? The Mank Group

names in bold are current or past members of the lab

Preprints in review

  • Fong LJM, Johnson BD, Darolti I, Sandkam BA, Mank JE. Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. Biorxiv

2025

  • van der Bijl W, Shu J, Goberdhan VS, Sherin L, Jia, C, Cortazar-Chinarro M, Corral-Lopez A, Mank JE (2025) Deep learning reveals role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait. Nature Ecology & Evolution: in press
  • Wang S, Mank JE, Ortiz-Barrientos D, Rieseberg LH (2025) Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. Molecular Ecology: in press
  • Xie S, Li J, Chen W, Fong LJM, Huang C, Feng Y, Ai Q, Mank JE, Wu H (2025) Extreme heterochiasmy and high rates of sex-reversed recombination result in large, homomorphic sex chromosomes in the Emei moustache toad. Genome Research in press
  • van der Bijl W, Mank JE (2025) Hiding in plain sight: The Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes. Evolution Letters 9: 165–171

2024

  • Corral-López A, Bloch NI, van der Bijl W, Cortázar-Chinarro M, Szorkovszky A, Darolti I, Kotrschal A, Amcoff M, Buechel SD, Romenskyy M, Kolm N, Mank JE (2024) Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic architecture underlying sociability in a live-bearing fish. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 98–110
  • Dai W, Mank JE, Ban L (2024) Gene gain and loss from the Asian corn borer W chromosome. BMC Biology 22: 102
  • He L, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhang RG, Wang Y, Hörandl E, Mank JE, Ming R (2024) Allopolyploidization from two dioecious ancestors leads to recurrent evolution of sex chromosomes and reversion to autosomes. Nature Communications 15: 6893
  • Li X, Mank JE, Ban L (2024) Grasshopper genome reveals long-term conservation of the X chromosome and variation in the tempo of X chromosome evolution. Genome Research 34: 997-1007
  • Tosto N, Rose E, Mason H, Mank JE, Flanagan S. (2024) Sexual selection on non-ornamental traits is underpinned by evidence of genetic constraints on sex-biased expression in dusky pipefish Molecular Ecology e17550
  • Aagaard A, Liu S, Sandfeld T, Settepani V, Braad Lund M, Malmos K, Falck-Rasmussen K, Bechsgaard J, Darolti I, Lykke Nielsen K, Johannsen M, Givskov Sørensen J, Mank JE, Vosegaard T, Tregenza T, Verhoeven KJF, Schramm A, Bilde T (2024) Molecular mechanisms of temperature tolerance in an arthropod. Genome Biology & Evolution 16: evae165

2023

  • Corral-López A, Kotrschal A, Szorkovszky A, Grata-Olaizola M, Herbert-Read J, van der Bijl W, Romenskyy M, Zeng H-L, Buechel SD, Fontrodona-Eslava A, Pelchmans K, Mank JE, Kolm N (2023) Evolution of schooling drives changes neuroanatomy and motion characteristics across predation contexts in guppies. Nature Communications 14: 6027
  • Metzger DCH, Porter I, Mobley B, Sandkam BA, Fong LJM, Anderson A, Mank JE (2023) Transposon wave remodelled the epigenomic landscape in the rapid evolution of a novel X chromosome dosage compensation mechanism. Genome Research 33: 1917-1931
  • Darolti I, Mank JE (2023) Sex-biased gene expression at single cell resolution: Causes and consequences of sexual dimorphism. Evolution Letters 7: 148-156
  • Darolti I, Fong LJM, Sandkam B, Metzger DCH, Mank JE (2023) Sex chromosome heteromorphism and the Fast-X Effect in Poeciliids. Molecular Ecology 32: 4599-4609
  • Rolland J, Doebeli M, Germain R, Harmon LJ, Henao-Diaz LF, Knowles LL, Liow LH, Mank JE, Machac A, Otto SP, Pennell MW, Salamin N, Silvestro D, Sugawara M, Uyeda J, Wagner C, Schluter D (2023) Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1181-1193
  • Tosto N, Beasley E, Wong BBM, Mank JE, Flanagan SP (2023) The roles of sexual selection and sexual conflict in shaping patterns of genome and transcriptome variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 981–993
  • Bath E, Rostant W, Mason J, Ostridge H, Mohr T, Smith S, Mank JE, Chapman T, Perry JC (2023) Sexual selection and the evolution of condition dependence: an experimental test at two resource levels. Evolution 77: 776-788

2022

  • Price PD, Palmer Droguett DH, Taylor JA, Kim DW, Place ES, Rogers TF, Mank JE, Cooney CR, Wright AE (2022) Detecting evolutionary selection in gene expression. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6: 1035-1045
  • Lin Y, Darolti D, Furman BLS, Almeida P, Sandkam BA, Breden F, Wright AE, Mank JE (2022) Gene duplications to the Y chromosome in Trinidadian guppies. Molecular Ecology 31:1853-1863
  • Bronikowski AM, Meisel RP, Biga PR, Walters JR, Mank JE, Larschan E, Wilkinson GS, Valenzuela V, Conard AM, de Magalhaes JP, Duan J, Elias AE, Gamble T, Graze RM, Gribble KE, Kreiling JA, Riddle NC (2022) Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspectives and future directions. Aging Cell 21: e1354

