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Preprints

  1. Kopania, E. E. K., N. L. Clark. “Mammalian retinal specializations for high acuity vision evolve in response to both foraging strategies and morphological constraints.” BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.25.609608. In Revision.

Publications

  1. Kopania, E. E. K., G. W. C. Thomas, C. R. Hutter, S. M. E. Mortimer, C. M. Callahan, E. Roycroft, A. S. Achmadi, W. G. Breed, N. L. Clark, J. A. Esselstyn, K. C. Rowe, J. M. Good. (2024). "Sperm competition intensity shapes divergence in both sperm morphology and reproductive genes across murine rodents." Evolution. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae146
  2. Kang, T., E. C. Moore, E. E. K. Kopania, C. D. King, B. Schilling, J. Campisi, J. M. Good, R. B. Brem. (2023) "A natural variation-based screen in mouse cells reveals USF2 as a regulator of the DNA damage response and cellular senescence." G3 Genes Genom Genet. 13(7):jkad091. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad091
  3. Kopania, E. E. K., E. M. Watson, C. C. Rathje, B. M. Skinner, P. J. I. Ellis, E. L. Larson, J. M. Good. (2022). "The contribution of sex chromosome conflict to disrupted spermatogenesis in hybrid house mice." Genetics. 222(4):iyac151. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyac151
  4. Moore, E. C., G. W. C. Thomas, S. Mortimer, E. E. K. Kopania, K. E. Hunnicutt, Z. J. Clare-Salzler, E. L. Larson, J. M. Good. (2022). “The evolution of widespread recombination suppression on the Dwarf Hamster (Phodopus) X chromosome.” Genome Biol Evol. 14(6):evac080. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac080
  5. Kopania, E. E. K., E. L. Larson, C. Callahan, S. Keeble and J. M. Good. (2022). “Molecular Evolution across Mouse Spermatogenesis.” Mol Biol Evol. 39(2):msac023. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac023
  6. Larson, E. L., E. E. K. Kopania, K. E. Hunnicutt, D. Vanderpool, S. Keeble, J. M. Good. (2021). “Stage-specific disruption of X chromosome expression during spermatogenesis in sterile house mouse hybrids.” G3 Genes Genom Genet. 12(2):jkab407. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab407
  7. Skinner, B. M., C. C. Rathje, J. Bacon, E. E. P. Johnson, E. L. Larson, E. E. K. Kopania, J. M. Good, G. Yousafzai, N. A. Affara, and P. J. I. Ellis. (2019). “A high-throughput method for unbiased quantitation and categorisation of nuclear morphology.” Biol Reprod. 100(5):1250–1260. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioz013
  8. Skinner, B. M., J. Bacon, C. C. Rathje, E. L. Larson, E. E. K. Kopania, J. M. Good, N. A. Affara, and P. J. I. Ellis (2019). "Automated Nuclear Cartography Reveals Conserved Sperm Chromosome Territory Localization across 2 Million Years of Mouse Evolution." Genes. 10(2): 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10020109
  9. Larson, E. L., E. E. K. Kopania, and J. M. Good (2018). “Spermatogenesis and the evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes.” Trends Genet. 34(9):722-732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2018.06.003
  10. Chang, P. L., E. Kopania, S. Keeble, B. Sarver, E. Larson, A. Orth, K. Belkhir, P. Boursot, F. Bonhomme, J. M. Good, and M. D. Dean (2017). “Whole exome sequencing of wild-derived inbred strains of mice improves power to link phenotype and genotype.” Mamm Genome. 28(9-10):416-425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-017-9704-9

Presentations

  1. Kopania, E., N. Clark. “The evolution of high visual acuity specializations in mammals.” Symposium Oral Presentation. 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Montreal, Canada, July 26-30, 2024.
  2. Kopania, E., N. Clark. “Ecological pressures acting on mammalian visual traits.” Poster. The Allied Genetics Conference. Washington, D.C., March 6-10, 2024.
  3. Kopania, E., N. Clark. "The Evolution of Teleost Retinal Specializations." Poster. Sensorium. Chicago, Illinois, November 11-12, 2023.
  4. Kopania, E., G. Thomas, C. Hutter, S. Mortimer et al. "Recurrent shifts in sperm competition intensity shape the phenotypic and molecular evolution of male reproduction across diverse murine rodents." Poster. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting. Ferrara, Italy, July 23-27, 2023.
  5. Kopania, E. "The phenotypic and molecular evolution of male reproduction across diverse murine rodents." Invited seminar. University of Denver Biology Seminar Series. Denver, Colorado, April 17, 2023.
  6. Kopania, E., G. Thomas, C. Hutter, S. Mortimer et al. "Rodents of Unusual Sperm: Molecular and Phenotypic Evolution of Male Reproduction in Murine Rodents." Poster. Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference. Pacific Grove, California, June 7-10, 2022.
  7. Kopania, E. K., Larson, E. L., Good, J. M. “The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis.” Poster. Biology of Spermatozoa Conference. Nynäshamn, Sweden, September 9-13, 2019.
  8. Kopania, E. K., Larson, E. L., Good, J. M. “The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis.” Poster. Symposium on the Evolutionary Genomics of Adaptations. Polson, Montana, June 1-3, 2018.
  9. Kopania, E. K., Larson, E. L., Good, J. M. “The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis.” Poster. Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference. Madison, Wisconsin, May 13-16, 2018.
  10. Kopania, E. K., Larson, E. L., Good, J. M. “Genomic conflict and the evolution of gene copy number in mice.” Poster. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, July 2-6, 2017.
  11. Kopania, E. K. “Mapping the genes responsible for variation in Crassostrea gigas shell morphology.” Poster. University of Southern California Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. Los Angeles, California, April 15, 2015.

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