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Overview

David M. Kingsley is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and is active in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, notably Genetic diversity and population structure, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Recent publications include:

  • Assembly of the threespine stickleback Y chromosome reveals convergent signatures of sex chromosome evolution (2020, Genome Biology)
  • Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution (2021, Science Advances)
  • Fitness maps to a large-effect locus in introduced stickleback populations (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Boundary stacking interactions enable cross-TAD enhancer-promoter communication during limb development (2024, Nature Genetics)
  • Genetic studies of human-chimpanzee divergence using stem cell fusions (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David M. Kingsley include Tzu-Chiao Hung, Alistair N. Boettiger, Amy Herbert, Garrett A. Roberts Kingman, and Felicity C. Jones.

Publications by this scientist appear often in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Biology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • The TGF-beta superfamily: new members, new receptors, and new genetic tests of function in different organisms.

    David M. Kingsley

  • The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

    Felicity C. Jones;Manfred G. Grabherr;Manfred G. Grabherr;Yingguang Frank Chan;Pamela Russell

  • Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles

    Pamela F. Colosimo;Kim E. Hosemann;Sarita Balabhadra;Guadalupe Villarreal

  • Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

    Yingguang Frank Chan;Melissa E. Marks;Felicity C. Jones;Guadalupe Villarreal

  • Limb alterations in brachypodism mice due to mutations in a new member of the TGFβ-superfamily

    Elaine E. Storm;Thanh V. Huynh;Neal G. Copeland;Nancy A. Jenkins

  • Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks

    Michael D. Shapiro;Melissa E. Marks;Catherine L. Peichel;Benjamin K. Blackman

  • Role of the mouse ank gene in control of tissue calcification and arthritis.

    Andrew M. Ho;Michelle D. Johnson;David M. Kingsley

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • The mouse short ear skeletal morphogenesis locus is associated with defects in a bone morphogenetic member of the TGFβ superfamily

    David M. Kingsley;Adrienne E. Bland;Janet M. Grubber;Paul C. Marker

  • The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species

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

  • The mouse Snell's waltzer deafness gene encodes an unconventional myosin required for structural integrity of inner ear hair cells

    Karen B. Avraham;Tama Hasson;Karen P. Steel;David M. Kingsley

  • Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits.

    Cory Y. McLean;Philip L. Reno;Philip L. Reno;Alex A. Pollen;Abraham I. Bassan

  • Evidence for ecology's role in speciation.

    Jeffrey S. McKinnon;Seiichi Mori;Benjamin K. Blackman;Benjamin K. Blackman;Lior David

  • Joint patterning defects caused by single and double mutations in members of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family

    E.E. Storm;D.M. Kingsley

  • GDF5 Coordinates Bone and Joint Formation during Digit Development

    Elaine E. Storm;David M. Kingsley

  • Reversible defects in O-linked glycosylation and LDL receptor expression in a UDP-Gal UDP-GalNAc 4-epimerase deficient mutant

    David M. Kingsley;Karen F. Kozarsky;Lawrence Hobble;Monty Krieger

  • The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

    Felicity C. Jones;Manfred G. Grabherr;Yingguang Frank Chan;Pamela Russell

  • Multiple joint and skeletal patterning defects caused by single and double mutations in the mouse Gdf6 and Gdf5 genes.

    Stephen Holloway Settle;Ryan B. Rountree;Abhishek Sinha;Abigail Thacker

  • The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacks

    Pamela F Colosimo;Catherine L Peichel;Kirsten Nereng;Benjamin K Blackman

  • The Master Sex-Determination Locus in Threespine Sticklebacks Is on a Nascent Y Chromosome

    Catherine L. Peichel;Catherine L. Peichel;Joseph A. Ross;Joseph A. Ross;Clinton K. Matson;Mark Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia
Catherine L. Peichel
Catherine L. Peichel University of Bern
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jane Grimwood
Jane Grimwood HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Devin Absher
Devin Absher University of Queensland
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Neal G. Copeland
Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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