Life in Deserts: The Genetic Basis of Mammalian Desert Adaptation

Gene expression plasticity and desert adaptation in house mice

(2021) Noëlle K. J. Bittner et al.   EVOLUTION

Limited evidence for parallel evolution among desert adapted Peromyscus deer mice

(2021) Jocelyn P Colella et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Convergent evolution of increased urine‐concentrating ability in desert mammals

(2021) Joana L. Rocha et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities

(2021) E. A. Riddell et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative and population genomics approaches reveal the basis of adaptation to deserts in a small rodent

(2020) Anna Tigano et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

(2020) Andrew W. Senior et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetics is the New Genetics (for Most of Biodiversity)

(2020) Stacey D. Smith et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens

(2020) Carina M Schlebusch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection

(2020) Neda Barghi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genetic mixing for population management: from genetic rescue to provenancing

(2020) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Whole-genome sequencing of Tarim red deer (Cervus elaphus yarkandensis) reveals demographic history and adaptations to an arid-desert environment

(2020) Buweihailiqiemu Ababaikeri et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Genome-Wide Analysis of Nubian Ibex Reveals Candidate Positively Selected Genes That Contribute to Its Adaptation to the Desert Environment

(2020) Vivien J. Chebii et al.   Animals

Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning

(2019) Kishore Jaganathan et al.   CELL

From Desert to Medicine: A Review of Camel Genomics and Therapeutic Products

(2019) Amanat Ali et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Bayesian detection of convergent rate changes of conserved noncoding elements on phylogenetic trees

(2019) Zhirui Hu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid evolution of a retro-transposable hotspot of ovine genome underlies the alteration of BMP2 expression and development of fat tails

(2019) Zhangyuan Pan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

(2019) Vivian Tam et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The potential of genomics for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity

(2019) Martin F. Breed et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Adaptation to Extreme Environments in an Admixed Human Population from the Atacama Desert

(2019) Lucas Vicuña et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Biological Processes Modulating Longevity across Primates: A Phylogenetic Genome-Phenome Analysis

(2018) Gerard Muntané et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An association between differential expression and genetic divergence in the Patagonian olive mouse (Abrothrix olivacea )

(2018) Facundo M. Giorello et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Replicability and Prediction: Lessons and Challenges from GWAS

(2018) Urko M. Marigorta et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Localization of adaptive variants in human genomes using averaged one-dependence estimation

(2018) Lauren Alpert Sugden et al.   Nature Communications

Genome-wide scan of fat-tail sheep identifies signals of selection for fat deposition and adaptation

(2018) S. Mastrangelo et al.   Animal Production Science

Human adaptation to extreme environmental conditions

(2018) Melissa Ilardo et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

CRISPR-Cas guides the future of genetic engineering

(2018) Gavin J. Knott et al.   SCIENCE

Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent reveals a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster

(2017) Adam D. Hargreaves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Bigger Toolbox: Biotechnology in Biodiversity Conservation

(2017) Richard T Corlett   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genomic footprints of dryland stress adaptation in Egyptian fat-tail sheep and their divergence from East African and western Asia cohorts

(2017) Joram M. Mwacharo et al.   Scientific Reports

Selection signature analysis reveals genes associated with tail type in Chinese indigenous sheep

(2016) Z. Yuan et al.   ANIMAL GENETICS

Climate Change and the Emergent Epidemic of CKD from Heat Stress in Rural Communities: The Case for Heat Stress Nephropathy

(2016) J. Glaser et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Pathways to de-extinction: how close can we get to resurrection of an extinct species?

(2016) Beth Shapiro   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Metabolic and Kidney Diseases in the Setting of Climate Change, Water Shortage, and Survival Factors

(2016) R. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Native Sheep Provides Insights into Rapid Adaptations to Extreme Environments

(2016) Ji Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

(2016) Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.   NATURE

Resilience to Droughts in Mammals: A Conceptual Framework for Estimating Vulnerability of a Single Species

(2016) Tasmin L. Rymer et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Reveals Three Sources of Adaptive Variation during a Rapid Radiation

(2016) James B. Pease et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Common garden experiments in the genomic era: new perspectives and opportunities

(2015) P de Villemereuil et al.   HEREDITY

Multiple genomic signatures of selection in goats and sheep indigenous to a hot arid environment

(2015) E-S Kim et al.   HEREDITY

Signatures of selection identify loci associated with fat tail in sheep1

(2015) B. Moioli et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Considerations for the use of transcriptomics in identifying the 'genes that matter' for environmental adaptation

(2015) T. G. Evans   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model

(2015) Jian Zhou et al.   NATURE METHODS

Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals

(2015) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic ANOVA: The Expression Variance and Evolution Model for Quantitative Trait Evolution

(2015) Rori V. Rohlfs et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Sheep

(2014) Feng-Hua Lv et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Natural selection and the genetic basis of osmoregulation in heteromyid rodents as revealed by RNA-seq

(2014) Nicholas J. Marra et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

(2014) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   NATURE

Adaptation to Heat and Water Shortage in Large, Arid-Zone Mammals

(2014) Andrea Fuller et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Temperature-responsive release of thyroxine and its environmental adaptation in Australians

(2014) X. Qi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Camelid genomes reveal evolution and adaptation to desert environments

(2014) Huiguang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Advances in Understanding the Urine-Concentrating Mechanism

(2013) Jeff M. Sands et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Testing for Associations between Loci and Environmental Gradients Using Latent Factor Mixed Models

(2013) Eric Frichot et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2013) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE

The evolutionary benefit of insulin resistance

(2012) Maarten R. Soeters et al.   CLINICAL NUTRITION

A priori and a posteriori approaches for finding genes of evolutionary interest in non-model species: Osmoregulatory genes in the kidney transcriptome of the desert rodent Dipodomys spectabilis (banner-tailed kangaroo rat)

(2012) Nicholas J. Marra et al.   Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics

Responses to Dehydration in the One-Humped Camel and Effects of Blocking the Renin-Angiotensin System

(2012) Mahmoud Alhaj Ali et al.   PLoS One

Genome sequences of wild and domestic bactrian camels

(2012)   Nature Communications

Genomic Ancestry of North Africans Supports Back-to-Africa Migrations

(2012) Brenna M. Henn et al.   PLoS Genetics

Using Environmental Correlations to Identify Loci Underlying Local Adaptation

(2010) G. Coop et al.   GENETICS

Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

(2010) Stephan C. Schuster et al.   NATURE

Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

(2010) N. A. Drake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

(2010) X. Yi et al.   SCIENCE

Physiological adaptations of small mammals to desert ecosystems

(2009) Hagit SCHWIMMER et al.   Integrative Zoology

Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change

(2008) Paul C. Sereno et al.   PLoS One