Abigail L LaBella

Affiliations

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0068-6703

Publications (27)

The influence of evolutionary history on human health and disease.

Nature reviews. Genetics

Avec: Mary Lauren Benton , Abin Abraham , Patrick Abbot , Antonis Rokas , John A Capra

Codon Optimization Improves the Prediction of Xylose Metabolism from Gene Content in Budding Yeasts.

Molecular biology and evolution

Avec: Rishitha L Nalabothu , Kaitlin J Fisher , Abigail Leavitt LaBella , Taylor A Meyer , Dana A Opulente , John F Wolters , Antonis Rokas , Chris Todd Hittinger

Functional and evolutionary integration of a fungal gene with a bacterial operon.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Liang Sun , Kyle T David , John F Wolters , Steven D Karlen , Carla Gonçalves , Dana A Opulente , Abigail Leavitt LaBella , Marizeth Groenewald , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Antonis Rokas , Chris Todd Hittinger

Convergent expansions of keystone gene families drive metabolic innovation in a major eukaryotic clade.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Kyle T David , Joshua G Schraiber , Johnathan G Crandall , Abigail Leavitt LaBella , Dana A Opulente , Marie-Claire Harrison , John F Wolters , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris Todd Hittinger , Matt Pennell , Antonis Rokas

Genome-scale phylogeny and contrasting modes of genome evolution in the fungal phylum Ascomycota.

Science advances

Avec: Xing-Xing Shen , Jacob L Steenwyk , Dana A Opulente , Xiaofan Zhou , Jacek Kominek , Yuanning Li , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris T Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Microbiome-associated human genetic variants impact phenome-wide disease risk.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Avec: Robert H George Markowitz , Abigail Leavitt LaBella , Mingjian Shi , Antonis Rokas , John A Capra , Jane F Ferguson , Jonathan D Mosley , Seth R Bordenstein

Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism.

Nature communications

Avec: Pol Solé-Navais , Julius Juodakis , Karin Ytterberg , Xiaoping Wu , Jonathan P Bradfield , Marc Vaudel , Øyvind Helgeland , Christopher Flatley , Frank Geller , Moshe Finel , Mengqi Zhao , Philip Lazarus , Hakon Hakonarson , Per Magnus , Ole A Andreassen , Pål R Njølstad , Struan F A Grant , Bjarke Feenstra , Louis J Muglia , Stefan Johansson , Ge Zhang , Bo Jacobsson

Amplicon sequencing of 42 nuclear loci supports directional gene flow between South Pacific populations of a hydrothermal vent limpet.

Ecology and evolution

Avec: Sophie Plouviez , Abigail Leavitt LaBella , David W Weisrock , F A Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt , Bernard Ball , Joseph E Neigel , Cindy L Van Dover

The evolution of the GALactose utilization pathway in budding yeasts.

Trends in genetics : TIG

Avec: Marie-Claire Harrison , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Kyle T David , Marie-Claire Harrison , Dana A Opulente , John F Wolters , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Marizeth Groenewald , Matt Pennell , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Contrasting modes of macro and microsynteny evolution in a eukaryotic subphylum.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Yuanning Li , Hongyue Liu , Jacob L Steenwyk , Marie-Claire Harrison , Marizeth Groenewald , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Tao Zhao , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

A genome-informed higher rank classification of the biotechnologically important fungal subphylum

Studies in mycology

Avec: M Groenewald , C T Hittinger , K Bensch , D A Opulente , X-X Shen , Y Li , C Liu , A L LaBella , X Zhou , S Limtong , S Jindamorakot , P Gonçalves , V Robert , K H Wolfe , C A Rosa , T Boekhout , N Čadež , G Éter , J P Sampaio , M-A Lachance , A M Yurkov , H-M Daniel , M Takashima , K Boundy-Mills , D Libkind , K Aoki , T Sugita , A Rokas

Machine learning enables identification of an alternative yeast galactose utilization pathway.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Avec: Marie-Claire Harrison , Emily J Ubbelohde , Dana A Opulente , John F Wolters , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Accounting for diverse evolutionary forces reveals mosaic patterns of selection on human preterm birth loci.

