre-integration complex - Helen Piontkivska
- Robustness of Bayesian molecular dating to tree prior misspecification - Andrew M Ritchie
- Coinfection study reveals immune modulatory effects of a cestode in its vertebrate host - Marc Ritter
- The Mechanistic, Genetic, and Evolutionary Basis of Worker Sterility in the Social Hymenoptera - Isobel Ronai
- Sex-biased dispersal in the short-tail stingray - Emily Roycroft
- Evolutionary implications of gene duplication in plant secondary metabolism - Arunraj Saranya Prakashrao
- Genetic Drift in Variable Size Haploid and Diploid Populations - Helmut Simon
- Revisiting the plastid phylogenomics of Pinaceae with two complete plastomes of Pseudolarix and Tsuga - Edi Sudianto
- Evolution and genetic basis of Acropora species fluorescence - Shiho Takahashi-Kariyazono
- Eighteen non-visual opsins in the ancestor of vertebrates, astonishing duplication in ray-finned fish and loss in Amniota - John S Taylor
- Dynamic cis-regulatory module recruitment during cardiac evolution - Markus Tondl
- The evolution of the innate immune system: insights from an early-divergent lineage - Chloe A van der Burg
- The relationship between coat colour phenotype and equine behaviour: a pilot study - Brandon D Velie
- Genetic and Protein Study of Alpaca Fibre. - Yen Ting Wong
- Evolution of parent-of-origin effects on complex traits - Ge Zhang
- Are essential genes more likely to be conserved? - Fatemeh Ashari Ghomi
- Prevalence, evolution and concurrent infection by multiple dengue virus serotypes in patients from Pakistan - Qamar Bashir
- Tracing functional protein interaction networks using ‘feature-aware’ phylogenetic profiling - Holger Bergmann
- Phylogenomics analysis of large bacterial phylogenies using whole genome information - Minh Duc Cao
- Can adaptive radiations in the Bemisia tabaci species complex be revealed by co-evolving endosymbionts? - Samia Elfekih
- Avoidance of stochastic RNA interactions can be harnessed to control protein expression levels in bacteria and archaea - Paul Gardner
- Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Pathogenic Enterobacteria - Jeremy Glasner
- Testing the role of recombination in the evolution of multidrug resistance in experimental bacterial populations - Chowdhury Mehedi Hasan
- Geographical distribution influences purifying selection on innate immune genes in Drosophila - Rosemarie Herbert
- The origin and evolution of the emergent plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae - Honour McCann
- Ribosomal footprinting allows detecting and analyzing weakly translated, evolutionary young genes in EHEC - Klaus Neuhaus
- The basis of the Bartonella radiation: Origin and evolution of a specialized gene transfer agent - Daniel Tamarit
- Identification of source and sink populations for the emergence and global spread of the East-Asia clone of Community-Associated MRSA - Melissa Ward
- Epidemic success and underlying driving forces of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a low-prevalence setting - THIERRY WIRTH
- Co-evolution of Hepatitis B Virus subgenotype C4 and Indigenous Australians for at least 53,000 years - Lilly Yuen
- Overexpression of overlapping ORFs in Escherichia coli O157:H7 reveals growth phenotype - Barbara Zehentner
- Re-evaluating the target of selection within FOXP2 suggests functional divergence among diverse human populations - Elizabeth G Atkinson
- Reconstructing human diffusion and collapse in the Americas - Chiara Barbieri
- Human population genetics of Papua New Guinea - Anders Bergstrom
- Characterizing introgressed sequences in S. cerevisiae - Anne Clark
- Supergene evolution favoured by the introgression of an inversion in Heliconius - Angeles de Cara
- Developing a SNP toolkit for management of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus: from pedigrees to population genomics - Siobhan Dennison
- Localizing Yiddish and non-Yiddish speaking Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in ancient Ashkenaz lands - Eran Elhaik
- Hurdles out of Africa: how climate and terrain shaped the history of human migrations - Anders Eriksson
- The global evolutionary history of Arabidopsis thaliana - Ashley Farlow
- Genomic analysis of coexistence and symbiosis in Trifolium populations - Colleen Friel
- Spread of reduced activity of STX promoter in modern humans - Naoko T Fujito
- Whole genome sequencing reveals the complex phylogeography of canids - Shyam Gopalakrishnan
- Demographic history of Northeast Africa revealed by genome-wide population-genetic data - Nina Hollfelder
- Genome-wide analysis to identify locally adapted genes in humans - Risa Iwasaki
