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Professor ANGUS DAVISON's Outputs (36)

The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors (2024)
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Koene, J. M., Jackson, D. J., Nakadera, Y., Cerveau, N., Madoui, M. A., Noel, B., Jamilloux, V., Poulain, J., Labadie, K., Da Silva, C., Davison, A., Feng, Z. .-P., Adema, C. M., Klopp, C., Aury, J. M., Wincker, P., & Coutellec, M. .-A. (2024). The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 29213. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78520-1

The great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis has served as a model organism for over a century in diverse disciplines such as neurophysiology, evolution, ecotoxicology and developmental biology. To support both established uses and newly emerging research... Read More about The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors.

Continuous variation in the shell colour of the snail Cepaea nemoralis is associated with the colour locus of the supergene (2024)
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Chowdhury, M., Johansen, M., & Davison, A. (2024). Continuous variation in the shell colour of the snail Cepaea nemoralis is associated with the colour locus of the supergene. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(9), 1091-1100. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae093

While the shell of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis is typically classed as yellow, pink, or brown, the reality is that colour variation is continuously distributed. To further understand the origin of the continuous variation, we used crosses of C. n... Read More about Continuous variation in the shell colour of the snail Cepaea nemoralis is associated with the colour locus of the supergene.

High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis (2024)
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Davison, A., Chowdhury, M., Johansen, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Programme, Uliano-Silva, M., & Blaxter, M. (2024). High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis. BMC Genomics, 25(1), Article 596. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10505-w

Molluscan mitochondrial genomes are unusual because they show wide variation in size, radical genome rearrangements and frequently show high variation (>10%) within species. As progress in understanding this variation has been limited, we used whole... Read More about High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map (2023)
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Johansen, M., Saenko, S., Schilthuizen, M., Berriman, M., Durbin, R., Lawniczak, M., Reeks, S., Howe, K., Holroyd, N., McKenna, V., Niu, H., Platte, R., Howard, C., Amaral, R., Griffiths, A., Mbye, H., Oatley, G., Prestwood, L., Sampaio, F., Sheerin, E., …Davison, A. (2023). Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map. Heredity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00648-z

Molluscs are a highly speciose phylum that exhibits an astonishing array of colours and patterns, yet relatively little progress has been made in identifying the underlying genes that determine phenotypic variation. One prominent example is the land... Read More about Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map.

Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis (2022)
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Ramos-Gonzalez, D., Saenko, S. V., & Davison, A. (2022). Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(8), 1110-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14060

Although snails of the genus Cepaea have historically been important in studying colour polymorphism, an ongoing issue is that there is a lack of knowledge of the underlying genetics of the polymorphism, as well as an absence of genomic data to put f... Read More about Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells (2021)
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Jackson, H. J., Larsson, J., & Davison, A. (2021). Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells. Ecology and Evolution, 11(11), 6634-6648. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7517

The nature of shell growth in gastropods is useful because it preserves the ontogeny of shape, colour, and banding patterns, making them an ideal system for understanding how inherited variation develops, is established and maintained within a popula... Read More about Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells.

Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology (2021)
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Davison, A., & Neiman, M. (2021). Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 376(1825), Article 20200163. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0163

Molluscs are among the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, no individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. We here make the case that both perceptual and methodological barriers ha... Read More about Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology.

Qualitative and quantitative methods show stability in patterns of Cepaea nemoralis shell polymorphism in the Pyrenees over five decades (2021)
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Ramos-Gonzalez, D., & Davison, A. (2021). Qualitative and quantitative methods show stability in patterns of Cepaea nemoralis shell polymorphism in the Pyrenees over five decades. Ecology and Evolution, 11(11), 6167-6183. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7443

Over the past century, the study of animal color has been critical in establishing some of the founding principles of biology, especially in genetics and evolution. In this regard, one of the emerging strengths of working with the land snail genus Ce... Read More about Qualitative and quantitative methods show stability in patterns of Cepaea nemoralis shell polymorphism in the Pyrenees over five decades.

