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Recent Publications

Welch, G. R., Physiology: A Biography of Nature. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Bern, Switzerland, under contract.

Omland, K. E.  2012.  Tree thinking: understanding and interpreting phylogenetic trees.  Invited chapter  in J. B. Losos (ed)  Princeton Guide to Evolution (in press)

Krosnowski K, Ashby S, Sathyanesan A, Luo W, Ogura T, Lin W.  Diverse populations of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb. Neuroscience. 2012 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print]

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Peterson, TA, Nehrt, NL, Park, D & Kann, MG. (2012) Incorporating molecular and functional context into the analysis and prioritization of human variants associated with cancer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 19, 275-283. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Regan, K, Wang, K, Doughty, E, Li, H, Li, J, Lee, Y, Kann, MG & Lussier, YA. (2012) Translating Mendelian and complex inheritance of Alzheimer's disease genes for predicting unique personal genome variants. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 19, 306-316 [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Sanchez-Alberola, N; Campoy, S; Barbé, J; Erill, I. “Analysis of the SOS response of Vibrio and other bacteria with multiple chromosomes”, BMC Genomics, 13:58, (2012). [Abstract] [PDF]

Sathyanesan A, Ogura T, Lin W. 2012. Automated measurement of nerve fiber density using line intensity scan analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 206 (2012) 165-175

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Gumm, J. M., Loew, E. R. & Mendelson, T. C. 2012. Differences in spectral sensitivity within and among species of darters (genus Etheostoma). Vision Research. 55, 19-23.

Capriotti, E, Nehrt, NL, Kann, MG & Bromberg, Y. (2012) Bioinformatics for personal genome interpretation. Briefings in bioinformatics. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Welch, G. R., Talasek, J. D., and Finneran, K., editors. Visual Culture and Evolution, U. S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., in press. [Proceedings of an online symposium held 5-14 April 2010, sponsored by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences].

Kearns, A. M., Joseph, L., Omland, K. E. and Cook, L. G. 2011. Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird? Molecular Ecology 20: 5042-5059. [Abstract]

Gina Ng*, Savanna Seabolt*, Chong Zhang, Sasan Salimian, Timley A. Watkins, Hua Lu (2011)  Genetic dissection of salicylic acid-mediated defense signaling networks in Arabidopsis. Genetics 189(3): 851-9.

* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Jacobsen, F. and Omland, K. E. 2011. Species tree inference in a recent radiation of orioles (genus Icterus): multiple markers and methods reveal cytonuclear discordance in the northern oriole group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 460-469. [Abstract]

Martin, MD, & Omland, KE. 2011. Environmental niche modeling reveals climatic differences among breeding ranges of Orchard Oriole subspecies. American Midland Naturalist: 166, 404-414. [Abstract] [PDF]

Friedman, Nicholas R., Lynna M. Kiere, Kevin E. Omland. 2011. Convergent gains of red carotenoid-based coloration in the New World blackbirds. The Auk 128(4):1-10.