Brandon S. GautProfessor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
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Research Interests |
population genetics, molecular evolution, genome evolution | |
| URL | The Gaut Lab | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2013 President-Elect, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2008 Professor of the Year, U.C. Irvine 2002 Outstanding Professor, U.C. Irvine (voted by the Senior Class) 2002 Biological Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award 1995-1997 Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Fellowship 1992-1995 NIH postdoctoral fellow |
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Research Abstract |
Research in my laboratory focuses on evolutionary genetics of plant systems, with particular emphasis on molecular evolution, population genetics and comparative genomics. We have ongoing projects on the genetic effects of plant domestication and the evolution of transposable elements. | |
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Takuno S, Gaut BS. 2013. Gene-body methylation is conserved between plant orthologs and is of evolutionary consequence. Proc Natl Acac Sci USA |
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Matthew B. Hufford MB, Martinez-Meyer E, Gaut BS, Eguiarte LE, Tenaillon MI. 2012. Past and Present Distributions in Wild and Domesticated Zea mays: a Chance to Revisit Maize History. Plos One |
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Vonholdt BM, Takuno S, Gaut BS. 2012. Recent retrotransposon insertions are methylated and phylogenetically clustered in japonica rice (Oryza sativa spp. japonica). Mol Biol Evol. |
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Tenaillon O, RodrÃguez-Verdugo A., Gaut R.L., McDonald P., Bennett A.F., Long A.D., Gaut B.S, 2012. The molecular diversity of adaptive convergence. Science. 2012 Jan 27;335(6067):457-61. |
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Yang L., Gaut B.S., 2011. Factors that contribute to variation in evolutionary rate among Arabidopsis genes. Mol Biol Evol. 2011 Aug;28(8):2359-69. Epub 2011 Mar 9. |
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Hollister, J., L. Smith, Y-L. Guo, F. Ott, D. Weigel and B.S. Gaut. 2011. Transposable elements and small RNAs contribute to gene expression divergence between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108(6):2322-7. |
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Tenaillon, M., M. Hufford, B.S. Gaut and J. Ross-Ibarra. 2011. Genome Size and Transposable Element Content as Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing in Maize and Zea luxurians. Genome Biol. Evol. PMID: 21296765. |
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Hollister J.D., Smith L.M., Guo Y.L., Ott F., Weigel D., Gaut B.S., 2011. Transposable elements and small RNAs contribute to gene expression divergence between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 8;108(6):2322-7. Epub 2011 Jan 20. |
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Hollister J.D., Ross-Ibarra J., Gaut B.S., 2010. Indel-associated mutation rate varies with mating system in flowering plants. Mol Biol Evol. 2010 Feb;27(2):409-16. Epub 2009 Oct 13. |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4561 | |
| Last updated | 01/11/2013 | |