La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Reference genome of an iconic lizard in western North America, Blainville’s horned lizard Phrynosoma blainvillii

J.Q. Richmond, J.A. McGuire, M. Escalona, M.P.A. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, S. Sacco, E. Beraut, E. Toffelmier, R.N. Fisher, I.J. Wang, H.B. Shaffer

Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4, 2023.

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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

Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4, 2023.

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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

Heredity, Volume 131, 2023.

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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

Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4, 2023.

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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

Biological Invasions, 2023.

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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

Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4, 2023.

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

R.D. Cooper, H.B. Shaffer

Conservation Biology, 2023.

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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

Environmental DNA , 2023.

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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

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023.

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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

PNAS, Volume 120, Issue 7, 2023.

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