Annabel Whibley

Bioinformatician at Bragato Research Institute based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Research Expertise

Evolutionary Biology

Genetics

Genomics

Genetics (clinical)

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Plant Science

Molecular Biology

Biotechnology

Insect Science

Animal Science and Zoology

Cell Biology

Legacy Map

Publications

Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

Genomic islands of divergence in hybridizing Heliconius butterflies identified by large-scale targeted sequencing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

SLC9A6 Mutations Cause X-Linked Mental Retardation, Microcephaly, Epilepsy, and Ataxia, a Phenotype Mimicking Angelman Syndrome

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Disruption at the PTCHD1 Locus on Xp22.11 in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability

Science Translational Medicine

Submicroscopic Duplications of the Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase HSD17B10 and the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase HUWE1 Are Associated with Mental Retardation

The American Journal of Human Genetics

The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths

Evolutionary Paths Underlying Flower Color Variation in Antirrhinum

Fine-Scale Survey of X Chromosome Copy Number Variants and Indels Underlying Intellectual Disability

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Genetic architecture and balancing selection: the life and death of differentiated variants

Molecular Ecology

Supergene Evolution Triggered by the Introgression of a Chromosomal Inversion

Current Biology

CASK mutations are frequent in males and cause X-linked nystagmus and variable XLMR phenotypes

European Journal of Human Genetics

Mutation load at a mimicry supergene sheds new light on the evolution of inversion polymorphisms

Nature Genetics

Genome structure and evolution of Antirrhinum majus L

Evolution of dominance mechanisms at a butterfly mimicry supergene

Nature Communications

Mutations in Cullin 4B result in a human syndrome associated with increased camptothecin-induced topoisomerase I-dependent DNA breaks

Human Molecular Genetics

Selection and gene flow shape genomic islands that control floral guides

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Conservatism and novelty in the genetic architecture of adaptation in Heliconius butterflies

Deletion of MAOA and MAOB in a male patient causes severe developmental delay, intermittent hypotonia and stereotypical hand movements

European Journal of Human Genetics

Evolution of flower color pattern through selection on regulatory small RNAs

Whole-genome re-sequencing of non-model organisms: lessons from unmapped reads

The changing face of genome assemblies: Guidance on achieving high‐quality reference genomes

Molecular Ecology Resources

Lessons learnt from large-scale exon re-sequencing of the X chromosome

Human Molecular Genetics

WING SHAPE VARIATION ASSOCIATED WITH MIMICRY IN BUTTERFLIES

Mutation accumulation in chromosomal inversions maintains wing pattern polymorphism in a butterfly

Genomic data of different resolutions reveal consistent inbreeding estimates but contrasting homozygosity landscapes for the threatened Aotearoa New Zealand hihi

Molecular Ecology

Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research

Molecular Ecology

Association mapping of colour variation in a butterfly provides evidence that a supergene locks together a cluster of adaptive loci

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Selection of Valid Reference Genes for Reverse Transcription Quantitative PCR Analysis inHeliconius numata(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Journal of Insect Science

Contrasting genomic and phenotypic outcomes of hybridization between pairs of mimetic butterfly taxa across a suture zone

Molecular Ecology

Recurrent deletion ofZNF630at Xp11.23 is not associated with mental retardation

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

The design and application of a 50 K SNP chip for a threatened Aotearoa New Zealand passerine, the hihi

Molecular Ecology Resources

Genomic signatures of inbreeding depression for a threatened Aotearoa New Zealand passerine

Molecular Ecology

Development of microsatellite loci from a reference genome for the Neotropical butterflyHeliconius numataand its close relatives

Entomological Science

The origins of a novel butterfly wing patterning gene from within a family of conserved cell cycle regulators

Brassinosteroid coordinates cell layer interactions in plants via cell wall and tissue mechanics

The introduction and distribution history of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis) in New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow

Assembly of female and male hihi genomes (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta) enables characterization of the W chromosome and resources for conservation genomics

Molecular Ecology Resources

Tracing the introduction of the invasive common myna using population genomics

MtING2 encodes an ING domain PHD finger protein which affects Medicago growth, flowering, global patterns of H3K4me3, and gene expression

The Plant Journal

Comment on "Evolutionary Paths Underlying Flower Color Variation in Antirrhinum "

Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow

Peer Community Journal

Subtle Introgression Footprints at the End of the Speciation Continuum in a Clade of Heliconius Butterflies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

First chromosome scale genomes of ithomiine butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini): Comparative models for mimicry genetic studies

Molecular Ecology Resources

The genome of a globally invasive passerine, the common myna (Acridotheres tristis)

Genetic control of cell layer interactions in plants via tissue mechanics

Supergene formation: evidence for recombination suppression among multiple functional loci within inversions

Genome insights give cause for optimism in the ongoing battle to save the vaquita

Molecular Ecology Resources

Genome structure and evolution ofAntirrhnum majusL

The evolution and genomic consequences of adaptive inversion polymorphism in butterflies

2016 International Congress of Entomology

Stripes, sex and sparrows: what processes underlie heteromorphic chromosome evolution?

High-resolution genomic microarrays for X-linked mental retardation

Genetics in Medicine

Response to Comment on "Evolutionary Paths Underlying Flower Color Variation in Antirrhinum "

Supergene evolution triggered by the introgression of a chromosomal inversion

Education

University of Oxford

BA, Biological Sciences / July, 2000

Oxford

University of East Anglia

PhD, Plant Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics / October, 2004

Norwich

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