Nature communications

Avec: Abin Abraham , Yakov Pichkar , Sarah L Fong , Ge Zhang , Louis J Muglia , Patrick Abbot , Antonis Rokas , John A Capra

Variation and selection on codon usage bias across an entire subphylum.

PLoS genetics

Avec: Dana A Opulente , Jacob L Steenwyk , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Correction: Variation and selection on codon usage bias across an entire subphylum.

PLoS genetics

Avec: Dana A Opulente , Jacob L Steenwyk , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

BioKIT: a versatile toolkit for processing and analyzing diverse types of sequence data.

Genetics

Avec: Jacob L Steenwyk , Thomas J Buida , Carla Gonçalves , Dayna C Goltz , Grace Morales , Matthew E Mead , Christina M Chavez , Jonathan E Schmitz , Maria Hadjifrangiskou , Yuanning Li , Antonis Rokas

Mosaic patterns of selection in genomic regions associated with diverse human traits.

PLoS genetics

Avec: Abin Abraham , John A Capra , Antonis Rokas

Mitochondrial genome diversity across the subphylum Saccharomycotina.

Frontiers in microbiology

Avec: John F Wolters , Dana A Opulente , Antonis Rokas , Chris Todd Hittinger

Functional and evolutionary integration of a fungal gene with a bacterial operon.

Molecular biology and evolution

Genomic factors shaping codon usage across the Saccharomycotina subphylum.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Bryan Zavala , Lauren Dineen , Kaitlin J Fisher , Dana A Opulente , Marie-Claire Harrison , John F Wolters , Xing-Xing Shen , Xiaofan Zhou , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas , Abigail Leavitt LaBella

Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Bo Feng , Yonglin Li , Hongyue Liu , Jacob L Steenwyk , Kyle T David , Xiaolin Tian , Biyang Xu , Carla Gonçalves , Dana A Opulente , Marie-Claire Harrison , John F Wolters , Shengyuan Shao , Zhaohao Chen , Kaitlin J Fisher , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris Todd Hittinger , Xing-Xing Shen , Antonis Rokas , Xiaofan Zhou , Yuanning Li

Diverse signatures of convergent evolution in cactus-associated yeasts.

PLoS biology

Avec: Carla Gonçalves , Marie-Claire Harrison , Jacob L Steenwyk , Dana A Opulente , John F Wolters , Xiaofan Zhou , Xing-Xing Shen , Marizeth Groenewald , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Repeated horizontal gene transfer of GALactose metabolism genes violates Dollo's law of irreversible loss.

Genetics

Avec: Max A B Haase , Jacek Kominek , Dana A Opulente , Xing-Xing Shen , Xiaofan Zhou , Jeremy DeVirgilio , Amanda Beth Hulfachor , Cletus P Kurtzman , Antonis Rokas , Chris Todd Hittinger

Signatures of optimal codon usage in metabolic genes inform budding yeast ecology.

PLoS biology

Avec: Abigail Leavitt LaBella , Dana A Opulente , Jacob L Steenwyk , Chris Todd Hittinger , Antonis Rokas

Aspergillus fumigatus FhdA Transcription Factor Is Important for Mitochondrial Activity and Codon Usage Regulation during the Caspofungin Paradoxical Effect.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Avec: Ana Cristina Colabardini , Norman Van Rhijn , Clara Valero , Lauren Dineen , Antonis Rokas , Gustavo H Goldman

Evolution and codon usage bias of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in Aspergillus section Flavi.

G3 (Bethesda, Md.)

