Samuel Whiteford

This study investigates the genetic basis of industrial melanism in peppered moths, showing that multiple alleles at the ivory locus, including structural variants, contribute to the trait in different regions.

The paper presents methods to generate a contiguous haploid genome assembly and reconstruct individual haplotypes from pooled long-read sequencing of the diamondback moth.

The paper identifies a conserved gene responsible for the white pupae phenotype in multiple fruit fly species and demonstrates its utility for creating sexing strains in pest control.