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MV Rockman. 2024. Parental-effect gene-drive elements under partial selfing, or why do Caenorhabditis genomes have hyperdivergent regions? Genetics iyae175. Download the R package MedeaFight here.

Tintori, SC, D Çaglar, P Ortiz, I Chyzhevskyi, TA Mousseau, and MV Rockman. 2024. Environmental radiation exposure at Chornobyl has not systematically affected the genomes or chemical mutagen tolerance phenotypes of local worms. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.05.28.542665. PNAS 121, e2314793121.

Sloat, SA, and MV Rockman. 2023. Sexual antagonism evolves when autosomes influence offspring sex ratio. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.06.14.544982.

Sloat, SA, LM Noble, AB Paaby, MR Bernstein, AS Chang, T Kaur, J Yuen, SC Tintori, JL Jackson, A Martel, JA Salome Correa, L Stevens, M Blaxter, and MV Rockman. 2022. Caenorhabditis nematodes colonize ephemeral resource patches in neotropical forests. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9124.

Tintori*, SC, SA Sloat*, and MV Rockman. 2022. Rapid isolation of wild nematodes by Baermann funnel. JoVE 179, e63287.

Zakas, C, ND Henry, EH Scholl, and MV Rockman. 2022. The genome of the poecilogonous annelid S. benedicti. Genome Biology and Evolution 14, evac008.

Andersen, EC, and MV Rockman. 2022. Natural genetic variation as a tool for discovery in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Genetics 220, iyab156.

Noble, LM, MV Rockman, and H Teotonio. 2021. Gene-level quantitative trait mapping in C. elegans. G3 11, jkaa061.

Zakas, C, and MV Rockman. 2021. Baby makes three: maternal, paternal, and zygotic genetic effects shape larval phenotypic evolution. Evolution 75, 1607-1618.

Noble, LM, J Yuen, L Stevens, N Moya, R Persaud, M Moscatelli, J Jackson, G Zhang, R Chitrakar, LR Baugh, C Braendle, EC Andersen, HS Seidel, and MV Rockman. 2021. Selfing is the safest sex for Caenorhabditis tropicalis. eLife 10, e62587.

Lee, D, S Zdraljevic, L Stevens, Y Wang, RE Tanny, TA Crombie, DE Cook, AK Webster, R Chirakar, LR Baugh, MG Sterken, C Braendle, M-A Felix, MV Rockman, and EC Andersen. 2021. Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in C. elegans. bioRxiv doi 10.1101/2020.07.23.218420. Nature Eco Evo 5, 794–807.

Farhadifar, R, C-H Yu, G Fabig, H-Y Wu, DB Stein, M Rockman, T Müller-Reichert, MJ Shelley, and DJ Needleman. 2020. Stoichiometric interactions explain spindle dynamics and scaling across 100 million years of nematode evolution. eLife 9, e55877.

Noble, LM, A Miah, T Kaur, and MV Rockman. 2020. The ancestral C. elegans cuticle suppresses rol-1. G3 10, 2385-2395.

Bernstein, MR, S Zdraljevic, EC Andersen, and MV Rockman. 2019. Tightly-linked antagonistic-effect loci underlie polygenic phenotypic variation in C. elegans. Evolution Letters 3, 462-473.

Lamelza, P., JM Young, LM Noble, L Caro, A Isakharov, M Palanisamy, MV Rockman, HS Malik, and M Ailion. 2019. Hybridization promotes asexual reproduction in Caenorhabditis nematodes . PLoS Genetics 15, e1008520.

Stevens, L, MA Félix, T Beltran, C Braendle, C Caurcel, S Fausett, DHA Fitch, L Frézal, T Kaur, KC Kiontke, MD Newton, LM Noble, A Richaud, MV Rockman, W Sudhaus, and M Blaxter. 2019. Comparative genomics of ten new Caenorhabditis species. Evolution Letters 3, 217-236.

Zakas, C, JM Deutscher, AD Kay, and MV Rockman. 2018. Decoupled maternal and zygotic genetic effects shape the evolution of development. eLife 7, e37143.

Noble, LM, I Chelo, T Guzella, B Alfonso, DD Riccardi, P Ammerman, A Dayarian, S Carvalho, A Crist, A Pino-Querido, B Shraiman, MV Rockman*, and H Teotonio*. 2017. Polygenicity and epistasis underlie fitness-proximal traits in the Caenorhabditis elegans multiparent experimental evolution (CeMEE) panel. Genetics 207, 1663-1685.

