Gonzalez, Vanessa L.
Computational Genomics Scientist
Selected Publications
Article
Giles, Emily C., González, Vanessa L., Carimán, Paulina, Leiva, Carlos, Suescún, Ana Victoria, Lemer, Sarah, Guillemin, Marie Laure, Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel, and Saenz‐Agudelo, Pablo. 2025. "Comparative Genomics Points to Ecological Drivers of Genomic Divergence Among Intertidal Limpets ." Molecular Ecology Resources , https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14075 .
2025
Reda, Nicholas, González, Vanessa L., Osmundson, Todd, and Gerrish, Gretchen. 2025. "Up, Down and All Around: Courtship Behavior Deviants and Genetic Divergence in the Reef-Dwelling Bioluminescent Ostracod, Photeros Annecohenae (Myodocopida: Cypridinidae) ." Preprint , https://doi.org/10.22541/au.174480850.04666865/v1 .
2025
Schwartz, Lindsey C., González, Vanessa L., Strong, Ellen E., Truebano, Manuela, and Hilbish, Thomas J. 2024. "Transgressive gene expression and expression plasticity under thermal stress in a stable hybrid zone ." Molecular ecology , https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17333 .
2024
Gonzalez, Brett C., González, Vanessa L., Martínez, Alejandro, Worsaae, Katrine, and Osborn, Karen J. 2023. "A transcriptome-based phylogeny for Polynoidae (Annelida: Aphroditiformia) ." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution , 185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107811 .
2023
Arcila, Dahiana, Rincon-Sandoval, Melissa, Hanson, William, Hart, Pamela B., González, Vanessa L., Betancur-R, Ricardo, and Bichuette, Maria E. 2023. "Transcriptomic analysis of the Brazilian blind characid, Stygichthys typhlops , reveals convergent selection with Astyanax mexicanus and other cavefishes." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 11 1076756. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1076756 .
2023
Uribe, Juan E., González, Vanessa L., Irisarri, Iker, Kano, Yasunori, Herbert, David G., Strong, Ellen E., and Harasewych, M. G. 2022. "A Phylogenomic Backbone for Gastropod Molluscs ." Systematic Biology , 71, (6) 1271–1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac045 .
2022
Canty, Steven W. J., Kennedy, John Paul, Fox, Graeme, Matterson, Kenan, Gonzalez, Vanessa L., Nunez-Vallecillo, Mayra L., Preziosi, Richard F., and Rowntree, Jennifer K. 2022. "Mangrove diversity is more than fringe deep ." Scientific Reports , 12, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05847-y .
2022
Ellis, Emily A., Goodheart, Jessica A., Hensley, Nicholai M., González, Vanessa L., Reda, Nicholas J., Rivers, Trevor J., Morin, James G., Torres, Elizabeth, Gerrish, Gretchen A., and Oakley, Todd H. 2022. "Sexual Signals Persist over Deep Time: Ancient Co-option of Bioluminescence for Courtship Displays in Cypridinid Ostracods ." Systematic Biology , https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac057 .
2022
Olsen, Lindsey K., Heckenhauer, Jacqueline, Sproul, John S., Dikow, Rebecca B., González, Vanessa L., Kweskin, Matthew P., Taylor, Adam M., Wilson, Seth B., Stewart, Russell J., Zhou, Xin, Holzenthal, Ralph, Pauls, Steffen U., and Frandsen, Paul B. 2021. "Draft Genome Assemblies and Annotations of Agrypnia vestita Walker, and Hesperophylax magnus Banks Reveal Substantial Repetitive Element Expansion in Tube Case-Making Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) ." Genome Biology and Evolution , 13, (3). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab013 .
2021
Macey, J. Robert, Pabinger, Stephan, Barbieri, Charles G., Buring, Ella S., González, Vanessa L., Mulcahy, Daniel G., DeMeo, Dustin P., Urban, Lara, Hime, Paul M., Prost, Stefan, Elliott, Aaron N., and Gemmell, Neil J. 2021. "Evidence of two deeply divergent co-existing mitochondrial genomes in the Tuatara reveals an extremely complex genomic organization ." Communications Biology , 4, (1) Article 116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01639-0 .
2021
Gainett, Guilherme, González, Vanessa L., Ballesteros, Jesus A., Setton, Emily V. W., Baker, Caitlin M., Barolo Gargiulo, Leonardo, Santibanez-Lopez, Carlos E., Coddington, Jonathan A., and Sharma, Prashant P. 2021. "The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages ." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 288, (1956). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1168 .
2021
Buenaventura, Eliana, Lloyd, Michael W., Perilla Lopez, Juan Manuel, González, Vanessa L., Thomas-Cabianca, Arianna, and Dikow, Torsten. 2020. "Protein-encoding ultraconserved elements provide a new phylogenomic perspective of Oestroidea flies (Diptera: Calyptratae) ." Systematic Entomology , https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12443 .
2020
Gemmell, Neil J., Rutherford, Kim, Prost, Stefan, Tollis, Marc, Winter, David, Macey, J. R., Adelson, David L., Suh, Alexander, Bertozzi, Terry, Grau, José H., Organ, Chris, Gardner, Paul P., Muffato, Matthieu, Patricio, Mateus, Billis, Konstantinos, Martin, Fergal J., Flicek, Paul, Petersen, Bent, Kang, Lin, Michalak, Pawel, Buckley, Thomas R., Wilson, Melissa, Cheng, Yuanyuan, Miller, Hilary, Schott, Ryan K. et al. 2020. "Publisher Correction: The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution ." Nature , 585 e3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2661-6 .
