Stephen Wright

Research interests

Publications

• Coevolution between transposable elements and recombination

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0458

• Hybrid origins and the earliest stages of diploidization in the highly successful recent polyploid Capsella bursa-pastoris

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412277112

• The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503926112

• Evidence for Widespread Positive and Negative Selection in Coding and Conserved Noncoding Regions of Capsella grandiflora

  PLoS Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004622

• Genetic degeneration of old and young Y chromosomes in the flowering plant Rumex hastatulus

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319227111

• An atlas of over 90,000 conserved noncoding sequences provides insight into crucifer regulatory regions

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2684

• The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2669

• Evolutionary consequences of self-fertilization in plants

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0133

• Genome-Wide Evidence for Efficient Positive and Purifying Selection in Capsella grandiflora, a Plant Species with a Large Effective Population Size

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq062

• Recent speciation associated with the evolution of selfing in Capsella

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807679106

• Patterns of Polymorphism and Demographic History in Natural Populations of Arabidopsis lyrata

  PLoS ONE · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002411

• Genomic Consequences of Outcrossing and Selfing in Plants

  International Journal of Plant Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1086/523366

• Recombination: an underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes

  Nature Reviews Genetics · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg1970

• The Effects of Artificial Selection on the Maize Genome

  Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1107891

• The HKA Test Revisited

  Genetics · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.026500

• Molecular Population Genetics and the Search for Adaptive Evolution in Plants

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msi035

• Effects of Gene Expression on Molecular Evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msh191

• Effects of Recombination Rate and Gene Density on Transposable Element Distributions in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Genome Research · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.1281503

• Rates and Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Inbred and Outbred Arabidopsis

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004204

• Breeding systems and genome evolution

  Current Opinion in Genetics & Development · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0959-437x(00)00254-9

• Transposon diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.13.7376

• Measures in Health Psychology: A User's Portfolio

  Journal · 1995

• The accuracy of equilibrium methods of slope stability analysis

  Engineering Geology · 1980 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-7952(80)90003-4

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