Undergraduate/graduate students supervised by me are italicized.
In Review/Submission/Revision
Dunn T, Sethuraman A. Accurately Inferring Ancient Auto and Allopolyploidization Events using Forward-time Simulations. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.17.594724 (in revision)
Aoki A, Sethuraman A. Accurate predictive modeling of conservation status in animal species using supervised learning (in revision). Research Square DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3471388/v1
Nguyen K, Sethuraman A. InRelate - An R Package for Estimating Genetic Relatedness in Structured Populations (accepted pending revisions at BMC Bioinformatics)
Tovar A, Monahan S, Kristan A, Welch W, Dettmers R, Arce C, Buck T, Ruben M, Rothenberg A, Saisho R, Cartmill R, Skaggs T, Reyes R, Lee MJ, Obrycki J, Kristan W, Sethuraman A. Like mother, like daughter? Phenotypic plasticity, environmental covariation, and heritability of size in a parthenogenetic wasp. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.02.518902 (in revision)
Sethuraman A, Sousa V, Hey J Model-based assessments of differential introgression and linked natural selection during divergence and speciation. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/786038
Lynch M, Sethuraman A Accounting for Gene Flow From Unsampled “Ghost Populations” While Estimating Evolutionary History under the Isolation with Migration model. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/733600 (in revision)
2024
Sethuraman A, Obrycki JJ. Population genomics and demographic modeling enhance our understanding of trophic level interactions in biological control, Biological Control DOI:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105585
Jones A, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A, Weisrock DW Shared patterns of population genomic variation and phenotypic response across rapid range expansions in two invasive lady beetle species, Biological Control DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105519
Beridze T, White SL, ..., Sethuraman A, et al., Genetic evidence for the presence of wild-caught sturgeons in commercial markets in Georgia, Diversity DOI: 10.3390/d16050274
Ang G, Zhang A, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A. A High Quality Genome of the Convergent Lady Beetle, Hippodamia convergens. G3. DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae083
Stancheva R, Sethuraman A, et al., Characterizing the microbial metagenome of calcareous stromatolite formations in San Felipe Creek in the Anza Borrego Desert. ASM Microbiology Resource Announcements. DOI: 10.1128/mra.00881-23
Sustaita D, Wulf G, Sethuraman A Phenotypic differentiation despite gene flow: beak morphology, bite performance, and population genetics of Loggerhead shrikes. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11079
2023
Schiebelhut LM, ..., Sethuraman A, ..., Luikart G Practical guidance in conservation genomics: from study design to application Molecular Ecology Resources DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13893
Sethuraman, A, Jones A, Nunziata SO, Weisrock DW, Obrycki JJ. Go west: population genomics reveals unexpected population fluctuations and little gene flow in Western Hemisphere populations of the predatory lady beetle, Hippodamia convergens. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/eva.13631
Li H, Peng Y, Wu C, Li Z, Mao K, Zhu J, Jin M, Buck R, Monahan S, Sethuraman A, Xiao Y. Assessing genome-wide adaptations associated with range expansion in the invasive pink stem borer. Insect Science. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13320
Li H, Peng Y, Summerhays B, Shu X, Vasquez Y, Vansant H, Grenier C, Gonzalez N, Kansagra K, Cartmill R, Ling M, Xuguo Z, Obrycki JJ, Li B, Sethuraman A Global patterns of genomic and phenotypic variation in the invasive harlequin ladybird. BMC Biology DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01638-7
2022
Sethuraman A Teaching Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics on a High Performance Computing Cluster - A Primer. Biology Methods and Protocols DOI: 10.1093/biomethods/bpac032
Sethuraman A, Castro D, Sanders C, Lastor S, Hausknecht-Buss H, Moron-Solano A, Zhang A, Massaro I, Kasler AM, Caceres L, Mekuria I, Vega B, Henry S, Johansen H, Vengerova G, Hristova RS, Zhang X, Read B. Genome of a novel Sediminibacterium discovered in association with two species of freshwater stream Cyanobacteria in Southern California. G3 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac123
Grant T, Sethuraman A, Escobar M, Vourlitis G Chronic dry nitrogen inputs alter soil microbial community composition in Southern California semi-arid shrublands. Applied Soil Ecology DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2022.104496
Sethuraman A, Tovar A, Welch W, Dettmers R, Arce C, Skaggs T, Rothenberg A, Saisho R, Summerhays B, Cartmill R, Grenier C, Vasquez Y, Vansant H, Obrycki JJ Genome of the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae reveals extensive duplications, accelerated evolution, and independent origins of thelytokous parthenogeny and solitary behavior. G3 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac001
2021
