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Erik Lavington

Rutgers University
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Truly ubiquitous CRESS DNA viruses scattered across the eukaryotic tree of life

L Zhao, E Lavington, S Duffy - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Until recently, most viruses detected and characterized were of economic significance,
associated with agricultural and medical diseases. This was certainly true for the eukaryote‐…

[PDF][PDF] The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses

JL Collier, JS Rest, L Gallot-Lavallée, E Lavington… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
… limacinum is found in the microsporidian parasites Encephalitozoon cuniculi and E. intestinalis,
which have one subtelomeric, divergently transcribed 18S-28S rRNA gene cluster near …

THE INTENSITY OF SELECTION ACTING ON THE COUCH POTATO GENE—SPATIAL–TEMPORAL VARIATION IN A DIAPAUSE CLINE

R Cogni, C Kuczynski, S Koury, E Lavington… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Cosmopolitan populations of Drosophila melanogaster have co-opted a form of reproductive
diapause to overwinter in northern populations. Polymorphism in the couch potato gene …

The Effect of Common Inversion Polymorphisms In(2L)t and In(3R)Mo on Patterns of Transcriptional Variation in Drosophila melanogaster

E Lavington, AD Kern - G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Chromosomal inversions are a ubiquitous feature of genetic variation. Theoretical models
describe several mechanisms by which inversions can drive adaptation and be maintained as …

[HTML][HTML] Population diversity of cassava mosaic begomoviruses increases over the course of serial vegetative propagation

CD Aimone, E Lavington, JS Hoyer… - Journal of General …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
… Subsequently, two DNAs, SEGS-1 and SEGS-2 (sequences enhancing geminivirus symptoms),
were shown to produce similar symptoms when coinoculated with CMBs into both …

A Small System—High-Resolution Study of Metabolic Adaptation in the Central Metabolic Pathway to Temperate Climates in Drosophila melanogaster

E Lavington, R Cogni, C Kuczynski… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we couple the geographic variation in 127 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
frequencies in genes of 46 enzymes of central metabolism with their associated cis-…

Variation in Drosophila melanogaster central metabolic genes appears driven by natural selection both within and between populations

R Cogni, K Kuczynski, E Lavington… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Electronic supplementary material, table S1, provides the observed seasonal SNP
frequencies, and electronic supplementary material, table S2, provides the full dataset with …

[HTML][HTML] On the Long-term Stability of Clines in Some Metabolic Genes in Drosophila melanogaster

R Cogni, K Kuczynski, S Koury, E Lavington… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… These data are from collections made in 1997 and reported in Sezgin et al. and collections
from the 2009–2010 used in the analyses by Lavington et al. . Our main goal is to describe …

[HTML][HTML] Testing validity inferences for Genetic Drift Inventory scores using Rasch modeling and item order analyses

RE Tornabene, E Lavington, RH Nehm - Evolution: Education and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Concept inventories (CIs) are commonly used tools for assessing student
understanding of scientific and naive ideas, yet the body of empirical evidence supporting the …

Genetic perturbation of key central metabolic genes extends lifespan in Drosophila and affects response to dietary restriction

…, E Lavington, S Koury, E Brud… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is a connection between nutrient inputs, energy-sensing pathways, lifespan variation
and aging. Despite the role of metabolic enzymes in energy homeostasis and their …