Cook, DE, S Zdraljevic, RE Tanny, B Seo, D Riccardi, LM Noble, MV Rockman, M Alkema, C Braendle, J Kammenga, J Wang, L Kruglyak, MA Felix, J Lee, and E Andersen. 2016. The genetic basis of natural variation in Caenorhabditis elegans telomere length. Genetics 204, 371-383.

Bernstein, MB, and MV Rockman. 2016. Fine-scale crossover rate variation on the C. elegans X chromosome. G3 6, 1767-1776.

Bernstein, MB, and MV Rockman. 2015. The Expendables: natural selection driving reduced gene function (Commentary). BioEssays 37, 1153.

Noble, LM, AS Chang, D McNelis, M Kramer, M Yen, JP Nicodemus, DD Riccardi, P Ammerman, M Phillips, T Islam, and MV Rockman. 2015. Natural variation in plep-1 causes male-male copulatory behavior in C. elegans. Curr Biol 25, 2730-2737. PDF

Paaby, AB, AG White, DD Riccardi, KC Gunsalus, F Piano, and MV Rockman. 2015. Wild worm embryogenesis harbors ubiquitous polygenic modifier variation. eLife 4, e09178.

Zakas, C, and MV Rockman. 2015. Gene-based polymorphisms reveal limited genomic divergence in a species with a heritable life-history dimorphism. Evolution and Development 17, 240-247. PDF

Zakas, C, and MV Rockman. 2014. Dimorphic development in Streblospio benedicti: genetic analysis of morphological differences between larval types. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 58, 593-599. PDF

Paaby, AB, and MV Rockman. 2014. Cryptic genetic variation: evolution’s hidden substrate. Nature Reviews Genetics 15, 247-258. PDF

Glater, EE, MV Rockman, and CI Bargmann. 2014. Multigenic natural variation underlies Caenorhabditis elegans olfactory preference for the bacterial pathogen Serratia marcescens. G3 4, 265-276.

Kaur, T, and MV Rockman. 2014. Crossover heterogeneity in the absence of hotspots in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 196, 137-148. PDF

Paaby, AB, and MV Rockman. 2013. The many faces of pleiotropy. Trends Genet 29, 66-73. PDF. See also Paaby, AB, and MV Rockman. 2013. Pleiotropy: what do you mean? Reply to Zhang and Wagner. Trends Genet 29, 384. PDF

Pollard, DA, and MV Rockman. 2013. Resistance to germline RNA interference in a Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate exhibits complexity and nonadditivity. G3 3, 941-947.

Bendesky, A, J Pitts, MV Rockman, WC Chen, MW Tan, L Kruglyak, and CI Bargmann. 2012. Long-range regulatory polymorphisms affecting a GABA receptor constitute a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for social behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet. 8, e1003157.

Rockman, MV. 2012. Patterns of nuclear genetic variation in the poecilogonous polychaete Streblospio benedicti. Int. Comp. Biol. 52, 173-180. PDF

Gaertner, BE, MD Parmenter, MV Rockman, L Kruglyak, and PC Phillips. 2012. More than the sum of its parts: a complex epistatic network underlies natural variation in thermal preference behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 192, 1533-1542. PDF

Rockman, MV. 2012. The QTN Program and the alleles that matter for evolution: all that’s gold does not glitter. Evolution 66, 1-17. PDF

Orgogozo, V and MV Rockman, editors. 2011. Molecular Methods for Evolutionary Genetics, Springer, New York, 503 pp.

Kiontke, KC, M-A Félix, M Ailion, MV Rockman, C Braendle, J-B Pénigault, and DHA Fitch. 2011. A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruits. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 339.

Seidel, HS, M Ailion, J Li, A van Oudenaarden, MV Rockman, L Kruglyak. 2011. A novel sperm-delivered toxin causes late-stage embryo lethality and transmission ratio distortion in C. elegans. PLoS Biology 9, e1001115.

Bendesky, A, M Tsunozaki, MV Rockman, L Kruglyak, and CI Bargmann. 2011. Catecholamine receptor polymorphisms affect decision-making in C. elegans. Nature 472, 313-318. PDF

Rockman, MV, SS Skrovanek, and L Kruglyak. 2010. Selection at linked sites shapes heritable phenotypic variation in C. elegans. Science 330, 372-376. PDF

Babbitt, CC, JS Silverman, R Haygood, JM Reininga, MV Rockman, and GA Wray. 2010. Multiple functional variants in cis modulate PDYN expression. Mol. Biol. Evol. 27, 465-479. PDF

Rockman, MV, & L Kruglyak. 2009. Recombinational landscapes and population genomics of C. elegans. PLoS Genet. 5, e1000419.      