Vourlitis G, Steinecke D, Martinez T, Konda K, Rendon R, Khor S, Hall V, Sethuraman A Fire and post-fire management affects soil microbial abundance and activity in semi-arid shrubland soils. Applied Soil Ecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104319
Rushworth C, Baucom R, Blackman B, Neiman M, Orive M, Sethuraman A, Ware J, Matute D Who are we now? A demographic assessment of the evolution societies. Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14168
Sethuraman A, Janzen FJ, Weisrock DW, Obrycki JJ Insights from population genomics to enhance and sustain biological control of insect pests. Insects. DOI: 10.3390/insects11080462
Webb A, Knoblauch J, Sabankar N, Sukesh Kallur A, Hey J, Sethuraman A The PopGen Pipeline Platform: A Software Platform for Facilitating Population Genomic Analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab113
2020
Grenier C, Summerhays B, Cartmill R, Martinez T, Saisho R, Rothenberg A, Tovar A, Rynerson A, Scott J, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A Lack of phenotypic variation despite population structure in larval utilization of pea aphids in populations of the lady beetle Hippodamia convergens. Biological Control DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104507
2019
Vansant, H., Vasquez, Y. M., Obrycki, J. J., Sethuraman, A. Coccinellid host morphology dictates morphological diversity of the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae. Biological Control DOI: 10.1101/460998
Sethuraman, A., Gonzalez, N., Grenier, C., Kansagra, K., Mey, K., Nunez, S., Summerhays, B., Wulf, G. Continued disuse of multiple-testing correction methods in population genetics - a wake-up call? Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12969
2018
Hey, J., Chung, Y., Sethuraman, A., Lachance, J., Tishkoff, S., Wang, Y. Phylogeny estimation by integration over Isolation with Migration models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy162
Sethuraman, A. Estimating relatedness in admixed populations. G3. DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200485
Hendricks, S., Anderson, E.C., Antao, T.,Bernatchez L., Forester, B.R., Garner, B., Hand, B.K., Hohenlohe P.A., Kardos, M., Koop, B., Sethuraman, A., Waples, R.S., Luikart, G. Recent advances in conservation and population genomics data analysis. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12659
2017
Sethuraman, A., Janzen, F.J., Rubio, M.A., Vasquez, Y., and Obrycki, J. Recent demographic histories of three predatory lady beetles reveals complex patterns of diversity and population size change in the United States. Insect Science. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12481
Mitchell, T.S., Refsnider, J.M., Sethuraman, A., Warner, D.A., Janzen, F.J. 2017. Experimental assessment of winter conditions on turtle nesting phenology and behavior. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 18: 271-280.
2016
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Vibhu, N.S. and Gorthi, R.P., Infosys Technologies, Inc., 2016. Method for providing context aware access in global software project management. U.S. Patent 9,324,059.
Sethuraman, A. and Hey, J., 2016. IMa2p–parallel MCMC and inference of ancient demography under the Isolation with migration (IM) model. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16(1), pp.206-215. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12437
Knoblauch, J., Sethuraman, A. and Hey, J. 2016. IMGui - A browser-based GUI for Isolation with Migration Analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34 (2): 500-504. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw252
2015
Hey, J., Chung, Y. and Sethuraman, A., 2015. On the occurrence of false positives in tests of migration under an isolation‐with‐migration model.Molecular Ecology, 24(20), pp.5078-5083. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13381
Sethuraman, A., Janzen, F.J. and Obrycki, J., 2015. Population genetics of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens. Biological Control, 84, pp.1-10. DOI:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2015.01.002
2014
Sethuraman, A., McGaugh, S.E., Becker, M.L., Chandler, C.H., Christiansen, J.L., Hayden, S., LeClere, A., Monson-Miller, J., Myers, E.M., Paitz, R.T., Refsnider, J.M., and Janzen, F.J. 2014. Population genetics of Blanding’s turtle (Emys blandingii) in the midwestern United States. Conservation genetics, 15(1), pp.61-73. DOI:10.1007/s10592-013-0521-8
2013
Shaffer, H.B., et al., 2013. The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. Genome Biology, 14(3), p.1. DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r28
PhD Thesis:
Sethuraman, A., "On inferring and interpreting genetic population structure - applications to conservation, and the estimation of pairwise genetic relatedness" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Iowa State University. 13332. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13332
Prior to 2013
Gorthi, R.S., Niranjani, S., Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A. (2009) Applications of Collaborative Multi-Agent Technology to Business – A Comprehensive Survey. SETLabs Briefings on Knowledge Engineering and Management, Infosys Limited.
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Niranjani, S., Gorthi, R.P. (2009) Managing Global Software: the MAS way. SETLabs Briefings on Knowledge Engineering and Management, Infosys Limited.
