Lars S. Jermiin

Research interests

Publications

• Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2486-3

• GHOST: Recovering Historical Signal from Heterotachously Evolved Sequence Alignments

  Systematic Biology · 2019 · 10.1093/sysbio/syz051

• Sensitivity and specificity of information criteria

  Briefings in Bioinformatics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbz016

• Genome‐wide analysis of MIKC ‐type MADS ‐box genes in wheat: pervasive duplications, functional conservation and putative neofunctionalization

  New Phytologist · 2019 · 10.1111/nph.16122

• ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

  Nature Methods · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4285

• Genomic innovations, transcriptional plasticity and gene loss underlying the evolution and divergence of two highly polyphagous and invasive Helicoverpa pest species

  BMC Biology · 2017 · 10.1186/s12915-017-0402-6

• Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta

  Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2016 · 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.07.005

• The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

  Genome biology · 2015 · 10.1186/s13059-015-0623-3

• Are feeding preferences and insecticide resistance associated with the size of detoxifying enzyme families in insect herbivores?

  Current Opinion in Insect Science · 2015 · 10.1016/j.cois.2015.12.001

• Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257570

• Mind the Gaps: Evidence of Bias in Estimates of Multiple Sequence Alignments

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2007 · 10.1093/molbev/msm176

• Characterization of an indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-like protein found in humans and mice

  Gene · 2007 · 10.1016/j.gene.2007.04.010

• Matched-pairs tests of homogeneity with applications to homologous nucleotide sequences

  Bioinformatics · 2006 · 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl064

• Tracing the Decay of the Historical Signal in Biological Sequence Data

  Systematic Biology · 2004 · 10.1080/10635150490503035

• Characterization of the type I interferon locus and identification of novel genes☆

  Genomics · 2004 · 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.03.003

• The Biasing Effect of Compositional Heterogeneity on Phylogenetic Estimates May be Underestimated

  Systematic Biology · 2004 · 10.1080/10635150490468648

• Gene Targeting of Desrt, a Novel ARID Class DNA-Binding Protein, Causes Growth Retardation and Abnormal Development of Reproductive Organs

  Genome Research · 2001 · 10.1101/gr.168801

• Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 10.1073/pnas.98.2.537

• Many Parallel Losses of infA from Chloroplast DNA during Angiosperm Evolution with Multiple Independent Transfers to the Nucleus

  The Plant Cell · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.13.3.645

• Identification, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of the Omega Class Glutathione Transferases

  Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m001706200

• Nucleotide Composition Bias Affects Amino Acid Content in Proteins Coded by Animal Mitochondria

  Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1997 · 10.1007/pl00006145

• Zeta, a novel class of glutathione transferases in a range of species from plants to humans

  Biochemical Journal · 1997 · 10.1042/bj3280929

• The cytochrome b region in the mitochondrial DNA of the ant Tetraponera rufoniger: Sequence divergence in hymenoptera may be associated with nucleotide content

  Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1994 · 10.1007/bf00176090

• Counterselection on sex chromosomes in the Mus musculus European hybrid zone

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 1993 · 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1993.6040529.x

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