Published in Frontiers in Nutrition, 2024
A collaboration with the molecular foundry team at Checkerspot Inc.
Recommended citation: Zhao, Xinhua, et al. "Development and Large-Scale Production of Human Milk Fat Analogue by Fermentation of Microalgae." Frontiers in Nutrition 11: 1341527. http://danjgates.github.io/files/zhou_microalgae.pdf
Published in PNAS, 2022
A really elegant look from genotype to phenotype of a crop adaptive locus
Recommended citation: Barnes, A.C., Rodríguez-Zapata, F., Juárez-Núñez, K.A., Gates, D.J., Janzen, G.M., Kur, A., Wang, L., Jensen, S.E., Estévez-Palmas, J.M., Crow, T.M. and Kavi, H.S., 2022. An adaptive teosinte mexicana introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 119(27), p.e2100036119. http://danjgates.github.io/files/barnes-et-al-2022.pdf
Published in PLoS Genetics, 2021
A wonderful study documenting how replicated sampling from sympatric species along a cline can tease out repeatable patterns of introgression and adaptation,
Recommended citation: Calfee, Erin, et al. "Selective sorting of ancestral introgression in maize and teosinte along an elevational cline." PLoS genetics 17.10 (2021): e1009810. http://danjgates.github.io/files/calfee-ancestral-introgression.pdf