Mark L Blaxter (Mark Blaxter)

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2016-2024
Publications (10 Years): 58

Top Venues

Wellcome open research

PLoS genetics

Nature ecology & evolution

PLoS biology

University of Edinburgh

University of London (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Edinburgh Sep 01 1996 - Jun 30 2019

United Kingdom

Professor :: Evolutionary Biology

Education History

University of London Sep 01 1982 - Jun 01 1987

United Kingdom

PHD :: London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine

Publications

Xiao Zhang, Mark L Blaxter, Jonathan M D Wood, Alan Tracey, Shane A McCarthy, Peter Thorpe, Jack G Rayner, Shangzhe Zhang, Kirstin L Sikkink, Susan L Balenger, Nathan W Bailey
Temporal genomics in Hawaiian crickets reveals compensatory intragenomic coadaptation during adaptive evolution. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Amjad Khalaf, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter, Kamil S Jaron
Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia. Microbiology spectrum 12 (2) (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (4) (2024)
Ellen S Cameron, Santiago Sanchez, Nick Goldman, Mark L Blaxter, Robert D Finn
Diversity and specificity of molecular functions in cyanobacterial symbionts. Scientific reports 14 (1) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Amjad Khalaf, Kamil S Jaron, Mark L Blaxter
Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa. The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (4) (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (4) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Amjad Khalaf, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter, Kamil S Jaron
Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia. Microbiology spectrum 12 (2) (2024)
Amjad Khalaf, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter, Kamil S Jaron
Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia. Microbiology spectrum (2024)
Ellen S Cameron, Santiago Sanchez, Nick Goldman, Mark L Blaxter, Robert D Finn
Diversity and specificity of molecular functions in cyanobacterial symbionts. Scientific reports 14 (1) (2024)
Xiao Zhang, Mark L Blaxter, Jonathan M D Wood, Alan Tracey, Shane A McCarthy, Peter Thorpe, Jack G Rayner, Shangzhe Zhang, Kirstin L Sikkink, Susan L Balenger, Nathan W Bailey
Temporal genomics in Hawaiian crickets reveals compensatory intragenomic coadaptation during adaptive evolution. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (4) (2024)
Charlotte J Wright, Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (4) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Manuela Kieninger, Brian Chan, Jonathan M D Wood, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Judith Allen, Mark L Blaxter
The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes. PLoS genetics 20 (1) (2024)
Xiao Zhang, Mark L Blaxter, Jonathan M D Wood, Alan Tracey, Shane A McCarthy, Peter Thorpe, Jack G Rayner, Shangzhe Zhang, Kirstin L Sikkink, Susan L Balenger, Nathan W Bailey
Temporal genomics in Hawaiian crickets reveals compensatory intragenomic coadaptation during adaptive evolution. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Ellen S Cameron, Santiago Sanchez, Nick Goldman, Mark L Blaxter, Robert D Finn
Diversity and specificity of molecular functions in cyanobacterial symbionts. Scientific reports 14 (1) (2024)
Amjad Khalaf, Mara N K Lawniczak, Mark L Blaxter, Kamil S Jaron
Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia. Microbiology spectrum 12 (2) (2024)
Lewis Stevens, Isaac Martínez-Ugalde, Erna King, Martin Wagah, Dominic Absolon, Rowan Bancroft, Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Jessica L Hall, Manuela R Kieninger, Agnieszka Kloch, Sarah Pelan, Elaine Robertson, Amy B Pedersen, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Amy H Buck, Mark L Blaxter
Ancient diversity in host-parasite interaction genes in a model parasitic nematode. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
Margrethe Johansen, Suzanne Saenko, Menno Schilthuizen, null null, Mark L Blaxter, Angus Davison
Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map. Heredity (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
Marcela Uliano-Silva, João Gabriel R N Ferreira, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, null null, Giulio Formenti, Linelle Abueg, James W Torrance, Eugene W Myers, Richard Durbin, Mark L Blaxter, Shane A McCarthy
MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads. BMC bioinformatics 24 (1) (2023)
Emmelien Vancaester, Mark L Blaxter
Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project. PLoS biology 21 (1) (2023)
João Gabriel R N Ferreira, Juliana A Americo, Danielle Amaral, Fábio Sendim, Yasmin R da Cunha, null null, Mark L Blaxter, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Mauro F Rebelo
A chromosome-level assembly supports genome-wide investigation of the DMRT gene family in the golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei). GigaScience 12 (2023)
