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Felix Breden is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Immunology and Microbiology, as well as Medicine.

Their work spans several subfields including Immunology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Oncology. Central topics addressed in their publications include T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, and research on Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus.

Felix Breden has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, some of which are listed below:

  • Diversity in immunogenomics: the value and the challenge, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Divergence and Remarkable Diversity of the Y Chromosome in Guppies, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs of a freshwater fish, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The ADC API: A Web API for the Programmatic Query of the AIRR Data Commons, 2020, Frontiers in Big Data
  • Gene duplication to the Y chromosome in Trinidadian Guppies, 2022, Molecular Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Felix Breden include:

  • Corey T. Watson
  • William Lees
  • Pedro Almeida
  • Benjamin A. Sandkam
  • Iulia Darolti

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), ImmunoInformatics, Nature Methods, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Complete haplotype sequence of the human immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable, diversity, and joining genes and characterization of allelic and copy-number variation.

    Corey T. Watson;Karyn M. Steinberg;John Huddleston;Rene L. Warren

  • Sex chromosomes and sexual selection in poeciliid fishes.

    Anna Lindholm;Felix Breden

  • The immunoglobulin heavy chain locus: genetic variation, missing data, and implications for human disease

    C T Watson;F Breden

  • Invasion success and genetic diversity of introduced populations of guppies Poecilia reticulata in Australia

    Anna K. Lindholm;Felix Breden;Heather J. Alexander;Woon-Khiong Chan

  • Male predation risk determines female preference in the Trinidad guppy

    Felix Breden;Gregory Stoner

  • The Effect of Post-metamorphic Dispersal on the Population Genetic Structure of Fowler's Toad, Bufo woodhousei fowleri

    Felix Breden

  • Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms reveal population history and adaptive divergence in wild guppies.

    Eva-Maria Willing;Paul Bentzen;Cock van Oosterhout;Margarete Hoffmann

  • Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation.

    Alison E. Wright;Iulia Darolti;Natasha I. Bloch;Vicencio Oostra

  • MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCE VARIATION AMONG NATURAL POPULATIONS OF THE TRINIDAD GUPPY, POECILIA RETICULATA

    Ava Fajen;Felix Breden

  • Genetic tools for studying adaptation and the evolution of behavior.

    Christine R B Boake;Stevan J Arnold;Felix Breden;Lisa M Meffert

  • The death of a microsatellite: a phylogenetic perspective on microsatellite interruptions.

    J. S. Taylor;J. M. H. Durkin;F. Breden

  • Phenotypic differentiation in female preference related to geographic variation in male predation risk in the Trinidad guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

    Gregory Stoner;Felix Breden

  • THE EVOLUTION OF CHEATING AND SELFISH BEHAVIOR

    Michael J. Wade;Felix Breden

  • Molecular phylogeny of the live-bearing fish genus Poecilia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae).

    Felix Breden;Margaret B. Ptacek;Michael Rashed;Donald Taphorn

  • EFFECT OF INBREEDING ON THE EVOLUTION OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR BY KIN SELECTION.

    Michael J. Wade;Felix Breden

  • Selection Within and between Kin Groups of the Imported Willow Leaf Beetle

    Felix Breden;Michael J. Wade

  • Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world

    Michael J. Wade;David S. Wilson;Charles Goodnight;Doug Taylor

  • PARALLEL EVOLUTION AND VICARIANCE IN THE GUPPY (POECILIA RETICULATA) OVER MULTIPLE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES

    Heather J. Alexander;John S. Taylor;Sampson Sze-Tsun Wu;Felix Breden

  • Extreme heterogeneity in sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in livebearers

    Iulia Darolti;Alison E. Wright;Benjamin A. Sandkam;Jake Morris

  • SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN GROUP RELATEDNESS: EVIDENCE FROM THE IMPORTED WILLOW LEAF BEETLE

    David E. McCauley;Michael J. Wade;Felix J. Breden;Melissa Wohltman

  • The molecular basis of color vision in colorful fish: Four Long Wave-Sensitive (LWS) opsins in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are defined by amino acid substitutions at key functional sites

    Matthew N Ward;Allison M Churcher;Kevin J Dick;Chris R J Laver

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith E. Mank
Judith E. Mank University of British Columbia
Sreeram V. Ramagopalan
Sreeram V. Ramagopalan University of Oxford
Steven H. Kleinstein
Steven H. Kleinstein Yale University
Michael J. Wade
Michael J. Wade Indiana University
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Richard H. Scheuermann
Richard H. Scheuermann J. Craig Venter Institute
Marie-Paule Lefranc
Marie-Paule Lefranc University of Montpellier
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Bjoern Peters
Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
George C. Ebers
George C. Ebers University of Oxford

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