2021

  • Sandkam BA, Almeida P, Darolti I, Furman BLS, van der Bijl W, Morris J , Bourne GR, Breden F, Mank JE (2021) Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs in a freshwater fish. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 939-948
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  • Cooney, CR Mank JE, Wright AE (2021) Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes. Evolution 75: 2857-2866

2020

  • Kotrschal A, Szorkovsky A, Herbert Read J, Bloch NI, Romenskyy M, Buechel SD, Fontrodona A, Sanchez L, Zeng H, LeFoll A, Braux G, Pelckmans K, Mank JE Sumptner DJT, Kolm N. (2020) Rapid evolution of coordinated and collective movement in response to artificial selection. Science Advances 6:eaba3148
  • Bloch NI, Corral-López A, Buechel SD, Kotrschal A, Kolm N, Mank JE (2020) Different mating contexts lead to extensive rewiring of female brain coexpresion networks in the guppy. Genes, Brains & Behavior e12697
  • Almeida P,  Proux-Wera E, Churcher A, Soler L, Dainat J, Pucholt P, Nordlund J, Martin T, Rönnberg-Wästljung AC, Nystedt B, Berlin S, Mank JE (2020) Single-molecule genome assemby of the Basket Willow, Salix viminalis, reveals earliest stages of sex chromosome evolution. BMC Biology 18:78
  • Mank JE, Shu JJ, Wright AE (2020) Signature of sexual conflict is actually conflict resolved. Molecular Ecology 29: 215-217

2019

  • Wright AE, Rogers TF, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR, Mank JE (2019) Phenotypic sexual dimorphism is associated with genomic signatures of resolved sexual conflict. Molecular Ecology 28:2860-2871

2018

  • Wright AE, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR, Bloch NI, Vieira FG, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Mank JE (2018) Male-biased gene expression resolves sexual conflict through the evolution of sex-specific genetic architecture. Evolution Letters 2: 52-61
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  • Darolti I, Wright AE, Pucholt P, Berlin S, Mank JE (2018). Slow evolution of sex-biased genes in the reproductive tissue of the dioecious plant Salix viminalis. Molecular Ecology 27: 694-708
  • Zhang Z, Jia Y, Almeida P, Mank JE, van Tuinen M, Wang Q, Jiang Z, Chen Y, Zhan K, Hou S, Zhou Z, Li H, Yang F, He Y, Ning Z, Yang N, Qu L (2018) Whole-genome resequencing reveals signatures of selection and timing of duck domestication. GigaScience 7: 1-11
  • Morris J, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Wright AE, Mank JE (2018). Shared and species-specific patterns of nascent Y chromosome evolution in two guppy species. Genes 9: 238

2017

  • Wright AE, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Oostra V, Sandkam B, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Breden F, Vicoso B, Mank JE (2017) Convergent recombination suppression suggests a role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation. Nature Communications 8: 14251
  • International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: Karp NA, Mason J, Beaudet AL, Benjamini Y, Bower L, Braun RE, Brown SDM, Chesler EJ, Dickinson ME, Flenniken AM, Fuchs H, Gao X, Guo S, Greenaway S, Heller R, Herault Y, Hrabe de Angelis M, Justice MJ, Kurbatova N, Lelliott CJ, Lloyd KCK, Mallon AM, Mank JE, Masuya H, McKerlie C, Meehan TF, Mott RF, Murray SA, Parkinson H, Ramirez-Solis R, Santos L, Seavitt JR, Smedley D, Sorg T, Speak AO, Steel KP, Svenson KL, The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, Wakana S, West D, Wells S, Westerberg H, Yaacoby S, White JK (2017) Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits. Nature Communications 8: 15475
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  • Wang Q, Mank JE, Li J, Yang N, Qu L (2017) Allele-specific expression analysis does not support sex chromosome inactivation on the chicken Z chromosome. Genome Biology & Evolution 9: 619-626
  • Dean R, Wright AE, Marsh-Rollo SE, Nugent BM, Alonzo SH, Mank JE (2017) Sperm competition shapes gene expression and sequence evolution in the ocellated wrasse. Molecular Ecology 26: 505-518
  • Utsunomia R, Scacchetti PC, Hermida M, Fernández-Cebrián R, Taboada X, Fernández C, Bekaert M, Mendes NJ, Robledo D, Mank JE, Taggart J, Oliveira C, Foresti F, Martínez P (2017) Evolution and conservation of Characidium sex chromosomes. Heredity 119: 237-244

2016

  • Dean R, Mank JE (2016) Tissue-specificity and sex-specific regulatory variation permit the evolution of sex-biased gene expression. American Naturalist 188: E74-E84

