Alverson:Publications
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Angiosperm organelle genomes
- Richardson, A. O., D. W. Rice, G. J. Young, A. J. Alverson, and J. D. Palmer. 2013. The "fossilized" mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: Ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate. BMC Biology. 11:29. doi: doi:10.1186/1741-7007-11-29
- Zheng, Y-H., A. J. Alverson, Q-F. Wang, and J. D. Palmer. 2013. A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny of Cucurbita: Evolution of domesticated and wild species. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/jse.12006
- Sloan, D. B., A. J. Alverson, M. Wu, J. D. Palmer, and D. R. Taylor. Recent acceleration of plastid sequence and structural evolution coincides with extreme mitochondrial divergence within the angiosperm genus Silene. 2012. Genome Biology and Evolution 4, 294-306. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evs006
- Sloan, D. B., A. J. Alverson, J. P. Chuckalovcak, M. Wu, D. E. McCauley, J. D. Palmer, and D. R. Taylor. 2012. Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plants. PLoS Biology 10(1): e1001241 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001241 F1000
- Mower, J. P., D. B. Sloan, and A. J. Alverson. 2012. Plant mitochondrial genome diversity: The genomics revolution. pp. 123–144 in Wendel, J. F., J. Greilhuber, J. Dolezel, and I. J. Leitch (eds). Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics. Springer Verlag.
- Alverson, A. J., D. W. Rice, S. Dickinson, Barry, K., and J. D. Palmer. 2011. Origins and recombination of the bacterial-sized multichromosomal mitochondrial genome of cucumber (Cucumis sativus). The Plant Cell 23, 2499-2513. doi: 10.1105/tpc.111.087189 Featured article
- Alverson, A. J., S. Zhuo, D. W. Rice, D. B. Sloan, and J. D. Palmer. 2011. The mitochondrial genome of the legume Vigna radiata and the analysis of recombination across short mitochondrial repeats. PLoS ONE 6(1): e16404.
- Alverson, A. J., X. X. Wei, D. W. Rice, D. B. Stern, K. Barry, and J. D. Palmer. 2010. Insights into the evolution of mitochondrial genome size from complete sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 27, 1436-1448. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msq029
- Sloan, D. B., A. H. MacQueen, A. J. Alverson, J. D. Palmer, and D. R. Taylor. 2010. Extensive loss of RNA editing sites in rapidly evolving Silene mitochondrial genomes: selection vs. retroprocessing as the driving force. Genetics 185, 1369-1380. doi: 10.1534/genetics.110.118000
- Sloan, D. B., A. J. Alverson, H. Storchova, J. D. Palmer, and D. R. Taylor. 2010. Extensive loss of translational genes in the structurally dynamic mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene latifolia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, 274. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-274
- Sanchez-Puerta, M. V., Y. Cho, J. P. Mower, A. J. Alverson, and J. D. Palmer. 2008. Frequent, phylogenetically local horizontal transfer of the cox1 group I intron in flowering plant mitochondria. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25, 1762-1777. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msn129
- Jansen, R. K., C. Kaittanis, C. Saski, S. B. Lee, J. Tomkins, A. J. Alverson, and H. Daniell. 2006. Phylogenetic analyses of Vitis (Vitaceae) based on complete chloroplast genome sequences: effects of taxon sampling and phylogenetic methods on resolving relationships among rosids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-32
- Jansen, R. K., L. A. Raubeson, J. L. Boore, C. W. DePamphilis, T. W. Chumley, R. C. Haberle, S. K. Wyman, A. J. Alverson, R. Peery, S. J. Herman, H. M. Fourcade, J. V. Kuehl, J. R. McNeal, J. Leebens-Mack, and L. Cui. 2005. Methods for obtaining and analyzing whole chloroplast genome sequences. In Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, Part B, pp. 348-384. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)95020-9
Diatoms
- Alverson, A. J., B. Beszteri, M. L. Julius, and E. C. Theriot. 2011. The model marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana likely descended from a freshwater ancestor in the genus Cyclotella. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 125. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-125
- Theriot, E. C., J. J. Cannone, R. R. Gutell, and A. J. Alverson 2009. The limits of nuclear-encoded SSU rDNA for resolving the diatom phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 44, 277-290. doi: 10.1080/09670260902749159
- Alverson, A. J. 2008. Molecular systematics and the diatom species. Protist 159, 339-353. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.04.001
- Alverson, A. J., R. K. Jansen, and E. C. Theriot. 2009. Reply to Medlin and Kaczmarska (2008). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 409–410.
- Alverson, A. J., R. K. Jansen, and E. C. Theriot. 2007. Bridging the Rubicon: Phylogenetic analysis reveals repeated colonizations of marine and fresh waters by thalassiosiroid diatoms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45, 193-210. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.024
- Alverson, A. J. 2007. Strong purifying selection in the silicon transporters of marine and freshwater diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 52, 1420-1429. doi: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1420
- Alverson, A. J., S-H. Kang, and E. C. Theriot. 2006. Cell wall morphology and systematic importance of Thalassiosira ritscheri (Hustedt) Hasle, with a description of Shionodiscus gen. nov. Diatom Research 21, 251-262. doi: 10.1080/0269249X.2006.9705667
- Thamatrakoln, K., A. J. Alverson, and M. Hildebrand. 2006. Comparative sequence analysis of diatom silicon transporters: Toward a mechanistic model of silicon transport. Journal of Phycology 42, 822-834. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00233.x
- Alverson, A. J., J. J. Cannone, R. R. Gutell, and E. C. Theriot. 2006. The evolution of elongate shape in diatoms. Journal of Phycology 42, 655-668. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00228.x
- Alverson, A. J., and L. Kolnick. 2005. Intragenomic nucleotide polymorphism among small subunit (18S) rDNA paralogs in the diatom genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Phycology 41, 1248-1257. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00136.x
- Alverson, A. J., and E. C. Theriot. 2005. Comments on recent progress toward reconstructing the diatom phylogeny. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 5, 57-62. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2005.007
- Alverson, A. J., K. M. Manoylov, and R. J. Stevenson. 2003. Laboratory sources of error for community attributes from counting algae. Journal of Applied Phycology 15: 357–369.
- Alverson, A. J. and G. W. Courtney. 2002. Temporal patterns of diatom ingestion by larval net-winged midges (Diptera: Blephariceridae: Blepharicera). Freshwater Biology 47: 2087–2097.
- Alverson, A. J., M. R. Luttenton, and G. W. Courtney. 2001. Niche overlap of sympatric Blepharicera larvae (Diptera: Blephariceridae) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20: 564–581.


