News and Updates
New paper in MBE – No evidence that dogs were intermediate hosts for SARS-CoV-2
Our paper refuting the findings of a study published earlier this year that cited dogs as likely intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2 was recently published at
New York Times Article on our NSF-funded Organ Regeneration work (by Carl Zimmer)
For more than 10 years, Stephen Secor and I have been studying snake genomes to understand the molecular signaling cascades that drive regenerative organ growth
New paper in GBE – Patterns of transposable element expression and regulation across vertebrates
Our paper comparing patterns of TE expression and regulation across multiple tissues and multiple vertebrate species has been accepted at Genome Biology and Evolution! Congratulations
Giulia and Nicky graduate with their PhDs, Drew and Giulia both head to Colorado for post-docs
Congrats to Drs. Giulia Pasquesi and Nicky Hales, who both graduated in November with their Ph.D.s from the lab! Giulia has since moved to UC
New paper in MBE – Snake recombination landscapes are concentrated in functional regions despite PRDM9
Our paper on snake recombination has been accepted at Molecular Biology and Evolution! Using whole genome data from populations of two rattlesnake species, we characterize
New paper in PNAS – Solenodon genome reveals convergent evolution of venom in eulipotyphlan mammals
We are coauthors on a new paper out in PNAS that uses a new genome for a shrew-like mammal to study patterns of venom evolution
New paper in GBE – Convergent evolution of dwarf phenotypes in Boa constrictor
Our new paper is now online at Genome Biology and Evolution! Using both high density RADseq and whole-genome resequencing data, we infer three dwarf island
New paper links morphology and genetic variation to infer species boundaries in Mohave Rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus)
Our new paper with colleagues Jessica Watson and Jesse Meik (Tarleton State University) is now online at Zootaxa! We examine range-wide morphological variation in the
New paper in Genome Research on chromosome-level rattlesnake genome, dosage compensation, venom regulation, and chromosome evolution
Our new paper out in Genome Biology uses Hi-C contact data to assemble the first chromosome-level genome for a reptile, and uses this genome to