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Wayne Pfeiffer

San Diego Supercomputer Center

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Approach:statistical model· 4 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 3 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 2 Organism:multiple species· 2 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 2 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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Dahiana ArcilaiD· 3 shared Julian Gallego-Garcia· 3 shared Ricardo Betancur‐RiD· 3 shared Chao Zhang· 2 shared Delson HaysiD· 2 shared Emanuell Duarte-RibeiroiD· 2 shared Guillermo Ortı́iD· 2 shared Jeremiah J. MinichiD· 2 shared

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Independent origins of fish endothermy converge on a developmental regulatory signature

Dahiana Arcila, Fernando Meléndez-Vazquez, Julian Gallego-Garcia, Emily Ignatoff, Jessica Zhong, Wayne Pfeiffer, Ricardo Betancur‐R

The paper identifies a regulatory signature common to independent origins of endothermy in fish, showing convergent noncoding element acceleration near developmental genes.

bioRxiv · Jun 29, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Whole-genome phylogenomics and synteny resolve a single origin of body-plan asymmetry in flatfishes

Julian Gallego-Garcia, Delson Hays, Pakorn Tongboonkua, Jeremiah J. Minich, Leon Hilgers, Todd P. Michael, Michael Hiller, Chao Zhang, Guillermo Ortı́, Dahiana Arcila, Wayne Pfeiffer, Emanuell Duarte-Ribeiro, Siavash Mirarab, Ricardo Betancur‐R

The paper uses whole-genome phylogenomic and synteny data to resolve the evolutionary origin of flatfish body asymmetry, finding strong support for a single origin.

bioRxiv · May 26, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Competition among freshwater clades explains cave colonization in blind cavefishes

The paper uses genomic data to determine whether flatfish asymmetry evolved once or multiple times, finding strong support for a single origin.

bioRxiv · May 23, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

RAxML Grove: An empirical Phylogenetic Tree Database

Dimitri Höhler, Wayne Pfeiffer, Vassilios Ioannidis, Heinz Stockinger C, Alexandros Stamatakis

RAxML Grove provides a database of over 60,000 empirical phylogenetic trees and model parameters for simulating realistic data and analyzing tree shape distributions.

Bioinformatics · Dec 22, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics