Brant C Faircloth

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University and Research Associate as the LSU Museum of Natural Sciences. Research interests include population and evolutionary genomics of non-model organisms; community genomics; genotype-phenotype interactions; (immuno-)genetic basis of mate choice; mating behavior; social behavior; and natural history.

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Computational Biology Evolutionary Studies Genomics Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Work details

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

August 2014

Department of Biological Sciences

My research group is interested in understanding the evolutionary history of communities, species, populations, and individuals; the effects of genetic diversity on community structure; and the effects of variable genotypes on phenotypes under strong selection. To address questions in each of these areas, we generally use non-model organisms because their biology offers elegant tests of the hypotheses in which we're interested. Because we often work with non-model species, we also develop and use genomic and computational tools to facilitate our work with these organisms, and much of our work is "integrative" or "cross-disciplinary" - we use theory and tools from the fields of evolutionary biology, computational biology, molecular biology, organismal biology, genetics (few genetic regions), and genomics (many/all genetic regions) to help us address our questions.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

October 11, 2019

Adapterama III: Quadruple-indexed, double/triple-enzyme RADseq libraries (2RAD/3RAD)

Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, Travis C. Glenn, Troy J. Kieran, Todd W. Pierson, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Peter A. Scott, Kerin E. Bentley, John W. Finger, Swarnali Louha, Nicholas Troendle, Pindaro Diaz-Jaimes, Rodney Mauricio, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7724 PubMed 31616583

October 11, 2019

Adapterama I: universal stubs and primers for 384 unique dual-indexed or 147,456 combinatorially-indexed Illumina libraries (iTru & iNext)

Travis C. Glenn, Roger A. Nilsen, Troy J. Kieran, Jon G. Sanders, Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, John W. Finger, Todd W. Pierson, Kerin E. Bentley, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Swarnali Louha, Francisco J. Garcia-De Leon, Miguel Angel del Rio Portilla, Kurt D. Reed, Jennifer L. Anderson, Jennifer K. Meece, Samuel E. Aggrey, Romdhane Rekaya, Magdy Alabady, Myriam Belanger, Kevin Winker, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7755 PubMed 31616586

October 11, 2019

Adapterama II: universal amplicon sequencing on Illumina platforms (TaggiMatrix)

Travis C. Glenn, Todd W. Pierson, Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, Troy J. Kieran, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Jesse C. Thomas IV, Daniel E. Lefever, John W. Finger, Bei Gao, Xiaoming Bian, Swarnali Louha, Ramya T. Kolli, Kerin E. Bentley, Julie Rushmore, Kelvin Wong, Timothy I. Shaw, Michael J. Rothrock Jr, Anna M. McKee, Tai L. Guo, Rodney Mauricio, Marirosa Molina, Brian S. Cummings, Lawrence H. Lash, Kun Lu, Gregory S. Gilbert, Stephen P. Hubbell, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7786 PubMed 31616589

October 5, 2018

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

Kevin Winker, Travis C. Glenn, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5735 PubMed 30310754

July 13, 2018 - Version: 1

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

Kevin Winker, Travis C Glenn, Brant C Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27035v1

Academic Editor on

November 3, 2017

Increasing evidence that bats actively forage at wind turbines

Cecily F. Foo, Victoria J. Bennett, Amanda M. Hale, Jennifer M. Korstian, Alison J. Schildt, Dean A. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3985 PubMed 29114441