2015

  • Wright AE, Harrison PW, Zimmer F, Montgomery SH, Pointer MA, Mank JE (2015) Variation in promiscuity and sexual selection drives avian rate of Faster-Z evolution. Molecular Ecology 24:1218-1235
  • Wright AE, Zimmer F, Harrison PW, Mank JE (2015) Conservation of regional variation in sex-specific sex chromosome regulation. Genetics 201: 587-598
  • Mullon C, Wright AE, Reuter M, Pomiankowski A, Mank JE (2015) Evolution of dosage compensation under sexual selection differs betwen X and Z chromosomes. Nature Communications 6: 7720
  • Wilkinson GS, Breden F, Mank JE, Ritchie MG, Higginson AD, Radwan J, Jaquiery J, Salzburger W, Arriero E, Barribeau SM, Phillips PC, Renn SCP, Rowe L (2015) The locus of sexual selection: Moving sexual selection studies into the post-genomics era. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:739-755

2014

  • Wright AE, Harrison PW, Montgomery SH, Pointer MA, Mank JE (2014) Independent stratum formation on the avian sex chromosomes reveals inter-chromosomal gene conversion and predominance of purifying selection on the W chromosome. Evolution 68: 3281-3295
              - Winner 2015 R.A. Fisher Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution
  • The Tree of Sex Consortium: Ashman T-L, Bachtrog D, Blackmon H, Goldberg EE, Hahn MW, Kirkpatrick M, Kitano J, Mank JE, Mayrose I, Ming R, Otto SP, Peichel CL, Pennell MW, Perrin N, Valenzuela N, Vamosi JC (2014) Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data 140015
  • Perry JC, Mank JE (2014) From genotype x environment to transcriptome x environment: Identifying and understanding environmental influences in the gene expression underlying sexually selected traits. In Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection, edited by J Hunt and DJ Hosken. John Wiley and Sons.

2013

  • Moghadam HK, Harrison PW, Zachar G, Szekely T, Mank JE (2013) The plover neurotranscriptome assembly: Transcriptomic analysis in an ecological model species without a reference genome. Molecular Ecology Resources 13: 696-705

2012

  • Dean R, Perry JC, Pizzari T, Mank JE, Wigby S (2012) Experimental evolution of a novel sexually antagonistic allele. PLOS Genetics 8: e1002917
  • Harrison PW, Mank JE, Wedell N (2012) Incomplete sex chromosome dosage compensation in the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella, based on de novo transcriptome assembly. Genome Biology & Evolution 4: 1118-1126
  • Wright, AE, Moghadam HK, Mank JE (2012) Trade-off between selection for dosage compensation and masculinization of the avian Z chromosome. Genetics 192: 1433-1445

2011

  • Mank JE, Hosken DJ, Wedell N (2011) Some inconvienient truths about sex chromosome dosage compensation and the potential role of sexual conflict. Evolution 65: 2133-2144

2010

  • Charlesworth D, Mank JE (2010) The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees: Lessons from genetic mapping of sex determination in plants and animals. Genetics 186: 1-23
  • Mank JE, Vicoso B, Berlin S, Charlesworth B (2010) Effective population size and the Faster-X Effect: Empirical results and their interpretation. Evolution 64: 663-674

2009

  • Mank JE, Ellegren H (2009) Sex-linkage of sexually antagonistic genes is predicted by female-, but not male-, effect in birds. Evolution 63: 1464-1472
  • Mank JE, (2009) The evolution of heterochiasmy: The role of sexual selection and sperm competition in determining sex-specific recombination rates and eutherian mammals. Genetics Research 91: 355-363
  • Mank JE, Ellegren H (2009) Sex bias in gene expression is not the same as dosage compensation. Heredity 103: 434
  • Mank JE (2009) An evolutionary biologist compares genomic complexity to modern art. Nature 461: 701

2008

  • Mank JE, Hultin-Rosenberg L, Zwahlen M, Ellegren H (2008) Pleiotropic constraint hampers the resolution of sexual antagonism in vertebrate gene expression. American Naturalist 171: 35-43
  • Mank JE, Hultin-Rosenberg L, Webster MT, Ellegren H (2008) The unique genomic properties of sex-biased genes: Insights from avian microarray data. BMC Genomics 9: 143

2007

2006

  • Mank JE, Avise JC (2006) Comparative phylogenetic analysis of male alternative reproductive tactics in ray-finned fishes. Evolution 60: 1311-1316
  • Mank JE, Avise JC (2006) Evolution of reproductive and genomic diversity in ray-finned fishes: Insights from phylogeny and comparative analysis. Journal of Fish Biology 69: 1-27
  • Mank JE, Avise JC (2006) Phylogenetic conservation of chromosome numbers in actinopterygiian fishes. Genetica 127: 321-327

Earlier

  • Mank JE, Promislow DEL, Avise JC (2005) Phylogenetic perspectives on the evolution of parental care in ray-finned fishes. Evolution 59: 1570-1578
  • Mank JE, Carlson JE, Brittingham MC (2004) A century of hybridization: Decreasing genetic distance between American Black Ducks and Mallards. Conservation Genetics 5: 394-403
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