Publications
Publications
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Underlined = student/staff members of the IDEA lab
Pending Publications (Preprints and Accepted Manuscripts)
Greenhough H, Smith K F, Kenny N J, and A Rolton. (2024) Effects of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium pacificum, on the marine diatom, Chaetoceros muelleri, and mussel (Perna canaliculus) sperm and hemocytes Link
Publications
Book chapters:
i) Sollitto M, Kenny N J, Greco S, Federica Tucci C, Calcino A D, and M Gerdol (2022) Detecting Structural Variants and Associated Gene Presence-Absence Variation Phenomena in the Genomes of Marine Organisms. in Marine Genomics: Methods and Protocols, C Verde and D Giordano (Eds.), Springer, Berlin Link
Journal articles:
43) Leite D J, Schönauer A, Blakeley G, Harper A, Garcia-Castro H, Baudouin-Gonzalez L, Wang R, Sarkis N, Günther Nikola A, Sai Poojitha Koka V, Kenny N J, Turetzek N, Pechmann M, Solana J, and A P McGregor (2024) An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis. EvoDevo, 15, 5 Link
42) Álvarez-Campos P, García-Castro H, Emili E, Pérez-Posada A , del Olmo I, Peron S, Salamanca-Díaz D A, Mason V, Metzger B, Bely A E, Kenny N J, Özpolat B D, and J Solana (2024) Annelid adult cell type diversity and their pluripotent cellular origins. Nature Communications, 15, 3194 Link
41) Greenhough H, Vignier J, Peychers C, Smith K F, Kenny N J, and A Rolton. (2023) Exposure to Alexandrium spp. impairs the development of Green-lipped mussel (Perna canaliculus) embryos and larvae. Harmful Algae, 127 (102465) Link
40) Truchado-Garcia M, Perry K J, Cavodeassi F, Kenny N J, Henry J Q and C Grande (2023) A small change with a twist ending - a single residue in EGF-CFC drives Bilaterian asymmetry. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40 (2): msac270 Link
39) Leiva C, Riesgo A, Combosch D, Arias M B, Giribet G, Downey R, Kenny N J and S Taboada (2022) Guiding marine protected area network design with comparative phylogeography and population genomics: An exemplary case from the Southern Ocean. Diversity and Distributions (Online ahead of print) Link
38) García-Castro H, Kenny N J, Álvarez-Campos P, Mason V, Schönauer A, Sleight V A, Neiro J, Aboobaker A, Permanyer J, Iglesias M, Irimia M, Sebé-Pedrós A, and J Solana (2021) ACME dissociation: a versatile cell fixation-dissociation method for single-cell transcriptomics. Genome Biology 22: 89 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02302-5 Link
37) Calcino A, Kenny N J, and M Gerdol (2021) Single individual structural variant detection uncovers widespread hemizygosity in molluscs. Philosophical Transactions B 376(1825): 20200153 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0153 Link
36) Pechmann M, Kenny N J, Pott L, Heger P, Chen Y-T, Buchta T, Ozuak O, Lynch J A, and S Roth (2021) Striking parallels between dorsoventral patterning in Drosophila and Gryllus reveal a complex evolutionary history behind a model gene regulatory network. eLife, 10:e68287 Link
35) Plese B*, Kenny N J*, Rossi M E, Cardenas P, Schuster A, Taboada S, Koutsouveli V, and A Riesgo (2021) Mitochondrial Evolution in the Demospongiae (Porifera): Phylogeny, Divergence Time, and Genome Biology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 155:107011. Link
34) Kenny N J and V Itskovich (2020) Phylogenomic inference of the interrelationships of Lake Baikal Sponges. Systematics and Biodiversity, 19: 209-217. Link
33) Riesgo A, Taboada S, Kenny N J, Santodomingo N, Moles J, Leiva C, Cox E J, Avila C, Cardona L and M Maldonado (2020) Recycling resources: silica of diatom frustules as a source for spicule building in Antarctic siliceous demosponges. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Accepted (Available ahead of print), Link
32) Kenny N J*, Francis W R*, Rivera-Vicéns R E, Juravel K, de Mendoza A, Díez-Vives C, Lister R, Bezares-Calderon L, Grombacher L, Roller M, Barlow LD, Camilli S, Ryan J F, Wörheide G, Hill A L, Riesgo A* and S P Leys, (2020) Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri. Nature Communications, 11:3676 Link
31) Britstein M, Cerrano C, Burgsdorf I, Zoccarato L, Kenny N J, Riesgo A, Lalzar M, and L Steindler (2020) Sponge microbiome stability during environmental acquisition of highly specific photosymbionts Environmental Microbiology, 22: 3593-3607. Link