McGrath, PT, MV Rockman, M Zimmer, H Jang, EZ Macosko, L Kruglyak, and CI Bargmann. 2009. Quantitative mapping of a digenic behavioral trait implicates globin variation in C. elegans sensory behaviors. Neuron 61, 692-699. PDF

Gordon, GW, M Rockman, KK Turekian, and J Over. 2009. Osmium isotopic evidence against an impact at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Am. J. Sci. 309, 420-430. PDF

Rockman, MV. 2008. Reverse engineering the genotype-phenotype network with natural genetic variation. Nature 456, 738-744. PDF

Palopoli*, MF, MV Rockman,* A TinMaung, C Ramsay, A Aduna, J Laurita, and L Kruglyak. 2008. Molecular basis of the copulatory plug polymorphism in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 454, 1019-1022. *Equal contribution. PDF  

Rockman, MV, & L Kruglyak. 2008. Breeding designs for recombinant inbred advanced intercross lines. Genetics 179, 1069-1078. PDF

Rockman, MV, & DS Stern. 2008. Tinker where the tinkering’s good. Trends Genet. 24, 317-319. PDF

Seidel*, HS, MV Rockman,* and L Kruglyak. 2008. Widespread genetic incompatibility in C. elegans maintained by balancing selection. Science 319, 589-594. *Equal contribution. PDF

Rockman, MV. 2008. Positive selection and the evolution of prodynorphin. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wiley and Sons. doi 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020790

Rockman, MV, & L Kruglyak. 2006. Genetics of global gene expression. Nat. Rev. Genet. 7, 862-872. PDF

Loisel, DA, MV Rockman, GA Wray, J Altman, and SC Alberts. 2006. Ancient polymorphism and functional variation in the primate MHC-DQA1 5’ cis-regulatory region. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 103, 16331-16336. PDF

Rockman, MV, MW Hahn, N Soranzo, F Zimprich, DB Goldstein, & GA Wray. 2005. Ancient and recent positive selection transformed opioid cis-regulation in humans. PLoS Biology 3, e387.      

Rockman, MV. 2005. The role of gene regulation in evolution. In Encyclopaedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics (LB Jorde, P Little, M Dunn, & S Subramaniam, eds). Wiley & sons. DOI: 10.1002/047001153X.g101306     

Rockman, MV, MW Hahn, N Soranzo, DA Loisel, DB Goldstein, & GA Wray. 2004. Positive selection on MMP3 regulation has shaped coronary artery disease risk. Curr. Biol. 14, 1531-1539. PDF

Rockman, MV. 2004. Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples, and disease (book review). Hum. Genet. 115, 167-168.

Hahn, MW, MV Rockman, N Soranzo, DB Goldstein, & GA Wray. 2004. Population genetic and phylogenetic evidence for positive selection on regulatory mutations at the Factor VII locus in humans. Genetics 167, 867-877. PDF

Kelberman, D, M Fife, MV Rockman, DJ Brull, P Woo, & SE Humphries. 2004. Analysis of common IL-6 promoter SNP variants and the AnTn tract in humans and primates and effects on plasma IL-6 levels following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Biochim. Biophys Acta 1688, 160-167. PDF

Rockman, MV, MW Hahn, N Soranzo, DB Goldstein, & GA Wray. 2003. Positive selection on a human-specific transcription factor binding site regulating IL4 expression. Curr. Biol. 13, 2118-2123. PDF

Wray, GA, MW Hahn, E Abouheif, JP Balhoff, M Pizer, MV Rockman, & LA Romano. 2003. The evolution of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20, 1377-1419. PDF

Rockman, MV. 2003. Idiomatic (gene) expressions. BioEssays 25, 421-424. PDF

Rockman, MV, & GA Wray. 2002. Abundant raw material for cis-regulatory evolution in humans. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19, 1991-2004. PDF

Rowell, DM, MV Rockman, & NN Tait. 2002. Extensive robertsonian rearrangement: Implications for the radiation and biogeography of Planipapillus Reid (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae). J. Zool. 257, 171-179. PDF

Rockman, MV, & DM Rowell. 2002. Episodic chromosomal evolution in Planipapillus (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae): a phylogenetic approach to evolutionary dynamics and speciation. Evolution 56, 58-69. PDF

Rockman, MV, DM Rowell, & NN Tait. 2001. Phylogenetics of Planipapillus, lawn-headed onychophorans of the Australian Alps, based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 21, 103-116. PDF

Wetterer, AL, MV Rockman, & NB Simmons. 2000. Phylogeny of phyllostomid bats: data from diverse morphological systems, sex chromosomes, and restriction sites. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 248, 1-200.