Laboratory of Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics
Basanta Bista

Basanta Bista

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  • Former Graduate Student
I obtained my PhD in 2024 from the Interdepartmental Genetics and Genomics program. I worked on the differential evolutionary dynamics of sex chromosomes and autosomes, dosage compensation, and genome evolution in turtles.

I am now a postdoc at the University of Houston, TX.

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6. Bista B, González-Rodelas L, Álvarez-González L, Wu ZQ, Montiel EE, Lee LS, Badenhorst DB, Radhakrishnan S, Literman R, Navarro-Dominguez B, Iverson JB, Orozco-Arias S,  González J, Ruiz-Herrera A, Valenzuela N. 2024. De novo genome assemblies of two cryptodiran (hidden-neck) turtles with ZZ/ZW and XX/XY sex chromosomes provide insights into patterns of genome reshuffling and uncover novel 3D genome folding in amniotes. Genome Research 34: 1553-1569.

5. Zdyrski C, Vojtech G, Gessler TB, Ralston A, Sifuentes-Romero I, Kundu D, Honold, S, Wickham H, Topping N, Sahoo DK, Bista B, Tamplin J, Ospina O, Piñeyro P, Arriaga M, Galan JA, Meyerholz DK, Allenspach K, Mochel JP, and Valenzuela N. 2024. Establishment and Characterization of Turtle Liver Organoids Provides a Potential Model to Decode their Unique Adaptations. Communications Biology, 7 (1): 218. DOI 10.1038/s42003-024-05818-1.  

4. Bista B, Wu Z, Literman R, and Valenzuela N. 2021. Thermosensitive sex chromosome dosage compensation in ZZ/ZW softshell turtles, Apalone spinifera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In press. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0101

3. Lee LS, Navarro-Domínguez BM, Wu Z, Montiel EE, Badenhorst D, Bista B, Gessler TB, and Valenzuela N. 2020. Karyotypic evolution of sauropsid vertebrates illuminated by optical and physical mapping of the painted turtle and slider turtle genomes. Genes, 11, 928, doi:10.3390/genes11080928.

2. Bista B. and Valenzuela N. 2020. Turtle insights into the evolution of the reptilian karyotype and the genomic architecture of sex determination. Genes 11 (4): 416. DOI 10.3390/genes11040416. 

1. Literman R, Burrett A, Bista B, and Valenzuela N. 2018. Putative independent evolutionary reversals from genotypic to temperature-dependent sex determination are associated with accelerated evolution of sex-determining genes in turtles. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 86:11–26.