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Laura Ferguson
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 104
Citations - 4515
Laura Ferguson is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human rights & Health policy. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 85 publications receiving 3964 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura Ferguson include Harvard University & University of Nairobi.
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Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species
Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra,James R. Walters,Adriana D. Briscoe,John W. Davey,Annabel Whibley,Nicola J. Nadeau,Aleksey V. Zimin,Daniel S.T. Hughes,Laura Ferguson,Simon H. Martin,Camilo Salazar,Camilo Salazar,James J. Lewis,Sebastian Adler,Seung-Joon Ahn,Dean A. Baker,Simon W. Baxter,Nicola Chamberlain,Ritika Chauhan,Brian A. Counterman,Tamas Dalmay,Lawrence E. Gilbert,Karl H.J. Gordon,David G. Heckel,Heather M. Hines,Katharina J. Hoff,Peter W. H. Holland,Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly,Francis M. Jiggins,Robert T. Jones,Durrell D. Kapan,Durrell D. Kapan,Paul J. Kersey,Gerardo Lamas,Daniel Lawson,Daniel Mapleson,Luana S. Maroja,Arnaud Martin,Simon Moxon,William J. Palmer,Riccardo Papa,Alexie Papanicolaou,Yannick Pauchet,David A. Ray,Neil Rosser,Steven L. Salzberg,Megan A. Supple,Alison K. Surridge,Ayşe Tenger-Trolander,Heiko Vogel,Paul A. Wilkinson,Derek Wilson,James A. Yorke,Furong Yuan,Alexi Balmuth,Cathlene Eland,Karim Gharbi,Marian Thomson,Richard A. Gibbs,Yi Han,Joy Jayaseelan,Christie Kovar,Tittu Mathew,Donna M. Muzny,Fiona Ongeri,Ling-Ling Pu,Jiaxin Qu,Rebecca Thornton,Kim C. Worley,Yuanqing Wu,Mauricio Linares,Mark Blaxter,Richard H. ffrench-Constant,Mathieu Joron,Marcus R. Kronforst,Sean P. Mullen,Robert D. Reed,Steven E. Scherer,Stephen Richards,James Mallet,James Mallet,W. Owen McMillan,Chris D. Jiggins,Chris D. Jiggins +83 more
TL;DR: It is inferred that closely related Heliconius species exchange protective colour-pattern genes promiscuously, implying that hybridization has an important role in adaptive radiation.
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Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry
Mathieu Joron,Lise Frézal,Robert T. Jones,Nicola Chamberlain,Siu F. Lee,Christoph R. Haag,Annabel Whibley,Michel Becuwe,Simon W. Baxter,Laura Ferguson,Paul Wilkinson,Camilo Salazar,Claire Davidson,Richard Clark,Michael A. Quail,Helen Beasley,Rebecca Glithero,Christine Lloyd,Sarah Sims,Matthew C. Jones,Jane Rogers,Chris D. Jiggins,Richard H. ffrench-Constant +22 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that allelic combinations at known wing-patterning loci have become locked together in a polymorphic rearrangement at the P locus, forming a supergene that acts as a simple switch between complex adaptive phenotypes found in sympatry.
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The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera
Virpi Ahola,Rainer Lehtonen,Panu Somervuo,Leena Salmela,Patrik Koskinen,Pasi Rastas,Niko Välimäki,Lars Paulin,Jouni Kvist,Niklas Wahlberg,Jaakko Tanskanen,Emily A. Hornett,Emily A. Hornett,Laura Ferguson,Shiqi Luo,Zijuan Cao,Maaike A. de Jong,Maaike A. de Jong,Anne Duplouy,Olli-Pekka Smolander,Heiko Vogel,Rajiv C. McCoy,Kui Qian,Wong Swee Chong,Qin Zhang,Freed Ahmad,Jani K. Haukka,Aruj Joshi,Jarkko Salojärvi,Christopher W. Wheat,Ewald Grosse-Wilde,Daniel S.T. Hughes,Daniel S.T. Hughes,Riku Katainen,Esa Pitkänen,Johannes Ylinen,Robert M. Waterhouse,Robert M. Waterhouse,Robert M. Waterhouse,Mikko P. Turunen,Anna Vähärautio,Anna Vähärautio,Sami P. Ojanen,Alan H. Schulman,Minna Taipale,Minna Taipale,Daniel Lawson,Esko Ukkonen,Veli Mäkinen,Marian R. Goldsmith,Liisa Holm,Petri Auvinen,Mikko J. Frilander,Ilkka Hanski +53 more
TL;DR: The genome of the Glanville fritillary butterfly, a widely recognized model species in metapopulation biology and eco-evolutionary research, is reported, which shows that fusion chromosomes have retained the ancestral chromosome segments and very few rearrangements have occurred across the fusion sites.
