Publications

Pelaez, J. N., Gloss, A. D., Goldman-Huertas, B., Kim, B., Lapoint, R. T., Pimentel-Solorio, G., Verster, K. I., Aguilar, J. M., Nelson Dittrich, A.C., Singhal, M., Suzuki, H.C., Matsunaga, T., Armstrong, E.E., Charboneau, J. L. M., Groen, S. C., Hembry, D. H., Ochoa, C. J., O’Connor, K.T., Prost, S., Zaaijer, S., Nabity, P. D., Wang, J., Rodas, E., Liang, I., & Whiteman, N. K. (2023). Evolution of chemosensory and detoxification gene families across herbivorous Drosophilidae. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.16.532987

Prado, N.A., Armstrong, E.E., Brown, J.L., Godenberg, S.Z., Leimgruber, P., Pearson, V.R., Maldonado, J.E., Campana, M.G. (2023). Genomic Resources for Asian (Elephas maximus) and African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Conservation and Health Research. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.10.528067

Armstrong, E. E., & Campana, M. G. (2023). RatesTools: a Nextflow pipeline for detecting de novo germline mutations in pedigree sequence data.  Bioinformatics, 39(1), btac784.

Armstrong, E.E., Perry, B.W., Huang, Y., Garimella, K.V., Jansen, H.T., Robbins, C.T., Tucker, N.R. and Kelley, J.L., 2022. A beary good genome: Haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level assembly of the brown bear (Ursus arctos). Genome biology and evolution14(9), p.evac125.

Armstrong, E.E., Campana, M.G., Solari, K.A., Morgan, S.R., Ryder, O.A., Naude, V.N., Samelius, G., Sharma, K., Hadly, E.A. and Petrov, D.A., 2022. Genome Report: Chromosome-level draft assemblies of the snow leopard, African leopard, and tiger (Panthera uncia, Panthera pardus pardus, and Panthera tigris). G3 Genes| Genomes| Genetics. In press.

Perry, B.W., Armstrong, E.E., Robbins, C.T., Jansen, H.T. and Kelley, J.L., 2022. Temporal analysis of gene expression and isoform switching in brown bears (Ursus arctos). Integrative and Comparative Biology. In press.

Cerca, J., Armstrong, E.E., Vizueta, J., Fernández, R., Dimitrov, D., Petersen, B., Prost, S., Rozas, J., Petrov, D. and Gillespie, R.G., 2021. The Tetragnatha kauaiensis genome sheds light on the origins of genomic novelty in spiders. Genome biology and evolution13(12), p.evab262.

Bergeron, L.A., Besenbacher, S., Turner, T., Versoza, C.J., Wang, R.J., Price, A.L., Armstrong, E.E., Riera, M., Carlson, J., Chen, H.Y. and Hahn, M.W., 2022. The Mutationathon highlights the importance of reaching standardization in estimates of pedigree-based germline mutation rates. eLife11, pe73577.

Armstrong, E.E., Perez‐Lamarque, B., Bi, K., Chen, C., Becking, L.E., Lim, J.Y., Linderoth, T., Krehenwinkel, H. and Gillespie, R.G., 2022. A holobiont view of island biogeography: Unravelling patterns driving the nascent diversification of a Hawaiian spider and its microbial associates. Molecular Ecology31(4):1299-1316.

Suvorov, A., Kim, B.Y., Wang, J., Armstrong, E.E., Peede, D., D’agostino, E.R., Price, D.K., Waddell, P.J., Lang, M., Courtier-Orgogozo, V. David, J.R., Comeault, A.A. 2022. Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes. Current Biology32(1):111-123.

Bentley, B. P.* & Armstrong, E.E*. (2021). Good from far, but far from good: The impact of a reference genome on evolutionary inference. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1):12-14.

Kardos, M., Armstrong, E.E., Fitzpatrick, S.W., Hauser, S., Hedrick, P.W., Miller, J.M., Tallmon, D.A. and Funk, W.C., 2021. The crucial role of genome-wide genetic variation in conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences118(48), p.e2104642118.

