James Pease, Associate Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
Graduate Program Director in Biology
Robert and Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship
Faculty Director of STEM Scholarships Programs
Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science
peasejb@wfu.edu
Winston Hall 238
(336) 758-5567
Pease Lab Website
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan 2015-2016
Areas of Research:
Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Selected Publications:
Pease JB, Weinheimer EI. Phylogenetic analysis under heterogeneity and discordance. 2023. In Species Tree Inference. LS Kubatko and LL Knowles, editors. Princeton Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691207605/species-tree-inference
Pease JB*, Driver RJ*, de la Cerda DA, Day LB, Lindsay WR, Schlinger BA, Schuppe ER, Balakrishnan CN, Fuxjager MJ. Layered evolution of gene expression in “superfast” muscles for courtship 2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(14) e2119671119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119671119
Steger CL, Boudreaux CE, LaConte LE, Pease JB, McDonald SM. Group A Rotavirus VP1 polymerase and VP2 core shell proteins: Intergenotypic sequence variation and in vitro functional compatibility 2019. Journal of Virology 93 (2) e01642-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01642-18
Pease JB, Brown JW, Walker JF, Hinchliff CE, Smith SA. Quartet Sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life. American Journal of Botany. 105(3): 385–403.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2
Pease JB, Haak DC, Hahn MW, Moyle LC. 2016. Phylogenomics reveals three sources of adaptive variation during a rapid radiation. PLoS Biology 14(2): e1002379. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002379.
Pease JB, Guerrero RF, Sherman NA, Hahn MW, Moyle LC. 2016. Molecular mechanisms of postmating prezygotic reproductive isolation uncovered by transcriptome analysis. Molecular Ecology. 25: 2592–2608. doi: 10.1111/mec.13679.
Pease JB, Rosenzweig BK. (Online). Encoding data using biological principles: the Multisample Variant Format for phylogenomics and population genomics. 2015. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1109/tcbb.2015.2509997.
Fontaine, MC*, Pease JB*, Steele A, Waterhouse RM, Neafsey DE, Sharakhov IV, Jiang X, Hall AB, Catteruccia F, Kakani E, Mitchell SN, Wu Y, Smith HA, Love RR, Lawniczak MK, Slotman MA, Emrich SJ, Hahn MW, Besansky NJ. 2015. Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics. Science. 347 (6217), 1258524. doi: 10.1126/science.1258524.