- Mathematical Model of Missing African Genomic Variation: A case for robust sampling - Latifa Jackson
- Evolution of the Coldblooded trotter breed: Where did the speed come from? - Kim Jäderkvist Fegraeus
- Parallel speciation in an Australian wildflower - Maddie E James
- Structural variants in yeast have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation, and are transient in natural populations. - Daniel Jeffares
- Consanguinity and runs of homozygosity in Jewish populations - Jonathan T. L. Kang
- Breaking the infinite sites model: widespread mutational recurrence in exome sequence data from over 60,000 individuals - Konrad J Karczewski
- Inferring the unfolded site frequency spectrum and using it to quantify adaptive molecular evolution in Drosophila - Peter Keightley
- Genome-wide association study of copy number variation for detection of genes affecting fat distribution in pig - Heebal Kim
- Experimental evolution in Drosophila analysed with Gaussian process models - Carolin Kosiol
- The impact of selection on cis-regulatory variation across the genome of an outcrossing plant - Benjamin Laenen
- Selective breeding mediated genetic mapping for tameness in mouse - Yuki Matsumoto
- Can we see ecology in sequence data? - Michael J McDonald
- Large-scale whole genome sequencing of the Estonian population reveals novel loss-of-function variants and new insights into the population history - Mait Metspalu
- kWIP: The k-mer Weighted Inner Product, a de novo estimator of genetic relatedness. - Kevin Murray
- Functional Validation of Human Parkinson's Disease GWAS in the Fly - Lisa Oyston
- Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal the Complex Demographic History of Human Populations in Eastern Pamirs - Min-Sheng Peng
- Robust identification of hard and soft sweeps in humans via machine learning - Daniel R Schrider
- Beyond clines: lineages and haplotype blocks in hybrid zones - Alisa Sedghifar
- A molecular investigation of the relationships of karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus). - Lara Shepherd
- Detecting introgressed archaic haplotypes in Oceanic population genome sequences - Laurits LS Skov
- ddRAD-based target capture across Jasus lobster species to assess spatial-temporal adaptive variation - Jan Strugnell
- Ecological divergence and reproductive isolation in a colour polymorphic Anolis lizard. - Jessica Stapley
- Prioritizing Candidate Genetic Variants Driving Adaptations in Human Populations - Michal Szpak
- Using whole genome sequencing of pooled samples to detect local adaptation of teosintes along two altitudinal gradients - Maud I Tenaillon
- Evolutionary history of European Bison (Bison bonasus) - Ayla L van Loenen
- The factors that constrain or promote the evolution of alternative genome architectures in an RNA virus - Anouk Willemsen
- Genetic origins, population structure and admixture of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs - Shuhua Xu
- Genomic divergence between two sympatric sibling species in the mangrove genus Rhizophora detected by RAD sequencing - Yubin Yan
- A Functional MiR-124 Binding-Site Polymorphism in IQGAP1 Affects Human Cognitive Performance - Lixin Yang
- Y-chromosome diversity suggests southern origin and Paleolithic backwave migration of Austro- Asiatic speakers from eastern Asia to the Indian subcontinent - Xiaoming Zhang
- Adaptive introgression in agricultural Campylobacter coli - Daniel Falush
- Detection of Drosophila melanogaster line admixture through targeted barcoding sequencing - Hangxing Jia
- Blood ties: Metabolic convergence among gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts from blood-feeding arthropods and the Mexican leech Haementeria officinalis - Alejandro Manzano-Marín
- Using molecular clocks to investigate beneficial (and deleterious) microbe-host interactions in the agroecosystem - Omar Rota-Stabelli
- GRIDSS: detecting structural variation using positional de Bruijn graphs - Daniel L Cameron
- Segregation of chromosomes during the meiosis of pentaploid in yeast - Ying Chen
- Structural variation in genome could make novel complex trait in mouse behavior - Maryam Keshavarz
- Systems Genetics identifies two structural variants of P450 genes that confer resistance to insecticides in Drosophila melanogaster. - Paul Battlay
- LINE-1-like retrotransposons contribute to RNA-based gene duplication in dicots - Shengjun Tan
- The Recruitment of Proteins into a Scorpion Venom - Galit Blecher
- Comparative proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of venom producing posterior salivary glands of the blue ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa) and the southern sand octopus (Octopus kaurna). - Ira Cooke
