Papers
40 papers ingested. Each paper has been fingerprinted, chunked into findings with verbatim quote extraction, and verified by a Sonnet critic.
See also: Topics · Concepts · Methods
topics: [karyotype_evolution, karyotype_evolution_overview, selection_and_drift, selection_theory, sex_chromosome_evolution]
topics: [flow_cytometry, genome_size_estimation, insect_genomics, sex_chromosome_evolution]
topics: [chromosome_number_evolution, genome_structure_evolution, karyotype_evolution]
topics: [RNA_seq, bioinformatics_tools, chaining_algorithm, long_read_sequencing, sequence_alignment]
topics: [BiSSE, model_inadequacy, phylogenetic_comparative_methods, trait_dependent_diversification, type_I_error]
2026
- Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of an Endemic, Endangered Long-Armed Scarab (Cheirotonus formosanus): Discovery of a Putative Y-Linked Scaffold and Demographic History — Chien S, Huang JP, Blackmon H
2025
- DirectRepeateR: An R package for annotating direct repeats in genome assemblies — Copeland M, Barboza A, Romanowski JS, et al.
- Drivers of achiasmatic meiosis: sexual antagonism versus heteromorphy-dependent aneuploidy across sex-chromosome divergence. — Barboza A, Blackmon H
2024
- A reference quality genome assembly for the jewel scarab Chrysina gloriosa — Terrence Sylvester, Zachary Hoover, Carl E. Hjelmen, Michelle M. Jonika
- Assessing the opportunity for selection to impact morphological traits in crosses between two Solanum species — Jorja Burch, Crystal Nava, Heath Blackmon
- Drift drives the evolution of chromosome number I: The impact of trait transitions on genome evolution in Coleoptera — Heath Blackmon, Michelle M. Jonika, James M. Alfieri, Leen Fardoun
- Drift drives the evolution of chromosome number II: The impact of range size on genome evolution in Carnivora — Michelle M. Jonika, Kayla Wilhoit, Maximos Chin, Abhimanyu Arekere
- Genome assembly of the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmerman) reveals the origins of gene content reduction in Dendroctonus — Copeland M, Landa S, Owoyemi A, et al.
- Reference genome for the Mojave poppy bee (Perdita meconis), a specialist pollinator of conservation concern. — Schweizer RM, Meidt CG, Benavides LR, Wilson JS, Griswold TL, Sim SB, Geib SM, Branstetter MG
- Worse than nothing at all: the inequality of fusions joining autosomes to the PAR and non-PAR portions of sex chromosomes — Wilhoit K, Alexander EP, Blackmon H
- Wright was right: leveraging old data and new methods to illustrate the critical role of epistasis in genetics and evolution — J. B. Burch, Maximos Chin, Brian E. Fontenot, Sabyasachi Mandal
2023
- Domestication is associated with increased interspecific hybrid compatibility in landfowl (order: Galliformes) — James M. Alfieri, Reina Hingoranee, Giridhar Athrey, Heath Blackmon
2022
- CaveCrawler: an interactive analysis suite for cavefish bioinformatics — Annabel Perry, Suzanne E McGaugh, Alex C Keene, Heath Blackmon
- Retrogene survival is not impacted by linkage relationships — Johnathan Lo, Heath Blackmon
- Why not Y naught — Michelle M. Jonika, James M. Alfieri, Terrence Sylvester, Andrew Riley Buhrow
2020
- Chromosome number evolves at equal rates in holocentric and monocentric clades — Sarah N. Ruckman, Michelle M. Jonika, Claudio Casola, Heath Blackmon
- Ghosts of a Structured Past: Impacts of Ancestral Patterns of Isolation-by-Distance on Divergence-Time Estimation — Zachary B Hancock, Heath Blackmon
- Lineage-specific patterns of chromosome evolution are the rule not the exception in Polyneoptera insects — Terrence Sylvester, Carl E. Hjelmen, Shawn J. Hanrahan, Paul A. Lenhart, J. Spencer Johnston, Heath Blackmon
- Mode and Tempo of Microsatellite Evolution across 300 Million Years of Insect Evolution — Michelle Jonika, Johnathan Lo, Heath Blackmon
- The March of the Beetles: Epistatic Components Dominate Divergence in Dispersal Tendency in Tribolium castaneum — Sarah N Ruckman, Heath Blackmon
- The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes: Sex Autosome Fusions
2019
- A database of amphibian karyotypes — Riddhi D. Perkins, Julio Rincones Gamboa, Michelle M Jonika, Johnathan Lo, Amy Shum, Richard H. Adams, Heath Blackmon
- Meiotic drive shapes rates of karyotype evolution in mammals — Heath Blackmon, Joshua Justison, Itay Mayrose, Emma E. Goldberg
2017
- Long-Term Fragility of Y Chromosomes Is Dominated by Short-Term Resolution of Sexual Antagonism. — Blackmon H, Brandvain Y
- Sex Determination, Sex Chromosomes, and Karyotype Evolution in Insects — Blackmon H, Ross L, Bachtrog D
2016
- An information-theoretic approach to estimating the composite genetic effects contributing to variation among generation means: Moving beyond the joint-scaling test for line cross analysis — Blackmon H, Demuth JP
2015
- Coleoptera Karyotype Database — Heath Blackmon, Jeffery P. Demuth
- Genomic origins of insect sex chromosomes — Heath Blackmon, Jeffery P Demuth
- The evolutionary dynamics of haplodiploidy: genome architecture and haploid viability — Heath Blackmon, Nate B. Hardy, Laura Ross
- The fragile Y hypothesis: Y chromosome aneuploidy as a selective pressure in sex chromosome and meiotic mechanism evolution — Heath Blackmon, Jeffery P. Demuth
- Y fuse? Sex chromosome fusions in fishes and reptiles. — Pennell MW, Kirkpatrick M, Otto SP, Vamosi JC, Peichel CL, Valenzuela N, Kitano J
2014
- Estimating tempo and mode of Y chromosome turnover: explaining Y chromosome loss with the fragile Y hypothesis — Blackmon H, Demuth JP
2012
2009
- A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation. — Kitano J, Ross JA, Mori S, Kume M, Jones FC, Chan YF, Absher DM, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Myers RM, Kingsley DM, Peichel CL
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform. — Li H, Durbin R