Avec: Miya Hugaboom , Elizabeth Anne Hatmaker , Antonis Rokas

Réseau de co-auteurs

Antonis Rokas 24 collaborations

Chris Todd Hittinger 16 collaborations

Dana A Opulente 15 collaborations

Xiaofan Zhou 11 collaborations

Xing-Xing Shen 11 collaborations

John F Wolters 10 collaborations

Marizeth Groenewald 10 collaborations

Abigail Leavitt LaBella 8 collaborations

Marie-Claire Harrison 8 collaborations

Jacob L Steenwyk 8 collaborations

Kyle T David 5 collaborations

Carla Gonçalves 5 collaborations

John A Capra 4 collaborations

Yuanning Li 4 collaborations

Abin Abraham 3 collaborations

Kaitlin J Fisher 3 collaborations

Patrick Abbot 2 collaborations

Liang Sun 2 collaborations

Steven D Karlen 2 collaborations

Matt Pennell 2 collaborations

Jacek Kominek 2 collaborations

Louis J Muglia 2 collaborations

Ge Zhang 2 collaborations

Hongyue Liu 2 collaborations

Lauren Dineen 2 collaborations

Mary Lauren Benton 1 collaboration

Rishitha L Nalabothu 1 collaboration

Taylor A Meyer 1 collaboration

Joshua G Schraiber 1 collaboration

Johnathan G Crandall 1 collaboration

Chris T Hittinger 1 collaboration

Robert H George Markowitz 1 collaboration

Mingjian Shi 1 collaboration

Jane F Ferguson 1 collaboration

Jonathan D Mosley 1 collaboration

Seth R Bordenstein 1 collaboration

Pol Solé-Navais 1 collaboration

Julius Juodakis 1 collaboration

Karin Ytterberg 1 collaboration

Xiaoping Wu 1 collaboration

Jonathan P Bradfield 1 collaboration

Marc Vaudel 1 collaboration

Øyvind Helgeland 1 collaboration

Christopher Flatley 1 collaboration

Frank Geller 1 collaboration

Moshe Finel 1 collaboration

Mengqi Zhao 1 collaboration

Philip Lazarus 1 collaboration

Hakon Hakonarson 1 collaboration

Per Magnus 1 collaboration

Ole A Andreassen 1 collaboration

Pål R Njølstad 1 collaboration

Struan F A Grant 1 collaboration

Bjarke Feenstra 1 collaboration

Stefan Johansson 1 collaboration

Bo Jacobsson 1 collaboration

Sophie Plouviez 1 collaboration

David W Weisrock 1 collaboration

F A Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt 1 collaboration

Bernard Ball 1 collaboration

Joseph E Neigel 1 collaboration

Cindy L Van Dover 1 collaboration

Tao Zhao 1 collaboration

M Groenewald 1 collaboration

C T Hittinger 1 collaboration

K Bensch 1 collaboration

D A Opulente 1 collaboration

X-X Shen 1 collaboration

Y Li 1 collaboration

C Liu 1 collaboration

A L LaBella 1 collaboration

X Zhou 1 collaboration

S Limtong 1 collaboration

S Jindamorakot 1 collaboration

P Gonçalves 1 collaboration

V Robert 1 collaboration

K H Wolfe 1 collaboration

C A Rosa 1 collaboration

T Boekhout 1 collaboration

N Čadež 1 collaboration

G Éter 1 collaboration

J P Sampaio 1 collaboration

M-A Lachance 1 collaboration

A M Yurkov 1 collaboration

H-M Daniel 1 collaboration

M Takashima 1 collaboration

K Boundy-Mills 1 collaboration

D Libkind 1 collaboration

K Aoki 1 collaboration

T Sugita 1 collaboration

A Rokas 1 collaboration

Emily J Ubbelohde 1 collaboration

Yakov Pichkar 1 collaboration

Sarah L Fong 1 collaboration

Thomas J Buida 1 collaboration

Dayna C Goltz 1 collaboration

Grace Morales 1 collaboration

Matthew E Mead 1 collaboration

Christina M Chavez 1 collaboration

Jonathan E Schmitz 1 collaboration

Maria Hadjifrangiskou 1 collaboration

Bryan Zavala 1 collaboration

Bo Feng 1 collaboration

Yonglin Li 1 collaboration

Xiaolin Tian 1 collaboration

Biyang Xu 1 collaboration

Shengyuan Shao 1 collaboration

Zhaohao Chen 1 collaboration

Max A B Haase 1 collaboration

Jeremy DeVirgilio 1 collaboration

Amanda Beth Hulfachor 1 collaboration

Cletus P Kurtzman 1 collaboration

Ana Cristina Colabardini 1 collaboration

Norman Van Rhijn 1 collaboration

Clara Valero 1 collaboration

Gustavo H Goldman 1 collaboration

Miya Hugaboom 1 collaboration

Elizabeth Anne Hatmaker 1 collaboration