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McMaster University: Hamilton, Ontario, CA

2004-03-01 to present | Professor (Biology)
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Ben Jonathan Evans

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Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2024-12-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae234
Contributors: Ben J Evans; Václav Gvoždík; Martin Knytl; Caroline M S Cauret; Anthony Herrel; Eli Greenbaum; Jay Patel; Tharindu Premachandra; Theodore J Papenfuss; James Parente et al.
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Multiplex PCR reveals population structure in an inbred communal bird

2024-01-31 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.29.577869
Contributors: Sarah Babaei; Leanne A. Grieves; Ben Evans; James S. Quinn
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Functional dissection and assembly of a small, newly evolved, W chromosome-specific genomic region of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis.

PLoS genetics
2023-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010990
PMID: 37792893
PMC: PMC10578606
Contributors: Cauret CMS; Jordan DC; Kukoly LM; Burton SR; Anele EU; Kwiecien JM; Gansauge MT; Senthillmohan S; Greenbaum E; Meyer M et al.
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Ben Jonathan Evans via Europe PubMed Central

Consequences of polyploidy and divergence as revealed by cytogenetic mapping of tandem repeats in African clawed frogs (Xenopus, Pipidae)

European Journal of Wildlife Research
2023-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10344-023-01709-8
Contributors: Nicola R. Fornaini; Barbora Bergelová; Václav Gvoždík; Halina Černohorská; Vladimír Krylov; Svatava Kubíčková; Eric B. Fokam; Gabriel Badjedjea; Ben J. Evans; Martin Knytl
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Species Delimitation, Phylogenomics, and Biogeography of Sulawesi Flying Lizards: A Diversification History Complicated by Ancient Hybridization, Cryptic Species, and Arrested Speciation

Systematic Biology
2023-08-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad020
Part of ISSN: 1063-5157
Part of ISSN: 1076-836X
Contributors: Jimmy McGuire; Xiaoting Huang; Sean B. Reilly; Djoko T Iskandar; Cynthia Y Wang-Claypool; Sarah Werning; Rebecca Chong; Shobi Z S Lawalata; Alexander L Stubbs; Jeffrey H Frederick et al.
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Ben Jonathan Evans

Large-scale functional screen identifies genetic variants with splicing effects in modern and archaic humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-05-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218308120
Contributors: Stephen Rong; Christopher R. Neil; Anastasia Welch; Chaorui Duan; Samantha Maguire; Ijeoma C. Meremikwu; Malcolm Meyerson; Ben J. Evans; William G. Fairbrother
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Population genomics and subgenome evolution of the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis in southern Africa

G3
2023-02-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac325
Contributors: Tharindu Premachandra; Caroline M S Cauret; Werner Conradie; John Measey; Ben J Evans; J. Wendel
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Mitonuclear Interactions and the Origin of Macaque Societies

Genome Biology and Evolution
2023-02-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad010
Contributors: Jianlong Zhu; Ben J Evans; Yoko Satta
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New insights into Xenopus sex chromosome genomics from the Marsabit clawed frog X. borealis

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14078
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Austin B. Mudd; Jessen V. Bredeson; Benjamin L. S. Furman; Domnick Victor Wasonga; Jessica B. Lyons; Richard M. Harland; Dan S. Rokhsar
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Population genomics of Xenopus laevis in southern Africa

2022-07-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.21.501003
Contributors: Tharindu Premachandra; Caroline M. S. Cauret; Werner Conradie; John Measey; Ben J. Evans
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Neofunctionalization of a Noncoding Portion of a DNA Transposon in the Coding Region of the Chimerical Sex-Determining Gene dm-W in Xenopus Frogs

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2022-07-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac138
Contributors: Shun Hayashi; Kosuke Suda; Fuga Fujimura; Makoto Fujikawa; Kei Tamura; Daisuke Tsukamoto; Ben J Evans; Nobuhiko Takamatsu; Michihiko Ito; Aya Takahashi
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Evolution of genes involved in the unusual genitals of the bear macaque, Macaca arctoides

Ecology and Evolution
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8897
Contributors: Laurie S. Stevison; Nick P. Bailey; Zachary A. Szpiech; Taylor E. Novak; Don J. Melnick; Ben J. Evans; Jeffrey D. Wall
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Mitonuclear interactions and introgression genomics of macaque monkeys ( Macaca ) highlight the influence of behaviour on genome evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1756
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Benjamin M. Peter; Don J. Melnick; Noviar Andayani; Jatna Supriatna; Jianlong Zhu; Anthony J. Tosi
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A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘ sexomics ’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-08-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0426
Contributors: Matthias Stöck; Lukáš Kratochvíl; Heiner Kuhl; Michail Rovatsos; Ben J. Evans; Alexander Suh; Nicole Valenzuela; Frédéric Veyrunes; Qi Zhou; Tony Gamble et al.
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Sex chromosome degeneration, turnover, and sex-biased expression of sex-linked transcripts in African clawed frogs ( Xenopus )

