New paper on gene expression programs and evolutionary novelty
In collaboration with Joe Parker (Caltech), Matt has synthesized recent research using single cell RNA-seq. We make the case that this work provides a new opportunity to understand the genetic and cellular basis of evolutionary novelty. This paper is now out in Current Biology.
New paper on convergent evolution and genetic parallelism now out in PNAS
In a new paper now out in PNAS, we use phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate whether convergent instances of metabolic innovation in yeasts are underlain by the same or different gene families. Congrats to Kyle David and Josh Schraiber for their exciting discoveries. Check out the paper here.
CloseRead paper now published in Genome Biology
Yixin Zhu’s paper describing a new approach (which we call CloseRead) for evaluating the quality of the assembly of Immunogloubin (IG) loci is now published at Genome Biology. Check out the paper here and the software on our GitHub page.