Mark L Blaxter, John M Archibald, Anna K Childers, Jonathan A Coddington, Keith A Crandall, Federica Di Palma, Richard Durbin, Scott V Edwards, Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves, Kevin J Hackett, Neil Hall, Erich D Jarvis, Rebecca N Johnson, Elinor K Karlsson, W John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K N Lawniczak, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jose Victor Lopez, Nancy A Moran, Gene E Robinson, Oliver A Ryder, Beth Shapiro, Pamela S Soltis, Sebastien Roch, Guo-Jie Zhang, Harris A Lewin
Why sequence all eukaryotes? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (4) (2022)
Suo Qiu, James Michael Bradley, Peijun Zhang, Roy R Chaudhuri, Mark L Blaxter, Roger K Butlin, Julie D Scholes
Genome-enabled discovery of candidate virulence loci in Striga hermonthica, a devastating parasite of African cereal crops. The New phytologist 236 (2) (2022)
Harris A Lewin, Stephen Richards, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L Allende, John M Archibald, Miklós Bálint, Katharine B Barker, Bridget Baumgartner, Katherine Belov, Giorgio Bertorelle, Mark L Blaxter, Jing Cai, Nicolette D Caperello, Keith Carlson, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Lei Chen, Anna K Childers, Jonathan A Coddington, Dalia A Conde, Montserrat Corominas, Keith A Crandall, Andrew J Crawford, Federica DiPalma, Richard Durbin, ThankGod E Ebenezer, Scott V Edwards, Olivier Fedrigo, Paul Flicek, Giulio Formenti, Richard A Gibbs, Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert, Melissa M Goldstein, Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves, Henry T Greely, Igor V Grigoriev, Kevin J Hackett, Neil Hall, David Haussler, Kristofer M Helgen, Carolyn J Hogg, Sachiko Isobe, Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen, Axel Janke, Erich D Jarvis, Warren E Johnson, Steven J M Jones, Elinor K Karlsson, Paul J Kersey, Jin-Hyoung Kim, W John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K N Lawniczak, James H Leebens-Mack, Xueyan Li, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xin Liu, Jose V Lopez, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Sophie Mazard, Jonna A K Mazet, Camila J Mazzoni, Eugene W Myers, Rachel J O'Neill, Sadye Paez, Hyun Park, Gene E Robinson, Cristina Roquet, Oliver A Ryder, Jamal S M Sabir, H Bradley Shaffer, Timothy M Shank, Jacob S Sherkow, Pamela S Soltis, Boping Tang, Leho Tedersoo, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kun Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Regina Wetzer, Julia L Wilson, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Anne D Yoder, Guo-Jie Zhang
The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (4) (2022)
Solomon A Sloat, Luke M Noble, Annalise B Paaby, Max Bernstein, Audrey Chang, Taniya Kaur, John Yuen, Sophia C Tintori, Jacqueline L Jackson, Arielle Martel, Jose A Salome Correa, Lewis Stevens, Karin Kiontke, Mark L Blaxter, Matthew V Rockman
Caenorhabditis nematodes colonize ephemeral resource patches in neotropical forests. Ecology and evolution 12 (7) (2022)
Jonathan Threlfall, Mark L Blaxter
Launching the Tree of Life Gateway. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Tom Johnny Hansen, Per Gunnar Fjelldal, Sigbjørn Lien, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Olivier Fedrigo, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Erich Jarvis, Shane A McCarthy, William Chow, Kerstin Howe, James W Torrance, Jonathan M D Wood, Ying Sims, Leanne Haggerty, Richard Challis, Jonathan Threlfall, Daniel Mead, Richard Durbin, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the brown trout, Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Jenny C Dunn, Keith C Hamer, Antony J Morris, Philip V Grice, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Michael A Quail, Shane A McCarthy, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kerstin Howe, James W Torrance, William Chow, Sarah E Pelan, Ying Sims, Richard Challis, Christopher R Schvarcz, Daniel Mead, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Jenny C Dunn, Keith C Hamer, Antony J Morris, Philip V Grice, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Michael A Quail, Shane A McCarthy, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kerstin Howe, James W Torrance, William Chow, Sarah E Pelan, Ying Sims, Richard Challis, Christopher R Schvarcz, Daniel Mead, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Angus I Carpenter, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Michael A Quail, Shane A McCarthy, Marcela Uliano Da Silva, Kerstin Howe, James W Torrance, Jonathan M D Wood, Sarah Pelan, Ying Sims, Francesca Floriana Tricomi, Richard Challis, Jonathan Threlfall, Daniel Mead, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the European water vole, Arvicola amphibius Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Kerstin Howe, Melinda Dwinell, Mary Shimoyama, Craig Corton, Emma Betteridge, Alexander Dove, Michael A Quail, Michelle Smith, Laura M Saba, Robert W Williams, Hao Chen, Anne E Kwitek, Shane A McCarthy, Marcela Uliano-Silva, William Chow, Alan Tracey, James W Torrance, Ying Sims, Richard Challis, Jonathan Threlfall, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769. Wellcome open research 6 (2021)
Dan Mead, Kathryn Fingland, Rachel Cripps, Roberto Portela-Miguez, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Michael A Quail, Shane A McCarthy, Kerstin Howe, Ying Sims, James W Torrance, Alan Tracey, Richard Challis, Richard Durbin, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788. Wellcome open research 5 (2020)
Richard Challis, Edward Richards, Jeena Rajan, Guy Cochrane, Mark L Blaxter
BlobToolKit - Interactive Quality Assessment of Genome Assemblies. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 10 (4) (2020)
Dan Mead, Frank Hailer, Elisabeth Chadwick, Roberto Portela-Miguez, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Olga Dudchenko, Arina Omer, David Weisz, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Shane A McCarthy, Kerstin Howe, Ying Sims, James Torrance, Alan Tracey, Richard Challis, Richard Durbin, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the Eurasian river otter, Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 5 (2020)
Nathaniel B Edelman, Paul B Frandsen, Miriam Miyagi, Bernardo J Clavijo, John W Davey, Rebecca B Dikow, Gonzalo Garcia Accinelli, Steven M Van Belleghem, Nick Patterson, Daniel E Neafsey, Richard Challis, Richard Challis, Gilson R P Moreira, Camilo Salazar, Mathieu Chouteau, Brian A Counterman, Riccardo Papa, Mark L Blaxter, Robert D Reed, Kanchon K Dasmahapatra, Marcus R Kronforst, Mathieu Joron, Chris D Jiggins, W Owen McMillan, Federica Di Palma, Andrew J Blumberg, John Wakeley, David B Jaffe, James Mallet
Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 366 (6465) (2020)
Daniel Mead, Kathryn Fingland, Rachel Cripps, Roberto Portela-Miguez, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton, Karen Oliver, Jason Skelton, Emma Betteridge, Jale Doulcan Doulcan, Olga Dudchenko, Arina D Omer, David Weisz, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Olivier Fedrigo, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Erich Jarvis, Shane A McCarthy, Ying Sims, James Torrance, Alan Tracey, Kerstin Howe, Richard Challis, Richard Durbin, Mark L Blaxter
The genome sequence of the Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus 1758. Wellcome open research 5 (2020)
Jack Hearn, Mark L Blaxter, Karsten Schönrogge, José-Luis Nieves-Aldrey, Juli Pujade-Villar, Elisabeth Huguet, Jean-Michel Drezen, Joseph D Shorthouse, Graham N Stone
Genomic dissection of an extended phenotype: Oak galling by a cynipid gall wasp. PLoS genetics 15 (11) (2019)
Sophie Tandonnet, Georgios D Koutsovoulos, Sally Adams, Delphine Cloarec, Manish Parihar, Mark L Blaxter, Andre Pires-daSilva
Chromosome-Wide Evolution and Sex Determination in the Three-Sexed Nematode Auanema rhodensis. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 9 (4) (2019)
Manon Grosmaire, Caroline Launay, Marion Siegwald, Thibault Brugière, Lilia Estrada-Virrueta, Duncan J Berger, Claire Burny, Laurent Modolo, Mark L Blaxter, Peter Meister, Marie-Anne Félix, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Marie Delattre
Males as somatic investment in a parthenogenetic nematode. Science (New York, N.Y.) 363 (6432) (2019)
Lewis Stevens, Marie-Anne Félix, Toni Beltran, Christian Braendle, Carlos Caurcel, Sarah Fausett, David Fitch, Lise Frézal, Charlie Gosse, Taniya Kaur, Karin Kiontke, Matthew D Newton, Luke M Noble, Aurélien Richaud, Matthew V Rockman, Walter Sudhaus, Mark L Blaxter
Comparative genomics of 10 new Caenorhabditis species. Evolution letters 3 (2) (2019)
James F Fleming, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Martin Vinther Sørensen, Tae-Yoon S Park, Kazuharu Arakawa, Mark L Blaxter, Lorena Rebecchi, Roberto Guidetti, Tom A Williams, Nicholas W Roberts, Jakob Vinther, Davide Pisani
Molecular palaeontology illuminates the evolution of ecdysozoan vision. Proceedings. Biological sciences 285 (1892) (2018)
Dominik R Laetsch, Mark L Blaxter
KinFin: Software for Taxon-Aware Analysis of Clustered Protein Sequences. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 7 (10) (2017)
Fabrice Besnard, Georgios D Koutsovoulos, Sana Dieudonné, Mark L Blaxter, Marie-Anne Félix
Toward Universal Forward Genetics: Using a Draft Genome Sequence of the Nematode Oscheius tipulae To Identify Mutations Affecting Vulva Development. Genetics 206 (4) (2017)
Mark L Blaxter
Imagining Sisyphus happy: DNA barcoding and the unnamed majority. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 371 (1702) (2017)
Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, Robert Carton, Alastair R Tanner, Mark N Puttick, Mark L Blaxter, Jakob Vinther, Jørgen Olesen, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D Edgecombe, Davide Pisani
A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 371 (1699) (2017)
Georgios Koutsovoulos, Richard Challis, Dominik R Laetsch, Lewis Stevens, Jennifer Daub, Claire Conlon, Habib Maroon, Fran Thomas, Aziz A Aboobaker, Mark L Blaxter
No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (18) (2016)

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Mark L Blaxter (Mark Blaxter)