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Kelley JL, Desvignes T, McGowan KL, Perez M, Arias-Rodriguez L, Brown AP, Culumber Z, Tobler M (2020) microRNA expression variation as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulphide. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34(6): 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13727
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Hotaling S, Shah AA, McGowan KL, Tronstad LM, Giersh JJ, Finn DS, Woods HA, Dillon ME, Kelley JL (2020) Mountain stoneflies may tolerate warming streams: Evidence from organismal physiology and gene expression. Global Change Biology 26(10): 5524-5538. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15294
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We used transcriptomics to analyze early-stage eye regression in cavefish populatons of Poecilia mexicana that are exposed to low/no light.
McGowan KL, Passow CN, Arias-Rodriguez L, Tobler M, Kelley, JL. (2019) Expression analyses of cave mollies (Poecilia mexicana) reveal key genes involved in the early evolution of eye regression. Biology Letters 15(10): 20190554. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0554
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We used whole-genome resequencing to investigate genomic convergence in fishes (Poecilia spp.) that have repeatedly colonized hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-rich environments in Mexico.
Brown AP, McGowan KL, Schwarzkopf EJ, Greenway RS, Rodriquez LA, Tobler M, Kelley JL. (2019) Local ancestry analysis reveals genomic convergence in extremophile fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374(1777). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0240
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We compared the species composition and prevalence of the epibiotic community on different species of molluscan shells to those on neighboring rock at three sites and two tidal heights per site on San Juan Island, Washington, USA.
McGowan, KL, Iyengar EV. (2017) The difference between a rock and a biological hard place: epibionts in the rocky intertidal. Marine Biology 164(109). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-017-3131-z