Nora J. Besansky
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Nora J. Besansky's Degrees
- PhD Genetics University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nora J. Besansky is an American molecular biologist. She is the Martin J. Gillen Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. In 2020, Besansky was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences for being an expert in the genomics of malaria vectors.
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- A ribosomal RNA gene probe differentiates member species of the Anopheles gambiae complex. (1987) (595)
- Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics (2015) (488)
- Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex. (2013) (472)
- Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes (2014) (463)
- How reticulated are species? (2015) (374)
- Widespread Divergence Between Incipient Anopheles gambiae Species Revealed by Whole Genome Sequences (2010) (276)
- A Research Agenda for Malaria Eradication: Vector Control (2011) (258)
- Speciation Within Anopheles gambiae-- the Glass Is Half Full (2002) (241)
- VectorBase: a data resource for invertebrate vector genomics (2008) (239)
- Ecological niche partitioning between Anopheles gambiae molecular forms in Cameroon: the ecological side of speciation (2009) (234)
- Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (2017) (225)
- Living at the edge: biogeographic patterns of habitat segregation conform to speciation by niche expansion in Anopheles gambiae (2009) (201)
- Semipermeable species boundaries between Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis: Evidence from multilocus DNA sequence variation (2003) (196)
- Analysis of the complete mitochondrial DNA from Anopheles funestus: an improved dipteran mitochondrial genome annotation and a temporal dimension of mosquito evolution. (2006) (192)
- Dynamics of the pyrethroid knockdown resistance allele in western Kenyan populations of Anopheles gambiae in response to insecticide-treated bed net trials. (2004) (185)
- Phylogenetic analysis and temporal diversification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear genes and morphology (2009) (179)
- Molecular systematics of Anopheles: from subgenera to subpopulations. (2003) (175)
- SNP Genotyping Defines Complex Gene-Flow Boundaries Among African Malaria Vector Mosquitoes (2010) (167)
- Ecological Genomics of Anopheles gambiae Along a Latitudinal Cline: A Population-Resequencing Approach (2012) (166)
- DNA barcoding of parasites and invertebrate disease vectors: what you don't know can hurt you. (2003) (150)
- Patterns of mitochondrial variation within and between African malaria vectors, Anopheles gambiae and An. arabiensis, suggest extensive gene flow. (1997) (148)
- Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Ecological Divergence between Incipient Species of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae (2012) (141)
- Genetic association of physically unlinked islands of genomic divergence in incipient species of Anopheles gambiae (2010) (138)
- Inversions and Gene Order Shuffling in Anopheles gambiae and A. funestus (2002) (129)
- VectorBase: a home for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens (2006) (127)
- Molecular phylogeny of the Anopheles gambiae complex suggests genetic introgression between principal malaria vectors. (1994) (126)
- Toward understanding Anophelinae (Diptera, Culicidae) phylogeny: insights from nuclear single-copy genes and the weight of evidence. (2001) (109)
- Microgeographic structure of Anopheles gambiae in western Kenya based on mtDNA and microsatellite loci (1997) (108)
- Adaptive divergence between incipient species of Anopheles gambiae increases resistance to Plasmodium (2010) (105)
- Physiological correlates of ecological divergence along an urbanization gradient: differential tolerance to ammonia among molecular forms of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (2013) (103)
- No accounting for taste: host preference in malaria vectors. (2004) (103)
- Ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) sequences differentiate Anopheles funestus and An. rivulorum, and uncover a cryptic taxon (2000) (102)
- Utility of the white gene in estimating phylogenetic relationships among mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). (1997) (101)
- Evolution of mitochondrial and ribosomal gene sequences in anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for phylogeny reconstruction. (2001) (99)
- Revisiting the role of introgression vs shared ancestral polymorphisms as key processes shaping genetic diversity in the recently separated sibling species of the Anopheles gambiae complex (2004) (99)
- Breakpoint structure reveals the unique origin of an interspecific chromosomal inversion (2La) in the Anopheles gambiae complex. (2006) (99)
- Centromere-proximal differentiation and speciation in Anopheles gambiae. (2005) (99)
- Vector biology and the control of malaria in Africa. (1994) (95)