2020
Gemmell, Neil J., Rutherford, Kim, Prost, Stefan, Tollis, Marc, Winter, David, Macey, J. R., Adelson, David L., Suh, Alexander, Bertozzi, Terry, Grau, José H., Organ, Chris, Gardner, Paul P., Muffato, Matthieu, Patricio, Mateus, Billis, Konstantinos, Martin, Fergal J., Flicek, Paul, Petersen, Bent, Kang, Lin, Michalak, Pawel, Buckley, Thomas R., Wilson, Melissa, Cheng, Yuanyuan, Miller, Hilary, Schott, Ryan K. et al. 2020. "The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution ." Nature , 584 403–409. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2561-9 .
2020
Harasewych, M. G., Sei, Makiri, Wirshing, Herman H., González, Vanessa L., and Uribe, Juan E. 2019. "The complete mitochondrial genome of Neptuneopsis gilchristi GB Sowerby III, 1898 (Neogastropoda: Volutidae: Calliotectinae)." The Nautilus , 133, (3-4) 67–73.
2019
Wood, Hannah M., González, Vanessa L., Lloyd, Michael, Coddington, Jonathan, and Scharff, Nikolaj. 2018. "Next-Generation museum genomics: phylogenetic relationships among palpimanoid spiders using sequence capture techniques (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) ." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution , 127 907–918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.038 .
2018
González, Vanessa L., Devine, Amanda M., Trizna, Mike, Mulcahy, Daniel G., Barker, Katherine, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2018. "Open access genomic resources for terrestrial arthropods ." Current Opinion in Insect Science , 25 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2017.12.003 .
2018
Harasewych, M. G., González, Vanessa L., Windsor, Amanda M., and Halloran, Margaret. 2017. "The complete mitochondrial genome of Cerion uva uva (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Stylommatophora: Cerionidae) ." Mitochondrial DNA Part B. Resources , 2, (1) 159–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1303343 .
2017
Schwager, Evelyn E., Sharma, Prashant P., Clarke, Thomas, Leite, Daniel J., Wierschin, Torsten, Pechmann, Matthias, Akiyama-Oda, Yasuko, Esposito, Lauren, Bechsgaard, Jesper, Bilde, Trine, Buffry, Alexandra D., Chao, Hsu, Dinh, Huyen, Doddapaneni, HarshaVardhan, Dugan, Shannon, Eibner, Cornelius, Extavour, Cassandra G., Funch, Peter, Garb, Jessica, Gonzalez, Luis B., González, Vanessa L., Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Han, Yi, Hayashi, Cheryl, Hilbrant, Maarten et al. 2017. "The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution ." BMC biology , 15, (1) 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0399-x .
2017
Lemer, Sarah, González, Vanessa L., Bieler, Rü, and Giribet, Gonzalo. 2016. "Cementing mussels to oysters in the pteriomorphian tree: a phylogenomic approach ." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 283, (1833) 20160857. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0857 .
2016
Ješovnik, Ana, González, Vanessa L., and Schultz, Ted R. 2016. "Phylogenomics and Divergence Dating of Fungus-Farming Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Genera Sericomyrmex and Apterostigma ." PloS One , 11, (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151059 .
2016
González, Vanessa L., Kayal, Ehsan, Halloran, Margaret, Shrestha, Yesha, and Harasewych, M. G. 2016. "The complete mitochondrial genome of the land snail Cerion incanum (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) and the phylogenetic relationships of Cerionidae within Panpulmonata ." Journal of Molluscan Studies , 82, (4) 525–533. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyw017 .
2016
Lemer, Sarah, Kawauchi, Gisele Y., Andrade, Sónia C. S., González, Vanessa L., Boyle, Michael J., and Giribet, Gonzalo. 2015. "Re-evaluating the phylogeny of Sipuncula through transcriptomics ." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution , 83 174–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.019 .
2015
Bieler, Ruediger, Mikkelsen, Paula M., Collins, Timothy M., Glover, Emily A., González, Vanessa L., Graf, Daniel L., Harper, Elizabeth M., Healy, John, Kawauchi, Gisele Y., Sharma, Prashant P., Staubach, Sid, Strong, Ellen E., Taylor, John D., Temkin, Ilya, Zardus, John D., Clark, Stephanie, Guzman, Alejandra, McIntyre, Erin, Sharp, Paul, and Giribet, Gonzalo. 2014. "Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life - an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters ." Invertebrate Systematics , 28, (1) 32–115. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS13010 .
2014
Dataset
González, Vanessa L. 2023. [Dataset] Data Backbone Files -- Smithsonian Gap Analysis Tool . Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24279694 .
2023
González, Vanessa L. 2023. [Dataset] GBIF Data Backbone File . Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24280102 .
2023
González, Vanessa L. 2023. [Dataset] GGBN Genbank Data Backbone File . Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24279739 .
2023
González, Vanessa L. 2023. [Dataset] NCBI Genbank Data Backbone File . Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24280123 .
2023
Uribe, Juan E., González, Vanessa L., Irisarri, Iker, Kano, Yasunori, Herbert, David G., Strong, Ellen E., and Harasewych, M. G. 2022. [Dataset] A phylogenomic backbone for gastropod molluscs . Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.ZCRJDFNG6 .
2022
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