Jennifer Wernegreen, PhD - Publications

Affiliations: 
Duke University, Durham, NC 

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Year Citation  Score
2019 Brown BP, Wernegreen JJ. Genomic erosion and extensive horizontal gene transfer in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae. Bmc Genomics. 20: 472. PMID 31182035 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5844-5  0.375
2017 Wernegreen JJ. In it for the long haul: evolutionary consequences of persistent endosymbiosis. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 47: 83-90. PMID 28934627 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2017.08.006  0.53
2017 Wernegreen JJ. Ancient bacterial endosymbionts of insects: Genomes as sources of insight and springboards for inquiry. Experimental Cell Research. PMID 28454877 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2017.04.028  0.451
2016 Brown BP, Wernegreen JJ. Deep divergence and rapid evolutionary rates in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae of ants. Bmc Microbiology. 16: 140. PMID 27400652 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0721-8  0.392
2015 Williams LE, Wernegreen JJ. Genome evolution in an ancient bacteria-ant symbiosis: parallel gene loss among Blochmannia spanning the origin of the ant tribe Camponotini. Peerj. 3: e881. PMID 25861561 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.881  0.561
2013 Williams LE, Wernegreen JJ. Sequence context of indel mutations and their effect on protein evolution in a bacterial endosymbiont. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5: 599-605. PMID 23475937 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt033  0.478
2013 McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Bosch TC, Carey HV, Domazet-LoÅ¡o T, Douglas AE, Dubilier N, Eberl G, Fukami T, Gilbert SF, Hentschel U, King N, Kjelleberg S, Knoll AH, Kremer N, ... ... Wernegreen JJ, et al. Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 3229-36. PMID 23391737 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1218525110  0.315
2012 Wernegreen JJ. Strategies of genomic integration within insect-bacterial mutualisms Biological Bulletin. 223: 112-122. PMID 22983037  0.477
2012 Wernegreen JJ. Endosymbiosis Current Biology. 22: R555-R561. PMID 22835786 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.010  0.396
2012 Williams LE, Wernegreen JJ. Purifying selection, sequence composition, and context-specific indel mutations shape intraspecific variation in a bacterial endosymbiont. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4: 44-51. PMID 22117087 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr128  0.503
2010 Williams LE, Wernegreen JJ. Unprecedented loss of ammonia assimilation capability in a urease-encoding bacterial mutualist. Bmc Genomics. 11: 687. PMID 21126349 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-687  0.399
2010 Wernegreen JJ, Kauppinen SN, Degnan PH. Slip into something more functional: Selection maintains ancient frameshifts in homopolymeric sequences Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27: 833-839. PMID 19955479 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msp290  0.774
2009 Wernegreen JJ, Kauppinen SN, Brady SG, Ward PS. One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 9. PMID 20015388 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-292  0.396
2009 Wernegreen JJ, Wheeler DE. Remaining flexible in old alliances: Functional plasticity in constrained mutualisms Dna and Cell Biology. 28: 371-381. PMID 19435425 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2009.0872  0.433
2008 Tamas I, Wernegreen JJ, Nystedt B, Kauppinen SN, Darby AC, Gomez-Valero L, Lundin D, Poole AM, Andersson SGE. Endosymbiont gene functions impaired and rescued by polymerase infidelity at poly(A) tracts Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 14934-14939. PMID 18815381 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806554105  0.472
2006 Paraskevopoulos C, Bordenstein SR, Wernegreen JJ, Werren JH, Bourtzis K. Toward a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: Discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila species Current Microbiology. 53: 388-395. PMID 17036209 DOI: 10.1007/S00284-006-0054-1  0.336
2006 Baldo L, Bordenstein S, Wernegreen JJ, Werren JH. Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23: 437-449. PMID 16267140 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msj049  0.466
2005 Casiraghi M, Bordenstein SR, Baldo L, Lo N, Beninati T, Wernegreen JJ, Werren JH, Bandi C. Phylogeny of Wolbachia pipientis based on gltA, groEL and ftsZ gene sequences: Clustering of arthropod and nematode symbionts in the F supergroup, and evidence for further diversity in the Wolbachia tree Microbiology. 151: 4015-4022. PMID 16339946 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.28313-0  0.337
2005 Wernegreen JJ. For better or worse: Genomic consequences of intracellular mutualism and parasitism Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 15: 572-583. PMID 16230003 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.09.013  0.511
2005 Degnan PH, Lazarus AB, Wernegreen JJ. Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects. Genome Research. 15: 1023-33. PMID 16077009 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.3771305  0.794
2005 Fry AJ, Wernegreen JJ. The roles of positive and negative selection in the molecular evolution of insect endosymbionts. Gene. 355: 1-10. PMID 16039807 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.05.021  0.435
2005 Schaber J, Rispe C, Wernegreen J, Buness A, Delmotte F, Silva FJ, Moya A. Gene expression levels influence amino acid usage and evolutionary rates in endosymbiotic bacteria Gene. 352: 109-117. PMID 15935576 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gene.2005.04.003  0.742
2005 Herbeck JT, Degnan PH, Wernegreen JJ. Nonhomogeneous model of sequence evolution indicates independent origins of primary endosymbionts within the enterobacteriales (γ-Proteobacteria) Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 520-532. PMID 15525700 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msi036  0.752
