Genomic tools in biological invasions: Current state and future Frontiers

A McGaughran, MK Dhami, E Parvizi… - Genome biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Human activities are accelerating rates of biological invasions and climate-driven range
expansions globally, yet we understand little of how genomic processes facilitate the …

Genomic data is missing for many highly invasive species, restricting our preparedness for escalating incursion rates

P Matheson, A McGaughran - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Biological invasions drive environmental change, potentially threatening native biodiversity,
human health, and global economies. Population genomics is an increasingly popular tool …

Genome projects in invasion biology

MA McCartney, S Mallez, DM Gohl - Conservation Genetics, 2019 - Springer
Advances in sequencing and informatics and rapidly falling costs have made genome
sequencing projects far more accessible to researchers in all of the life sciences, including …

Marine invasion genomics: revealing ecological and evolutionary consequences of biological invasions

SD Bourne, J Hudson, LE Holman, M Rius - Population genomics: marine …, 2018 - Springer
Genomic approaches are increasingly being used to study biological invasions. Here, we
first analyse how high-throughput sequencing has aided our understanding of the …

Applications of next-generation sequencing to the study of biological invasions

M Rius, S Bourne, HG Hornsby, MA Chapman - Current Zoology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Through the widespread implementation of next-generation sequencing (NGS), analyses of
the whole genome (the entire DNA content) and the whole transcriptome (the genes being …

The genomic processes of biological invasions: From invasive species to cancer metastases and back again

F Neinavaie, A Ibrahim-Hashim, AM Kramer… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The concept of invasion is useful across a broad range of contexts, spanning from the fine
scale landscape of cancer tumors up to the broader landscape of ecosystems. Invasion …

The evolutionary dynamics of biological invasions: A multi‐approach perspective

S Sherpa, L Després - Evolutionary Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological invasions, the establishment and spread of non‐native species in new regions,
can have extensive economic and environmental consequences. Increased global …

Invasion genomics uncover contrasting scenarios of genetic diversity in a widespread marine invader

C Jaspers, M Ehrlich, JM Pujolar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Invasion rates have increased in the past 100 y irrespective of international conventions.
What characterizes a successful invasion event? And how does genetic diversity translate …

Insights into invasive species from whole‐genome resequencing

HL North, A McGaughran, CD Jiggins - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of invasive species can simultaneously inform management strategies and quantify
rapid evolution in the wild. The role of genomics in invasion science is increasingly …

Genetic reconstructions of invasion history

ME Cristescu - Invasion genetics: the baker and stebbins …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A diverse array of molecular markers and constantly evolving analytical approaches have
been employed to reconstruct the invasion histories of the most notorious invasions …