Jacquelyn Mouncastle

TL;DR: The finding that convergent neural circuits for vocal learning are accompanied by convergent molecular changes of multiple genes in species separated by millions of years from a common ancestor indicates that brain circuits for complex traits may have limited ways in which they could have evolved from that ancestor.

TL;DR: Diversity and demographic histories starkly contrasted between species, indicating that leatherback turtles have had a low yet stable effective population size, exhibit extremely low diversity compared to other reptiles, and harbor a higher genetic load compared to green turtles, reinforcing concern over their persistence under future climate scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors constructed 1:1 unambiguous alignments spanning high-identity segmental duplications across 102 human haplotypes and compared the pattern of SNVs between unique and duplicated regions.

TL;DR: In this article , an improved assembly of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) genome was generated using recently standardized methods that increase the contiguity and accuracy of vertebrate genome assemblies.

TL;DR: In this paper , the first chromosome-length black and mute swan genomes annotated with transcriptome data, all using long-read based pipelines generated for vertebrate species, were used to show that unlike other wild waterfowl, black swans lack an expanded immune gene repertoire, lack a key viral pattern recognition receptor in endothelial cells and mount a poorly controlled inflammatory response to highly pathogenic avian influenza.