publications

2017

  • BJ Liebeskind, HA Hofmann, DM Hillis, HH Zakon. Evolution of animal neural systems AREES

    • 2016

  • BJ Liebeskind. What makes a sodium channel? JGP 148 (2) 89-90
  • BJ Liebeskind, CD McWhite, EM Marcotte. Towards consensus gene ages GBE 8 (6), 1812-1823
  • DB Halling, BJ Liebeskind, AW Hall, RW Aldrich. Conserved properties of individual Ca2+-binding sites in calmodulin PNAS 113 (9), E1216-E1225
  • BJ Liebeskind, DM Hillis, HH Zakon, HA Hofmann. Complex homology and the evolution of nervous systems TREE 31 (2), 127-135

    • 2015

  • CD McWhite, BJ Liebeskind, EM Marcotte. Applications of comparative evolution to human disease genetics COGD 35, 16-24
  • BJ Liebeskind, DM Hillis, HH Zakon. Convergence of ion channel genome content in early animal evolution PNAS 112 (8), E846-E851
  • Y Moran, MG Barzilai, BJ Liebeskind, HH Zakon. Evolution of voltage-gated ion channels at the emergence of Metazoa JEB 18 (4), 515-525

    • 2014

  • A Ghezzi, BJ Liebeskind, A Thompson, NS Atkinson, HH Zakon. Ancient association between cation leak channels and Mid1 proteins is conserved in fungi and animals Front. Mol. Neurosci. 7

    • 2013

  • BJ Liebeskind, DM Hillis, HH Zakon. Independent acquisition of sodium selectivity in bacterial and animal sodium channels Current Biology 23 (21), R948-R949

    • 2012

  • BJ Liebeskind, DM Hillis, HH Zakon. Phylogeny unites animal sodium leak channels with fungal calcium channels in an ancient, voltage-insensitive clade Mol. Biol. Evol. 29 (12), 3613-3616

    • 2011

  • BJ Liebeskind. Evolution of sodium channels and the new view of early nervous system evolution Commun. Integr. Biol. 4 (6), 679-683
  • BJ Liebeskind, DM Hillis, HH Zakon. Evolution of sodium channels predates the origin of nervous systems in animals PNAS 108 (22), 9154-9159