Peer-reviewed

2025

Yoo D, Rhie A, Hebbar P, … Tassia MG [86 of 108] …, et al. 2025. Complete sequencing of ape genomes. Nature 461:401-418. Full text

2024

Taylor DJ, Chhetri SB, Tassia MG, Biddanda A, Yan SM, Wojcik GL, Battle A, McCoy RC. 2024. Sources of gene expression variation in a globally diverse human cohort. Nature 632:122-130. Full text

Makova KD, Pickett BD, Harris RS, … Tassia MG [67 of 88] …, et al. 2024. The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes. Nature 630:401-411. Full text

2023

DeBoy EA, Tassia MG*, et al. 2023. Familial Clonal Hematopoiesis in a Long Telomere Syndrome. *New England Journal of Medicine 388(26):2422-2433. *Authors contributed equally to this work. Full text

Gershman A, Huack Q, Dick M, … Tassia MG [5 of 13] …, et al. 2023. Genomic insights into metabolomic flux in ruby-throated hummingbirds. Genome Research 33(5):703-714. Full text

Tassia MG, Hallowell HA, Waits DS, Range RC, Lowe CJ, Graze RM, Schwartz EH, Halanych KM. 2023. Induced immune reaction in the acorn worm, Saccoglossus kowalevskii, informs the evolution of antiviral immunity. Molecular Biology & Evolution msad097. Full text

Vandepas LE, Tassia MG, Halanych KM, Amemiya CT. 2023. Unexpected distribution of chitin and chitin synthase across soft-bodied cnidarians. Biomolecules 13(5): 777. Full text

2021

Tassia MG, David KT, Townsend JP, and Halanych KM. 2021. TIAMMAt: Leveraging biodiversity to revise protein domain models, evidence from innate immunity. Molecular Biology & Evolution 38(12): 5806-5818. Full text

2020

Townsend JP, Tassia MG, Damian-Serrano A, Whelan NV, Halanych KM, and Sweeney AM. 2020. A mesopelagic ctenophore representing a new family, with notes on family-level taxonomy in Ctenophora: Vampyroctena delmarvensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Vampyroctenidae, fam. nov.). Marine Biodiversity 50(34). Full text

2018

Li Y, Kocot MK, Tassia MG, Cannon JT, Bernt M, & Halanych KM. 2018. Mitogenomics reveals a novel genetic code in Hemichordata. Genome Biology & Evolution envy254. Full text

Kocot KM, Tassia MG, Halanych KM, and Swalla BJ. 2018. Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships. Molecular Biology & Evolution 121: 166-173. Full text

2017

Tassia MG, Whelan NV, and Halanych KM. 2017. Toll-like receptor pathway evolution in deuterostomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 114(27): 7055-7060. Full text

2016

Tassia MG, Cannon JT, Konikoff CE, Shenkar N, Halanych KM, and Swalla BJ. 2016. The Global Diversity of Hemichordata. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0162564. Full text

Book chapters

2018

Halanych KM, JT Cannon, Tassia MG. 2018. Hemichordate: Pterobranchia. In Ed A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, Handbook of Zoology, Miscellaneous Invertebrates. Vol 9. Pp 267-282. Link

Tassia MG, JT Cannon, Halanych KM. 2018. Hemichordate: Enteropneusta. In Ed A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, Handbook of Zoology, Miscellaneous Invertebrates. Vol 9. Pp 283-311. Link

Conference reports

Abernath K, Banach M, Hudgell MAB, …Tassia MG [18 of 20]…, et al. 2019. Conference report: The 14th congress of the International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology. Full text DCI 96

Published abstracts

2025

Tassia MG, McCoy RC. 2025. Inference of complex evolutionary histories of somatic mutations using bayesian stochastic character mapping. Blood 146 (Supplement 1): 116. Full text