Kim, B. Y., Wang, J. R., Miller, D. E., Barmina, O., Delaney, E., Thompson, A., ...Armstrong, E.E.,... & Petrov, D. A. (2020). Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes. eLife, 10, e66045.

Armstrong, E. E.*, Khan, A.*, Taylor, R. W., Gouy, A., Greenbaum, G., Thiery, Kang, J.T., Redondo, S.A., Prost, S., Barsh, G., A., Kaelin, C., Phalke, S., Chugani, A., Gilbert, M., Miquelle, D., Zachariah, A., Borthakur, U., Reddy, A., Louis, E., Ryder, O.A., Jhala, Y.V., Petrov, D., Excoffier, L., Hadly, E.A., Ramakrishnan, U. (2019). Recent evolutionary history of tigers highlights contrasting roles of genetic drift and selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(6):2366-2379.

Armstrong, E. E., Taylor, R. W., Miller, D. E., Kaelin, C., Barsh, G., Hadly, E. A., & Petrov, D. (2020). Long live the king: chromosome-level assembly of the lion (Panthera leo) using linked-read, Hi-C, and long read data. BMC Biology, 18.1: 1-14.

Sakai-Kawada, F. E., Ip, C. Gai-Ming, Hagiwara, K. A., Nguyen, H.Y.X., Yakym, C.J., Helmkampf, M., Armstrong, E.E., Awaya, J.D. (2020). Characterization of Prodiginine Pathway in Marine Sponge-Associated Pseudoalteromonas sp. PPB1 in Hilo, Hawai'i. (2020). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4:275.

Verster, K.I., Wisecaver, J.H., Duncan, R.P., Karageorgi, M., Gloss, A.D., Armstrong, E.E., Price, D.K., Menon, A.R., Ali, Z.M., Whiteman, N.K. (2019). Horizontal transfer of bacterial cytolethal distending toxin B genes to insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(10):2105-2110.

Armstrong, E. E., Taylor, R. W., Prost, S., Blinston, P., van der Meer, E., Madzikanda, H., Mufute, O., Mandisodza-Chikerema, R., Stuelpnagel, J., Silleero-Zubiri, C., Petrov, D. (2019). Cost-effective assembly of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) genome using linked reads. GigaScience, 8(2), giy124.

Prost, S., Armstrong, E. E., Nylander, J., Thomas, G.W.C., Suh, A., Petersen, B., Dalen, L., Benz, B.W., Blom, M.P.K., Palkopoulou, E., Ericson, P. G., Irestedt, M. (2018). Comparative analyses identify genomic features potentially involved in the evolution of birds-of-paradise. GigaScience, 8(5), giz003.

Armstrong, E. E., Prost, S., Ertz, D., Westberg, M., Frisch, A., Bendiksby, M. (2018). Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of the Lichen-Forming Fungus Arthonia radiata. Genome Announcements6(14), e00281-18.

Maas, D. L., Prost, S., Bi, K., Smith, L. L., Armstrong, E. E., Aji, L. P., Aji, L.P., Toha, A.H.A., Gillespie, R.G., & Becking, L. E. (2018). Rapid divergence of mussel populations despite incomplete barriers to dispersal. Molecular Ecology27(7), 1556-1571.

Sakai-Kawada, F.E., Yakym, C.J., Helmkampf, M., Hagiwara, K., Ip, C.G., Antonio, B.J., Armstrong, E.E., Ulloa, W.J. and Awaya, J.D. (2016). Draft genome sequence of marine sponge symbiont Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea IPB1, isolated from Hilo, Hawai’i. Genome Announcements4(5), pp.e01002-16.

Rominger, A. J., Goodman, K. R., Lim, J. Y., Armstrong, E. E., Becking, L. E., Bennett, G. M., ... & Gillespie, R. G. (2016). Community assembly on isolated islands: macroecology meets evolution. Global ecology and biogeography25(7), 769-780.