- Evolution of Anopheles gambiae in Relation to Humans and Malaria (2011) (93)
- The white Gene of Ceratitis capitata: A Phenotypic Marker for Germline Transformation (1995) (90)
- A test of the chromosomal theory of ecotypic speciation in Anopheles gambiae (2008) (86)
- A behavioral mechanism underlying ecological divergence in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. (2010) (84)
- Adaptation to Aridity in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae: Chromosomal Inversion Polymorphism and Body Size Influence Resistance to Desiccation (2012) (80)
- Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes (2016) (80)
- Localization of Candidate Regions Maintaining a Common Polymorphic Inversion (2La) in Anopheles gambiae (2007) (79)
- Pantropic retroviral vectors integrate and express in cells of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. (1996) (77)
- Molecular karyotyping of the 2La inversion in Anopheles gambiae. (2007) (76)
- Rangewide population genetic structure of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus (2005) (75)
- Powerful methods for detecting introgressed regions from population genomic data (2016) (74)
- Habitat segregation and ecological character displacement in cryptic African malaria mosquitoes (2015) (72)
- Inversion 2La is associated with enhanced desiccation resistance in Anopheles gambiae (2009) (70)
- Chromosomal plasticity and evolutionary potential in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto: insights from three decades of rare paracentric inversions (2008) (69)
- Cloning and characterization of the white gene from Anopheles gambiae (1995) (69)
- The “Far-West” of Anopheles gambiae Molecular Forms (2011) (67)
- Patterns of Genomic Differentiation between Ecologically Differentiated M and S Forms of Anopheles gambiae in West and Central Africa (2012) (65)
- The Rift Valley complex as a barrier to gene flow for Anopheles gambiae in Kenya: the mtDNA perspective. (2000) (64)
- Reassociation kinetics of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) DNA. (1992) (62)
- The Evolution of the Anopheles 16 Genomes Project (2013) (61)
- A microsatellite map of the African human malaria vector Anopheles funestus. (2004) (58)
- The Population Genomics of Trans-Specific Inversion Polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae (2009) (56)
- Patterns of DNA sequence variation in chromosomally recognized taxa of Anopheles gambiae: evidence from rDNA and single‐copy loci (2001) (56)
- A Retrotransposable Element from the Mosquito Anopheles gambiae (1990) (55)
- Isolation and Characterization of Y Chromosome Sequences From the African Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae (2004) (54)
- Sex-Linked Differentiation Between Incipient Species of Anopheles gambiae (2005) (53)
- 2La chromosomal inversion enhances thermal tolerance of Anopheles gambiae larvae (2009) (53)
- Distinct families of site-specific retrotransposons occupy identical positions in the rRNA genes of Anopheles gambiae (1992) (53)
- Differential gene expression in incipient species of Anopheles gambiae (2008) (52)
- Molecular differentiation between chromosomally defined incipient species of Anopheles funestus (2005) (52)
- Genetic exchange in 2La inversion heterokaryotypes of Anopheles gambiae (2007) (52)
- Mitochondrial and ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus (1999) (48)
- Q: a new retrotransposon from the mosquito Anopheles gambiae (1994) (45)
- Frequent intron loss in the white gene: a cautionary tale for phylogeneticists. (2002) (43)
- Association mapping desiccation resistance within chromosomal inversions in the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (2018) (43)
- Variation in recombination rate across the X chromosome of Anopheles gambiae. (2006) (42)
- Breakpoint structure of the Anopheles gambiae 2Rb chromosomal inversion (2010) (41)
- No evidence for biased co-transmission of speciation islands in Anopheles gambiae (2012) (40)
- Evaluation of DISCOVAR de novo using a mosquito sample for cost-effective short-read genome assembly (2016) (39)
- The mosquito genome: organization, evolution and manipulation. (1992) (38)
- Unintegrated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 DNA in chronically infected cell lines is not correlated with surface CD4 expression (1991) (38)
- Evolutionary superscaffolding and chromosome anchoring to improve Anopheles genome assemblies (2018) (37)
- A chromosome-scale assembly of the major African malaria vector Anopheles funestus (2018) (36)
- Divergent transcriptional response to thermal stress by Anopheles gambiae larvae carrying alternative arrangements of inversion 2La (2011) (35)
- Flight tone of field‐collected populations of Anopheles gambiae and An. arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae) (1998) (34)
- Divergence With Gene Flow in Anopheles funestus From the Sudan Savanna of Burkina Faso, West Africa (2006) (34)
- The National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. (34)