The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis (2021)
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Saenko, S. V., Groenenberg, D. S., Davison, A., & Schilthuizen, M. (2021). The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis. G3, 11(2), Article jkaa071. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaa071

© The Author(s) 2021. Studies on the shell color and banding polymorphism of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis and the sister taxon Cepaea hortensis have provided compelling evidence for the fundamental role of natural selection in promoting and maint... Read More about The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis (2021)
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Dong, N., Bandura, J., Zhang, Z., Wang, Y., Labadie, K., Noel, B., Davison, A., Koene, J. M., Sun, H. S., Coutellec, M. A., & Feng, Z. P. (2021). Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis. BMC Genomics, 22, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07287-2

© 2021, The Author(s). Background: The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (L. stagnalis) has been widely used as a model organism in neurobiology, ecotoxicology, and parasitology due to the relative simplicity of its central nervous system (CNS). However,... Read More about Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis.

Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research (2020)
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Marden, E., Abbott, R. J., Austerlitz, F., Ortiz-Barrientos, D., Baucom, R. S., Bongaerts, P., Bonin, A., Bonneaud, C., Browne, L., Alex Buerkle, C., Caicedo, A. L., Coltman, D. W., Cruzan, M. B., Davison, A., DeWoody, J. A., Dumbrell, A. J., Emerson, B. C., Fountain-Jones, N. M., Gillespie, R., Giraud, T., …Rieseberg, L. H. (2021). Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research. Molecular Ecology, 30(5), 1103-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15702

Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails (2020)
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Davison, A., & Thomas, P. (2020). Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails. Biology Letters, 16(6), Article 20200110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0110

© 2020 The Author(s). While animal bodies are typically bilaterally symmetric on the outside, the internal organs nearly always show an invariant left-right (LR) asymmetry. In comparison, snails are both internally and externally LR asymmetric, outwa... Read More about Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails.

Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails (2020)
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Davison, A., Thomas, P., & ‘Jeremy the snail’ citizen scientists. (2020). Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails. Biology Letters, 16(6), Article 20200110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0110

While animal bodies are typically bilaterally symmetric on the outside, the internal organs nearly always show an invariant left-right (LR) asymmetry. In comparison, snails are both internally and externally LR asymmetric, outwardly obvious in the sh... Read More about Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails.

Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila) (2020)
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SAADI, A. J., DAVISON, A., & WADE, C. M. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 190(2), 518-531. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz177

© 2020 The Linnean Society of London. We have undertaken a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Hygrophila based on 3112 sites of the large subunit and 5.8S ribosomal RNA genes. A clear basal division between Chilinoidea and Lymnaeoid... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila).

Flipping Shells! Unwinding LR Asymmetry in Mirror-Image Molluscs (2020)
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Davison, A. (2020). Flipping Shells! Unwinding LR Asymmetry in Mirror-Image Molluscs. Trends in Genetics, 36(3), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2019.12.003

© 2019 In seeking to understand the establishment of left–right (LR) asymmetry, a limiting factor is that most animals are ordinarily invariant in their asymmetry, except when manipulated or mutated. It is therefore surprising that the wider scientif... Read More about Flipping Shells! Unwinding LR Asymmetry in Mirror-Image Molluscs.

Formin, an opinion (2020)
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Davison, A., McDowell, G. S., Holden, J. M., Johnson, H. F., Wade, C. M., Chiba, S., Jackson, D. J., Levin, M., & Blaxter, M. L. (2020). Formin, an opinion. Development, 147(1), Article dev187427. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.187427

A new set of endogenous control genes for use in quantitative real-time PCR experiments show that formin Ldia2dex transcripts are enriched in the early embryo of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Panpulmonata) (2019)
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Johnson, H. F., & Davison, A. (2019). A new set of endogenous control genes for use in quantitative real-time PCR experiments show that formin Ldia2dex transcripts are enriched in the early embryo of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Panpulmonata). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 85(4), 388-396. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyz027

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Malacological Society of London, all rights reserved. Although the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis is an emerging model organism for molecular studies in a wide variety of field... Read More about A new set of endogenous control genes for use in quantitative real-time PCR experiments show that formin Ldia2dex transcripts are enriched in the early embryo of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Panpulmonata).

Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird (2019)
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Kim, K.-W., Jackson, B. C., Zhang, H., Toews, D. P. L., Taylor, S. A., Greig, E. I., Lovette, I. J., Liu, M. M., Davison, A., Griffith, S. C., Zeng, K., & Burke, T. (2019). Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 1852. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09806-6

Colour polymorphisms play a key role in sexual selection and speciation, yet the mechanisms that generate and maintain them are not fully understood. Here, we use genomic and transcriptomic tools to identify the precise genetic architecture and evolu... Read More about Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird.