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Silas Tittes

University of Oregon
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De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

…, T Guo, A Olson, Y Qiu, R Della Coletta, S Tittes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for the
26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping population…

Genomic and Chemical Diversity in Cannabis

RC Lynch, D Vergara, S Tittes, K White… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Plants of the Cannabis genus are the only prolific producers of phytocannabinoids, compounds
that strongly interact with the evolutionarily ancient endocannabinoid receptors shared …

Rapid genome‐wide evolution in Brassica rapa populations following drought revealed by sequencing of ancestral and descendant gene pools

SJ Franks, NC Kane, NB O'Hara, S Tittes… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing evidence that evolution can occur rapidly in response to selection. Recent
advances in sequencing suggest the possibility of documenting genetic changes as they …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

…, CCR Smith, JP Spence, A Teterina, S Tittes… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

Genetic and Genomic Tools for Cannabis sativa

…, JP Mendieta, CS Pauli, SB Tittes… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The Cannabis industry is currently one of the fastest growing industries in the United States.
Given the changing legal status of the plant, and the rapidly advancing research, updated …

Genetics of alternative splicing evolution during sunflower domestication

CCR Smith, S Tittes, JP Mendieta… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Alternative splicing enables organisms to produce the diversity of proteins necessary for
multicellular life by using relatively few protein-coding genes. Although differences in splicing …

A resurrection study reveals limited evolution of thermal performance in response to recent climate change across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower

R Wooliver, SB Tittes, SN Sheth - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary rescue can prevent populations from declining under climate change, and
should be more likely at high-latitude, “leading” edges of species’ ranges due to greater …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic diversity and thermal performance in invasive and native populations of African fig flies

AA Comeault, J Wang, S Tittes, K Isbell… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
During biological invasions, invasive populations can suffer losses of genetic diversity that
are predicted to negatively impact their fitness/performance. Despite examples of invasive …

Grow where you thrive, or where only you can survive? An analysis of performance curve evolution in a clade with diverse habitat affinities

SB Tittes, JF Walker, L Torres-Martínez… - The American …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Performance curves are valuable tools for quantifying the fundamental niches of organisms
and testing hypotheses about evolution, life-history trade-offs, and the drivers of variation in …

Dispersal inference from population genetic variation using a convolutional neural network

CCR Smith, S Tittes, PL Ralph, AD Kern - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The geographic nature of biological dispersal shapes patterns of genetic variation over
landscapes, making it possible to infer properties of dispersal from genetic variation data. Here, …