• Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories 

      Foote, Andrew; Hooper, Rebecca; Alexander, Alana; Baird, Robin; Baker, Scott; Ballance, Lisa; Barlow, Jay; Brownlow, Andrew; Collins, Tim; Constantine, Rochelle; Rosa, Luciano Dalla; Davison, Nicholas J.; Durban, John; Esteban, Ruth; Excoffier, Laurent; Forney, Karin A.; Gerrodette, Tim; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Guinet, Christophe; Hanson, M. Bradley; Li, Songhai; Martin, Sarah; Martin, Michael David; Robertson, Kelly M.; Samarra, Filipa I.P.; de Stephanis, Renaud; Tavares, Sara B.; Tixier, Paul; Totterdell, John A.; Wade, Paul; Wolf, Jochen B.W.; Fan, Guangyi; Zhang, Yaolei; Morin, Phillip A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Runs of homozygosity (ROH) occur when offspring inherit haplotypes that are identical by descent from each parent. Length distributions of ROH are informative about population history; specifically, the probability of ...
    • A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe 

      Liu, Chang; Gao, Jianbo; Cui, Xinxin; Li, Zhipeng; Chen, Lei; Yuan, Yuan; Zhang, Yaolei; Mei, Liangwei; Zhao, Lan; Cai, Dan; Hu, Mingliang; Zhou, Botong; Li, Zihe; Qin, Tao; Si, Huazhe; Li, Guangyu; Lin, Zeshan; Xu, Yicheng; Zhu, Chenglong; Yin, Yuan; Zhang, Chenzhou; Xu, Wenjie; Li, Qingjie; Wang, Kun; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Heller, Rasmus; Wang, Wen; Huang, Jinghui; Qiu, Qiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The suite of adaptations associated with the extreme stature of the giraffe has long interested biologists and physiologists. By generating a high-quality chromosome-level giraffe genome and a comprehensive comparison with ...