Alan J. S. Beavan

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 ribosome specialisation in eukaryotes arises through constructive neutral evolution, not adaptation or selection.

This study generates genomic sequences for Galapagos iguanas to explore their evolutionary history and identify genes associated with marine adaptation, pigmentation, and DNA damage responses.

Chromosome-scale inshore hagfish genome places 1R before the cyclostome-gnathostome split and 2R in the gnathostome stem, and reveals two cyclostome-specific duplications (CR1, CR2).