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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
The Tarone laboratory is interested in factors that lead to local adaptations of fly development times and body sizes. These traits are influenced by numerous genetic and environmental factors. They are also ecologically important life history traits for any organism and are frequently found to be under differential selection across populations of numerous fly species. Accordingly, there are many applied and theoretical reasons for dissecting the causes of variation in these phenotypes in flies that influence human activities.

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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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3102 Bioinformatics And Computational Biology

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

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The genomes of a monogenic fly: views of primitive sex chromosomes.

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RNA meets toxicology: efficacy indicators from the experimental design of RNAi studies for insect pest management.

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The role of spatial aggregation in forensic entomology.

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Components of developmental plasticity in a Michigan population of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

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Gene expression in Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii identifies shared and microbe-specific induction of immune genes.

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A rapidly evolving MYB-related protein causes species isolation in Drosophila.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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A survey of bacterial diversity from successive life stages of black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) by using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing.

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12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Temporal and Spatial Impact of Human Cadaver Decomposition on Soil Bacterial and Arthropod Community Structure and Function.

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Genome sizes of forensically relevant Diptera.

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Field Validation of a Development Data Set for Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Estimating Insect Age Based on Development Stage.

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Pigs vs people: the use of pigs as analogues for humans in forensic entomology and taphonomy research.

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Intrapopulation genome size variation in D. melanogaster reflects life history variation and plasticity.

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A de novo transcriptome assembly of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) with predicted alternative splices, single nucleotide polymorphisms and transcript expression estimates.

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Interkingdom Cues by Bacteria Associated With Conspecific and Heterospecific Eggs of Cochliomyia macellaria and Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Potentially Govern Succession on Carrion (vol 110, pg 73, 2017)

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A metagenomic assessment of the bacteria associated with Lucilia sericata and Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

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Pollen associated with a Texas population of blow flies-(Diptera: Calliphoridae) highlights underappreciated aspects of their biology

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Bacteria mediate oviposition by the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).

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The upper thermal tolerance of the secondary screwworm, Cochliomyia macellaria Fabricius (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

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Genome-wide survey of Arabidopsis natural variation in downy mildew resistance using combined association and linkage mapping.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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A memory-efficient algorithm to obtain splicing graphs and de novo expression estimates from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-Seq data.

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Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines.

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Genome Sequence of a Proteus mirabilis Strain Isolated from the Salivary Glands of Larval Lucilia sericata.

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A Review of Bacterial Interactions With Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Medical, Veterinary, and Forensic Importance

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Components of Developmental Plasticity in a Michigan Population of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

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Sexual Dimorphism in Growth Rate and Gene Expression Throughout Immature Development in Wild Type Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Macquart

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Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications

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Is PMI the Hypothesis or the Null Hypothesis?

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Is PMI the Hypothesis or the Null Hypothesis?

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Increasing precision in development-based postmortem interval estimates: what's sex got to do with it?

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Population and temperature effects on Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) body size and minimum development time.

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A divide-and-conquer algorithm for large-scale de novo transcriptome assembly through combining small assemblies from existing algorithms

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Predicting the occurrence of host-associated differentiation in parasitic arthropods: a quantitative literature review

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Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans): vector of African trypanosomiasis.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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A roadmap for bridging basic and applied research in forensic entomology.

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The genome of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, reveals potential mechanisms underlying reproduction, host interactions, and novel targets for pest control.

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Gene expression during blow fly development: improving the precision of age estimates in forensic entomology.

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Developmental variation among Cochliomyia macellaria Fabricius (Diptera: Calliphoridae) populations from three ecoregions of Texas, USA.

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Machine learning performance in a microbial molecular autopsy context: A cross-sectional postmortem human population study.

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The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy maggot blow flyChrysomya rufifaciesMacquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

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Forensic Entomology: Evaluating Uncertainty Associated With Postmortem Interval (PMI) Estimates With Ecological Models.

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Jason H. Byrd and James L. Castner (eds.): Forensic entomology: the utility of arthropods in legal investigations

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Insect Development as It Relates to Forensic Entomology

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A divide-and-conquer algorithm for large-scale de novo transcriptome assembly through combining small assemblies from existing algorithms.

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An Evaluation of Differentially Spliced Genes as Markers of Sex for Forensic Entomology,

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Delayed insect access alters carrion decomposition and necrophagous insect community assembly

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Aging blow fly eggs using gene expression: a feasibility study.

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Functional divergence caused by ancient positive selection of a Drosophila hybrid incompatibility locus.

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The potential use of bacterial community succession in forensics as described by high throughput metagenomic sequencing.

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Microbial community functional change during vertebrate carrion decomposition.

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Mapping genetically compensatory pathways from synthetic lethal interactions in yeast.