2004 Wernegreen JJ, Funk DJ. Mutation exposed: a neutral explanation for extreme base composition of an endosymbiont genome. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 59: 849-58. PMID 15599516 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-003-0192-Z  0.596
2004 Bordenstein SR, Wernegreen JJ. Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): Infection frequency, lateral transfer, and recombination rates Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21: 1981-1991. PMID 15254259 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msh211  0.509
2004 Wernegreen JJ. Endosymbiosis: Lessons in conflict resolution Plos Biology. 2. PMID 15024418 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020068  0.354
2004 Degnan PH, Lazarus AB, Brock CD, Wernegreen JJ. Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: cospeciation of camponotus species and their endosymbionts, candidatus blochmannia. Systematic Biology. 53: 95-110. PMID 14965905 DOI: 10.1080/10635150490264842  0.786
2003 Herbeck JT, Funk DJ, Degnan PH, Wernegreen JJ. A conservative test of genetic drift in the endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera: slightly deleterious mutations in the chaperonin groEL. Genetics. 165: 1651-60. PMID 14704156  0.752
2003 Herbeck JT, Wall DP, Wernegreen JJ. Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia. Microbiology (Reading, England). 149: 2585-96. PMID 12949182 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.26381-0  0.374
2003 Wernegreen JJ, Degnan PH, Lazarus AB, Palacios C, Bordenstein SR. Genome evolution in an insect cell: distinct features of an ant-bacterial partnership. The Biological Bulletin. 204: 221-31. PMID 12700158 DOI: 10.2307/1543563  0.769
2002 Wernegreen JJ. Genome evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of insects Nature Reviews Genetics. 3: 850-861. PMID 12415315 DOI: 10.1038/nrg931  0.537
2002 Palacios C, Wernegreen JJ. A strong effect of AT mutational bias on amino acid usage in Buchnera is mitigated at high-expression genes Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1575-1584. PMID 12200484  0.382
2002 Wernegreen JJ, Lazarus AB, Degnan PH. Small genome of Candidatus Blochmannia, the bacterial endosymbiont of Camponotus, implies irreversible specialization to an intracellular lifestyle. Microbiology (Reading, England). 148: 2551-6. PMID 12177348 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-8-2551  0.792
2002 Tamas I, Klasson L, Canbäck B, Näslund AK, Eriksson AS, Wernegreen JJ, Sandström JP, Moran NA, Andersson SG. 50 million years of genomic stasis in endosymbiotic bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.). 296: 2376-9. PMID 12089438 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1071278  0.648
2001 Wernegreen JJ, Richardson AO, Moran NA. Parallel acceleration of evolutionary rates in symbiont genes underlying host nutrition. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 19: 479-85. PMID 11399154 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.2001.0929  0.625
2001 Funk DJ, Wernegreen JJ, Moran NA. Intraspecific variation in symbiont genomes: bottlenecks and the aphid-buchnera association. Genetics. 157: 477-89. PMID 11156972  0.725
2001 Wernegreen JJ, Moran NA. Vertical transmission of biosynthetic plasmids in aphid endosymbionts (Buchnera). Journal of Bacteriology. 183: 785-90. PMID 11133977 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.183.2.785-790.2001  0.591
2000 Funk DJ, Helbling L, Wernegreen JJ, Moran NA. Intraspecific phylogenetic congruence among multiple symbiont genomes. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 267: 2517-21. PMID 11197128 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.1314  0.744
2000 Wernegreen JJ, Moran NA. Decay of mutualistic potential in aphid endosymbionts through silencing of biosynthetic loci: Buchnera of Diuraphis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 267: 1423-31. PMID 10983826 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.1159  0.64
2000 Clark MA, Moran NA, Baumann P, Wernegreen JJ. Cospeciation between bacterial endosymbionts (Buchnera) and a recent radiation of aphids (Uroleucon) and pitfalls of testing for phylogenetic congruence. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 54: 517-25. PMID 10937228 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2000.Tb00054.X  0.622
2000 Moran NA, Wernegreen JJ. Lifestyle evolution in symbiotic bacteria: insights from genomics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 15: 321-326. PMID 10884696 DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01902-9  0.696
2000 Wernegreen JJ, Ochman H, Jones IB, Moran NA. Decoupling of genome size and sequence divergence in a symbiotic bacterium. Journal of Bacteriology. 182: 3867-9. PMID 10851009 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.182.13.3867-3869.2000  0.599
2000 Moran NA, Wernegreen JJ. Lifestyle evolution in symbiotic bacteria: Insights from genomics Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 15: 321-326. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01902-9  0.612
1999 Wernegreen JJ, Riley MA. Comparison of the evolutionary dynamics of symbiotic and housekeeping loci: A case for the genetic coherence of rhizobial lineages Molecular Biology and Evolution. 16: 98-113. PMID 10331255  0.387
1999 Wernegreen JJ, Moran NA. Evidence for genetic drift in endosymbionts (Buchnera): analyses of protein-coding genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 16: 83-97. PMID 10331254 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026040  0.634
1997 Wernegreen JJ, Harding EE, Riley MA. Rhizobium gone native: Unexpected plasmid stability of indigenous Rhizobium leguminosarum Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94: 5483-5488. PMID 9144264 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.10.5483  0.326
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