Stephen Schaeffer

Professor of Biology

Stephen Schaeffer

Research Summary

Population Genetics and Genomics of Chromosomal Rearrangements in Drosophila

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Drosophila Genes Genomics Chromosomes Phylogeny Population Genetics Gulf Of Mexico Gene Flow Genetic Recombination Drosophila Pseudoobscura Population Inversion Chromosome Inversion Gene Order History Gene Frequency Microsatellite Repeats Mutation Linkage Disequilibrium Polychaeta Reproductive Isolation Alleles Chromosome Mapping High Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Metagenomics

Most Recent Papers

Extensive recombination suppression and epistatic selection causes chromosome-wide differentiation of a selfish sex chromosome in drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Spencer A. Koury, Christopher J. Leonard, Randee E. Young, Kobe Ikegami, Jonathan Westlake, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Nitin Phadnis, 2020, Genetics on p. 205-226

How chromosomal rearrangements shape adaptation and speciation

Zachary L. Fuller, Spencer A. Koury, Nitin Phadnis, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2019, Molecular Ecology on p. 1283-1301

How chromosomal rearrangements shape adaptation and speciation: Case studies in Drosophila pseudoobscura and its sibling species Drosophila persimilis.

Z Fuller, S Koury, N Phadnis, Stephen Schaeffer, 2018, Molecular ecology

Muller “elements” in drosophila: How the search for the genetic basis for speciation led to the birth of comparative genomics

Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2018, Genetics on p. 3-13

Ancestral polymorphisms explain the role of chromosomal inversions in speciation

Zachary L. Fuller, Christopher J. Leonard, Randee E. Young, Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Nitin Phadnis, 2018, PLoS Genetics

Genomics of natural populations: Evolutionary forces that establish and maintain gene arrangements in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Gwilym D. Haynes, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2017, Molecular Ecology on p. 6539-6562

Evolution of Single-Domain Globins in Hydrothermal Vent Scale-Worms

J. Projecto-Garcia, A. S. Le Port, T. Govindji, D. Jollivet, S. W. Schaeffer, S. Hourdez, 2017, Journal of Molecular Evolution on p. 172-187

Exemplar or matching

Zhaoming Yin, Jijun Tang, Stephen W. Schaeffer, David A. Bader, 2016, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization on p. 1165-1181

Genomics of natural populations: How differentially expressed genes shape the evolution of chromosomal inversions in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Gwilym D. Haynes, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2016, Genetics on p. 287-301

Investigation of population structure in Gulf of Mexico Seepiophila jonesi (Polychaeta, Siboglinidae) using cross-amplified microsatellite loci

Chunya Huang, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Charles R. Fisher, Dominique A. Cowart, 2016, PeerJ

Most-Cited Papers

Genomics of natural populations: How differentially expressed genes shape the evolution of chromosomal inversions in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Gwilym D. Haynes, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2016, Genetics on p. 287-301

Restriction to large-scale gene flow vs. regional panmixia among cold seep Escarpia spp. (Polychaeta, Siboglinidae)

Dominique A. Cowart, Chunya Huang, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Susan L. Carney, Charles R. Fisher, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2013, Molecular Ecology on p. 4147-4162

Ancestral polymorphisms explain the role of chromosomal inversions in speciation

Zachary L. Fuller, Christopher J. Leonard, Randee E. Young, Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Nitin Phadnis, 2018, PLoS Genetics

Species distribution and population connectivity of deep-sea mussels at hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

Baptiste Faure, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Charles R. Fisher, 2015, PLoS One on p. e0118460

Genomics of natural populations: Evolutionary forces that establish and maintain gene arrangements in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Gwilym D. Haynes, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2017, Molecular Ecology on p. 6539-6562

How chromosomal rearrangements shape adaptation and speciation

Zachary L. Fuller, Spencer A. Koury, Nitin Phadnis, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2019, Molecular Ecology on p. 1283-1301

Depth-dependent gene flow in Gulf of Mexico cold seep Lamellibrachia tubeworms (Annelida, Siboglinidae)

Dominique A. Cowart, Kenneth M. Halanych, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Charles R. Fisher, 2014, Hydrobiologia on p. 139-154

Molecular population genetics of inversion breakpoint regions in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Andre G. Wallace, Don Detweiler, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2013, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics on p. 1151-1163

Evidence for stabilizing selection on codon usage in chromosomal rearrangements of Drosophila pseudoobscura

Zachary L. Fuller, Gwilym D. Haynes, Dianhui Zhu, Matthew Batterton, Hsu Chao, Shannon Dugan, Mehwish Javaid, Joy C. Jayaseelan, Sandra Lee, Mingmei Li, Fiona Ongeri, Sulan Qi, Yi Han, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2014, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics on p. 2433-2449

Muller “elements” in drosophila: How the search for the genetic basis for speciation led to the birth of comparative genomics

Stephen W. Schaeffer, 2018, Genetics on p. 3-13