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Identifying similar transcripts in a related organism from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-Seq data, with applications to the study of salt and waterlogging tolerance in Melilotus.

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Identifying similar transcripts in a related organism from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-Seq data, with applications to the study of salt and waterlogging tolerance in Melilotus

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Wing buzzing as a potential antipredator defense against an invasive predator

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A scalable and memory-efficient algorithm for de novo transcriptome assembly of non-model organisms.

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Interkingdom responses of flies to bacteria mediated by fly physiology and bacterial quorum sensing

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Structural and Genetic Investigation of the Egg and First-Instar Larva of an Egg-Laying Population of Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), a Species of Forensic Importance.

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Population-based resequencing of experimentally evolved populations reveals the genetic basis of body size variation in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Genetic variation in blow fly life history traits

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Facultative Viviparity in a Flesh Fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): Forensic Implications of High Variability in Rates of Oviparity in Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae).

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Effect of Phenotype Selection on Genome Size Variation in Two Species of Diptera.

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Genome Sequence of a Providencia stuartii Strain Isolated from Luciliasericata Salivary Glands.

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Proteus mirabilis interkingdom swarming signals attract blow flies.

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A memory-efficient algorithm to obtain splicing graphs and de novo expression estimates from de bruijn graphs of RNA-seq data

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Gene expression correlates of facultative predation in the blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

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Evaluation of Development Datasets for Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) for Estimating the Time of Placement of Human and Swine Remains in Texas, USA.

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Field Documentation of Unusual Post-Mortem Arthropod Activity on Human Remains.

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Sex determination mechanisms in the Calliphoridae (blow flies).

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Impacts of dietary amino acid composition and microbial presence on preference and performance of immature Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

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Protecting the environment through insect farming as a means to produce protein for use as livestock, poultry, and aquaculture feed

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Interkingdom Cues by Bacteria Associated with Conspecific and Heterospecific Eggs of Cochliomyia macellaria and Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Potentially Govern Succession on Carrion

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Developmental Plasticity of the Flesh Fly Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) on Different Substrates.

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Genetic variation in the Yolk protein expression network of Drosophila melanogaster: sex-biased negative correlations with longevity.

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Interaction of age and temperature on heat shock protein expression, sperm count, and sperm viability of the adult black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

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Natural variation in genome architecture among 205 Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel lines.

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Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Insects at Court and in Human Identification

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Suppressing tawny crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) by RNAi technology.

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Heuristic pairwise alignment of de Bruijn graphs to facilitate simultaneous transcript discovery in related organisms from RNA-Seq data.

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Functional characterization of calliphorid cell death genes and cellularization gene promoters for controlling gene expression and cell viability in early embryos.

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Heuristic Pairwise Alignment of de Bruijn Graphs to Facilitate Simultaneous Transcript Discovery in Related Organisms from RNA-Seq Data

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Basic research in evolution and ecology enhances forensics.

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Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response.

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Reply: A correspondence from a maturing discipline.

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Human Thanatomicrobiome Succession and Time Since Death.

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Identifying similar transcripts in a related organism from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-Seq data, with applications to the study of salt and waterlogging tolerance in melilotus

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Generalized additive models and Lucilia sericata growth: assessing confidence intervals and error rates in forensic entomology.

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Publisher Correction: The genome of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, reveals potential mechanisms underlying reproduction, host interactions, and novel targets for pest control.

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The role of ants in vertebrate carrion decomposition

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Responses of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) to compounds from microbial decomposition of larval resources

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Investigating upper thermal limits of forensically important blow flies to improve testimony in forensic entomology

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United States Department of Justice - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Necrobiome Research and Its Application in Decomposition Ecology and Forensics

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Genomic Tools To Reduce Error In PMI Estimates Derived From Entomological Evidence

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United States Department of Justice - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Proteomic and microRNA markers of fly development: Stable correlates of insect age to improve forensic entomology casework

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United States Department of Justice - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Genetic Research on Carrion Feeding Insects to Improve Agricultural, Medical, and Forensic Applications.

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Entomology; 2475 TAMU

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Ramos III, Ernesto (2015-07). A Genetic Study of the Development of Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius) (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Ecological, Evolutionary, and Forensic Importance of the Secondary Screwworm. Master's Thesis.

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Liu, Wenqi (2014-08). Chemical and Nutritional Ecology of Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) as Related to Volatile Organic Compounds and Associated Essential Amino Acids. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Pimsler, Meaghan Leigh (2015-08). A Functional Genetic Study of Sexual Dimorphism and Behavioral Ecology in Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Doctoral Dissertation.

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Fu, Shuhua (2015-05). Genomic and Transcriptomic Studies on Non-Model Organisms. Doctoral Dissertation.