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Niranjani S., Gorthi, R.P., Gadde B., Context-aware Mobile Assistant Agents in Software Project Management. Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2008, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766780
Sethuraman, A., Yalla, K.K., Sarin, A. and Gorthi, R.P., 2008, January. Agents assisted software project management. In Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore Annual Compute Conference (p. 5). ACM. DOI: 10.1145/1341771.1341777
In Review/Submission/Revision
Dunn T, Sethuraman A. Accurately Inferring Ancient Auto and Allopolyploidization Events using Forward-time Simulations. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.17.594724 (in revision)
Aoki A, Sethuraman A. Accurate predictive modeling of conservation status in animal species using supervised learning (in revision). Research Square DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3471388/v1
Nguyen K, Sethuraman A. InRelate - An R Package for Estimating Genetic Relatedness in Structured Populations (accepted pending revisions at BMC Bioinformatics)
Tovar A, Monahan S, Kristan A, Welch W, Dettmers R, Arce C, Buck T, Ruben M, Rothenberg A, Saisho R, Cartmill R, Skaggs T, Reyes R, Lee MJ, Obrycki J, Kristan W, Sethuraman A. Like mother, like daughter? Phenotypic plasticity, environmental covariation, and heritability of size in a parthenogenetic wasp. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.02.518902 (in revision)
Sethuraman A, Sousa V, Hey J Model-based assessments of differential introgression and linked natural selection during divergence and speciation. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/786038
Lynch M, Sethuraman A Accounting for Gene Flow From Unsampled “Ghost Populations” While Estimating Evolutionary History under the Isolation with Migration model. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/733600 (in revision)
2024
Sethuraman A, Obrycki JJ. Population genomics and demographic modeling enhance our understanding of trophic level interactions in biological control, Biological Control DOI:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105585
Jones A, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A, Weisrock DW Shared patterns of population genomic variation and phenotypic response across rapid range expansions in two invasive lady beetle species, Biological Control DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105519
Beridze T, White SL, ..., Sethuraman A, et al., Genetic evidence for the presence of wild-caught sturgeons in commercial markets in Georgia, Diversity DOI: 10.3390/d16050274
Ang G, Zhang A, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A. A High Quality Genome of the Convergent Lady Beetle, Hippodamia convergens. G3. DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae083
Stancheva R, Sethuraman A, et al., Characterizing the microbial metagenome of calcareous stromatolite formations in San Felipe Creek in the Anza Borrego Desert. ASM Microbiology Resource Announcements. DOI: 10.1128/mra.00881-23
Sustaita D, Wulf G, Sethuraman A Phenotypic differentiation despite gene flow: beak morphology, bite performance, and population genetics of Loggerhead shrikes. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11079
2023
Schiebelhut LM, ..., Sethuraman A, ..., Luikart G Practical guidance in conservation genomics: from study design to application Molecular Ecology Resources DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13893
Sethuraman, A, Jones A, Nunziata SO, Weisrock DW, Obrycki JJ. Go west: population genomics reveals unexpected population fluctuations and little gene flow in Western Hemisphere populations of the predatory lady beetle, Hippodamia convergens. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/eva.13631
Li H, Peng Y, Wu C, Li Z, Mao K, Zhu J, Jin M, Buck R, Monahan S, Sethuraman A, Xiao Y. Assessing genome-wide adaptations associated with range expansion in the invasive pink stem borer. Insect Science. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13320
Li H, Peng Y, Summerhays B, Shu X, Vasquez Y, Vansant H, Grenier C, Gonzalez N, Kansagra K, Cartmill R, Ling M, Xuguo Z, Obrycki JJ, Li B, Sethuraman A Global patterns of genomic and phenotypic variation in the invasive harlequin ladybird. BMC Biology DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01638-7
2022
Sethuraman A Teaching Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics on a High Performance Computing Cluster - A Primer. Biology Methods and Protocols DOI: 10.1093/biomethods/bpac032
Sethuraman A, Castro D, Sanders C, Lastor S, Hausknecht-Buss H, Moron-Solano A, Zhang A, Massaro I, Kasler AM, Caceres L, Mekuria I, Vega B, Henry S, Johansen H, Vengerova G, Hristova RS, Zhang X, Read B. Genome of a novel Sediminibacterium discovered in association with two species of freshwater stream Cyanobacteria in Southern California. G3 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac123
Grant T, Sethuraman A, Escobar M, Vourlitis G Chronic dry nitrogen inputs alter soil microbial community composition in Southern California semi-arid shrublands. Applied Soil Ecology DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2022.104496
Sethuraman A, Tovar A, Welch W, Dettmers R, Arce C, Skaggs T, Rothenberg A, Saisho R, Summerhays B, Cartmill R, Grenier C, Vasquez Y, Vansant H, Obrycki JJ Genome of the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae reveals extensive duplications, accelerated evolution, and independent origins of thelytokous parthenogeny and solitary behavior. G3 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac001
