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List of works by Nicole Valenzuela

A ZZ/ZW microchromosome system in the spiny softshell turtle, Apalone spinifera, reveals an intriguing sex chromosome conservation in Trionychidae

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A survey of DNA methylation across social insect species, life stages, and castes reveals abundant and caste-associated methylation in a primitively social wasp

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

An XX/XY heteromorphic sex chromosome system in the Australian chelid turtle Emydura macquarii: a new piece in the puzzle of sex chromosome evolution in turtles

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An XX/XY sex microchromosome system in a freshwater turtle, Chelodina longicollis (Testudines: Chelidae) with genetic sex determination

scientific article published on 17 March 2006

Application of High-Throughput Next-Generation Sequencing for HLA Typing on Buccal Extracted DNA: Results from over 10,000 Donor Recruitment Samples

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Are all sex chromosomes created equal?

scientific article published on September 2011

Cadmium Ecotoxic Effects on Embryonic Dmrt1 and Aromatase Expression in Chrysemys picta Turtles May Implicate Changes in DNA Methylation

scientific article published in 2022

Chromosome number and sex determination coevolve in turtles

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

Co-evolution of genomic structure and selective forces underlying sexual development and reproduction

scientific article published on January 2009

Comparative gene expression of steroidogenic factor 1 in Chrysemys picta and Apalone mutica turtles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination

scientific article published in September 2006

Cytogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Chromosomes and Sex Determination Reveal Striking Homology of Turtle Sex Chromosomes to Amphibian Autosomes

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

Do Local Environmental Factors and Lunar Cycle Influence Timing and Synchrony of Oviposition of a Turtle with Strict Nocturnal Nesting?

scientific article published in 2019

Ecotoxicological Perspectives of Sex Determination

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Egg incubation and collection of painted turtle embryos

scientific article published on July 2009

Embryological ontogeny of aromatase gene expression in Chrysemys picta and Apalone mutica turtles: comparative patterns within and across temperature-dependent and genotypic sex-determining mechanisms

scientific article published on 5 October 2006

Establishment and characterization of turtle liver organoids provides a potential model to decode their unique adaptations

scientific article published in 2024

Estimating population structure under nonequilibrium conditions in a conservation context: continent-wide population genetics of the giant Amazon river turtle, Podocnemis expansa (Chelonia; Podocnemididae).

scientific article published in April 2006

Evolution of the gene network underlying gonadogenesis in turtles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination

scientific article (publication date: October 2008)

Extreme thermal fluctuations from climate change unexpectedly accelerate demographic collapse of vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Karyotypic Evolution of Sauropsid Vertebrates Illuminated by Optical and Physical Mapping of the Painted Turtle and Slider Turtle Genomes

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

MeDIP-seq and nCpG analyses illuminate sexually dimorphic methylation of gonadal development genes with high historic methylation in turtle hatchlings with temperature-dependent sex determination

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Molecular cytogenetic search for cryptic sex chromosomes in painted turtles Chrysemys picta

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Molecular evolution of Dmrt1 accompanies change of sex-determining mechanisms in reptilia

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Multiple paternity in side-neck turtles Podocnemis expansa: evidence from microsatellite DNA data.

scientific article published in January 2000

Multivariate expression analysis of the gene network underlying sexual development in turtle embryos with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination

scientific article published on 22 January 2010

New priorities: Analysis of the New Kidney Allocation System on UCLA patients transplanted from the deceased donor waitlist

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

New resources inform study of genome size, content, and organization in nonavian reptiles

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Pattern Does Not Equal Process: Exactly When Is Sex Environmentally Determined?

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

Physical Mapping and Refinement of the Painted Turtle Genome (Chrysemys picta) Inform Amniote Genome Evolution and Challenge Turtle-Bird Chromosomal Conservation

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Publisher Correction: The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Reconstruction of the diapsid ancestral genome permits chromosome evolution tracing in avian and non-avian dinosaurs.

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Relic thermosensitive gene expression in a turtle with genotypic sex determination

scientific article published on 5 December 2007

Sex chromosome evolution in amniotes: applications for bacterial artificial chromosome libraries

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species

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Sex determination: why so many ways of doing it?

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Temperature-dependent sex determination ruled out in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) via molecular cytogenetics and incubation experiments across populations

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The CREB Transcription Factor Controls Transcriptional Activity of the Human RIC8B Gene

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

The lesser known challenge of climate change: thermal variance and sex-reversal in vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination

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The painted turtle, Chrysemys picta: a model system for vertebrate evolution, ecology, and human health

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The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution

scientific article published on 5 August 2020

The tuatara genome: insights into vertebrate evolution from the sole survivor of an ancient reptilian order

scientific article published on 8 December 2019

The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage.

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Thermal Response of Circulating Estrogens in an Emydid Turtle, Chrysemys picta, and the Challenges of Climate Change

scientific article published in 2023

Thermosensitive sex chromosome dosage compensation in ZZ/ZW softshell turtles,<i>Apalone spinifera</i>

scientific article published in 2021

Transcriptional evolution underlying vertebrate sexual development

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Transcriptomic responses to environmental temperature by turtles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination assessed by RNAseq inform the genetic architecture of embryonic gonadal development

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Turtle Insights into the Evolution of the Reptilian Karyotype and the Genomic Architecture of Sex Determination

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Y fuse? Sex chromosome fusions in fishes and reptiles

scientific article published on 20 May 2015