Ke Bi

Regionally specific and highly pleiotropic loci together mediate skeletal evolution in tropical and temperate house mice

This study identifies QTL driving skeletal divergence in temperate and tropical house mice, revealing both small-effect and pleiotropic loci involved in adaptive evolution.

VCFcontam: A Machine Learning Approach to Estimate Cross-Sample Contamination from Variant Call Data

This paper introduces a machine learning method to estimate cross-sample contamination from variant call data using a support vector regression model trained on simulated datasets.

Range stability predicts lineage persistence in a morphologically cryptic ground squirrel species complex

The study shows that range stability maintains lineage persistence, while range instability leads to hybridization and lineage extinction in ground squirrels.

An evaluation of transcriptome-based exon capture for frog phylogenomics across multiple scales of divergence (Class: Amphibia, Order: Anura)

This study evaluates transcriptome-based exon capture for frog phylogenomics, finding differences in capture performance with phylogenetic distance and providing design recommendations.