- Intragenome diversity of gene families encoding toxin-like proteins in venomous animals - Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega
- A combined transcriptomic and proteomic approach reveals putative toxins in the slime secretions of the southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum (Cephalopoda) - Jan M Strugnell
- Expression patterns of cnidarian toxins reveal dynamic gene family evolution and regulation - Joachim M Surm
- Lokiarchaea is not the missing link between Archaea and Eukaryotes. - Violette Da Cunha
- Metagenomics exploration of novel archaea sheds new light on the early evolution of eukaryotes - Eva F. Caceres
- Rings Reconcile Genotypic and Phenotypic Evolution within the Proteobacteria - Joseph Larsen
- Transcriptional variation in the protist Trichomonas vaginalis caused by insertion of DNA transposable elements - Martina Bradic
- Should we reconsider the chromosomal gene movement of retrocopies? - Joanna Ciomborowska
- Resolving kangaroo phylogeny and overcoming retroposon ascertainment bias - William G Dodt
- High similarity between distantly related species of a plant SINE family is consistent with a scenario of vertical transmission without horizontal transfer. - Jeffrey Fawcett
- Identification of polymorphic L1 insertions in mice - Patricia Gerdes
- Phylogenetic and genomic analyses resolve the origin of important plant genes derived from transposable elements - Zoé Joly-Lopez
- Applying complementary NGS approaches for in silico resolution of the present and past mobilome of Clostridium difficile R078 isolates - Bethany R Jose
- Bioinformatic Analysis of Expression and Regulation of Human Antisense transcripts by Transposable elements in Human Full-Length cDNA Sequences - Jaeeun Jung
- Macaca specific exon creation event generates a novel ZKSCAN5 transcript - Young-Hyun Kim
- Functional analysis of a natural mutational hotspot in the proximal promoter of a stress-response gene in Drosophila melanogaster - Miriam Merenciano
- The role of heterozygous transposable elements in reproductive isolation among Chironomus riparius populations - Ann-Marie Oppold
- Do transposable elements facilitate adaptation? - Jessica Stapley
- Transposons horizontally transferred between parastitic plants and hosts are still actively expressed in some recipients - Guiling Sun
- Multiple domestications of Asian rice with limited inter-group gene flow. - Peter Civáň
- The Origin and Evolution of Fibromelanosis Locus in Domesticated Chickens: Comparison between Indonesian Cemani and Chinese Silky Genomes - Anik Budhi Dharmayanthi
- What can morphometrics tell us about domestication at the age of genomics ? - Allowen EVIN
- The probability of monophyly of a sample of gene lineages given a species tree: an application to maize domestication. - Rohan Mehta
- Changing Patterns of Genomic Variability Following Domestication of Sheep - Marina M Naval Sanchez
- Cracking the nut: genome and transcriptome sequencing of Macadamia integrifolia (Proteaceae) - Catherine J Nock
- A discriminative model-based approach to inferring the geographic origin of domestic species - Anna AR Rudzinski
- Characterization of grain amaranth (Amaranthus L) domestication with Genotyping by Sequencing and whole genome sequencing - Markus G Stetter
- The genomic signature of a 4,600 year old Scandinavian dog adds a time-depth to modern basal dog breeds - Emma Svensson
- Out of southern East Asia: the natural history of domestic dogs across the world - Guo-Dong Wang
- Genome variability in the ecologically significant marine diatom Leptocylindrus (Bacillariophyta) in a southern hemisphere upwelling system - Penelope A Ajani
- Global phylogeography of Coccidioides spp.; the etiologic agent of Valley Fever - Crystal Hepp
- Identification of microsporidia host-exposed proteins reveals a repertoire of large paralogous gene families and rapidly evolving proteins - Aaron Reinke
- Comparative and population genomics of Phellinus noxius causing brown root rot disease in trees - Isheng J Tsai
- Molecular ecology of palytoxin producing protist Ostreopsis siamensis (Alveolata) along the East Australian Current - Arjun Verma
- Why do ciliates have such low mutation rates, and why don't we? - David J Winter
- The genome of a nematode isolated from the deep, hot terrestrial subsurface reveals horizontal transfer and amplification of Hsp70 genes as an adaptive strategy - Sarah Allen
- Discrete dynamics of stem cell niches - a cellular automaton model - Alonso Sandoval