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Understanding how genes and genomes are shaped over many generations by the environment in which organisms live in. We also aim to examine how these changes accumulate and might facilitate the genetic divergence between populations and eventually possibly the origin of species. Lastly we aim to leverage the power of genomics to understand the evolution of insecticide resistance in agricultural pests and to find solution to their management.Show Less
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Research Opportunities
- New Research opportunity
Grant: EDGE FGT: Development of functional genomics tools in cactophilic Drosophila
Courses
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
- SSHICESecrets of Success: How Insects Conquered Earth!
- FEGFunctional and Evolutionary Genomics
Grants
- EDGE FGT: Development of functional genomics tools in cactophilic Drosophila
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$1.2M
ActiveOpportunity - Development of Monitoring Tool for Managing Tospovirus Damage to Lettuce
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$57.3K
Active - Sequencing and Annotation of the Western Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus Hesperus) Genome
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$34.8K
Active - NRT-URoL: BRIDGES - Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences
Key Personnel (KP)
2020
$3.0M
Active - Genomic Resistance Risk Assessment For Vip3-Producing Transgenic Crops In Helicoverpa Zea
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$500.0K
Active - Population Genomics of Resistance to Bt Toxins in Helicoverpa zea
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$454.5K
Active - Investigating a Novel Role of Ejaculate RNA in Fertility
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$417.5K
Active - CAZMEX: The Role of Climate Change and Biological Interactions in Modulating Reproductive Isolation in Cactophilic Drosophila
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$29.6K
Active - Selection and Genomic Analysis of Vip3A Resistance in Helicoverpa Zea
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$150.0K
- Genetic Analysis and Life History Consequences of Variation in Larval Behavior in Cactophilic Drosophila
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$399.6K
News
- $3M Grant Helps Students Bridge Sciences to Solve the World's Biggest Problems
2020
Publications (53)
Recent
- Genetic architecture of ecologically relevant phenotypes in Drosophila mojavensis
2021
- Transcriptomic divergence of the labial salivary gland: From specialist to generalist Helicoverpa species.
2021
- Environmental predictability drives adaptive within- and transgenerational plasticity of heat tolerance across life stages and climatic regions
2021
- Gene expression and alternative splicing dynamics are perturbed in head transcriptomes of heterospecifically mated females.
2021
- Phylogenomics provides insights into the evolution of cactophily and host plant shifts adaptation in Drosophila
2021
- Chromosome-length genome assemblies of cactophilic Drosophila illuminate core patterns of intra- and inter-specific structural and coding evolution.
2021
- Novel genetic basis of resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac in Helicoverpa zea
2021
- Transcriptional responses of Drosophila mojavensis to the seasonal fluctuations of the Sonoran Desert
2021
- Plasticity and transgenerational effects are modulated by transcriptional modulation
2021
- Physiological and life history changes associated with seasonal adaptation in the cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis
2021
- Divergent evolutionary trajectories shape the postmating transcriptional profiles of conspecific and heterospecifically mated females.
2021
- Impacts of Pleistocene climate oscillations on the phylogeography of Synuchus dubius (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the U.S. Southwest.
2021
- Propagation of seminal toxins through binary expression gene drives can suppress polyandrous populations.
2021
- Phylogenetic analysis of monogenean gill parasites (Genus Aethycteron) infecting darter (Etheostoma)
2021
- Chromosome-level hybrid de novo genome assemblies as an attainable option for non-model organisms
2020
- A male pheromone promotes incipient isolation through conserved peripheral sensory pathways.
2020
- Differential plasticity in thermal tolerance across cactophilic Drosophila species
2020
- Gene expression in the Drosophila mojavensis brain reveals tissue specific cis-regulatory and compensatory evolution across populations
2020
- Assessing the architecture of Drosophila mojavensis locomotor evolution with bulk segregant analysis.
2019
- Genomic analysis of the four ecologically distinct cactus host populations of Drosophila mojavensis
2019
- Adaptive amino acid evolution at odorant and gustatory receptors associated with host adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila
2018
- Behavioural evolution accompanying host shifts in cactophilic Drosophila larvae
2018
- Transcriptional variation associated with cactus host plant adaptation in Drosophila mettleri populations
2015
- Connecting genotypes, phenotypes and fitness: harnessing the power of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
2015
- Molecular evolution of candidate genes involved in post-mating-prezygotic reproductive isolation
2015
- Ecological Genomics of Host Shifts in Drosophila mojavensis
2014
- Preadult Parental Diet Affects Offspring Development and Metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster
2013
- Population transcriptomics of cactus host shifts in Drosophila mojavensis
2012
- Mutations in the neverland Gene Turned Drosophila pachea into an Obligate Specialist Species
2012
- Dietary Protein and Sugar Differentially Affect Development and Metabolic Pools in Ecologically Diverse Drosophila
2011
- Postmating transcriptional changes in reproductive tracts of con- and heterospecifically mated Drosophila mojavensis females
2011
- The 19 Genomes of Drosophila: A BAC Library Resource for Genus-Wide and Genome-Scale Comparative Evolutionary Research
2011
- Genetic diversification and demographic history of the cactophilic pseudoscorpion Dinocheirus arizonensis from the Sonoran Desert
2009
- Evolution of stress resistance in Drosophila: Interspecific variation in tolerance to desiccation and starvation
2009
- Transcriptional regulation of metabolism associated with the increased desiccation resistance of the cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis
2009
- Egg size, embryonic development time and ovoviviparity in Drosophila species
2009
- Metabolic pools differ among ecologically diverse Drosophila species
2009
- The Molecular Basis of Host Adaptation in Cactophilic Drosophila: Molecular Evolution of a Glutathione S-Transferase Gene (GstD1) in Drosophila mojavensis
2008
- Molecular evolution and population genetics of two Drosophila mettleri cytochrome P450 genes involved in host plant utilization
2008
- Polytene Chromosomal Maps of 11 Drosophila Species: The Order of Genomic Scaffolds Inferred From Genetic and Physical Maps
2008
- Desiccation resistance in four Drosophila species: Sex and population effects.
2007
- Adaptive Evolution of Metabolic Pathways in Drosophila
2007
- Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny
2007
- Multilocus nuclear sequences reveal intra- and interspecific relationships among chromosomally polymorphic species of cactophilic Drosophila
2007
- Functional genomics of cactus host shifts in Drosophila mojavensis
2006
- Geographic variation in diapause incidence, life-history traits, and climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster
2005
- The Structure and Population Genetics of the Breakpoints Associated With the Cosmopolitan Chromosomal Inversion In(3R)Payne in Drosophila melanogaster
2005
- Activity variation in alcohol dehydrogenase paralogs is associated with adaptation to cactus host use in cactophilic Drosophila
2005
- Population genetics and geographic variation of alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) paralogs and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6pd) in Drosophila mojavensis
2004
- Single-locus latitudinal clines and their relationship to temperate adaptation in metabolic genes and derived alleles in Drosophila melanogaster
2004
- Sequence variation of alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) paralogs in cactophilic Drosophila
2003
- Evolution of water conservation mechanisms in Drosophila
2003
- Evolution of water balance in the genus Drosophila
2001