- Satellite DNA From the Y Chromosome of the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae Sequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. AY754141, AY754312. (2005) (33)
- Dissecting functional components of reproductive isolation among closely related sympatric species of the Anopheles gambiae complex (2017) (32)
- Distribution of T1, Q, Pegasus and mariner transposable elements on the polytene chromosomes of PEST, a standard strain of Anopheles gambiae (1996) (31)
- Polymorphism at the defensin gene in the Anopheles gambiae complex: testing different selection hypotheses. (2007) (31)
- Chromosomal inversions and ecotypic differentiation in Anopheles gambiae: the perspective from whole‐genome sequencing (2016) (29)
- Segmental Duplication Implicated in the Genesis of Inversion 2Rj of Anopheles gambiae (2007) (29)
- Gene expression divergence between malaria vector sibling species Anopheles gambiae and An. coluzzii from rural and urban Yaoundé Cameroon (2014) (28)
- Systems genetic analysis of inversion polymorphisms in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (2018) (28)
- Seasonal distribution of Anopheles funestus chromosomal forms from Burkina Faso (2009) (27)
- Dose and developmental responses of Anopheles merus larvae to salinity (2013) (27)
- Chromosomal evidence of incipient speciation in the Afrotropical malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus (2005) (26)
- Complexities in the analysis of cryptic taxa within the genus Anopheles. (1999) (25)
- Cuticular differences associated with aridity acclimation in African malaria vectors carrying alternative arrangements of inversion 2La (2014) (25)
- Structure and evolution of mtanga, a retrotransposon actively expressed on the Y chromosome of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. (2002) (25)
- Genome Analysis Of Vectorial Capacity In Major Anopheles Vectors Of Malaria Parasites (2008) (24)
- Mutations in the Anopheles gambiae Pink-Eye and White Genes Define Distinct, Tightly Linked Eye-Color Loci (1996) (23)
- An Integrated Genetic and Physical Map for the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus (2005) (23)
- Codon usage patterns in chromosomal and retrotransposon genes of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae (1993) (23)
- Molecular perspectives on the genetics of mosquitoes. (1992) (23)
- Behavioural divergence of sympatric Anopheles funestus populations in Burkina Faso (2014) (22)
- Genetic structure of Anopheles gambiae populations on islands in northwestern Lake Victoria, Uganda (2005) (22)
- The Tryptophan oxygenase gene of Anopheles gambiae. (1996) (21)
- Natural diversity of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (2016) (21)
- PCR-based karyotyping of Anopheles gambiae inversion 2Rj identifies the BAMAKO chromosomal form (2007) (17)
- Radiation with reticulation marks the origin of a major malaria vector (2020) (17)
- Genome variation and population structure among 1,142 mosquitoes of the African malaria vector species Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii (2019) (17)
- Effective population size of Anopheles funestus chromosomal forms in Burkina Faso (2006) (17)
- Evolution of the T1 retroposon family in the Anopheles gambiae complex. (1990) (17)
- Pegasus, a small terminal inverted repeat transposable element found in the white gene of Anopheles gambiae (1996) (17)
- Spatially Explicit Analyses of Anopheline Mosquitoes Indoor Resting Density: Implications for Malaria Control (2012) (16)
- In Silico Karyotyping of Chromosomally Polymorphic Malaria Mosquitoes in the Anopheles gambiae Complex (2019) (16)
- Genome-wide QTL mapping of saltwater tolerance in sibling species of Anopheles (malaria vector) mosquitoes (2015) (16)
- Comparative Analysis of the Global Transcriptome of Anopheles funestus from Mali, West Africa (2009) (15)
- Transcriptomic differences between euryhaline and stenohaline malaria vector sibling species in response to salinity stress (2016) (15)
- Evolutionary Dynamics of the Ty3/Gypsy LTR Retrotransposons in the Genome of Anopheles gambiae (2011) (15)
- Extrachromosomal human immunodeficiency virus type‐1 DNA can initiate a spreading infection of HL‐60 cells (1991) (13)
- Gene Finding on the Y: Fruitful Strategy in Drosophila does not Deliver in Anopheles (2006) (12)
- Spatio-temporal genetic structure of Anopheles gambiae in the Northwestern Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda: implications for genetic control trials in malaria endemic regions (2018) (11)
- Fine-Mapping Complex Inversion Breakpoints and Investigating Somatic Pairing in the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex Using Proximity-Ligation Sequencing (2019) (10)
- The Anopheles gambiae tryptophan oxygenase gene expressed from a baculovirus promoter complements Drosophila melanogaster vermilion. (1997) (10)
- Fine-mapping complex inversion breakpoints and investigating somatic pairing in the Anopheles gambiae species complex using proximity-ligation sequencing (2019) (10)
