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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dennis Hedgecock is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and contributes to multiple fields related primarily to environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research integrates studies in genetics, aquatic science, molecular biology, and animal science with a focused exploration of marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Aquaculture
  • Genetics
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Journal of Shellfish Research
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Xiaoshen Yin
  • Alberto Arias-Pérez
  • Tevfik Hamdi Kitapci
  • Tien-Chien Pan
  • FTC Pan

Recent papers by Dennis Hedgecock include:

  • Genetic divergence of selected and wild populations of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) on the West Coast of North America, 2020, Aquaculture
  • Sex-Determined Growth of Yearling Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas), 2023, Journal of Shellfish Research
  • No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas: a comment on Durland et al., 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Additional recent publications, co-authored with Xiaoshen Yin and others, include:

  • High-Density Linkage Maps Based on Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) Confirm a Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly and Reveal Variation in Recombination Rate for the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas, 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Overt and concealed genetic loads revealed by QTL mapping of genotype-dependent viability in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, 2021, Genetics

Dennis Hedgecock was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1986, recognizing their contributions to scientific research.

Best Publications

  • The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation

    Guofan Zhang;Xiaodong Fang;Ximing Guo;Li Li

  • Population variation of human mtDNA control region sequences detected by enzymatic amplification and sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes

    Mark Stoneking;D. Hedgecock;R.G. Higuchi;Linda Vigilant

  • Isolation and inheritance of novel microsatellites in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha)

    MA Banks;Blouin;BA Baldwin;VK Rashbrook

  • Is gene flow from pelagic larval dispersal important in the adaptation and evolution of marine invertebrates

    D. Hedgecock

  • Sweepstakes Reproductive Success in Highly Fecund Marine Fish and Shellfish: A Review and Commentary

    Dennis Hedgecock;Alexander I. Pudovkin

  • GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION DURING THE SPECIATION PROCESS IN DROSOPHILA.

    Francisco J. Ayala;Martin L. Tracey;Dennis Hedgecock;Rollin C. Richmond

  • High genetic load in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.

    Sophie Launey;Dennis Hedgecock

  • Genetic Approaches to Measuring Connectivity

    Dennis Hedgecock;Paul Barber;Suzanne Edmands

  • Sardine and anchovy regime fluctuations of abundance in four regions of the world oceans: a workshop report

    D. Lluch-Belda;R. A. Schwartzlose;R. A. Schwartzlose;R. Serra;R. Parrish

  • On the potential for estimating the effective number of breeders from heterozygote-excess in progeny.

    A I Pudovkin;D V Zaykin;D Hedgecock

  • Genetic drift and effective population sizes of hatchery-propagated stocks of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas

    Dennis Hedgecock;Fred Sly

  • GENETIC VARIATION IN TRIDACNA MAXIMA, AN ECOLOGICAL ANALOG OF SOME UNSUCCESSFUL EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGES.

    Francisco J. Ayala;Dennis Hedgecock;Gary S. Zumwalt;James W. Valentine

  • Linkage Maps of Microsatellite DNA Markers for the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas

    Sophie Hubert;Dennis Hedgecock

  • Genetic heterogeneity, detected by PCR-SSCP, among samples of larval Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) supports the hypothesis of large variance in reproductive success

    Gang Li;Dennis Hedgecock

  • Aquaculture genomics, genetics and breeding in the United States: current status, challenges, and priorities for future research

    Hisham Abdelrahman;Mohamed ElHady;Acacia Alcivar-Warren;Standish Allen

  • TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL GENETIC STRUCTURE OF MARINE ANIMAL POPULATIONS IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT

    Dennis Hedgecock;Bodega Hay

  • Characterization of 79 microsatellite DNA markers in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.

    Gang Li;Sophie Hubert;Katherine Bucklin;Vanessa Ribes

  • Biochemical Genetics of Lobsters: Genetic Variation and the Structure of American Lobster (Homarus americanus) Populations

    Martin L. Tracey;Keith Nelson;Dennis Hedgecock;Robert A. Shleser

  • Analysis of microsatellite DNA resolves genetic structure and diversity of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in California's Central Valley

    Michael A. Banks;Vanessa K. Rashbrook;Marco J. Calavetta;Cheryl A. Dean

  • Effective population numbers of shellfish broodstocks estimated from temporal variance in allelic frequencies

    Dennis Hedgecock;Victor Chow;Robin S. Waples

Frequent Co-Authors

Ximing Guo
Ximing Guo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine
Patrick M. Gaffney
Patrick M. Gaffney Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
James W. Valentine
James W. Valentine University of California, Berkeley
Chris Langdon
Chris Langdon Oregon State University
Perry B. Hackett
Perry B. Hackett University of Minnesota
Zhanjiang Liu
Zhanjiang Liu Syracuse University
Caird E. Rexroad
Caird E. Rexroad Agricultural Research Service
Philip W. Hedrick
Philip W. Hedrick Arizona State University
Sergey V. Nuzhdin
Sergey V. Nuzhdin University of Southern California

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