Department of Biology

Articles in journals

• Tellam, R.L., Lemay, D.G., Van Tassell, C.P., Lewin, H.A., Worley, K.C. and Elsik, C.G. "Unlocking the bovine genome." BMC Genomics 10 (2009): 193.
• Satterfield, M.C., Song, G., Kochan, K.J., Riggs, P.K., Simmons, R.M., Elsik, C.G., Adelson, D.L., Bazer, F.W., Zhou, H. and Spencer, T.E.. "Discovery of candidate genes and pathways in the endometrium regulating ovine blastocyst growth and conceptus elongation." Physiological Genomics 39 (2009): 85-99.
• Elsik, C. G., Tellam, R.L., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A. and the Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. "The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A window to ruminant biology and evolution." Science 24 (2009): 522-528.
• Bae, K., Mallick, B.K. and Elsik, C.G. "Prediction of protein inter-domain linker regions by a non-stationary hidden Markov model." Journal of the American Statistical Association 103 (2008): 1085-1099.
• Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium. "The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum." Nature 452 (2008): 949-955.
• Hu, J.C., Aramayo, R., Bolser, D., Conway, T., Elsik, C.G., Gribskov, M,, Kelder, T., Kihara, D., Knight, T.F. Jr., Pico, A.R., Siegele, D.A., Wanner, B.L. and Welch, R.D. "The emerging world of wikis." Science 320 (2008): 1289-1290.
• Golovan, S.P., Hakimov, H.A., Verschoor, C.P., Walters, S., Gadish, M., Elsik, C., Schenkel, F., Chiu, D.K.Y. and Forsberg, C.W. "Analysis of Sus scrofa liver proteome and identification of proteins differentially expressed between genders, and conventional and genetically enhanced lines." Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part D 3 (2008): 234-242.
• Robertson, H., Reese, J.T., Milshina, N.V., Agarwala, R., Solignac, M., Walden, K.K.O. and Elsik, C.G. "Manual superscaffolding of honey bee (Apis mellifera) chromosomes 13-16: implications for the draft genome assembly, gene annotation, and chromosome structure." Insect Molecular Biology 16 (2007): 401-410.
• Weaver, D.B., Anzola, J.M., Evans, J.D., Reid, J.G., Reese, J.T., Childs, K.L., Zdobnov, E., Samanta, M., Miller, J. and Elsik, C.G. "Computational and transcriptional evidence for microRNAs in the honey bee genome." Genome Biology 8 (2007): R97.
• Elsik, C.G., Mackey, A.J., Reese, J.T., Milshina, N.V., Roos, D.S. and Weinstock, G.M. "Creating a honey bee consensus gene set." Genome Biology 8 (2007): R13.
• Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing Consortium. "The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus." Science 314 (2006): 941-952.
• Elsik, C.G., Worley, K.C., Zhang, L., Milshina, N.V., Jiang, H., Reese, J.T., Childs, K.L., Venkatraman, A., Dickens, C.M., Weinstock, G.M. and Gibbs, R.A. "Community annotation: procedures, protocols and supporting tools." Genome Research 16 (2006): 1329-1333.
• Dearden, P.K., Wilson, M.J., Sablan, L., Osborne, P.W., Havler, M., McNaughton, E., Kimura, K., Milshina, N., Hasselman, M., Gempe, T., Schioett, M., Brown, S.J., Elsik, C.G., Holland, P., Kadowaki, T. "Patterns of conservation and change in honeybee developmental genes." Genome Research 16 (2006): 1376-1384.
• Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. "Insights into social insects from the genome of the honey bee Apis mellifera." Nature 443 (2006): 931-949.
• Krutovsky, K., Elsik, C.G., Matvienko, M., Kozik, A. and Neale, D.B. "Identification of candidate genes for Conserved Ortholog Set in forest trees." Tree Genetics and Genomes 3 (2006): 61-70.
• Bae, K., Mallick, B.K. and Elsik, C.G. "Prediction of protein interdomain linker regions by a hidden Markov model." Bioinformatics 21 (2005): 2264-2270.
• Elsik, C.G. and Williams, C.G. "Low-copy microsatellite recovery from a conifer genome." Theoretical and Applied Genetics 103 (2001): 1189-1195.
• Elsik, C.G. and Williams, C.G. "Families of clustered microsatellites in a conifer genome." Molecular Genetics and Genomics 265 (2001): 535-542.
• Paterson, A.H., Bowers, J.E., Burow, M.D., Draye, X., Elsik, C.G., Jiang, C.X., Katsar, C.S., Lan, T.H., Lin, Y.R., Ming, R.G. and Wright, R.J. "Comparative genomics of plant chromosomes." Plant Cell 12 (2000): 1523-1539.
• Williams, C.G., Elsik, C.G. and Barnes, R.D. "Microsatellite analysis of Pinus taeda L. in Zimbabwe." Heredity 84 (2000): 261-268.
• Elsik, C.G., Minihan, V.T., Hall, S.E., Scarpa, A.M. and Williams, C.G. "Low-copy microsatellite markers for Pinus taeda L." Genome 43 (2000): 550-555.
• Elsik, C.G., and Williams, C.G. "Retroelements contribute to excess low-copy-number DNA in pine.." Molecular and General Genetics 264 (2000): 47-55.
• Flagler, R.B., Lock, J.E. and Elsik, C.G. "Leaf-level and whole-plant gas exchange characteristics of shortleaf pine exposed to ozone and simulated acid rain." Tree Physiology 14 (1994): 361-374.

Articles in books

• Elsik, C.G., Flagler, R.B. and Boutton, T.W. "Carbon isotope composition and gas exchange of loblolly and shortleaf pine as affected by ozone and water stress." Stable Isotopes and Plant Carbon-Water Relations. Ed. Ehleringer, J.R., Hall, A.E. and Farquhar, G.D. San Diego: Academic Press, 1993.