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Gane Ka-Shu Wong

Gane Ka-Shu Wong

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Genetics

D-Index
83
Citations
45741
World Ranking
1390
National Ranking
46

Overview

Gane Ka-Shu Wong is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has a significant research footprint spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their scholarly work includes multiple publications focusing on molecular biology, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cancer research.

Wong's main research topics encompass gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neural dynamics and brain function, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, as well as algal biology and biofuel production.

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Notable recent papers by Wong include:

  • "Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution" (2021), published in Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
  • "Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts" (2020), published in Nature Plants
  • "An ancestral signalling pathway is conserved in intracellular symbioses-forming plant lineages" (2020), published in Nature Plants
  • "Origin and early evolution of the plant terpene synthase family" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Wong has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Michael Melkonian (9 joint works), Dina Kao (6 joint works), Jordan Patterson (5 joint works), Shifeng Cheng (4 joint works), and Pierre-Marc Delaux (4 joint works).

Best Publications

  • Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, an opportunistic pathogen.

    C. K. Stover;X. Q. Pham;A. L. Erwin;S. D. Mizoguchi

  • A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

    Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

    Ruiqiang Li;Wei Fan;Geng Tian;Hongmei Zhu

  • A draft sequence for the genome of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori).

    Qingyou Xia;Zeyang Zhou;Cheng Lu

  • Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

    Norman J. Wickett;Siavash Mirarab;Nam Nguyen;Tandy Warnow

  • KaKs_Calculator: calculating Ka and Ks through model selection and model averaging.

    Zhang Zhang;Jun Li;Xiao-Qian Zhao;Jun Wang;Jun Wang

  • The diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual.

    Jun Wang;Wei Wang;Ruiqiang Li;Ruiqiang Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li

  • SOAPdenovo-Trans: de novo transcriptome assembly with short RNA-Seq reads

    Yinlong Xie;Yinlong Xie;Gengxiong Wu;Jingbo Tang;Ruibang Luo

  • The Genomes of Oryza sativa: a history of duplications.

    Jun Yu;Jun Yu;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Wei Lin;Songgang Li;Songgang Li

  • Characterization of the Gut Microbiome Using 16S or Shotgun Metagenomics.

    Juan Jovel;Jordan Patterson;Weiwei Wang;Naomi Hotte

  • TreeFam: a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families

    Heng Li;Avril Coghlan;Jue Ruan;Lachlan James M. Coin

  • A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms

    Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Bin Liu;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang

  • A Universal Probe Set for Targeted Sequencing of 353 Nuclear Genes from Any Flowering Plant Designed Using k-Medoids Clustering.

    Matthew G. Johnson;Lisa Pokorny;Steven Dodsworth;Steven Dodsworth;Laura R. Botigue

  • Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project.

    Naim Matasci;Ling Hong Hung;Zhixiang Yan;Eric J. Carpenter

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • The genome of flax (Linum usitatissimum) assembled de novo from short shotgun sequence reads.

    Zhiwen Wang;Neil Hobson;Leonardo Galindo;Shilin Zhu

  • A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots

    Yuannian Jiao;Jim Leebens-Mack;Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam;John E. Bowers

  • Pigs in sequence space: a 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing.

    Rasmus Wernersson;Mikkel H Schierup;Frank G Jørgensen;Jan Gorodkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
Yong Zhang
Yong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Sean W. Graham
Sean W. Graham University of British Columbia
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis University of Florida
Ruiqiang Li
Ruiqiang Li Novogene (China)
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida

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