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89
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1128
National Ranking
540

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Dmitri A. Petrov is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology and genetics subfields. Additional areas of study include cancer research, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and oncology.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics such as evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, cancer genomics and diagnostics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, CRISPR and genetic engineering, lung cancer treatments and mutations, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Recent publications by Dmitri A. Petrov include:

  • Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes (2021, Current Biology)
  • Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes (2021, eLife)
  • Direct observation of adaptive tracking on ecological time scales in Drosophila (2022, Science)
  • Broad geographic sampling reveals the shared basis and environmental correlates of seasonal adaptation in Drosophila (2021, eLife)
  • The AMBRA1 E3 ligase adaptor regulates the stability of cyclin D (2021, Nature)

Dmitri A. Petrov frequently collaborates with a number of fellow researchers. Key co-authors include Monte M. Winslow, Laura Andrejka, Ellie E. Armstrong, Hongchen Cai, and Paul Schmidt.

Publication venues that recurrently feature their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, eLife, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Cancer Discovery.

The scientist received the Hellman Fellow award in 2005.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Selection on codon bias

    Ruth Hershberg;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • A Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Organoid Model and Biobank Recapitulates Inter- and Intra-tumoral Heterogeneity

    Fadi Jacob;Fadi Jacob;Ryan D. Salinas;Daniel Y. Zhang;Phuong T.T. Nguyen

  • High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography.

    Ruth Hershberg;Mikhail Lipatov;Peter M Small;Peter M Small;Hadar Sheffer

  • Genomic evidence of rapid and stable adaptive oscillations over seasonal time scales in Drosophila.

    Alan O. Bergland;Emily L. Behrman;Katherine R. O'Brien;Paul S. Schmidt

  • Population genomics of rapid adaptation by soft selective sweeps

    Philipp W. Messer;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology and phenotype.

    Charles A. Knight;Nicole A. Molinari;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Pervasive natural selection in the Drosophila genome

    Guy Sella;Dmitri A. Petrov;Molly Przeworski;Peter Andolfatto

  • Quantitative evolutionary dynamics using high-resolution lineage tracking

    Sasha F. Levy;Jamie R. Blundell;Sandeep Venkataram;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Evidence that mutation is universally biased towards AT in bacteria

    Ruth Hershberg;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Evolution of genome size: new approaches to an old problem.

    Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Recent selective sweeps in North American Drosophila melanogaster show signatures of soft sweeps.

    Nandita R. Garud;Philipp W. Messer;Erkan O. Buzbas;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Precise estimates of mutation rate and spectrum in yeast

    Yuan O. Zhu;Mark L. Siegal;David W. Hall;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • High intrinsic rate of DNA loss in Drosophila

    Dmitri A. Petrov;Elena R. Lozovskaya;Daniel L. Hartl

  • Evidence for DNA loss as a determinant of genome size.

    Dmitri A. Petrov;Todd A. Sangster;J. Spencer Johnston;Daniel L. Hartl

  • Viruses are a dominant driver of protein adaptation in mammals.

    David Enard;Le Cai;Carina Gwennap;Dmitri A Petrov

  • Pesticide resistance via transposition-mediated adaptive gene truncation in Drosophila.

    Yael T. Aminetzach;J. Michael Macpherson;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Mutational equilibrium model of genome size evolution.

    Dmitri A. Petrov

  • Evidence that adaptation in Drosophila is not limited by mutation at single sites.

    Talia L Karasov;Philipp W. Messer;Dmitri A. Petrov

  • General rules for optimal codon choice.

    Ruth Hershberg;Dmitri A. Petrov

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp W. Messer
Philipp W. Messer Cornell University
Daniel L. Hartl
Daniel L. Hartl Harvard University
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock Stanford University
Hunter B. Fraser
Hunter B. Fraser Stanford University
Paul S. Schmidt
Paul S. Schmidt University of Pennsylvania
Uma Ramakrishnan
Uma Ramakrishnan National Centre for Biological Sciences
Elizabeth A. Hadly
Elizabeth A. Hadly Stanford University
Brian P. Lazzaro
Brian P. Lazzaro Cornell University
Daniel S. Fisher
Daniel S. Fisher Stanford University
Nadav Ahituv
Nadav Ahituv University of California, San Francisco

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