30) Kenny N J, McCarthy, S A, Dudchenko, O, James, K, Betteridge, E, Corton, C, Dolucan, J, Mead, D, Oliver, K, Omer, A, Pelan, S, Ryan Y, Sims Y, Skelton J, Smith M, Torrance J, Weisz D, Wipat A, Aiden E L, Howe K and S T Williams, (2020) The Gene-Rich Genome of the Scallop Pecten maximus. Gigascience, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa037). Link
29) Gonzalez-Aravena M*, Kenny N J*, Osorio M, Font A, Riesgo A, and C Cardenas (2019) Warm Temperatures, Cool Sponges: The Effect of Increased Temperatures on the Antarctic Sponge Isodictya sp. PeerJ, 7:e8088. https://doi.org/ 10.7717/peerj.8088 Link
28) Summer-Rooney L, Kenny N J, Ahmed F, and S T Williams (2019) The utility of micro-computed tomography for the non-destructive study of eye microstructure in snails, Scientific Reports, 9:1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51909-z) Link
27) Kenny NJ, Plese B, Riesgo A, Itskovich VB. (2019) Symbiosis, Selection and Novelty: Freshwater Adaptation in the Unique Sponges of Lake Baikal. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36: 2462–2480. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz151 Link
26) Leiva C, Taboada S, Kenny NJ, Combosch D, Giribet G, Jombart T, Riesgo A. (2019) Population substructure and signals of divergent adaptive selection despite admixture in the sponge Dendrilla antarctica from shallow waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula. Molecular Ecology. 28: 3151-3170. https://doi.org/ 10.1111/mec.15135 Link
25) Plese B, Rossi ME, Kenny NJ, Taboada S, Koutsouveli V, Riesgo A. (2019) Trimitomics: An efficient pipeline for mitochondrial assembly from transcriptomic reads in nonmodel species. Molecular Ecology Resources 19: 1230-1239. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13033 Link
24) Álvarez-Campos P, Kenny N J, Verdes A, Fernández R, Novo M, Giribet G, Riesgo A. (2019) Delegating sex: differential gene expression in stolonizing syllids uncovers the hormonal control of reproduction. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11: 295-318. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy265 Link
23) Kenny N J, Norena C, Damborenea C and C Grande (2019) Probing Recalcitrant Problems in Polyclad Biology, Evolution and Systematics with Novel Mitochondrial Genome Resources, Genomics, 111: 343-355. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2018.02.009. Link
22) Schumann I, Kenny N J, Hui J, Hering L, Mayer G. (2018) Halloween genes in panarthropods and the evolution of the early moulting pathway in Ecdysozoa. Royal Society Open Science,5: 180888. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180888. Link
21) Kenny N J*, de Goeij J M*, de Bakker D M, Whalen C G, Berezikov E and A Riesgo (2018) Towards the Identification of Ancestrally Shared Regenerative Mechanisms Across the Metazoa: A Transcriptomic Case Study in the Demosponge Halisarca caerulea, Marine Genomics, 37: 135-147. Link
20) Riesgo A, Cavalcanti F F, Kenny N J, Rios P, Cristobo J and E Lanna (2018) Integrative systematics of clathrinid sponges: morphological, reproductive and phylogenetic characterization of a new species of Leucetta from Antarctica (Porifera, Calcarea, Calcinea) with notes on the occurrence of flagellated sperm, Invertebrate Systematics, 32(4): 827-841. Link
19) Taboada S*, Kenny N J*, Riesgo A, Wiklund H, Paterson G L J, Dahlgren T and A Glover (2018) Mitochondrial genome and polymorphic microsatellite markers from the abyssal sponge Plenaster craigi Lim and Wiklund 2017: tools for understanding the impact of deep sea mining, Marine Biodiversity, 48(1): 621–630. Link
18) Pechmann M, Benton M A, Kenny N J, Posnien N and S Roth (2017) A novel role for Ets4 in axis specification and cell migration in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum, eLife, 6: e27590 10.7554/eLife.27590. Link
17) Kenny N J, Truchado-Garcia M and C Grande (2016) Deep, Multi-stage Transcriptome of the Schistosomiasis Vector Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) Provides Platform for Understanding Molluscan Disease-Related Pathways, BMC Infectious Diseases, 16: 618. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1944-x. Link
