Publications


Xu MRX*, Liao ZY*, Brock JR*, Kang D*, Li GY, Chen ZQ, Wang YH, Gao ZN, Agarwal G, Wei KHC, Shao F, Pang S, Platts AE, van de Velde J, Lin HM, Teresi SJ, Bird KA, Niederhuth CE, Xu JG, Yu GH , Yang JY, Dai SF, Nelson A, Braasch I, Zhang XG, Schartl M, Edger PP, Han MJ, Zhang HH. (Accepted) Maternal dominance contributes to subgenome differentiation in allopolyploid fishes. Nature Communications

Bird KA*, Jackson JP*, Winston AS*. (In Press). Confronting Scientific Racism in Psychology: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology and Genetics. American Psychologist Special Issue: Dismantling racism in the field of psychology and beyond

Bird KA (2023) What’s DNA got to say about who you are? Review of: Ancestry reimagined: Dismantling the myth of genetic ethnicities. 2023. By Kostas Kampourakis (Ed.), New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 248pp. 29.99/ 40.00 (ebook/hbk). ISBN: 9780197656341. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Bird KA, Pires JC, VanBuren R, Xiong Z, & Edger PP. (2023).Dosage-sensitivity shapes how genes transcriptionally respond to allopolyploidy and homoeologous exchange in resynthesized Brassica napus. GENETICS, p.iyad114.

De Meyer S, Cruz DF, De Swaef T, Lootens P, De Block J, Bird KA, … & Maere S. (2023). Predicting yield of individual field-grown rapeseed plants from rosette-stage leaf gene expression. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(5), e1011161.

Bird KA, MacKenzie Jacobs M*,,Sebolt A, Rhoades K, Alger EI, Colle M, Alekman ML, Bies PK, Cario AJ, Chigurupat RS, Collazo DR, Finley S, Garland B, Hein KM, Hicks J, Hillenberg AR, Kado LI, Kilian VR, Longueuil PF, Mahesha V, Mervak C, Munsell K,Patel RM, Peters NML, Steffes MO, Suryadevara S, Thummalapally A, Urban G, Walia AK, Wirsing TB, McKain MR, Iezzoni AF, Edger PP. (2022) Parental origins of the cultivated tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.). Plants, People, Planet, 4( 5), 444– 450

Yim, WC, Swain ML, Ma D, An H, Bird KA, Curdie DD, … & Zhang X.(2022). The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid Brassica carinata genome. The Plant Cell.

Fuentes A & Bird KA (2022) Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 45, E162.

Bird KA, Hardigan MA, Ragsdale AP, Knapp SJ, VanBuren R, & Edger PP (2021). Diversification, Spread, and Admixture of Octoploid Strawberry in the Western Hemisphere. American Journal of Botany.

Hardigan MA, Lorant A, Pincot DD, Feldmann MJ, Famula RA, Acharya CB, Lee S, Verma S, Whitaker VM, Bassil N, Zurn J, Cole GS, Bird KA, Edger PP, & Knapp SJ (2021). Unraveling the complex hybrid ancestry and domestication history of cultivated strawberry. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(6), 2285-2305.

McAlvay AC, Ragsdale AP, Mabry ME, Qi X, Bird KA, Velasco P, An H, Pires JC, & Emshwiller E (2021). Brassica Rapa domestication: untangling wild and feral forms and convergence of crop morphotypes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. msab108

Bird KA.(2021). No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black-white achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175: 465– 476

Bird KA, Niederhuth C, Ou S, Gehan M, Pires JC, Xiong Z, VanBuren R, Edger PP (2021) Replaying the evolutionary tape to investigate subgenome dominance in allopolyploid Brassica napus. New Phytologist. 230(1), 354-371.

Tichko P, Bird KA, Kohn G (2021). Beyond “consistent with” adaptation: Is there a robust test for music adaptation? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E115. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001132

Turner-Hissong SD, Bird KA, Lipka AE, King EG, Beissinger TM, & Angelovici R. (2020). Genomic prediction informed by biological processes expands our understanding of the genetic architecture underlying free amino acid traits in dry Arabidopsis seeds. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(11), 4227-4239.

Hardigan, MA, Feldmann, MJ, Lorant, A, Bird, KA, Famula, R, Acharya, C, … & Knapp, SJ (2020). Genome Synteny Has Been Conserved Among the Octoploid Progenitors of Cultivated Strawberry Over Millions of Years of Evolution. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 1789.

Barbey C, Lee S, Verma S, Bird KA, Yocca AE, Edger PP, Knapp SJ, Whitaker VM and Folta KM. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. (2019) Disease Resistance Genetics and Genomics in Octoploid Strawberry. colume 9, 3315-3332 https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400597

Edger PP, Poorten TJ, VanBuren R, Hardigan MA, Colle M, McKain MR, Smith RD, Teresi SJ, Nelson ADL, Wai CM, Alger EI, Bird KA, Yocca AE, Pumplin N, Ou S, Ben-Zvi G, Brodt A, Baruch K, Swale T, Shiue L, Acharya CB, Cole GS, Mower JP, Childs KL, Jiang N, Lyons E, Freeling M, Puzey JR & Knapp SJ. (2019) Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome. Nature Genetics, volume 51, 541–547

Colle M, Leisner CP, Wai CM, Ou S, Bird KA, Wang J, Wisecaver JH, Yocca AE, Alger EI, Tang H, Xiong Z, Callow P, Ben-Zvi G, Brodt A, Baruch K, Swale T, Shiue L, Song G, Childs KL, Schilmiller A, Vorsa N,Buell CR, VanBuren R, Jiang N, Edger PP. (2019) Haplotype-phased genome and evolution of phytonutrient pathways of tetraploid blueberry. GigaScience, giz012.

Bird KA, VanBuren R, Puzey JR, & Edger PP (2018). The causes and consequences of subgenome dominance in hybrids and recent polyploids. New Phytologist.

Edger PP, McKain MR, Bird KA, & VanBuren R (2018). Subgenome assignment in allopolyploids: challenges and future directions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 42, 76-80.

Bird KA, An H, Gazave E, Gore MA, Pires JC, Robertson LD, & Labate JA (2017). Population structure and phylogenetic relationships in a diverse panel of Brassica rapa L. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 321.

Washburn JD, Bird KA, Conant GC, & Pires JC (2016). Convergent evolution and the origin of complex phenotypes in the age of systems biology. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 177(4), 305-318.

Edge, PP*, Tang M*, Bird KA, Mayfield DR, Conant GC, Mummenhoff K, Koch MA, & Pires JC (2014). Secondary structure analyses of the nuclear rRNA internal transcribed spacers and assessment of its phylogenetic utility across the Brassicaceae (mustards). PLOS ONE, 9(7), e101341.

* these authors contributed equally