Martin J. Lercher

• Systems Biology/Genetics

Martin J. Lercher

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Raes J., Korbel J.O., Lercher M.J., von Mering C., Bork P.

   Prediction of effective genome size in metagenomic samples.

   Genome Biol. 8: R10 (2007)

2. J. Savard, D. Tautz & M. J. Lercher

   Phylogenomic Analysis Reveals Bees and Wasps (Hymenoptera) at the Base of the Radiation of Holometabolous Insects.

   Genome Research 16: 1334-1338

3. M. J. Lercher & L. D. Hurst

   Evidence that co-expressed genes cluster but are not regularly spaced.

   Journal of Molecular Biology 359: 825-831

4. P. Keightley, M. J. Lercher & A. Eyre-Walker

   Understanding the degradation of hominid gene control.

   PLoS Computational Biology 2: e19 (2006)

5. G. Legube, S. K. McWeeney, M. J. Lercher & A. Akhtar

   X-chromosome-wide profiling of MSL-1 distribution &fu dosage compensation in Drosophila.

   Genes & Development 20: 871-883 (2006)

6. C. Pál, B. Papp & M. J. Lercher

   An integrated view of protein evolution.

   Nature Reviews Genetics 7: 337-48 (2006)

7. C. Pál, B. Papp, M. J. Lercher, P. Csermely, S. G. Oliver & L. D. Hurst

   Chance and necessity in the evolution of minimal metabolic networks.

   Nature 440: 667-670 (2006)

8. I. Yanai, J. Korbel, S. Boue, S. K. McWeeney, P. Bork & M. J. Lercher

   Similar gene expression profiles do not imply similar tissue functions.

   Trends in Genetics 22: 132-138 (2006)

9. J. Savard, D. Tautz & M. J. Lercher

   Genome-wide acceleration of protein evolution in flies (Diptera).

   BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 7 (2006)

10. C. Pál, B. Papp & M. J. Lercher

    Adaptive evolution of bacterial metabolic networks by horizontal gene transfer.

    Nature Genetics 37: 1372-1375 (2005)

11. C. Pál, B. Papp & M. J. Lercher

    Horizontal gene transfer depends on gene content of the host

    Bioinformatics 21: ii222-ii223 (2005)

12. P. Keightley, M. J. Lercher & A. Eyre-Walker

    Evidence for widespread degradation of gene control regions in hominid genomes.

    PLoS Biology 3: e42 (2005)

13. M. J. Lercher & L. D. Hurst

    Unusual linkage patterns of ligands and their cognate receptors indicate a novel reason for non-random gene order in the human genome.

    BMC Evolutionary Biology 5: 62 (2005)

14. M. T. Webster, N. G. C. Smith, M. J. Lercher & H. Ellegren

    Gene Expression, Synteny, and Local Similarity in Human Noncoding Mutation Rates.

    Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 1820-1830 (2004)

15. L. D. Hurst, C. Pál & M. J. Lercher

    The dynamics of eukaryotic gene order.

    Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 299-310 (2004)

16. M. J. Lercher, J. Chamary & L. D. Hurst

    Genomic regionality in rates of evolution is not explained by clustering of genes of
    comparable expression profile.

    Genome Research 14: 1002-1013 (2004)

17. M. J. Lercher, A. O. Urrutia, A. Pavlicek & L. D. Hurst

    A unification of mosaic structures in the human genome.

    Human Molecular Genetics 12: 2411-2415 (2003)

18. M. J. Lercher & L. D. Hurst

    Imprinted chromosomal regions of the human genome have unusually high recombination rates.

    Genetics 165: 1629-1632 (2003)

19. M. J. Lercher, A. O. Urrutia & L. D. Hurst

    Evidence that the human X chromosome is enriched for male-specific but not female-specific genes.

    Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1113-1116 (2003)

20. M. J. Lercher, T. Blumenthal & L. D. Hurst

    Co-expression of neighbouring genes in Caenorhabditis elegans is mostly due to operons and duplicate genes.

    Genome Research 13: 238 - 243 (2003)

21. M. J. Lercher, N. G. C. Smith, A. Eyre-Walker & L. D. Hurst

    The evolution of isochores: evidence from SNP frequency distributions.

    Genetics 162: 1805 - 1810 (2002)

22. M. J. Lercher & L. D. Hurst

    Can mutation or fixation biases explain the allele frequency distribution of human SNPs?

    Gene 300: 53 - 58 (2002)

23. M. J. Lercher, A. O. Urrutia & L. D. Hurst

    Clustering of housekeeping genes provides a unified model of gene order in the human genome.

    Nature Genetics 31: 180 - 183 (2002)

24. M. J. Lercher & L. D. Hurst

    Human SNP variability and mutation rate are higher in regions of high recombination.

    Trends in Genetics 18: 337 - 340 (2002)

25. N. G. C. Smith & M. J. Lercher

    Regional similarities in polymorphism in the human genome extend over many megabases.

    Trends in Genetics 18: 281 - 283 (2002)

26. M. J. Lercher, E. J. B. Williams & L. D. Hurst

    Local similarity in evolutionary rates extends over whole chromosomes in human-rodent and mouse-rat comparisons: Implications for understanding the mechanistic basis of the male mutation bias.

    Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 2032 - 2039 (2001)