16) Benton M A*, Kenny N J*, Conrads K H, Roth S and J A Lynch (2016) Deep, Staged Transcriptomic Resources for the Novel Coleopteran Models Atrachya menetriesi and Callosobruchus maculatus, PLoS One, 11(12): e0167431. Link
15) Kenny N J*, Chan K W*, Nong W, Zhe Q, Maeso I, Yip H Y, Chan T F, Kwan H S, Holland P W H, Chu K H and J H L Hui (2016) Ancestral whole genome duplication in the marine chelicerate horseshoe crabs, Heredity, 116(2):190-9. Link
14) Kenny N J*, Namigai E K O*, Marletaz F, Hui J H L and S M Shimeld (2015) Draft genome assemblies and predicted microRNA complements of the intertidal lophotrochozoans Patella vulgata (Mollusca, Patellogastropoda) and Spirobranchus (Pomatoceros) lamarcki (Annelida, Serpulida), Marine Genomics, 24: 139-146. Link
13) Kenny N J, Sin Y W, Hayward A, Paps J, Chu K H and J H L Hui (2015) The phylogenetic utility of functional constraint on microRNA sequence evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282(1803): 20142983. Link
12) Kenny N J, Shen X, Chan T K H, Wong N W Y, Chan T F, Chu K H, Lam H-M, and J H L Hui (2015) Genome of the Rusty Millipede, Trigoniulus corallinus, Illuminates Diplopod, Myriapod and Arthropod Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(5): 1280-1295, doi:10.1093/gbe/evv070. Link
11) Qu Z, Kenny N J, Lam H-M, Chan T F, Chu K H, Bendana W G, Tobe S S and J H L Hui (2015) How did arthropod sesquiterpenoids and ecdysteroids arise? Comparison of hormonal pathway genes in non-insect arthropod genomes, Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(7): 1951-1959. doi:10.1093/gbe/evv120. Link
10) Sin Y W*, Kenny N J*, Zhe Q*, Chan K W, Chan K W, Cheong S P, Leung R W T, Chan T F, Bendena W G, Chu K H, Tobe S S and J H L Hui (2014) Identification of putative ecdysteroid and juvenile hormone pathway genes in the shrimp Neocaridina denticulata, General and Comparative Endocrinology, 214: 167-176. Link
9) Chipman A, et al (The International Centipede Genome Consortium, Kenny N J author 52 of 105) (2014) The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima, PLoS Biology, 12(11): e1002005. Link
8) Grande C, Martin-Duran J M, Kenny N J, Truchado-Garcia M and Hejnol A (2014) Evolution, divergence and loss of the Nodal signalling pathway: new data and a synthesis across the Bilateria, The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 58: 521-532, doi:10.1387/ijdb.140133cg. Link
7) Kenny N J, Namigai E K O, Dearden P K, Hui J H L, Grande C and S M Shimeld (2014) The Lophotrochozoan TGF β Signalling Cassette: Diversification and Conservation in a Key Signalling Pathway, The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 58: 533-549, doi: 10.1387/ijdb.140080nk. Link
6) Kenny N J*, Sin Y W*, Thin S, Zhe Q, Wang W, Chan T F, Tobe S S, Shimeld S M, Chu K H and J H L Hui (2014) Genomic sequence and experimental tractability of a new decapod shrimp model, Neocaridina denticulata, Marine Drugs, 12(3): 1419-1437, doi:10.3390/md12031419. Link
5) Namigai E K O, Kenny N J and S M Shimeld (2014) Right across the tree of life: the evolution of left right asymmetry in the Bilateria, Genesis, 52: 458-470. Link
4) Wilson M J, Kenny N J and P K Dearden (2014) Components of the dorsal-ventral pathway also contribute to anterior-posterior patterning in honeybee embryos (Apis mellifera), EvoDevo, 5(11): 1-11. doi:10.1186/2041-9139-5-11. Link
3) Kenny N J and P K Dearden (2013) NMDA receptor expression and C terminus structure in the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and long term potentiation across the Metazoa, Invertebrate Neuroscience, 13(2): 125-134. Link
2) Kenny N J*, Quah S*, Holland P W H, Tobe S S and J H L Hui (2013) How do comparative genomics and microRNAs change our views on arthropod endocrinology and their adaptations to the environment? General and Comparative Endocrinology, 188:16-22. Link
1) Kenny N J and S M Shimeld (2012) Additive multiple k-mer transcriptome of the keelworm Pomatoceros lamarckii (Annelida; Serpulidae) reveals annelid trochophore transcription factor cassette, Development Genes and Evolution, 222(6): 325-339. Link
Images taken on the MBL Embryology Course 2013 with Dr Kathryn McClelland and Dr Sophie Miller.