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1320

Overview

C. Alex Buerkle is affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to studies involving genetics, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and insect science.

Their work particularly focuses on topics such as mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetic diversity and population structure, plant taxonomy and phylogenetics, gut microbiota and health, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Some of the recent publications by C. Alex Buerkle include:

  • Comparative Analysis of Core Microbiome Assignments: Implications for Ecological Synthesis (2023, mSystems)
  • A suite of rare microbes interacts with a dominant, heritable, fungal endophyte to influence plant trait expression (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • Dynamics of disease characteristics and clinical management of critically ill COVID-19 patients over the time course of the pandemic: an analysis of the prospective, international, multicentre RISC-19-ICU registry (2022, Critical Care)
  • Whole-Genome Duplication and Host Genotype Affect Rhizosphere Microbial Communities (2022, mSystems)
  • Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

Regular collaboration is a feature of Buerkle's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Joshua G. Harrison, Philippe Guerci, Gordon Custer, Maya Gans, and Francisco Dini-Andreote. This network of colleagues reflects interdisciplinary cooperation across multiple biological and ecological fields.

C. Alex Buerkle publishes frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mSystems, Ecology and Evolution, The ISME Journal, and Critical Care. These platforms highlight the breadth of their research interests from molecular systems biology to ecological studies and clinical investigations.

Best Publications

  • Hybridization and speciation

    R. Abbott;D. Albach;S. Ansell;J. W. Arntzen

  • Genotyping‐by‐sequencing in ecological and conservation genomics

    Shawn R. Narum;C. Alex Buerkle;John W. Davey;Michael R. Miller

  • The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species

    Catherine L. Peichel;Kirsten S. Nereng;Kenneth A. Ohgi;Bonnie L. E. Cole

  • Genome‐wide association genetics of an adaptive trait in lodgepole pine

    Thomas L. Parchman;Zachariah Gompert;Joann Mudge;Faye D. Schilkey

  • Transcriptome sequencing in an ecologically important tree species: assembly, annotation, and marker discovery

    Thomas L Parchman;Katherine S Geist;Johan A Grahnen;Craig W Benkman

  • The likelihood of homoploid hybrid speciation

    C A Buerkle;R J Morris;M A Asmussen;L H Rieseberg

  • Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation

    Víctor Soria-Carrasco;Zachariah Gompert;Aaron A. Comeault;Timothy E. Farkas

  • introgress: a software package for mapping components of isolation in hybrids.

    Zachariah Gompert;C. Alex Buerkle

  • A powerful regression-based method for admixture mapping of isolation across the genome of hybrids.

    Zachariah Gompert;C. Alex Buerkle

  • Maximum‐likelihood estimation of a hybrid index based on molecular markers

    C. Alex Buerkle

  • Population genomics based on low coverage sequencing: how low should we go?

    C. Alex Buerkle;Zachariah Gompert

  • Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Lauren K. Lucas;C. Alex Buerkle;Matthew L. Forister

  • Bayesian estimation of genomic clines.

    Zachariah Gompert;C. Alex Buerkle

  • THE VARIABLE GENOMIC ARCHITECTURE OF ISOLATION BETWEEN HYBRIDIZING SPECIES OF HOUSE MICE

    Katherine C. Teeter;Lisa M. Thibodeau;Zachariah Gompert;C. Alex Buerkle

  • Analysis of Population Genomic Data from Hybrid Zones

    Zachariah Gompert;Elizabeth G. Mandeville;C. Alex Buerkle

  • Admixture as the basis for genetic mapping

    C. Alex Buerkle;Christian Lexer;Christian Lexer

  • Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Chris C. Nice;James A. Fordyce

  • Variable patterns of introgression in two sculpin hybrid zones suggest that genomic isolation differs among populations

    A. W. Nolte;Z. Gompert;C. A. Buerkle

  • A road map for molecular ecology.

    Rose L. Andrew;Louis Bernatchez;Aurélie Bonin;C. Alex. Buerkle

  • Genomics of isolation in hybrids.

    Zachariah Gompert;Thomas L. Parchman;C. Alex Buerkle

Frequent Co-Authors

Zachariah Gompert
Zachariah Gompert Utah State University
Thomas L. Parchman
Thomas L. Parchman University of Nevada Reno
Chris C. Nice
Chris C. Nice Texas State University
Matthew L. Forister
Matthew L. Forister University of Nevada Reno
James A. Fordyce
James A. Fordyce University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Christian Lexer
Christian Lexer University of Vienna
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia
Patrik Nosil
Patrik Nosil University of Sheffield
Jeffrey L. Feder
Jeffrey L. Feder University of Notre Dame
Craig W. Benkman
Craig W. Benkman University of Wyoming

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