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    NSF Collaborative Research: Emergence of terpene cyclization in animals


    Principal Investigators:

    Paul O'Maille

    Alexandre V. Morozov

    Dorothea Tholl





    Publications

    1. Aditya Ballal, Caroline Laurendon, Melissa Salmon, Maria Vardakou, Jitender Cheema, Marianne Defernez, Paul E. O'Maille, and Alexandre V. Morozov.
    Sparse epistatic patterns in the evolution of terpene synthases Molecular Biology and Evolution 37, 2020, 1907-1924.   Article   Online Supplementary Data (ZIP)   README (DOCX)

    2. Aditya Ballal, Constantin D. Malliaris, and Alexandre V. Morozov.
    Molecular phenotypes as key intermediates in mapping genotypes to fitness   In: Evolutionary Biology - A Transdisciplinary Approach, Springer Nature (Pontarotti, P., ed), 2020, 15-40.

    3. Dorothea Tholl. Biosynthesis of terpene pheromones in Hemiptera/stink bugs   In: Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2nd edition (Blomquist, G., Vogt, R., eds), 2020, 269-281.

    4. Franziska Beran, Tobias G. Kollner, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Dorothea Tholl.
    Chemical convergence between plants and insects: biosynthetic origins and functions of common secondary metabolites New Phytologist 223, 2019, 52-67.   Article  













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