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The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths
Nicola J. Nadeau,Nicola J. Nadeau,Carolina Pardo-Diaz,Annabel Whibley,Annabel Whibley,Megan A. Supple,Megan A. Supple,Suzanne V. Saenko,Richard W. R. Wallbank,Richard W. R. Wallbank,Grace C. Wu,Luana S. Maroja,Laura Ferguson,Joseph J. Hanly,Joseph J. Hanly,Heather M. Hines,Camilo Salazar,Richard M. Merrill,Richard M. Merrill,Andrea J. Dowling,Richard H. ffrench-Constant,Violaine Llaurens,Mathieu Joron,Mathieu Joron,W. O. McMillan,Chris D. Jiggins,Chris D. Jiggins +26 more
TL;DR: A gene is identified through fine-scale mapping using population genomics and gene expression analyses, which regulates pattern switches in multiple species across the mimetic radiation in Heliconius butterflies, suggesting that cortex regulates pigmentation patterning through regulation of scale cell development.
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Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta
Michael R. Kanost,Estela L. Arrese,Xiaolong Cao,Yun-Ru Chen,Sanjay Chellapilla,Marian R. Goldsmith,Ewald Grosse-Wilde,David G. Heckel,Nicolae Herndon,Haobo Jiang,Alexie Papanicolaou,Jiaxin Qu,Jose L. Soulages,Heiko Vogel,James R. Walters,Robert M. Waterhouse,Seung-Joon Ahn,Francisca C. Almeida,Chunju An,Peshtewani K. Aqrawi,Anne Bretschneider,William B. Bryant,Sascha Bucks,Hsu Chao,Germain Chevignon,Jayne M. Christen,David F. Clarke,Neal T. Dittmer,Laura Ferguson,Spyridoula Garavelou,Karl H.J. Gordon,Ramesh T. Gunaratna,Yi Han,Frank Hauser,Yan He,Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer,Ariana Hirsh,Yingxia Hu,Hongbo Jiang,Divya Kalra,Christian Klinner,Christopher König,Christie Kovar,Ashley R. Kroll,Suyog S. Kuwar,Sandy Lee,Rüdiger Lehman,Kai Li,Zhaofei Li,Hanquan Liang,Shanna Lovelace,Zhiqiang Lu,Jennifer H. Mansfield,Kyle J. McCulloch,Tittu Mathew,Brian R. Morton,Donna M. Muzny,David Neunemann,Fiona Ongeri,Yannick Pauchet,Ling Ling Pu,Ioannis Pyrousis,Xiang Jun Rao,Amanda J. Redding,Charles Roesel,Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia,Sarah Schaack,Aditi Shukla,Guillaume Tetreau,Yang Wang,Guang Hua Xiong,Walther Traut,Tom Walsh,Kim C. Worley,Di Wu,Wenbi Wu,Yuan Qing Wu,Xiufeng Zhang,Zhen Zou,Hannah Zucker,Adriana D. Briscoe,Thorsten Burmester,Rollie J. Clem,René Feyereisen,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Stavros J. Hamodrakas,Bill S. Hansson,Elisabeth Huguet,Lars S. Jermiin,Que Lan,Herman K. Lehman,Marcé D. Lorenzen,Hans Merzendorfer,Ioannis Michalopoulos,David B. Morton,Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan,John G. Oakeshott,William J. Palmer,Yoonseong Park,A. Lorena Passarelli,Julio Rozas,Lawrence M. Schwartz,Wendy A. Smith,Agnes Ayme Southgate,Andreas Vilcinskas,Richard G. Vogt,Ping Wang,John H. Werren,Xiao-Qiang Yu,Jing-Jiang Zhou,Susan J. Brown,Steven E. Scherer,Stephen Richards,Gary W. Blissard +113 more
TL;DR: The sequence and annotation of the M. sexta genome, and a survey of gene expression in various tissues and developmental stages, provide an important new resource from a well-studied model insect species and will facilitate further biochemical and mechanistic experimental studies of many biological systems in insects.