Alexander Sang-Jae Suh
Researcher at Institutionen för organismbiologi; Systematisk biologi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 27 74
- E-mail:
- alexander.suh@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum, Norbyv. 18D
75236 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Norbyv. 18D
75236 Uppsala
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Short presentation
I’m a biologist with a fascination for animal diversity and all the little things that lurk inside their genomes. Every genome is a tiny ecosystem full of even tinier parasites and fossils thereof.
My research focuses on the study of evolution in animals, transposons, and viruses using comparative genomics, molecular biology, and phylogenomics. Currently, I am an assistant professor (forskarassistent) in the Department of Evolutionary Biology. You can find my lab website here
Biography
Research
Ongoing research revolves around the evolution of birds, crocodilians, and parasitic nematodes, however, my interests are not limited to a specific group of organisms. I aim at understanding biodiversity both on the level of cellular organisms and on the level of transposons and viruses, as well as the interactions between these genomic parasites and their hosts’ genomes or transcriptomes.
Publications
Recent publications
- Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories (2023)
- Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories (2023)
- Genomic architecture of migration timing in a long-distance migratory songbird (2023)
- A Phylogenomic Assessment of Processes Underpinning Convergent Evolution in Open-Habitat Chats (2023)
- The swan genome and transcriptome, it is not all black and white (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories (2023)
- Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories (2023)
- Genomic architecture of migration timing in a long-distance migratory songbird (2023)
- A Phylogenomic Assessment of Processes Underpinning Convergent Evolution in Open-Habitat Chats (2023)
- The swan genome and transcriptome, it is not all black and white (2023)
- Runs of homozygosity reveal past bottlenecks and contemporary inbreeding across diverging populations of an island-colonizing bird (2023)
- Micro Germline-Restricted Chromosome in Blue Tits (2023)
- Caecilian Genomes Reveal the Molecular Basis of Adaptation and Convergent Evolution of Limblessness in Snakes and Caecilians (2023)
- Satellite DNA evolution in Corvoidea inferred from short and long reads (2023)
- An annotated chromosome-scale reference genome for Eastern black-eared wheatear (Oenanthe melanoleuca) (2023)
- Rapid gene content turnover on the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds (2023)
- Songbird germline-restricted chromosome as a potential arena of genetic conflicts (2023)
- Mendelian nightmares (2022)
- The genomic basis of the plant island syndrome in Darwin's giant daisies (2022)
- Horizontal Transposon Transfer and Its Implications for the Ancestral Ecology of Hydrophiine Snakes (2022)
- Recurrent chromosome reshuffling and the evolution of neo-sex chromosomes in parrots (2022)
- Orthologous microsatellites, transposable elements, and DNA deletions correlate with generation time and body mass in neoavian birds (2022)
- Transposon- and Genome Dynamics in the Fungal Genus Neurospora: Insights from Nearly Gapless Genome Assemblies (2022)
- Occasional paternal inheritance of the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds (2022)
- Genomic associations with poxvirus across divergent island populations in Berthelot's pipit (2022)
- Seasonal migration patterns and the maintenance of evolutionary diversity in a cryptic bird radiation (2022)
- Unboxing mutations (2021)
- Meiosis and beyond - understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome (2021)
- Genetic Barriers to Historical Gene Flow between Cryptic Species of Alpine Bumblebees Revealed by Comparative Population Genomics (2021)
- TE Hub (2021)
- Genome Stability Is in the Eye of the Beholder (2021)
- Horizontal transfer and subsequent explosive expansion of a DNA transposon in sea kraits (Laticauda) (2021)
- Genome Size Reduction and Transposon Activity Impact tRNA Gene Diversity While Ensuring Translational Stability in Birds (2021)
- Identifying the causes and consequences of assembly gaps using a multiplatform genome assembly of a bird-of-paradise (2021)
- The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities (2021)
- A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research (2021)
- New Perspectives on the Evolution of Within-Individual Genome Variation and Germline/Soma Distinction (2021)
- The Enterprise, a massive transposon carrying Spok meiotic drive genes (2021)
- Long-term persistence of supernumerary B chromosomes in multiple species of Astyanax fish (2021)
- Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics (2020)
- New Environment, New Invaders-Repeated Horizontal Transfer of LINEs to Sea Snakes (2020)
- The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution (2020)
- Linked-read sequencing enables haplotype-resolved resequencing at population scale (2020)
- Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats (2020)
- Discovery and population genomics of structural variation in a songbird genus (2020)
- Why Do Some Sex Chromosomes Degenerate More Slowly Than Others? (2020)
- The Genome of Blue-Capped Cordon-Bleu Uncovers Hidden Diversity of LTR Retrotransposons in Zebra Finch (2019)
- Programmed DNA elimination of germline development genes in songbirds (2019)
- Comparative analyses identify genomic features potentially involved in the evolution of birds-of-paradise (2019)
- Parallel plumage colour evolution and introgressive hybridization in wheatears (2019)
- Genome-wide evidence supports mitochondrial relationships and pervasive parallel phenotypic evolution in open-habitat chats (2019)
- Genome Size Evolution (2019)
- Nucleotide composition of transposable elements likely contributes to AT/GC compositional homogeneity of teleost fish genomes (2019)
- Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds (2019)
- Natural selection beyond genes (2018)
- Improved Genome Assembly and Annotation for the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) (2018)
- Bridging gaps in transposable element research with single-molecule and single-cell technologies (2018)
- How complete are "complete" genome assemblies? (2018)
- Abundant recent activity of retrovirus-like retrotransposons within and among flycatcher species implies a rich source of structural variation in songbird genomes (2018)
- Evolution of bird genomes-a transposon's-eye view (2017)
- Dynamics of genome size evolution in birds and mammals (2017)
- Whole-genome patterns of linkage disequilibrium across flycatcher populations clarify the causes and consequences of fine-scale recombination rate variation in birds (2017)
- Deciphering the Origin and Evolution of Hepatitis B Viruses by Means of a Family of Non-enveloped Fish Viruses (2017)
- Evolution and Diversity of Transposable Elements in Vertebrate Genomes (2017)
- De-novo emergence of SINE retroposons during the early evolution of passerine birds (2017)
- Rapid Increase in Genome Size as a Consequence of Transposable Element Hyperactivity in Wood-White (Leptidea) Butterflies (2017)
- Combination of short-read, long-read, and optical mapping assemblies reveals large-scale tandem repeat arrays with population genetic implications (2017)
- The phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves (2016)
- Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes (2016)
- Evolution of heterogeneous genome differentiation across multiple contact zones in a crow species complex (2016)
- Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers (2015)
- Phylogenomic analyses data of the avian phylogenomics project (2015)
- Targeted Capture of Phylogenetically Informative Ves SINE Insertions in Genus Myotis (2015)
- Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome (2015)
- The Specific Requirements for CR1 Retrotransposition Explain the Scarcity of Retrogenes in Birds (2015)
- Multiple Lineages of Ancient CR1 Retroposons Shaped the Early Genome Evolution of Amniotes (2015)
- The Dynamics of Incomplete Lineage Sorting across the Ancient Adaptive Radiation of Neoavian Birds (2015)
- Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs (2014)
- Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (2014)
- Early Mesozoic Coexistence of Amniotes and Hepadnaviridae (2014)
- The genome of a Mesozoic paleovirus reveals the evolution of hepatitis B viruses (2013)
- The hidden structural variability in avian genomes
- Satellite DNA evolution in Corvides inferred from short and long reads
- Rapid GRC-linked gene expression divergence in Ficedula flycatchers and implications for spermatogenesis
