Heath Blackmon
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Alfieri J, Bolwerk K, Hu Z, Blackmon H
bioRxiv
. 2024 Dec;
PMID: 39677705
Birds display striking variation in chromosome number, defying the traditional view of highly conserved avian karyotypes. However, the evolutionary drivers of this variability remain unclear. To address this, we fit...
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Copeland M, Landa S, Owoyemi A, Jonika M, Alfieri J, Johnston J, et al.
R Soc Open Sci
. 2024 Dec;
11(12):240755.
PMID: 39665097
also known as southern pine beetle (SPB), is the most damaging insect forest pest in the southeastern United States. Genomic data are important to provide information on pest biology and...
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Burch J, Nava C, Blackmon H
PeerJ
. 2024 Sep;
12:e17985.
PMID: 39221264
Within biology, there have been long-standing goals to understand how traits impact fitness, determine the degree of adaptation, and predict responses to selection. One key step in answering these questions...
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Wilhoit K, Alexander E, Blackmon H
PeerJ
. 2024 Jul;
12:e17740.
PMID: 39071118
Chromosomal fusions play an integral role in genome remodeling and karyotype evolution. Fusions that join a sex chromosome to an autosome are particularly abundant across the tree of life. However,...
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Copeland M, Landa S, Owoyemi A, Jonika M, Alfieri J, Sylvester T, et al.
bioRxiv
. 2024 May;
PMID: 38766115
, also known as southern pine beetle (SPB), represents the most damaging forest pest in the southeastern United States. Strategies to predict, monitor and suppress SPB outbreaks have had limited...
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Jonika M, Wilhoit K, Chin M, Arekere A, Blackmon H
J Hered
. 2024 May;
115(5):524-531.
PMID: 38712909
Chromosome number is a fundamental genomic trait that is often the first recorded characteristic of a genome. Across large clades, a common pattern emerges: many or even most lineages exhibit...
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Sylvester T, Hoover Z, Hjelmen C, Jonika M, Blackmon L, Alfieri J, et al.
G3 (Bethesda)
. 2024 Apr;
14(6).
PMID: 38630623
The jewel scarab Chrysina gloriosa is one of the most charismatic beetles in the United States and is found from the mountains of West Texas to the Southeastern Arizona sky...
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Perry A, Eddelbuettel D, Rosenthal G, Blackmon H
Mol Ecol Resour
. 2024 Feb;
24(4):e13933.
PMID: 38299378
Highly polymorphic markers, such as microsatellites, are invaluable for the study of natural populations. However, contemporary methods for genotyping highly polymorphic variants have serious drawbacks that impede their efficiency. We...
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Burch J, Chin M, Fontenot B, Mandal S, McKnight T, Demuth J, et al.
Evolution
. 2024 Jan;
78(4):624-634.
PMID: 38241518
Much of evolutionary theory is predicated on assumptions about the relative importance of simple additive versus complex epistatic genetic architectures. Previous work suggests traits strongly associated with fitness will lack...
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Blackmon H, Jonika M, Alfieri J, Fardoun L, Demuth J
J Hered
. 2024 Jan;
115(2):173-182.
PMID: 38181226
Chromosomal mutations such as fusions and fissions are often thought to be deleterious, especially in heterozygotes (underdominant), and consequently are unlikely to become fixed. Yet, many models of chromosomal speciation...