H. William Detrich

The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I provides high-quality reference genomes for 816 species, enabling evolutionary and conservation insights across vertebrates.

This study shows that projected warming disrupts embryonic development and hatch timing in Antarctic fish, leading to morphological abnormalities, accelerated development, and molecular stress.

The paper generates and analyzes genome assemblies for 24 Antarctic notothenioid fish species to study cold adaptations, identifying genomic changes related to antifreeze proteins and haemoglobin loss.

The paper summarizes methods and lessons from assembling 16 vertebrate genomes, highlights the importance of long-read sequencing, and introduces the Vertebrate Genomes Project to generate complete reference genomes for all vertebrate species.

RADSex is a computational workflow for analyzing RAD-Seq data to identify sex determination systems, uncovering new sex-specific markers in fish species.