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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Brandon S. Gaut is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these main areas, their work focuses specifically on Genetics and Plant Science, with additional involvement in Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Paleontology.

The scientist's research topics include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Brandon S. Gaut has published several papers, with notable examples such as:

  • Evolutionary Genomics of Structural Variation in Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) Domestication, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Genetic Mutations That Drive Evolutionary Rescue to Lethal Temperature in Escherichia coli, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Evolutionary genomics of structural variation in Asian rice (Oryza sativa) domestication, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Phylogenetic Hypotheses for the Monocotyledons Constructed from rbcL Sequence Data, 2021, ScholarWorks (Boise State University)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Yixuan Kou
  • Yongfeng Zhou
  • Yiliao
  • Yi Liao
  • Tuomas Toivainen

Brandon S. Gaut often publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Molecular Biology and Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, and ScholarWorks (Boise State University).

The scientist was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness

    Jianming Yu;Gael Pressoir;William H Briggs;Irie Vroh Bi

  • The Molecular Genetics of Crop Domestication

    John F. Doebley;Brandon S. Gaut;Bruce D. Smith

  • The paleontology of intergene retrotransposons of maize

    Phillip SanMiguel;Brandon S. Gaut;Alexander Tikhonov;Yuko Nakajima

  • A likelihood approach for comparing synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution rates, with application to the chloroplast genome.

    S V Muse;B S Gaut

  • The Arabidopsis lyrata genome sequence and the basis of rapid genome size change

    Tina T. Hu;Pedro Pattyn;Erica G. Bakker;Jun Cao

  • The effects of artificial selection on the maize genome.

    Stephen I. Wright;Irie Vroh Bi;Steve G. Schroeder;Masanori Yamasaki

  • Patterns of DNA sequence polymorphism along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)

    Maud I. Tenaillon;Mark C. Sawkins;Anthony D. Long;Rebecca L. Gaut

  • The Molecular Diversity of Adaptive Convergence

    Olivier Tenaillon;Olivier Tenaillon;Olivier Tenaillon;Alejandra Rodríguez-Verdugo;Rebecca L. Gaut;Pamela McDonald

  • Substitution rate comparisons between grasses and palms: synonymous rate differences at the nuclear gene Adh parallel rate differences at the plastid gene rbcL

    Brandon S. Gaut;Brian R. Morton;Bonnie C. McCaig;Michael T. Clegg

  • DNA sequence evidence for the segmental allotetraploid origin of maize

    Brandon S. Gaut;John F. Doebley

  • Epigenetic silencing of transposable elements: A trade-off between reduced transposition and deleterious effects on neighboring gene expression

    Jesse D. Hollister;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

    Jer Ming Chia;Chi Song;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Denise Costich;Denise Costich

  • Rates and patterns of chloroplast DNA evolution.

    Michael T. Clegg;Brandon S. Gaut;Gerald H. Learn;Brian R. Morton

  • Plant domestication, a unique opportunity to identify the genetic basis of adaptation

    Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra;Peter L. Morrell;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Evolutionary dynamics of grass genomes.

    Brandon S. Gaut

  • The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

    Tanja Slotte;Tanja Slotte;Khaled M. Hazzouri;Khaled M. Hazzouri;J. Arvid Ågren;Daniel Koenig

  • Investigation of the bottleneck leading to the domestication of maize

    Adam Eyre-Walker;Rebecca L. Gaut;Holly Hilton;Dawn L. Feldman

  • Genetic diversity and selection in the maize starch pathway

    Sherry R. Whitt;Larissa M. Wilson;Maud I. Tenaillon;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Multilocus Analysis of Nucleotide Variation of Oryza sativa and Its Wild Relatives: Severe Bottleneck during Domestication of Rice

    Qihui Zhu;Xiaoming Zheng;Jingchu Luo;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Molecular Population Genetics and the Search for Adaptive Evolution in Plants

    Stephen I. Wright;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Xa21D Encodes a Receptor-like Molecule with a Leucine-Rich Repeat Domain That Determines Race-Specific Recognition and Is Subject to Adaptive Evolution

    Guo Liang Wang;De Ling Ruan;Wen Yuan Song;Steve Sideris

Frequent Co-Authors

John Doebley
John Doebley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra University of California, Davis
Dario Cantu
Dario Cantu University of California, Davis
Michael T. Clegg
Michael T. Clegg University of California, Irvine
Luis E. Eguiarte
Luis E. Eguiarte National Autonomous University of Mexico
Olivier Tenaillon
Olivier Tenaillon Université Paris Cité
Stephen I. Wright
Stephen I. Wright University of Toronto
Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
James B. Holland
James B. Holland North Carolina State University
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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