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Duncan M, DeGiorgio M, Assis R*, Adams R*. Robust regression rescues poor phylogenetic decisions. BMC Ecology and Evolution, in press (2025). Lozano JR, DeGiorgio M, Assis R, Adams R✉. Discriminating models of trait evolution. bioRxiv (preprint) doi:10.1101/2025.06.12.659377 (2025)

Duncan M, DeGiorgio M, Assis R✉, Adams R✉. Robust regression rescues poor phylogenetic decisions. BMC Ecology and Evolution, in press (2025)

Kanjilal R, Campelo dos Santos AL, Arnab SP, DeGiorgio M✉, Assis R✉. Genomic anomaly detection with functional data analysis. Genes, 16:710 (2025)

Adams R✉, Lozano JR, Duncan M, Green J, Assis R*, DeGiorgio M*. A tale of too many trees: a conundrum for phylogenetic regression. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42:msaf032 (2025)

Islam UI, Campelo dos Santos AL, Kanjilal R, Assis R✉. Learning genotype-phenotype associations from gaps in multi-species sequence alignments. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 26:bbaf022 (2025)

LaBoone PA, Assis R✉. Stress-induced constraint on expression noise of essential genes in E. coli. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 92:834-841 (2024)

Campelo dos Santos AL✉, DeGiorgio M*, Assis R*. Predicting evolutionary targets and parameters of gene deletion from expression data. Bioinformatics Advances, 4:vbae002 (2024)

Adams R✉, Cain Z, Assis R*, DeGiorgio M*. Robust phylogenetic regression. Systematic Biology, 73:140-157 (2024)

Assis R, Conant G, Holland B, Liberles DA✉, O'Reilly MM, Wilson AE. Models for the retention of duplicate genes and their biological underpinnings. F1000Research 12:1400 (2023)

Piya AA, DeGiorgio M, Assis R✉. Predicting expression divergence and its evolutionary parameters between single-copy genes in two species. Genome Biology and Evolution 15:evad078 (2023)

Alemrajabi M*, Macias Calix K*, Assis R✉. Epistasis-driven evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure. Journal of Molecular Evolution 90:429-437 (2022)

Assis R✉. No expression divergence despite transcriptional interference between nested protein-coding genes in mammals. Genes 12:1381 (2021)

Chain FJJ, Assis R✉. BLAST from the past: impacts of evolving approaches on studies of evolution by gene duplication. Genome Biology and Evolution 13:evab149 (2021)

DeGiorgio M✉, Assis R✉. Learning retention mechanisms and evolutionary parameters of duplicate genes from their expression data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:1209-1224 (2021)

Jiang X, Assis R✉. Population-specific sequence and expression differentiation in Europeans. Genome Biology and Evolution 12:358–369 (2020)

Assis R✉. Out of the testis, into the ovary: biased outcomes of gene duplication and deletion in Drosophila. Evolution 73:1850-1862 (2019)

Jiang X, Assis R✉. Rapid functional divergence after small-scale duplication in grasses. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19:97 (2019)

Assis R✉. Lineage-specific expression divergence in grasses is associated with male reproduction, host-pathogen defense, and domestication. Genome Biology and Evolution 11:207-219 (2019)

Jiang X, Assis R✉. Natural selection drives rapid functional evolution of young Drosophila duplicate genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34:3089-3098 (2017)

Assis R✉. Transcriptional interference promotes rapid expression divergence of Drosophila nested genes. Genome Biology and Evolution 8:3149-3158 (2016)

Perry BR, Assis R✉. CDROM: Classification of Duplicate gene RetentiOn Mechanisms. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:82 (2016)

Assis R✉, Bachtrog D. Rapid divergence and diversification of mammalian duplicate gene functions. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:138 (2015)

Assis R✉. Strong epistatic selection on the RNA secondary structure of HIV. PLoS Pathogens 10:e1004363 (2014)

Assis R✉. Drosophila duplicate genes evolve new functions on the fly. Fly 8 (2014)

Assis R✉, Kondrashov AS. Conserved proteins are fragile. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:419-424 (2014)

Assis R✉, Bachtrog D. Neofunctionalization of young duplicate genes in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110:17409-17414 (2013)

Assis R✉, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Sex-biased transcriptome evolution in Drosophila. Genome Biology and Evolution 29:1189-1200 (2012)

Assis R✉, Kondrashov AS. Nonallelic gene conversion is not GC-biased in Drosophila or primates. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:1291-1295 (2012)

Assis R✉, Kondrashov AS. A strong deletion bias in nonallelic gene conversion.PLoS Genetics 8:e1002508 (2012)

Kondrashov AS, Assis R✉. Bridges: A tool for identifying local similarities in long sequences. Bioinformatics 26:2055-2056 (2010)

Assis R✉, Kondrashov AS. Rapid repetitive element-mediated expansion of piRNA clusters in mammalian evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106:7079-7082 (2009)

Assis R, Kondrashov AS, Koonin EV, Kondrashov FA✉. Nested genes and increasing organizational complexity of metazoan genomes. Trends in Genetics 23:475-478 (2008)