Underlined names are trainees from our lab.

1. Wang, X., Xu, S and Luo, C. (2023) Attachment and Release of Water Fleas’ Ephippia on a Medium-Sized Waterfowl’s Leg for Migration. Langmuir 39: 12402-12411.
2. Snyman, M., and Xu, S. (2023) The effects of mutations on gene expression and alternative splicing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290: 20230565. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0565
3. Snyman, M., and Xu, S. (2023) Transcriptomics and the origin of obligate parthenogenesis. Heredity. 131: 119–129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00628-3. Editor’s choice and short-listed for Best Student Paper in 2023.
4. Huynh, T., Hall, A., and Xu S. (2023) The transcriptomic signature of cyclical parthenogenesis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15: 7, evad122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad122
5. Jackson, C.E., Xu, S., Ye Z., Pfrender, M., Lynch, M., Colbourne, J.K., Shaw, J. Chromosomal rearrangements preserve adaptive divergence in ecological speciation. Nature Communications. Minor Revision. Preprint available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.457158v1
6. Xu S., Huynh T., and Snyman M. (2022) The transcriptomic signature of obligate parthenogenesis. 128: 132-138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00498-1
7. Snyman, M., Huynh, T., Smith, MT, and Xu S. (2021) The genome-wide rate and spectrum of EMS-induced heritable mutations in the microcrustacean Daphnia: on the prospect of forward genetics. 127: 535-545. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-021-00478-x
8. Wang, H and Xu S. (2021) A low-cost, efficient method for extracting high molecular weight DNA for third-generation sequencing. 65: 53-56. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2021-0029
9. Moy, I., Green, M., Pham, T. P., Luu, D., Xu S. (2021) The life history fitness of F1 hybrids of the microcrustaceans Daphnia pulex and pulicaria (Crustacea, Anomopoda). Invertebrate Biology 140: e12333. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12333
10. Neupane, S., and Xu S. (2020) Adaptive divergence of meiotic recombination rate in ecological speciation. Genome Biology and Evolution 12, 1869-1881. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa182
11. Adamowicz SJ, Boatwright JS, Chain F, Fisher BL, Hogg ID, Leese F, Lijtmaer DA, Mwale M, Naaum AM, Pochon X, Steinke D, Wilson J-J, Wood S, Xu J, Xu S, Zhou X, van der Bank M 2019. Trends in DNA barcoding and metabarcoding. Genome 62: v-viii. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2019-0054
12. Luu D., Vo H., and Xu S. (2019) An Efficient Method for Hatching Diapausing Embryos of Daphnia pulex Species Complex (Crustacea, Anomopoda). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A 333: 111-117. DOI: 10.1002/jez.2331
13. Xu S., Pham T., and Neupane S. (2019) Delivery methods for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in Crustaceans. Marine Life Science and Technology. 2: 1-5. DOI: 10.1007/s42995-019-00011-4
14. Huynh T and Xu S. (2018) Gene Annotation Easy Viewer (GAEV): Integrating KEGG’s Gene Function Annotations and Associated Molecular Pathways. F1000Research 7:416. DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.14012.1
15. Warren, W.C., Garcia-Perez, R.*, Xu, S.*, Lampert, K.P.*, Chalopin, D., Stock, M., Loewe, L., Lu, Y., Kuderna, L., Minx, P., et al. (2018). Clonal polymorphism and high heterozygosity in the celibate genome of the Amazon molly. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 669-679. * Equal contribution
16. Xu S, Tran VK, Neupane S, Snyman M, Huynh T, & Sung W (2017) Single-sperm sequencing reveals the accelerated mitochondrial mutation rate in male Daphnia pulex (Crustacea, Cladocera). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20171548.
17. Ye Z*, Xu S*, Spitze K, Asselman J, Jiang X, Ackerman MS, Lopez J, Harker B, Raborn RT, Thomas WK, Ramsdell J, Pfrender ME, Lynch M (2017). A new reference genome assembly for the microcrustacean Daphnia pulex. G3 (Bethesda) 7: 1405-1416. *Equal contribution
18. Ackerman MS, Johri P, Spitze K, Xu S, Doak TG, Young K, Lynch M 2017. Estimating seven coefficients of pairwise relatedness using population-genomic data. Genetics 206: 105-118.
19. Xu S and Young K. (2017) Whole-genome haplotyping of single sperm of Daphnia pulex. Methods in Molecular Biology. Haplotyping: Methods and Protocols, 147-157. Ed: Tiemann-Boege I and Betancourt A. Springer.
20. Xu S, Spitze K, Ackerman MS, Ye Z, Bright L, Keith N, Jackson CE, Shaw JR, and Lynch M. (2015) Hybridization and the origin of contagious asexuality in Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 3215-3225.
21. Xu S, Ackerman MS, Long H, Bright L, Spitze K, Ramsdell JS, Thomas WK, and Lynch M. (2015) A male-specific genetic map of the microcrustacean Daphnia pulex based on single sperm whole-genome sequencing. Genetics 201: 31-38.
22. Lynch M, Xu S, Maruki T, Pfaffelhuber P, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Haubold B. (2014) Genome-wide linkage-disequilibrium profiles from single individuals. Genetics 198: 269-281.
23. Xu S, Innes DJ, Lynch M, and Cristescu ME. (2013) The role of hybridization in the origin and spread of asexuality in Molecular Ecology 22: 4549-4561.
24. Tucker AE, Ackerman MS, Eads BD, Xu S, and Lynch M (2013) Population-genomic insights into the evolutionary origin and fate of obligately asexual Daphnia pulex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110: 15740-15745.
25. Ibarra-Laclette et al. (including Xu S) (2013) Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome. Nature 498: 94-98.
26. Altshuler I, Vaillant J, Xu S, Cristescu ME. (2012) The evolutionary history of Sarco(endo)plasmic Calcium ATPase (SERCA). Plos One 7: e52617.
27. Xu S, Schaack S, Seyfert A, Choi E, Lynch M, and Cristescu ME. (2012) High mutation rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:763-769.
28. Altshuler I, Demiri B, Xu S, Constantin A, Yan ND, Cristescu ME. (2011) An integrated multi-disciplinary approach for studying multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: Daphnia as a model organism. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51:623-633.
29. Millette KJ, Xu S, Witt JDS, Cristescu ME. (2011) Pleistocene-driven diversification in freshwater zooplankton: Refugial isolation, postglacial re-colonization, and cryptic speciation. Limnology and Oceanography 56: 1725-1736.
30. Xu S, Omilian AR, Cristescu ME. (2011) High rate of large-scale hemizygous deletions in asexually propagating Daphnia: implications for the evolution of sex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 335-342.
31. Huang XN, Shi XL, Xu S, Liu GJ, Ma LM, Sun ZQ. (2011) Life history characteristics of Macrothrix rosea (Jurine, 1820) (Cladocera, Macrothricidae) in laboratory conditions. Journal of Limnology 70: 248-254.
32. Shi X, Xu S, Xue C, Huang X, Liu, G, Zhao Y. (2011) Discovery of males of Simocephalus himalayensis (Cladocera, Simocephalus), with the re-description of females. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 29: 206-212.
33. Xu S, Hebert PDN, Kotov AA, Cristescu ME. (2009) The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda). Molecular Ecology 18: 5161-5179.
34. Roessingh P, Xu S, Menken SBJ. (2007) Olfactory receptors on the maxillary palps of small ermine moth larvae: evolutionary history of benzaldehyde sensitivity. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 193: 635-647.