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Ecology and Evolution

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Overview

John K. Colbourne is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span several areas within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, emphasizing intersections between molecular biology, ecology, genetics, environmental chemistry, and toxicology.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on evolutionary dynamics, environmental health, and biochemical analyses. Notable papers include:

  • Broccoli: Combining Phylogenetic and Network Analyses for Orthology Assignment, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Progress towards an OECD reporting framework for transcriptomics and metabolomics in regulatory toxicology, 2021, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  • Perfluoroalkyl Substances Stimulate Insulin Secretion by Islet β Cells via G Protein-Coupled Receptor 40, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Extensive standing genetic variation from a small number of founders enables rapid adaptation in Daphnia, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Daphnia as a Sentinel Species for Environmental Health Protection: A Perspective on Biomonitoring and Bioremediation of Chemical Pollution, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Luisa Orsini
  • Mark R. Viant
  • Stefan Scholz
  • Jiarui Zhou
  • Joseph R. Shaw

John K. Colbourne's work regularly appears in several publication venues, highlighting their engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed outlets. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Toxicology Letters
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Their main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The subfields of their work incorporate:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Genetics
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Among the primary topics John K. Colbourne investigates are:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Best Publications

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

    Jessica Alföldi;Federica Di Palma;Manfred Grabherr;Christina Williams

  • Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GSFlx

    Eli Meyer;Galina V Aglyamova;Shi Wang;Jade Buchanan-Carter

  • Rapid, local adaptation of zooplankton behavior to changes in predation pressure in the absence of neutral genetic changes

    C Cousyn;L De Meester;JK Colbourne;L Brendonck

  • The genomic landscape of rapid repeated evolutionary adaptation to toxic pollution in wild fish.

    Noah M. Reid;Dina A. Proestou;Bryan W. Clark;Wesley C. Warren

  • Genomes of the rice pest brown planthopper and its endosymbionts reveal complex complementary contributions for host adaptation

    Jian Xue;Xin Zhou;Chuan-Xi Zhang;Li-Li Yu

  • Gut pathology and responses to the microsporidium Nosema ceranae in the honey bee Apis mellifera.

    Claudia Dussaubat;Jean Luc Brunet;Mariano Higes;John K. Colbourne

  • THE QUANTITATIVE AND MOLECULAR GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF A SUBDIVIDED SPECIES

    Michael Lynch;Michael Pfrender;Ken Spitze;Niles Lehman

  • Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms

    Mathew Seymour;Isabelle Durance;Bernard J. Cosby;Emma Ransom-Jones

  • The Systematics of North American Daphnia (Crustacea: Anomopoda): A Molecular Phylogenetic Approach

    John Kenneth Colbourne;Paul D. N. Hebert

  • A millennial-scale chronicle of evolutionary responses to cultural eutrophication in Daphnia.

    Dagmar Frisch;Philip K. Morton;Priyanka Roy Chowdhury;Billy W. Culver

  • The scale of divergence: a phylogenetic appraisal of intercontinental allopatric speciation in a passively dispersed freshwater zooplankton genus.

    Sarah J. Adamowicz;Adam Petrusek;John K. Colbourne;Paul D.N. Hebert

  • The Role of Omics in the Application of Adverse Outcome Pathways for Chemical Risk Assessment

    Erica K Brockmeier;Geoff Hodges;Thomas H Hutchinson;Emma Butler

  • Conservation, loss, and redeployment of Wnt ligands in protostomes: implications for understanding the evolution of segment formation

    Ralf Janssen;Martine Le Gouar;Matthias Pechmann;Francis Poulin;Francis Poulin

  • Phylogenetics and evolution of a circumarctic species complex (Cladocera: Daphnia pulex)

    J. K. Colbourne;T. J. Crease;L. J. Weider;P. D. N. Hebert

  • Function and Evolution of DNA Methylation in Nasonia vitripennis

    Xu Wang;David Wheeler;Amanda Avery;Alfredo Rago

  • Phylogenetics and Evolution of theDaphnia longispinaGroup (Crustacea) Based on 12S rDNA Sequence and Allozyme Variation

    Derek J. Taylor;Paul D.N. Hebert;John K. Colbourne

  • Long-term genetic shifts in a microcrustacean egg bank associated with anthropogenic changes in the Lake Constance ecosystem

    Lawrence J. Weider;Winfried Lampert;Martin Wessels;John K. Colbourne

  • Multiple origins of pyrethroid insecticide resistance across the species complex of a nontarget aquatic crustacean, Hyalella azteca

    Donald P. Weston;Helen C. Poynton;Gary A. Wellborn;Michael J. Lydy

  • ESTPiper - a web-based analysis pipeline for expressed sequence tags

    Zuojian Tang;Jeong Hyeon Choi;Chris Hemmerich;Ankita Sarangi

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Karel De Schamphelaere
Karel De Schamphelaere Ghent University
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Lawrence J. Weider
Lawrence J. Weider University of Oklahoma
Colin R. Janssen
Colin R. Janssen Ghent University
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Arizona State University
Haixu Tang
Haixu Tang Indiana University

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