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Daniel B. Sloan is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Genetics. Additional interests include Insect Science and Ecology.

Sloan's work addresses a range of topics within molecular and genetic research, with a significant emphasis on genomics and phylogenetic studies. Their research also covers photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, chromosomal and genetic variations, mitochondrial function and pathology, RNA modifications and cancer, as well as genetic diversity and population structure.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Several recent publications demonstrate the scope of their research:

  • Gene content evolution in the arthropods, 2020, Genome biology
  • MSH1 is required for maintenance of the low mutation rates in plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Interchangeable parts: The evolutionarily dynamic tRNA population in plant mitochondria, 2020, Mitochondrion
  • Complete Sequence of a 641-kb Insertion of Mitochondrial DNA in the Arabidopsis thaliana Nuclear Genome, 2022, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Rapid Shifts in Mitochondrial tRNA Import in a Plant Lineage with Extensive Mitochondrial tRNA Gene Loss, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Daniel B. Sloan collaborates with a number of coauthors with whom they have published extensively. These frequent collaborators include Amanda K. Broz, Gus Waneka, Jessica M. Warren, Evan S. Forsythe, and Zhiqiang Wu.

Best Publications

  • Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plant mitochondria with exceptionally high mutation rates.

    Daniel B. Sloan;Andrew J. Alverson;John P. Chuckalovcak;Martin Wu

  • Termination of asymmetric cell division and differentiation of stomata

    Lynn Jo Pillitteri;Daniel B. Sloan;Naomi L. Bogenschutz;Keiko U. Torii

  • Plant Mitochondrial Genome Diversity: The Genomics Revolution

    Jeffrey P. Mower;Daniel B. Sloan;Andrew J. Alverson

  • Gene Content Evolution in the Arthropods

    Gregg W.C. Thomas;Elias Dohmen;Elias Dohmen;Daniel S.T. Hughes;Daniel S.T. Hughes;Shwetha C. Murali;Shwetha C. Murali

  • The on‐again, off‐again relationship between mitochondrial genomes and species boundaries

    Daniel B. Sloan;Justin C. Havird;Joel Sharbrough

  • Erratum to: Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae

    Daniel B Sloan;Bengt Oxelman;Anja Rautenberg;Douglas R Taylor

  • One ring to rule them all? Genome sequencing provides new insights into the 'master circle' model of plant mitochondrial DNA structure.

    Daniel B. Sloan

  • Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

    Daniel B. Sloan;Atsushi Nakabachi;Stephen Richards;Jiaxin Qu

  • Genome reduction and co-evolution between the primary and secondary bacterial symbionts of psyllids

    Daniel B. Sloan;Nancy A. Moran

  • Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies.

    Daniel B. Sloan;Nancy A. Moran

  • The Mitochondrial Genome of the Legume Vigna radiata and the Analysis of Recombination across Short Mitochondrial Repeats

    Andrew J. Alverson;Shi Zhuo;Danny W. Rice;Daniel B. Sloan

  • Cytonuclear integration and co-evolution

    Daniel B. Sloan;Jessica M. Warren;Alissa M. Williams;Zhiqiang Wu

  • Antisense Transcription Is Pervasive but Rarely Conserved in Enteric Bacteria

    Rahul Raghavan;Daniel B. Sloan;Howard Ochman

  • Correction of Persistent Errors in Arabidopsis Reference Mitochondrial Genomes.

    Daniel B Sloan;Zhiqiang Wu;Joel Sharbrough

  • The massive mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene noctiflora is evolving by gain or loss of entire chromosomes

    Zhiqiang Wu;Jocelyn M. Cuthbert;Douglas R. Taylor;Daniel B. Sloan

  • Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae

    Daniel B Sloan;Bengt Oxelman;Anja Rautenberg;Douglas R Taylor

  • Cytonuclear Interactions and Relaxed Selection Accelerate Sequence Evolution in Organelle Ribosomes

    Daniel B. Sloan;Deborah A. Triant;Martin Wu;Douglas R. Taylor

  • Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene

    Daniel B. Sloan;Andrew J. Alverson;Martin Wu;Jeffrey D. Palmer

  • A recurring syndrome of accelerated plastid genome evolution in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae)

    Daniel B. Sloan;Deborah A. Triant;Nicole J. Forrester;Laura M. Bergner

  • Extensive loss of translational genes in the structurally dynamic mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene latifolia

    Daniel B Sloan;Andrew J Alverson;Helena Štorchová;Jeffrey D Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas R. Taylor
Douglas R. Taylor University of Virginia
Nancy A. Moran
Nancy A. Moran The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey D. Palmer
Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University
Mark P. Simmons
Mark P. Simmons Colorado State University
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Bengt Oxelman
Bengt Oxelman University of Gothenburg
John Gatesy
John Gatesy American Museum of Natural History
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine

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