Mainlab Bioinformatics
Selected Peer Reviewed Publications or Conference Posters
  Jung S, Jiwan D, Cho I, Lee T, Abbott A, Sosinski B, Main D. Extensive Conservation of Gene Order and Content of Prunus in Populus and Medicago but Not Arabidopsis. BMC Genomics (in press)
  R B Spigler, K S Lewers, D S Main and T-L Ashman. Genetic mapping of sex determination in a wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, reveals earliest form of sex chromosome. Heredity. 2008 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print]
  Lewers K, Saski C, Cuthbertson B, Henry D, Staton M, Main D, Dhanaraj A, Rowland L, Tomkins J. A Blackberry (Rubus L.) Expressed Sequence Tag Library for the Development of Simple Sequence Repeat Markers. BMC Plant Biology. 2008 Jun 20;8:69
  Shulaev V, Korban S, Sosinski B, Abbott A, Aldwinckle H, Folta K, Iezzoni A, Main D, Arus P, Dandekar A, Lewers K, Brown S, Davis T, Gardiner S, Potter D, Veilleux R. Multiple Models for Rosaceae Genomics. Plant Physiology. 2008 Jul;147(3):985-1003.
  Zhebentyayeva T, Swire-Clark G, Georgi L, Garay L, Juns S, Forrest S, Blenda A, Blackmon B, Mook J, Horn R, Howad W, Arus P, Main D, Tomkins J, Sosinski B, Baird W, Reighard G, Abbott A. A Framework Physical Map for Peach, a Model Rosaceae Species. Tree Genetics and Genomes. 2008 4:745-756 .
  Jung S, Staton M, Lee T, Blenda A, Svancara R, Abbott A, Main D. GDR (Genome Database for Rosaceae): Integrated Web-database for Rosaceae Genomics and Genetics data. Nucleic Acids Research. January 2008, 36 (Database Issue): D1034-D1040.
  Tsyusko O, Yi Y, Coughlin D, Main D, Podolsky R, Hinton TG, Glenn TC. Radiation-Induced Untargeted Germline Mutations in Japanese Medaka. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. February 2007, 145(1):103-10.
  Blenda A, Scheffler A, Scheffler B, Palmer M, Lacape JM, Yu JZ, Jesudurai C, Jung S, Muthukumar S, Yellambalase P, Ficklin S, Staton M, Eschelman R, Ulloa M, Saha S, Burr B, Liu S, Zhang T, Fang D, Pepper A, Kumpatla S, Jacobs J, Tomkins J, Cantrell R, Main D. CMD: A Cotton Microsatellite Database Resource for Gossypium Genomics. BMC Genomics. May 31 2006, 7:132.
  Frelichowski JE, Palmer M, Main D, Tomkins JP, Cantrell R, Stelly DM, Yu J, Kohel RJ, Ulloa M. Cotton Genome Mapping with New Microsatellites from Acala 'Maxxa' BAC-ends. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. February 2006, 275(5):479-491.
  Jung S, Main D, Staton M, Cho I, Zhebentyayeva T, Arús P, Abbott A. Synteny conservation between the Prunus genome and both the present and ancestral Arabidopsis genomes. BMC Genomics. April 14 2006, 7:81.
  Folta KM, Staton M, Stewart PJ, Jung S, Bies DH, Jesdurai C, Main, D. Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers from Octoploid Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa). BMC Plant Biology. June 29 2005, 5:12.
  Horn R, Lecouls AC, Callahan A, Dandekar A, Garay L, McCord P, Howad W, Chan H, Verde I, Main D, Jung S, Georgi L, Forrest S, Mook J, Zhebentyayeva T, Yu Y, Kim HR, Jesudurai C, Sosinski B, Arus P, Baird V, Parfitt D, Reighard G, Scorza R, Tomkins J, Wing R, Abbott AG. Candidate Gene Database and Transcript Map for Peach, a Model Species for Fruit Trees. Theor Appl Genet. May 2005, 110(8):1419-28.
  Jung S, Abbott A, Jesudurai C, Tomkins J, Main D. Frequency, Type, Distribution and Annotation of Simple Sequence Repeats in Rosaceae ESTs. Funct. Integr. Genomics. 2005, 5:136-43.
  Arpat A, Waugh M, Sullivan JP, Gonzales M, Frisch D, Main D, Wood T, Leslie A, Wing R, Wilkins TA. 2004. Functional Genomics of Cell Elongation in Developing Cotton Fibers. Plant Molecular Biology. April 2004, 54(6):911-929.
  Jung S, Jesudurai C, Staton M, Du Z, Ficklin S, Cho I, Abbott A, Tomkins J, Main D. GDR (Genome Database for Rosaceae): Integrated Web Resources for Rosaceae Genomics and Genetics Research. BMC Bioinformatics. September 9 2004, 5(1):130.
  Tomkins J, Fregene M, Main D, Kim H, Wing R, Tohme J. 2004. Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Library Resources for Positional Cloning of Pest and Disease Resistance Genes in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Plant Molecular Biology. November 2004, 56(4):555-561.
  Chen M, Presting G, Barbazuk W, Goicoechea J, Blackmon B, Fang G, Kim H, Frisch D, Yu Y, Sun S, Higingbottom S, Phimphilai J, Phimphilai D, Thurmond S, Gaudette B, Li P, Liu J, Hatfield J, Main D, Farrar K, Henderson C, Barnett L, Costa R, Williams B, Walser S, Atkins M, Hall C, Budiman M, Tomkins J, Luo M, Bancroft I, Salse J, Regad F, Mohapatra T, Singh N, Tyagi A, Soderlundn C, Dean R, Wing R. An Integrated Physical and Genetic Map of the Rice Genome. The Plant Cell. March 2002, 14(3):537-45.
  Tomkins JP, Davis G, Main D, Yim Y, Duru N, Musket T, Goicoechea JL, Frisch JA, Coe Jr. EH, Wing RA. Construction and characterization of a deep-coverage bacterial artificial chromosome library for maize. Crop Science. 2002, 42:928-933.
  Tomkins JP, Luo M, Fang GC, Main D, Goicoechea JL, Atkins M, Frisch DA, Page RE, Guzmán-Novoa E, Yu Y, Hunt G, Wing RA. New Genomic Resources for Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.): Development of a Deep-coverage BAC library and a Preliminary STC database. Genetics and Molecular Research. 2002, 1(4):306-316.
  Tomkins JP, Peterson DG, Yang TJ, Main D, Ablett EF, Henry RJ, Lee LS, Holton TA, Waters D, Wing RA. Grape (Vitis vinifera L.) BAC Library Construction, Preliminary STC Analysis, and Identification of Clones Associated with Flavonoid and Stilbene Biosynthesis. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. 2001, 52(4):287-291.
 

Tomkins JP, Peterson DG, Yang TJ, Main D, Wilkins TA, Paterson AH, Wing RA. Development of Genomic Resources for Cotton (Gosypium hirsutum): BAC Library construction, preliminary STC analysis, and identification of clones associated with fiber development. Molecular Breeding. October 2001, 8(3):255-261.



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