Kevin J. Peterson, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Room 321
Hanover, NH 03755

email: kevin.j.peterson@dartmouth.edu

Curriclum Vitae

Recent Publications:

MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain

Zolotarov, G., Fromm, B., Legnini, I., Ayoub, S., Polese, G., Maselli, V., Chabot, P.J., Vinther, J., Styfhals, R., Seuntjens, E., Di Cosmo, A., Peterson, K.J., and Rajewsky, N. (submitted).

microRNAs as indicators into the causes and consequences of whole genome duplication events

Peterson, K.J., Beavan, A., Chabot, P.J., McPeek, M.A., Pisani, D., Fromm, B., and Simakov, O. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2021) doi:10.1093/molbev/msab344.

MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla

Fromm, B., Høye, E., Domanska, D., Zhong, X., Aparicio-Puerta, E., Ovchinnikov, V., Umu, S.U., Chabot, P.J., Kang, W., Aslanzadeh, M., Tarbier, M., Mármol-Sánchez, E., Urgese, G., Johansen, M., Hovig, E., Hackenberg, M., Friedländer, M.R., Peterson, K.J. Nucleic Acids Research (2021) doi:10.1093/nar/gkab1101

Herbivory and its effect on Phanerozoic oxygen concentrations

Laakso, T.A., Strauss, J.V., and Peterson, K.  Geology (2020) 48, 410–414

MirGeneDB 2.0: the metazoan microRNA complement

Fromm, B., Domanska, D., Høye, E., Ovchinnikov, V., Kang, W., Aparicio-Puerta, E., Johansen, M., Flatmark, K., Mathelier, A., Hovig, E., Hackenberg, M., and Peterson, K. J. (2019) Nucleic Acids Research 48, D132–D141.

Unicellular Origin of the Animal MicroRNA Machinery

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 (2018) Oct 22;28(20):3288-3295.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.018. Epub 2018 Oct 11. PMID:30318349

Large scale changes in the transcriptome of Eisenia fetida during regeneration

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 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, L.E., Johansen, M., Tarver, J.E., King, B.L., Newcomb, J.M., Sempere, L.F., Flatmark, K., Hovig, E., Peterson, K.J. 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, J.E., Sperling, E.A., Nailor, A., Heimberg, A.M., Robinson, J.M., King, B.L., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P.C., Peterson, K.J.  Mol Biol Evol. (2013) Nov;30(11):2369-82. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst133. Epub 2013 Aug 2. Review. PMID:23913097