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-08-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0095
Contributors: Xue-Ying Song; Benjamin L. S. Furman; Tharindu Premachandra; Martin Knytl; Caroline M. S. Cauret; Domnick Victor Wasonga; John Measey; Ian Dworkin; Ben J. Evans
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A frog with three sex chromosomes that co-mingle together in nature: Xenopus tropicalis has a degenerate W and a Y that evolved from a Z chromosome

PLOS Genetics
2020-11-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009121
Contributors: Benjamin L. S. Furman; Catherine L. Peichel; Caroline M. S. Cauret; Martin Knytl; Xue-Ying Song; Tharindu Premachandra; Caleb Ofori-Boateng; Danielle C. Jordan; Marko E. Horb; Ben J. Evans
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Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals

Journal of Human Evolution
2020-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102852
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Marie-Theres Gansauge; Matthew W. Tocheri; Michael A. Schillaci; Thomas Sutikna; Jatmiko; E. Wahyu Saptomo; Amy Klegarth; Anthony J. Tosi; Don J. Melnick et al.
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Evolution of genes involved in the unusual genitals of the bear macaque,Macaca arctoides

2020-05-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.18.102251
Contributors: Laurie Stevison; Nick P Bailey; Zachary A Szpiech; Taylor E Novak; Don J Melnick; Ben J Evans; Jeffrey D Wall
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Developmental Systems Drift and the Drivers of Sex Chromosome Evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2020-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz268
Part of ISSN: 0737-4038
Part of ISSN: 1537-1719
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Ben Jonathan Evans

Generation, Coordination, and Evolution of Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication

The Journal of Neuroscience
2020-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0736-19.2019
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
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Ben Jonathan Evans

Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from?

PLOS ONE
2019-09-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220892
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Matthias Stöck; Marie-Theres Gansauge; Edward L. Stanley; Benjamin L. S. Furman; Caroline M. S. Cauret; Caleb Ofori-Boateng; Václav Gvoždík; Jeffrey W. Streicher; Eli Greenbaum et al.
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Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms.

Evolutionary anthropology
2019-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21787
PMID: 31222847
Contributors: Ackermann RR; Arnold ML; Baiz MD; Cahill JA; Cortés-Ortiz L; Evans BJ; Grant BR; Grant PR; Hallgrimsson B; Humphreys RA et al.
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Divergent subgenome evolution after allopolyploidization in African clawed frogs (Xenopus).

Journal of evolutionary biology
2018-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13391
PMID: 30341989
Contributors: Furman BLS; Dang UJ; Evans BJ; Golding GB
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Correction to ‘Speciation over the edge: gene flow among non-human primate species across a formidable biogeographic barrier’

Royal Society Open Science
2018-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180736
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Anthony J. Tosi; Kai Zeng; Jonathan Dushoff; André Corvelo; Don J. Melnick
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Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
2018-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2566
PMID: 29643207
PMC: PMC5904307
Contributors: Frantz LAF; Rudzinski A; Nugraha AMS; Evin A; Burton J; Hulme-Beaman A; Linderholm A; Barnett R; Vega R; Irving-Pease EK et al.
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Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories of Two Young, Homomorphic, and Closely Related Sex Chromosome Systems.

Genome biology and evolution
2018-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy045
PMID: 29608717
PMC: PMC5841384
Contributors: Furman BLS; Evans BJ
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Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events

2018-01 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/241448
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PPR20204
Contributors: Frantz L; Rudzinski A; Mansyursyah Surya Nugraha A; Evin A; Burton J; Hulme-Beaman A; Linderholm A; Barnett R; Vega R; Irving-Pease E et al.
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Speciation over the edge: gene flow among non-human primate species across a formidable biogeographic barrier

Royal Society Open Science
2017-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170351
Contributors: Ben J. Evans; Anthony J. Tosi; Kai Zeng; Jonathan Dushoff; André Corvelo; Don J. Melnick
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Evolution of the Largest Mammalian Genome.

Genome biology and evolution
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx113
PMID: 28854639
PMC: PMC5569995
Contributors: Evans BJ; Upham NS; Golding GB; Ojeda RA; Ojeda AA
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Chromosome divergence during evolution of the tetraploid clawed frogs, Xenopus mellotropicalis and Xenopus epitropicalis as revealed by Zoo-FISH.

PloS one
2017-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177087
PMID: 28545147
PMC: PMC5436656
Contributors: Knytl M; Smolík O; Kubíčková S; Tlapáková T; Evans BJ; Krylov V
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Limited genomic consequences of hybridization between two African clawed frogs, Xenopus gilli and X. laevis (Anura: Pipidae).

Scientific reports
2017-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01104-9
PMID: 28439068
PMC: PMC5430669
Contributors: Furman BLS; Cauret CMS; Colby GA; Measey GJ; Evans BJ
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Probing forebrain to hindbrain circuit functions in Xenopus.

Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)
2017-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22999
PMID: 28095617
PMC: PMC5321079
Contributors: Kelley DB; Elliott TM; Evans BJ; Hall IC; Leininger EC; Rhodes HJ; Yamaguchi A; Zornik E
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Multicopy gene family evolution on primate Y chromosomes

BMC Genomics
2016-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2187-8
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Sequential Turnovers of Sex Chromosomes in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) Suggest Some Genomic Regions Are Good at Sex Determination.

G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
2016-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.033423
PMID: 27605520
PMC: PMC5100861
Contributors: Furman BLS; Evans BJ
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A novel strain of cynomolgus macaque cytomegalovirus: implications for host-virus co-evolution.

BMC genomics
2016-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2588-3
PMID: 27044312
PMC: PMC4820910
Contributors: Russell JN; Marsh AK; Willer DO; Ambagala AP; Dzamba M; Chan JK; Pilon R; Fournier J; Brudno M; Antony JM et al.
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Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa.

PloS one
2015-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142823
PMID: 26672747
PMC: PMC4682732
Contributors: Evans BJ; Carter TF; Greenbaum E; Gvoždík V; Kelley DB; McLaughlin PJ; Pauwels OS; Portik DM; Stanley EL; Tinsley RC et al.
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Preface.

Cytogenetic and genome research
2015-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1159/000437176
PMID: 26202694
Contributors: Evans BJ; Schmid M
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Molecular Polymorphism and Divergence of Duplicated Genes in Tetraploid African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus).

Cytogenetic and genome research
2015-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1159/000431108
PMID: 26066830
Contributors: Evans BJ; Kwon T
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Polyploidy in Amphibia.

Cytogenetic and genome research
2015-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1159/000431388
PMID: 26112701
Contributors: Schmid M; Evans BJ; Bogart JP
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Pan-African phylogeography of a model organism, the African clawed frog 'Xenopus laevis'.

Molecular ecology
2015-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13076
PMID: 25583226
Contributors: Furman BL; Bewick AJ; Harrison TL; Greenbaum E; Gvoždík V; Kusamba C; Evans BJ
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A novel reproductive mode in frogs: a new species of fanged frog with internal fertilization and birth of tadpoles.

PloS one
2014-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115884
PMID: 25551466
PMC: PMC4281041
Contributors: Iskandar DT; Evans BJ; McGuire JA
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Reduced representation genome sequencing suggests low diversity on the sex chromosomes of tonkean macaque monkeys.

Molecular biology and evolution
2014-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu197
PMID: 24987106
Contributors: Evans BJ; Zeng K; Esselstyn JA; Charlesworth B; Melnick DJ
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Carving out turf in a biodiversity hotspot: multiple, previously unrecognized shrew species co-occur on Java Island, Indonesia.

Molecular ecology
2013-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12450
PMID: 24010862
Contributors: Esselstyn JA; Maharadatunkamsi; Achmadi AS; Siler CD; Evans BJ
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A comparison of host-defense peptides in skin secretions of female Xenopus laevis × Xenopus borealis and X. borealis × X. laevis F1 hybrids.

Peptides
2013-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2013.04.008
PMID: 23624316
Contributors: Mechkarska M; Prajeep M; Leprince J; Vaudry H; Meetani MA; Evans BJ; Conlon JM
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Stochastic faunal exchanges drive diversification in widespread Wallacean and Pacific island lizards (Squamata: Scincidae: Lamprolepis smaragdina)

Journal of biogeography
2013-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12022
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Contributors: Linkem CW; Brown RM; Siler CD; Evans BJ; Austin CC; Iskandar DT; Diesmos AC; Supriatna J; Andayani N; McGuire JA et al.
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A large pseudoautosomal region on the sex chromosomes of the frog Silurana tropicalis.

Genome biology and evolution
2013-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt073
PMID: 23666865
PMC: PMC3698919
Contributors: Bewick AJ; Chain FJ; Zimmerman LB; Sesay A; Gilchrist MJ; Owens ND; Seifertova E; Krylov V; Macha J; Tlapakova T et al.
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Genomic dynamics of transposable elements in the western clawed frog (Silurana tropicalis).

Genome biology and evolution
2013-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt065
PMID: 23645600
PMC: PMC3673623
Contributors: Shen JJ; Dushoff J; Bewick AJ; Chain FJ; Evans BJ
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The effect of nonindependent mate pairing on the effective population size.

Genetics
2012-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.146258
PMID: 23183666
PMC: PMC3567743
Contributors: Evans BJ; Charlesworth B
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Single-locus species delimitation: a test of the mixed Yule-coalescent model, with an empirical application to Philippine round-leaf bats.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
2012-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0705
PMID: 22764163
PMC: PMC3415896
Contributors: Esselstyn JA; Evans BJ; Sedlock JL; Anwarali Khan FA; Heaney LR
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The pipid root.

Systematic biology
2012-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys039
PMID: 22438331
Contributors: Bewick AJ; Chain FJ; Heled J; Evans BJ
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