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Overview

Jill L. Wegrzyn is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields, with a strong focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The primary subfields of study for Wegrzyn include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecology. Their work explores various aspects of plant biology and genetics, integrating molecular, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives.

Wegrzyn's research topics cover a wide array of subjects such as:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Bioenergy crop production and management

Their frequent co-authors include Cynthia Webster, David B. Neale, Nicole Pauloski, Laura Figueroa-Corona, and Bernard Goffinet, reflecting ongoing collaborations within the plant genomics and biology community.

Wegrzyn has published extensively in several scientific venues, with a higher concentration of papers appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Applications in Plant Sciences

Notable recent publications include:

  • The Cycas genome and the early evolution of seed plants (2022) in Nature Plants
  • Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Reference Genome Sequence for Giant Sequoia (2020) in G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non-model plant genomes (2023) in Applications in Plant Sciences

Best Publications

  • Decoding the massive genome of loblolly pine using haploid DNA and novel assembly strategies

    David B. Neale;Jill L. Wegrzyn;Kristian A. Stevens;Aleksey V. Zimin

  • 15 years of GDR: New data and functionality in the Genome Database for Rosaceae.

    Sook Jung;Taein Lee;Chun-Huai Cheng;Katheryn Buble

  • Patterns of Population Structure and Environmental Associations to Aridity Across the Range of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L., Pinaceae)

    Andrew J. Eckert;Joost van Heerwaarden;Jill L. Wegrzyn;C. Dana Nelson

  • Sequencing and Assembly of the 22-Gb Loblolly Pine Genome

    Aleksey Zimin;Kristian A. Stevens;Marc W. Crepeau;Ann Holtz-Morris

  • Back to nature: ecological genomics of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, Pinaceae)

    Andrew J. Eckert;Andrew D. Bower;Santiago C. González-Martínez;Jill L. Wegrzyn

  • Association Genetics of Coastal Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii, Pinaceae). I. Cold-Hardiness Related Traits

    Andrew J. Eckert;Andrew D. Bower;Jill L. Wegrzyn;Barnaly Pande

  • EnTAP: Bringing faster and smarter functional annotation to non-model eukaryotic transcriptomes

    Alexander J Hart;Samuel Ginzburg;Muyang Sam Xu;Cera R Fisher

  • Unique Features of the Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.) Megagenome Revealed through Sequence Annotation

    Jill L. Wegrzyn;John D. Liechty;Kristian A. Stevens;Le Shin Wu

  • The walnut (Juglans regia) genome sequence reveals diversity in genes coding for the biosynthesis of non-structural polyphenols

    Pedro J. Martínez-García;Marc W. Crepeau;Daniela Puiu;Daniel Gonzalez-Ibeas

  • Sequence of the Sugar Pine Megagenome.

    Kristian A. Stevens;Jill L. Wegrzyn;Aleksey Zimin;Daniela Puiu

  • Disentangling the roles of history and local selection in shaping clinal variation of allele frequencies and gene expression in Norway spruce (Picea abies).

    Jun Chen;Thomas Källman;Xiaofei Ma;Niclas Gyllenstrand

  • The Pinus taeda genome is characterized by diverse and highly diverged repetitive sequences

    Allen Kovach;Jill L. Wegrzyn;Genis Parra;Carson Holt

  • Association genetics of traits controlling lignin and cellulose biosynthesis in black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa, Salicaceae) secondary xylem.

    Jill L. Wegrzyn;Andrew J. Eckert;Minyoung Choi;Jennifer M. Lee

  • Multilocus Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity and Divergence Reveal Positive Selection at Candidate Genes Related to Cold Hardiness in Coastal Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii)

    Andrew J. Eckert;Jill L. Wegrzyn;Barnaly Pande;Kathleen D. Jermstad

  • Association Mapping of Quantitative Disease Resistance in a Natural Population of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.)

    Tania Quesada;Vikneswaran Gopal;W. Patrick Cumbie;Andrew J. Eckert

  • An improved assembly of the loblolly pine mega-genome using long-read single-molecule sequencing.

    Aleksey V. Zimin;Aleksey V. Zimin;Kristian A. Stevens;Marc W. Crepeau;Daniela Puiu

  • Lineage, fate, and fate potential of NG2-glia

    Akiko Nishiyama;Linda Boshans;Christopher M. Goncalves;Jill Wegrzyn

  • TreeGenes: A Forest Tree Genome Database

    Jill L. Wegrzyn;Jennifer M. Lee;Brandon R. Tearse;David B. Neale

  • The Douglas-Fir Genome Sequence Reveals Specialization of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Pinaceae.

    David B. Neale;Patrick E. McGuire;Nicholas C. Wheeler;Kristian A. Stevens

  • This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Copyedited and fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Decoding the massive genome of loblolly pine using haploid DNA and novel assembly strategies

    Jill L Wegrzyn;Kristian A Stevens;Daniela Puiu;Marc W Crepeau

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Neale
David B. Neale University of California, Davis
Charles H. Langley
Charles H. Langley University of California, Davis
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Vivian Hook
Vivian Hook University of California, San Diego
Daniela Puiu
Daniela Puiu Johns Hopkins University
James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke University of Maryland, College Park
Mark Yandell
Mark Yandell University of Utah
Richard Cronn
Richard Cronn US Forest Service
Abhaya M. Dandekar
Abhaya M. Dandekar University of California, Davis
Pieter J. de Jong
Pieter J. de Jong UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

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