Publications

2016
Jacob A Tennessen, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Aaron Liston, and Tia-Lynn Ashman. 2016. “Homomorphic ZW chromosomes in a wild strawberry show distinctive recombination heterogeneity but a small sex-determining region.” New Phytologist, 211, 4, Pp. 1412–1423. Access
John V Syring, Jacob A Tennessen, Tara N Jennings, Jill Wegrzyn, Camille Scelfo-Dalbey, and Richard Cronn. 2016. “Targeted capture sequencing in whitebark pine reveals range-wide demographic and adaptive patterns despite challenges of a large, repetitive genome.” Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, Pp. 484. Access
2015
Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Matthew Parks, Jacob A Tennessen, Aaron Liston, and Tia-Lynn Ashman. 2015. “Comparison of nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial phylogenies and the origin of wild octoploid strawberry species.” American Journal of Botany, 102, 4, Pp. 544–554. Access
Jacob A Tennessen, Kaitlin M Bonner, Stephanie R Bollmann, Joel A Johnstun, Jan-Ying Yeh, Melanie Marine, Hannah F Tavalire, Christopher J Bayne, and Michael S Blouin. 2015. “Genome-wide scan and test of candidate genes in the snail Biomphalaria glabrata reveal new locus influencing resistance to Schistosoma mansoni.” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9, 9, Pp. e0004077. Access
Jacob A Tennessen, André Théron, Melanie Marine, Jan-Ying Yeh, Anne Rognon, and Michael S Blouin. 2015. “Hyperdiverse gene cluster in snail host conveys resistance to human schistosome parasites.” PLoS Genetics, 11, 3, Pp. e1005067. Access
Tia-Lynn Ashman, Jacob A Tennessen, Rebecca M Dalton, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Matthew H Koski, and Aaron Liston. 2015. “Multilocus sex determination revealed in two populations of gynodioecious wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca subsp. bracteata.” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Pp. g3–115. Access
2014
Jacob A Tennessen, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Tia-Lynn Ashman, and Aaron Liston. 2014. “Evolutionary origins and dynamics of octoploid strawberry subgenomes revealed by dense targeted capture linkage maps.” Genome Biology and Evolution, 6, 12, Pp. 3295–3313. Access
2013
Mark R Christie, Jacob A Tennessen, and Michael S Blouin. 2013. “Bayesian parentage analysis with systematic accountability of genotyping error, missing data and false matching.” Bioinformatics, 29, 6, Pp. 725–732. Access
Jacob A Tennessen, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Aaron Liston, and Tia-Lynn Ashman. 2013. “Targeted sequence capture provides insight into genome structure and genetics of male sterility in a gynodioecious diploid strawberry, Fragaria vesca ssp. bracteata (Rosaceae).” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Pp. g3–113. Access
2012
Jacob A Tennessen, Abigail W Bigham, Timothy D O’connor, Wenqing Fu, Eimear E Kenny, Simon Gravel, Sean McGee, Ron Do, Xiaoming Liu, Goo Jun, and others. 2012. “Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes.” Science, 337, 6090, Pp. 64–69. Access
2011
Jacob A Tennessen and Joshua M Akey. 2011. “Parallel adaptive divergence among geographically diverse human populations.” PLoS Genetics, 7, 6, Pp. e1002127. Access
Jacob A Tennessen, Timothy D O'Connor, Michael J Bamshad, and Joshua M Akey. 2011. “The promise and limitations of population exomics for human evolution studies.” Genome Biology, 12, 9, Pp. 127. Access
2010
Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2010. “A revised leopard frog phylogeny allows a more detailed examination of adaptive evolution at ranatuerin-2 antimicrobial peptide loci.” Immunogenetics, 62, 5, Pp. 333–343. Access
Jacob A Tennessen, Jennifer Madeoy, and Joshua M Akey. 2010. “Signatures of positive selection apparent in a small sample of human exomes.” Genome Research, 20, Pp. 1327–1334. Access
2009
Jacob A Tennessen, Douglas C Woodhams, Pierre Chaurand, Laura K Reinert, Dean Billheimer, Yu Shyr, Richard M Caprioli, Michael S Blouin, and Louise A Rollins-Smith. 2009. “Variations in the expressed antimicrobial peptide repertoire of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) populations suggest intraspecies differences in resistance to pathogens.” Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 33, 12, Pp. 1247–1257. Access
2008
Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2008. “Balancing selection at a frog antimicrobial peptide locus: fluctuating immune effector alleles?” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25, 12, Pp. 2669–2680. Access
Jacob A Tennessen and Kelly R Zamudio. 2008. “Genetic differentiation among mountain island populations of the striped plateau lizard, Sceloporus virgatus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae).” Copeia, 2008, 3, Pp. 558–564. Access
Rodrigo R Miranda, Jacob A Tennessen, Michael S Blouin, and Elida M Rabelo. 2008. “Mitochondrial DNA variation of the dog hookworm Ancylostoma caninum in Brazilian populations.” Veterinary Parasitology, 151, 1, Pp. 61–67. Access
Jacob A Tennessen. 2008. “Positive selection drives a correlation between non-synonymous/synonymous divergence and functional divergence.” Bioinformatics, 24, 12, Pp. 1421–1425. Access
2007
Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2007. “Selection for antimicrobial peptide diversity in frogs leads to gene duplication and low allelic variation.” Journal of Molecular Evolution, 65, 5, Pp. 605–615. Access

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