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Professor ANGUS DAVISON's Outputs (29)

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.

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.

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.

Temporal expression profile of an accessory-gland protein that is transferred via the seminal fluid of the simultaneous hermaphrodite Lymnaea stagnalis (2019)
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Swart, E. M., Davison, A., Ellers, J., Filangieri, R. R., Jackson, D. J., Mariën, J., Van Der Ouderaa, I. B., Roelofs, D., & Koene, J. M. (2019). Temporal expression profile of an accessory-gland protein that is transferred via the seminal fluid of the simultaneous hermaphrodite Lymnaea stagnalis. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 85(2), 177-183. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyz005

Male accessory-gland proteins are known to affect female physiology in multiple ways, maximizing a male's reproductive success-often at a cost to the female. Due to this inherent sexual conflict, accessory gland proteins (ACPs) are generally studied... Read More about Temporal expression profile of an accessory-gland protein that is transferred via the seminal fluid of the simultaneous hermaphrodite Lymnaea stagnalis.

Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis (2019)
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Davison, A., Jackson, H. J., Murphy, E. W., & Reader, T. (2019). Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Heredity, 123(2), 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0189-z

Biologists have long tried to describe and name the different phenotypes that make up the shell polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Traditionally, the view is that the ground colour of the shell is one of a few major colour classes, eith... Read More about Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Recombination within the Cepaea nemoralis supergene is confounded by incomplete penetrance and epistasis (2019)
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Ramos Gonzalez, D., Aramendia, A. C., & Davison, A. (2019). Recombination within the Cepaea nemoralis supergene is confounded by incomplete penetrance and epistasis. Heredity, 123(2), 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0190-6

Although the land snail Cepaea nemoralis is one of the most thoroughly investigated colour polymorphic species, there have been few recent studies on the inheritance of the shell traits. Previously, it has been shown that the shell polymorphism is co... Read More about Recombination within the Cepaea nemoralis supergene is confounded by incomplete penetrance and epistasis.