
Population Genetics at UVM


JOURNAL COVERS

The DEST dataset featured as the cover of MBE
Kapun, Nunez, Bogaerts-Márquez, Murga-Moreno, Paris, et al, 2021.
Art by Roberto Torres

Barnacles featured in the cover of the Whole Genomes Special Edition of Molecular Biology (see Image 27 on the cover)
Nunez et al., 2021
Picture by Fredrik Pleijel
PUBLICATIONS
Pre-Prints
Nunez JCB, Lenhart BA, Bangerter A, Murray CS, Yu Y, Nystrom TL, Tern C, Erickson PA, Bergland AO, “A cosmopolitan inversion drives seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila”, bioRxiv 2022.12.09.519676; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.09.519676
2022
Polygenic variation in sexual investment across an ephemerality gradient in Daphnia pulex
Karen Barnard-Kubow, Dörthe Becker, Connor S. Murray, Robert Porter, Grace Gutierrez, Priscilla Erickson, Joaquin C. B. Nunez, Erin Voss, Kushal Suryamohan, Aakrosh Ratan, Andrew Beckerman, Alan O. Bergland
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msac121, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac121 [link]
2021
Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST) - A New Population Genomics Resource
Martin Kapun, Joaquin C. B. Nunez, María Bogaerts-Márquez, Jesús Murga-Moreno, Margot Paris, Joseph Outten, Marta Coronado-Zamora, et al.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msab259, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab259 [link]
From tides to nucleotides: genomic signatures of adaptation to environmental heterogeneity in barnacles.
Nunez JCB, Rong S., Ferranti DAU, Damian-Serrano A., Neil K.B., Glenner H., Elyanow R.G., Brown. BRP, Rosenblad MA, Blomberg A., Johannesson K., and Rand DM.
Molecular Ecology, DOI:10.1111/mec.15949 [link]
2020
Characterizing the cirri and gut microbiomes of the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides.
Brown, B.R.P., Nunez, J.C.B. & Rand, D.M.
anim microbiome 2, 41 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00058-0 [PDF] [link]
Ecological load and balancing selection in circumboreal barnacles
Nunez JCB, Rong S, Damian-Serrano A, Burley JT, Elyanow RG, Ferranti DA U, Neil KB, Glenner H, Rosenblad MA, Blomberg A, Johannesson K, Rand DM. (2020) “Ecological load and balancing selection in circumboreal barnacles”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, msaa227, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa227 [PDF]
Footprints of natural selection at the mannose-6-phosphate isomerase locus in barnacles [PDF]
Nunez JCB, Flight PA, Neil KB, Rong S, Eriksson LA, Ferranti DA, Rosenblad MA, Blomberg A, and Rand DM. (2020).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Feb;117(10). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918232117
2018
Population Genomics and Biogeography of the Northern Acorn Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides)
Using Pooled Sequencing Approaches.
[Book Chapter available in Springer's Website]
Nunez J.C.B., Elyanow R.G., Ferranti D.A., Rand D.M. (2018)
In: Oleksiak M., Rajora O. (eds) Population Genomics: Marine Organisms.
Population Genomics. Springer, Cham
Stable genetic structure and connectivity in pollution-adapted and nearby pollution-sensitive populations of Fundulus heteroclitus. [PDF]
Joaquin C. B. Nunez, Leann M. Biancani , Patrick A. Flight , Diane E. Nacci , David M. Rand , Douglas L. Crawford and Marjorie F. Oleksiak
Published:09 May 2018https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171532
2016
A Cost-Effective Approach to Sequence Hundreds of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes. [PDF]
Joaquin C. B. Nunez, Marjorie F. Oleksiak
Published: August 9, 2016https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160958
2015
Population Genomics of the Euryhaline Teleost Poecilia latipinna. [PDF]
J. C. B. Nunez, T. P. Seale , M. A. Fraser , T. L. Burton , T. N. Fortson , D. Hoover, J. Travis, M. F. Oleksiak, D. L. Crawford
Published: September 3, 2015https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137077