James Pease, Assistant Professor of Biology
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Assistant Professor of Biology
Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science
peasejb@wfu.edu
Winston Hall 240
(336) 758-5567
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan 2015-2016
Areas of Research:
Genomics, Evolution, Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics, Bioinformatics
Selected Publications:
Marayati BF, Drayton AL, Tucker JF, Huckabee RH, Anderson AM, Pease JB, Zeyl CW, Zhang K. Loss of Elongation-Like Factor 1 Spontaneously Induces Diverse, RNase H-Related Suppressor Mutations in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics. 2018 Aug;209(4):967-981.
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.
Pease JB, Hahn MW. 2015. Detection and polarization of introgression in a five-taxon phylogeny. Systematic Biology 64 (4): 651–662. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syv023.
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.