Population Genomics of Adaptive Radiation

LL Combrink, J Golcher‐Benavides… - Molecular …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive radiations are rich laboratories for exploring, testing, and understanding key
theories in evolution and ecology because they offer spectacular displays of speciation and …

Characterization of fine geographic scale population genetics in sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) using genome-wide markers

S Bråtelund, T Ruttink, F Goecke, OJ Broch… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Kelps are not only ecologically important, being primary producers and habitat
forming species, they also hold substantial economic potential. Expansion of the kelp …

A hepatitis B virus (HBV) sequence variation graph improves alignment and sample-specific consensus sequence construction

D Duchen, SJ Clipman, C Vergara, CL Thio… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Nearly 300 million individuals live with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (CHB), for
which no curative therapy is available. As viral diversity is associated with pathogenesis and …

[HTML][HTML] Museomics help resolving the phylogeny of snowfinches (Aves, Passeridae, Montifringilla and allies)

S Islam, C Peart, C Kehlmaier, YH Sun, F Lei… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Historical specimens from museum collections provide a valuable source of material also
from remote areas or regions of conflict that are not easily accessible to scientists today. With …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic SNPs resolve the phylogeny of an ancient amphibian island radiation from the Seychelles

MB Sherlock, JW Streicher, DJ Gower… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unusually for oceanic islands, the granitic Seychelles host multiple lineages of endemic
amphibians. This includes an ancient (likely ca. 60 million years) radiation of eight caecilian …

Testing the classical typological taxonomy: an approach to evaluate the species hypotheses in Phloeosinus spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), from the Mexican …

AN Fernández-Campos… - Insect Systematics …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We tested the species hypotheses for 8 of the 9 Phloeosinus spp. inhabiting the Transition
Zone of Mexico based on molecular and morphological data. The morphology was analyzed …

Saltational Episodes of Reticulate Evolution in the Drosophila saltans Species Group

C Prediger, EA Ferreira, SV Zorzato… - Molecular biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomics reveals reticulate evolution to be widespread across taxa, but whether
reticulation is due to low statistical power or it is a true evolutionary pattern remains a field of …

PHA4GE quality control contextual data tags: standardized annotations for sharing public health sequence datasets with known quality issues to facilitate testing and …

EJ Griffiths, I Mendes, F Maguire… - Microbial …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
As public health laboratories expand their genomic sequencing and bioinformatics capacity
for the surveillance of different pathogens, labs must carry out robust validation, training, and …

Approaches to studying virus pangenome variation graphs

T Downing - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.05096, 2024 - arxiv.org
Pangenome variation graphs (PVGs) allow for the representation of genetic diversity in a
more nuanced way than traditional reference-based approaches. Here we focus on how …

A hepatitis B virus (HBV) sequence variation graph improves sequence alignment and sample-specific consensus sequence construction for genetic analysis of HBV

D Duchen, S Clipman, C Vergara, CL Thio… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a global public health concern, with over 250 million
individuals living with chronic HBV infection (CHB) and no curative therapy currently …