La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Reference genome for the American rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana

G.F. Grether, J. Beninde, E. Beraut, N. Chumchim, M. Escalona, Z.G. MacDonald, C. Miller, R. Sahasrabudhe, A.M. Shedlock, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

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Reference genome of the black rail, Laterallus jamaicensis 

L.A. Hall, I.J. Wang, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, S. Sacco, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, S.R. Beissinger

Published Work 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

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Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone

I. van Riemsdijk, J.W. Arntzen, G.M. Bucciarelli, E. McCartney-Melstad, M. Rafajlovic, P.A. Scott, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, B. Wielstra

Published Work 2023 | Heredity, Volume 131

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Reference genome of the Virginia rail, Rallus limicola 

L.A. Hall, I.J. Wang, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, S. Sacco, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, S.R. Beissinger

Published Work 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

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Biodiversity in a box: three non-native invertebrates preferentially find refugia in green space management infrastructure across urban Los Angeles

J. Beninde, J.E. Vendetti, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work 2023 | Biological Invasions

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Reference genome of the long-jawed orb-weaver, Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)

S.A. Adams, N.R. Graham, A.J. Holmquist, M.M. Sheffer, E.C. Steigerwald, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Beraut, C. Fairbairn, S. Sacco, W. Seligmann, M. Escalona, H.B. Shaffer, E. Toffelmier, R.G. Gillespie

Published Work 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

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Managing invasive hybrids with pond hydroperiod manipulation in an endangered salamander system

R.D. Cooper, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work 2023 | Conservation Biology

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Archived DNA reveals marine heatwave-associated shifts in fish assemblages

Z. Gold, R.P. Kelly, A.O. Shelton, A.R. Thompson, K.D. Goodwin, R. Gallego, K.M. Parsons, L.R. Thompson, D. Kacev, P.H. Barber

Published Work 2023 | Environmental DNA

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Editorial: Global urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

D.T. Blumstein, M. Alberti, J. Beninde, R.V. Blakey, J.R. Burger, D.S. Cooper, C.A. Niesner, C.J. Schell, M. Soga, K. Uchida

Published Work 2023 | Frontiers in Conservation Science

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Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories

B.P. Bentley, T. Carrasco-Valenzuela, E.K.S. Ramos, H. Pawar, L.S. Arantes, A. Alexander, S.M. Banerjee, P. Masterson, M. Kuhlwilm, M. Pippel, J. Mountcastle, B. Haase, M. Uliano-Silva, G. Formenti, K. Howe, W. Chow, A. Tracey, Y. Sims, S. Pelan, J. Wood, K. Yetsko, J.R. Perrault, K. Stewart, S.R. Benson, Y. Levy, E.V. Todd, H.B. Shaffer, P. Scott, B.T. Henen, R.W. Murphy, D.W. Mohr, A.F. Scott, D.J. Duffy, N.J. Gemmell, A. Suh, S. Winkler, F. Thibaud-Nissen, M.F. Nery, T. Marques-Bonet, A. Antunes, Y. Tikochinski, P.H. Dutton, O. Fedrigo, E.W. Myers, E.D. Jarvis, C.J. Mazzoni, L.M. Komoroske

Published Work 2023 | PNAS, Volume 120, Issue 7

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