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D. Houle

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Evolutionary Biology· 3 Ecology· 1 Microbiology· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 2 Organism:Drosophila· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1

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A. J. Minnaard· 1 shared B. Moody· 1 shared C. Cheng· 1 shared D. Kneeshaw· 1 shared F. H. Rodd· 1 shared F. McIntosh· 1 shared G. H. Bolstad· 1 shared J. Buter· 1 shared

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2020-2021 · peak 4/yr

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Interactions between xylem traits linked to hydraulics during xylem development optimize growth performance in conifer seedlings

J. Lourenco, D. Houle, L. Duchesne, D. Kneeshaw

This study examines how xylem traits linked to hydraulics change during xylem development in conifer seedlings, finding that jack pine maintains hydraulic safety traits and associates tracheid expansion with growth performance.

bioRxiv · Dec 24, 2021 · PreprintEcology

Fly wing evolutionary rate is a near-isometric function of mutational variation

D. Houle, G. H. Bolstad, T. F. Hansen

The paper reevaluates the scaling relationship between mutational and standing genetic variation and macro-evolutionary rate in Drosophilid wing traits, proposing a new method and model.

bioRxiv · Aug 27, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Colormesh: A novel method for quantifying variation in complex color patterns

J. J. Valvo, F. H. Rodd, J. D. Aponte, M. Daniel, K. Dwinell, D. Houle, K. A. Hughes

Colormesh quantifies color pattern variation by maintaining continuous color measures across sampling points, avoiding categorical reductions and spatial information loss.

bioRxiv · Jul 17, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Predicting the evolution of sexual dimorphism in gene expression

D. Houle, C. Cheng

The paper predicts how sexual dimorphism in gene expression evolves by analyzing genetic covariance matrices in Drosophila melanogaster, finding that both direct and indirect selection influence dimorphism.

bioRxiv · May 26, 2020Evolutionary Biology

Heterologous production of 1-tuberculosinyladenosine in Mycobacterium kansasii models pathoevolution towards the transcellular lifestyle of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

M. Ghanem, J.-Y. Dube, J. Wang, F. McIntosh, D. Houle, P. Domenech, M. B. Reed, S. Raman, J. Buter, A. J. Minnaard, B. Moody, M. A. Behr

This study introduces the M. tuberculosis-specific gene pair into M. kansasii to model pathoevolution, finding that 1-TbAd production enhances early infection but impairs long-term survival.

bioRxiv · Apr 25, 2020Microbiology