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  1. Effects of biological sex mismatch on neural progenitor cell transplantation for spinal cord injury in mice

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  2. Phylogenetics in space: How continuous spatial structure impacts tree inference

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  3. CaveCrawler: an interactive analysis suite for cavefish bioinformatics

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  4. Why not Y naught

    Article • Heredity, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  5. Diptera and Drosophila Karyotype Databases: A Useful Dataset to Guide Evolutionary and Genomic Studies

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  6. A Primer for Single-Cell Sequencing in Non-Model Organisms

    Article • Genes, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  7. Retrogene survival is not impacted by linkage relationships

    Article • PeerJ, January 2022, PeerJ

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  8. Of Traits and Trees: Probabilistic Distances under Continuous Trait Models for Dissecting the Interplay among Phylogeny, Model, and Data

    Article • Systematic Biology, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  9. The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes

    Article • Biology Letters, November 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  10. Chromosome number evolves at equal rates in holocentric and monocentric clades

    Article • PLoS Genetics, October 2020, PLOS

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  11. Lineage-specific patterns of chromosome evolution are the rule not the exception in Polyneoptera insects

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  12. Ghosts of a Structured Past: Impacts of Ancestral Patterns of Isolation-by-Distance on Divergence-Time Estimation

    Article • Journal of Heredity, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  13. Mode and Tempo of Microsatellite Evolution across 300 Million Years of Insect Evolution

    Article • Genes, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  14. The March of the Beetles: Epistatic Components Dominate Divergence in Dispersal Tendency in Tribolium castaneum

    Article • Journal of Heredity, July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  15. Thoracic underreplication in Drosophila species estimates a minimum genome size and the dynamics of added DNA

    Article • Evolution, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  16. The Probability of Fusions Joining Sex Chromosomes and Autosomes

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  17. micRocounter: Microsatellite Characterization in Genome Assemblies

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  18. Genome Size Evolution Differs Between Drosophila Subgenera with Striking Differences in Male and Female Genome Size in Sophophora

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  19. A database of amphibian karyotypes

    Article • Chromosome Research, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  20. The origins and evolution of chromosomes, dosage compensation, and mechanisms underlying venom regulation in snakes

    Article • Genome Research, March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  21. Inferring the potentially complex genetic architectures of adaptation, sexual dimorphism and genotype by environment interactions by partitioning of mean phenotypes

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  22. Meiotic drive shapes rates of karyotype evolution in mammals

    Article • Evolution, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  23. Contrasting Patterns of Rapid Molecular Evolution within thep53Network across Mammal and Sauropsid Lineages

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  24. Investigating a Photolytic Metabolite in the Nocturnal GrasshopperSchistocerca ceratiola(Orthoptera: Acrididae)

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  25. Long-Term Fragility of Y Chromosomes Is Dominated by Short-Term Resolution of Sexual Antagonism

    Article • Genetics, October 2017, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  26. GppFst: genomic posterior predictive simulations ofFSTanddXYfor identifying outlier loci from population genomic data

    Article • Bioinformatics, December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  27. Genome of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), a globally significant invasive species, reveals key functional and evolutionary innovations at the beetle–plant interface

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  28. Sex Determination, Sex Chromosomes, and Karyotype Evolution in Insects

    Article • Journal of Heredity, August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  29. Microsatellite landscape evolutionary dynamics across 450 million years of vertebrate genome evolution

    Article • Genome, May 2016, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  30. An information-theoretic approach to estimating the composite genetic effects contributing to variation among generation means: Moving beyond the joint-scaling test for line cross analysis

    Article • Evolution, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  31. Sex Determination

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  32. The evolutionary dynamics of haplodiploidy: Genome architecture and haploid viability

    Article • Evolution, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  33. The fragile Y hypothesis: Y chromosome aneuploidy as a selective pressure in sex chromosome and meiotic mechanism evolution

    Article • BioEssays, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  34. Coleoptera Karyotype Database

    Article • The Coleopterists Bulletin, March 2015, Coleopterists Society

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  35. Genomic origins of insect sex chromosomes

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  36. Recombination, chromosome number and eusociality in the Hymenoptera

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  37. Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

    Article • PLoS Biology, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr Jana C Vamosi, Dr Heath Blackmon

  38. Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems

    Article • Scientific Data, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana C Vamosi, Dr Heath Blackmon

  39. Diversification and asymmetrical gene flow across time and space: lineage sorting and hybridization in polytypic barking frogs

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  40. Estimating Tempo and Mode of Y Chromosome Turnover: Explaining Y Chromosome Loss With the Fragile Y Hypothesis

    Article • Genetics, June 2014, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Heath Blackmon

  41. Ring Species and Speciation

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Heath Blackmon