Curriclum Vitae

Recent Publications:

MirGeneDB2.0: the curated microRNA gene database (in preparation)

Fromm. B., Domanska, D., Hackenberg, M., Mathelier, A., Hoye, E., Johansen, M., Hovig, E., Flatmark, K., and Peterson, K. J.

FX-MIR: a microRNA cluster in the fragile X region that targets FMR1 (submitted)

Ramaiah, M., Tan. K., Plank, T.-D. M., Song, H.-W., Dumdie, J. N., Jones, S., Shum, E. Y., Sheridan, S. D., Peterson, K. J., Gromoll, J., Haggerty, S. J., and Wilkinson, M. F. EMBO.

Unicellular origin of the animal microRNA machinery (in press)

Brate, J., Neumann, R. S., Fromm, B., Haraldsen, A. B., Tarver, J. E., Suga, H., Donoghue, P. C. J., Peterson, K. J., Ruiz-Trillo I., Grini, P. E., Shalchian-Talbrizi, K.  Current Biology.

Large scale changes in the non-coding transcriptome during regeneration in Eisenia fetida (in press)

Bhambri, A., Dhaunta, N., Patel, S. S., Hardikar, M., Bhatt, A., Srikakulam, Nagesh, Shridar, S., Vellarikkal, S., Pandey, R., Jayaranjan, R., Verman, A., Kuman, V., Gautam, P., Khan, J. A., Fromm, B., Peterson, K. J., Scaria, V., Sivasubba, S., and Pillai, B. PLoS ONE.

Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity

Deline, B., Greenwood, J.M., Clark, J.W., Puttick, M.N., Peterson, K.J., Donoghue, P.C.J.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2018) Sep 4. pii: 201810575. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810575115. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:30181261

Well-Annotated microRNAomes Do Not Evidence Pervasive miRNA Loss

Tarver, J.E., Taylor, R.S., Puttick, M.N., Lloyd, G.T., Pett, W., Fromm, B., Schirrmeister, B.E., Pisani, D., Peterson, K.J., Donoghue, P.C.J.  Genome Biol Evol. (2018) Jun 1;10(6):1457-1470. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evy096.  PMID:29788279

Big Strides in Cellular MicroRNA Expression

Halushka, M.K., Fromm, B., Peterson, K.J., McCall, M.N. Trends Genet. (2018) Mar;34(3):165-167. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.12.015. Epub 2018 Jan 18. PMID:29361313

The phylogeny, evolutionary developmental biology, and paleobiology of the Deuterostomia: 25 years of new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas

Peterson, K.J. and Eernisse, D.J.. Org. Divers. Evol. (2016)16:401-418. doi 10.1007/s13127-16-0279-x

The Antagonistic Gene Paralogs Upf3a and Upf3b Govern Nonsense-Mediated RNA Decay

Shum, E.Y., Jones, S.H., Shao, A., Dumdie, J., Krause, M.D., Chan, W.K., Lou, C.H., Espinoza, J.L., Song, H.W., Phan, M.H., Ramaiah, M., Huang, L., McCarrey, J.R., Peterson, K.J., De Rooij, D.G., Cook-Andersen, H., Wilkinson, M.F. Cell. (2016) Apr 7;165(2):382-95. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.046. Epub 2016 Mar 31. PMID:27040500

The Interrelationships of Placental Mammals and the Limits of Phylogenetic Inference.

Tarver, J.E., Dos Reis, M., Mirarab, S., Moran, R.J., Parker, S., O’Reilly, J.E., King, B.L., O’Connell, M.J., Asher, R.J., Warnow, T., Peterson, K.J., Donoghue, P.C., Pisani, D. Genome Biol. Evol. (2016) Jan 5;8(2):330-44. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evv261. PMID:26733575

A Uniform System for the Annotation of Vertebrate microRNA Genes and the Evolution of the Human microRNAome.

Fromm B, Billipp T, Peck LE, Johansen M, Tarver JE, King BL, Newcomb JM, Sempere LF, Flatmark K, Hovig E, Peterson KJ. Annu Rev Genet. 2015;49:213-42. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092023. Epub 2015 Oct 14. Review. PMID:2647338

miRNAs: small genes with big potential in metazoan phylogenetics.

Tarver JE, Sperling EA, Nailor A, Heimberg AM, Robinson JM, King BL, Pisani D, Donoghue PC, Peterson KJ. Mol Biol Evol. 2013 Nov;30(11):2369-82. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst133. Epub 2013 Aug 2. Review. PMID:23913097

MicroRNAs support the monophyly of enteropneust hemichordates.

Peterson KJ, Su YH, Arnone MI, Swalla B, King BL. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2013 Sep;320(6):368-74. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22510. Epub 2013 May 23. PMID:23703796

The identification of microRNAs in calcisponges: independent evolution of microRNAs in basal metazoans.

Robinson JM, Sperling EA, Bergum B, Adamski M, Nichols SA, Adamska M, Peterson KJ. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2013 Mar;320(2):84-93. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22485. Epub 2013 Jan 24. PMID:23349041