Overwintering honey bees: biology and management

MA Doeke, M Frazier, CM Grozinger - Current opinion in insect science, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Honey bees display a unique overwintering behavior.•Majority of colony losses
occur during winter.•Factors regulating overwintering behavior are not well …

The analysis of polyploid genetic data

PG Meirmans, S Liu, PH van Tienderen - Journal of Heredity, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Though polyploidy is an important aspect of the evolutionary genetics of both plants and
animals, the development of population genetic theory of polyploids has seriously lagged …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics confirms acquisition of drug-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection by humans from the environment

J Rhodes, A Abdolrasouli, K Dunne, TR Sewell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Infections caused by the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus are increasingly resistant to
first-line azole antifungal drugs. However, despite its clinical importance, little is known …

vcfr: a package to manipulate and visualize variant call format data in R

BJ Knaus, NJ Grünwald - Molecular ecology resources, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Software to call single‐nucleotide polymorphisms or related genetic variants has converged
on the variant call format (VCF) as the output format of choice. This has created a need for …

[HTML][HTML] Novel R tools for analysis of genome-wide population genetic data with emphasis on clonality

ZN Kamvar, JC Brooks, NJ Grünwald - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
To gain a detailed understanding of how plant microbes evolve and adapt to hosts,
pesticides, and other factors, knowledge of the population dynamics and evolutionary history …

[HTML][HTML] Shannon diversity index: a call to replace the original Shannon's formula with unbiased estimator in the population genetics studies

MK Konopiński - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Background The Shannon diversity index has been widely used in population genetics
studies. Recently, it was proposed as a unifying measure of diversity at different levels—from …

Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids

JI Meier, MD McGee, DA Marques, S Mwaiko, M Kishe… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Although some lineages of animals and plants have made impressive adaptive radiations
when provided with ecological opportunity, the propensities to radiate vary profoundly …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-dependent dominance maintains migration supergene in rainbow trout

DE Pearse, NJ Barson, T Nome, G Gao… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Males and females often differ in their fitness optima for shared traits that have a shared
genetic basis, leading to sexual conflict. Morphologically differentiated sex chromosomes …

stratag: An r package for manipulating, summarizing and analysing population genetic data

FI Archer, PE Adams… - Molecular Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce the r package stratag as a user‐friendly population genetics toolkit. stratag
provides easy access to a suite of standard genetic summaries as well as the ability to …

Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance

CR Voolstra, JJ Valenzuela, S Turkarslan… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Corals from the northern Red Sea, in particular the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA), have exceptionally
high bleaching thresholds approaching> 5℃ above their maximum monthly mean (MMM) …