Publications

Pless E, Eckburg AM, Henn BM. (2023) Predicting environmental and ecological drivers of human population structure. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(5): msad094.

van Eeden G, Uren C, Pless E, Mastoras M, van der Spuy GD, Tromp G, Henn BM, Möller M. (2022) The recombination landscape of the Khoe-San likely represents the upper limits of recombination divergence in humans. Genome Biology. 23(1): 172.

Gloria-Soria A, Farajik A, Hami J, White G, Amsberry S, Donahue M, Buss B, Pless E, Cosme LV, Powell JR. (2022) Origins of high latitude introductions of Aedes aegypti to Nebraska and Utah during 2019. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 103: 105333.

Pless E, Powell JR, Seger KR, Ellis B, Gloria‐Soria A. (2022) Evidence for serial founder events during the colonization of North America by the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Ecology and Evolution, 12(5): e8896.

Bishop AP, Amatulli G, Hyseni C, Pless E, et al. (2021) A machine learning approach to integrating genetic and ecological data in tsetse flies (Glossina pallidipes) for spatially explicit vector control planning. Evolutionary Applications. 14: 1762-1777.

Pless E, Saarman N, Powell JR, Caccone A, Amatulli G. (2021) Mapping landscape connectivity in Aedes aegypti: a machine learning approach to integrate genetic and environmental data. PNAS. 118(9): e200320111.

Pless EHopperstad, KALedesma, NDixon, DHenke, JAPowell, JR. (2020) Sunshine versus gold: The effect of population age on genetic structure of an invasive mosquito. Ecology and Evolution. 001– 12https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6661

Pless E, Gloria-Soria A, Evans B, Kramer V, Bolling BG, Tabachnink WJ, Powell JR. (2017) Multiple Introductions of the Dengue Vector, Aedes aegypti, into California. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease 11(8): e0005718.

Saarman NP, Gloria-Soria A, Anderson EC, Evans BR, Pless E, Cosme LV, Gonzalez-Acosta C, Kamgang B, Wesson DM, Powell JR. (2017) Effective population sizes of a major vector of human diseases, Aedes aegypti. Evolutionary Applications: 00: 1-9. doi:10.1111/eva.12508

Gaughran SJ, Pless E, Stearns SC. (2016) How elephants beat cancer: Elephants have significantly reduced their risk of cancer by duplicating an important gene called TP53. eLIFE:5:e21864. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21864

Pless E, Queirolo J, Pinter-Wollman N, Crow S, Allen K, et al. (2015) Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141971. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141971