- Assessing connectivity despite high diversity in island populations of a malaria mosquito (2019) (9)
- Inversion Genotyping in the Anopheles gambiae Complex Using High-Throughput Array and Sequencing Platforms (2020) (8)
- A species-specific PCR for the identification of the malaria vector Anopheles bwambae. (2006) (8)
- Mosquitoes (2014) (7)
- Highly specific PCR-RFLP assays for karyotyping the widespread 2Rb inversion in malaria vectors of the Anopheles gambiae complex (2020) (7)
- The Anopheles albimanus white gene: molecular characterization of the gene and a spontaneous white gene mutation (2004) (6)
- A microsatellite physical map of the African human malaria vector Anopheles funestus (2003) (6)
- Dinucleotide microsatellite markers from Anopheles funestus (2003) (6)
- Fine-Mapping Complex Inversion Breakpoints and Investigating Somatic Pairing in the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex Using Proximity-Ligation Sequencing. (2019) (6)
- High-Throughput Genotyping of Common Chromosomal Inversions in the Afrotropical Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Funestus (2020) (5)
- Unintegrated two-long terminal repeat circular human T lymphotropic virus DNA accumulation during chronic HTLV infection. (1993) (5)
- An Anopheles gambiae cDNA predicts a protein similar to a yeast Suil translation factor. (1994) (4)
- Assessing connectivity despite high diversity in island populations of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (2018) (4)
- Mario Coluzzi (1938–2012) (2014) (4)
- Reduced-representation sequencing identifies small effective population sizes of Anopheles gambiae in the north-western Lake Victoria basin, Uganda (2018) (4)
- Malaria: How vector mosquitoes beat the heat (2014) (4)
- Leveraging evolutionary relationships to improve Anopheles genome assemblies (2018) (3)
- Molecular entomology in Africa. (2000) (3)
- Geographic structure of Anopheles gambiae (savanna form) in Africa based on microsatellite, allozyme and mitochondrial loci (1996) (1)
- A PCR-RFLP method for genotyping of inversion 2Rc in Anopheles coluzzii (2021) (1)
- Proposal for the Eight Genomes Cluster for Genus Anopheles July 2004 ; revised March 2005 (2005) (1)
- PLOS Pathogens 2016 Reviewer and Editorial Board Thank You (2017) (1)
- Behavioural divergence of sympatric Anopheles funestus populations in Burkina Faso (2014) (1)
- Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: From molecular biology to field ecology. (2015) (1)
- PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2016) (0)
- Identification of SNPs associated with aridity tolerance inAnopheles gambiae (2016) (0)
- Malaria mosquitoes go with the flow (2019) (0)
- Bloodthirsty Hitchhikers? (2002) (0)
- MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS OF ANOPHELES (2002) (0)
- Distinct Families ofSite-Specific Retrotransposons OccupyIdentical Positions intherRNAGenesofAnopheles gambiae (1992) (0)
- Spatio-temporal genetic structure of Anopheles gambiae in the Northwestern Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda: implications for genetic control trials in malaria endemic regions (2018) (0)
- Evolutionary superscaffolding and chromosome anchoring to improve Anopheles genome assemblies (2020) (0)
- A PCR-RFLP method for genotyping of inversion 2Rc in Anopheles coluzzii (2021) (0)
- Reduced-representation sequencing identifies small effective population sizes of Anopheles gambiae in the north-western Lake Victoria basin, Uganda (2018) (0)
- Ecological divergence between the M and S forms of Anopheles gambiae and the role of chromosomal inversions in local adaptation. (2009) (0)
- Anophelism without malaria one century later (1998) (0)
- Control and local measurement of the spin chemica (2013) (0)
- Three decades of rare paracentric inversions in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto. (2008) (0)
- Decision letter: Isolation and transcriptomic analysis of Anopheles gambiae oenocytes enables the delineation of hydrocarbon biosynthesis (2020) (0)
- Mario Coluzzi (1938–2012) (2014) (0)
- Neafsey African Malaria Vector Mosquitoes SNP Genotyping Defines Complex Gene-Flow Boundaries Among (2014) (0)
- Complex speciation process in the Anopheles gambiae species complex revealed by whole genome sequencing (2013) (0)
- Contrasting Patterns of Evolution in Five Chromosomal Inversions of Anopheles gambiae. (2008) (0)
- Noncoding mutation in t-all (2014) (0)
- A retrotransposable element from the mosquito Anopheles gambiae (1990) (0)
- Standing genetic variation and chromosome differences drove rapid ecotype formation in a major malaria mosquito (2023) (0)
- Cuticular differences associated with aridity acclimation in African malaria vectors carrying alternative arrangements of inversion 2La (2014) (0)
- Evaluation of DISCOVAR de novo using a mosquito sample for cost-effective short-read genome assembly (2016) (0)
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