Gregg W.C. Thomas

This study investigates phylogenomic discordance in Old World mice and rats, finding that genetic linkage and selection influence phylogenetic patterns and that assuming a single species tree can lead to errors in detecting positive selection.

This study examines how sperm competition intensity influences sperm morphology and reproductive gene evolution across murine rodents, finding that smaller testes correlate with faster molecular evolution due to relaxed selection.

This study examines Chelicerate genomes to determine if whole genome duplications occurred in spiders and scorpions, finding no evidence for such events in their history.

This paper introduces snpArcher, a variant calling workflow for non-model organisms, and applies it to 26 public datasets to enable comparative population genomic analyses.

This study identifies widespread recombination suppression on the X chromosome of the dwarf hamster, showing it is independent of structural changes and associated with heterochromatin formation.

The paper characterizes bumblebee genomes across 17 species to identify genetic variation linked to ecological and behavioral traits, revealing insights into genome structure, evolution, and adaptation.

The paper analyzes gene and protein domain content changes across 76 arthropod genomes to understand evolutionary patterns and their association with phenotypic adaptations.

The paper sequenced genomes of birds-of-paradise to identify genomic changes linked to their phenotypic diversity, finding strong selection on coloration, morphology, and sensory systems.

The paper presents the genome of the Colorado potato beetle to study its rapid evolutionary changes, herbivory adaptations, and insecticide resistance mechanisms.

This study shows that increasing taxon sampling reduces inferred molecular convergence in marine mammals, revealing that some previously identified convergent substitutions are not truly convergent and may instead be due to positive selection.