2021
Vourlitis G, Steinecke D, Martinez T, Konda K, Rendon R, Khor S, Hall V, Sethuraman A Fire and post-fire management affects soil microbial abundance and activity in semi-arid shrubland soils. Applied Soil Ecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104319
Rushworth C, Baucom R, Blackman B, Neiman M, Orive M, Sethuraman A, Ware J, Matute D Who are we now? A demographic assessment of the evolution societies. Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14168
Sethuraman A, Janzen FJ, Weisrock DW, Obrycki JJ Insights from population genomics to enhance and sustain biological control of insect pests. Insects. DOI: 10.3390/insects11080462
Webb A, Knoblauch J, Sabankar N, Sukesh Kallur A, Hey J, Sethuraman A The PopGen Pipeline Platform: A Software Platform for Facilitating Population Genomic Analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab113
2020
Grenier C, Summerhays B, Cartmill R, Martinez T, Saisho R, Rothenberg A, Tovar A, Rynerson A, Scott J, Obrycki JJ, Sethuraman A Lack of phenotypic variation despite population structure in larval utilization of pea aphids in populations of the lady beetle Hippodamia convergens. Biological Control DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104507
2019
Vansant, H., Vasquez, Y. M., Obrycki, J. J., Sethuraman, A. Coccinellid host morphology dictates morphological diversity of the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae. Biological Control DOI: 10.1101/460998
Sethuraman, A., Gonzalez, N., Grenier, C., Kansagra, K., Mey, K., Nunez, S., Summerhays, B., Wulf, G. Continued disuse of multiple-testing correction methods in population genetics - a wake-up call? Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12969
2018
Hey, J., Chung, Y., Sethuraman, A., Lachance, J., Tishkoff, S., Wang, Y. Phylogeny estimation by integration over Isolation with Migration models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy162
Sethuraman, A. Estimating relatedness in admixed populations. G3. DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200485
Hendricks, S., Anderson, E.C., Antao, T.,Bernatchez L., Forester, B.R., Garner, B., Hand, B.K., Hohenlohe P.A., Kardos, M., Koop, B., Sethuraman, A., Waples, R.S., Luikart, G. Recent advances in conservation and population genomics data analysis. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12659
2017
Sethuraman, A., Janzen, F.J., Rubio, M.A., Vasquez, Y., and Obrycki, J. Recent demographic histories of three predatory lady beetles reveals complex patterns of diversity and population size change in the United States. Insect Science. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12481
Mitchell, T.S., Refsnider, J.M., Sethuraman, A., Warner, D.A., Janzen, F.J. 2017. Experimental assessment of winter conditions on turtle nesting phenology and behavior. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 18: 271-280.
2016
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Vibhu, N.S. and Gorthi, R.P., Infosys Technologies, Inc., 2016. Method for providing context aware access in global software project management. U.S. Patent 9,324,059.
Sethuraman, A. and Hey, J., 2016. IMa2p–parallel MCMC and inference of ancient demography under the Isolation with migration (IM) model. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16(1), pp.206-215. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12437
Knoblauch, J., Sethuraman, A. and Hey, J. 2016. IMGui - A browser-based GUI for Isolation with Migration Analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34 (2): 500-504. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw252
2015
Hey, J., Chung, Y. and Sethuraman, A., 2015. On the occurrence of false positives in tests of migration under an isolation‐with‐migration model.Molecular Ecology, 24(20), pp.5078-5083. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13381
Sethuraman, A., Janzen, F.J. and Obrycki, J., 2015. Population genetics of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens. Biological Control, 84, pp.1-10. DOI:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2015.01.002
2014
Sethuraman, A., McGaugh, S.E., Becker, M.L., Chandler, C.H., Christiansen, J.L., Hayden, S., LeClere, A., Monson-Miller, J., Myers, E.M., Paitz, R.T., Refsnider, J.M., and Janzen, F.J. 2014. Population genetics of Blanding’s turtle (Emys blandingii) in the midwestern United States. Conservation genetics, 15(1), pp.61-73. DOI:10.1007/s10592-013-0521-8
2013
Shaffer, H.B., et al., 2013. The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. Genome Biology, 14(3), p.1. DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r28
PhD Thesis:
Sethuraman, A., "On inferring and interpreting genetic population structure - applications to conservation, and the estimation of pairwise genetic relatedness" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Iowa State University. 13332. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13332
Prior to 2013
Gorthi, R.S., Niranjani, S., Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A. (2009) Applications of Collaborative Multi-Agent Technology to Business – A Comprehensive Survey. SETLabs Briefings on Knowledge Engineering and Management, Infosys Limited.
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Niranjani, S., Gorthi, R.P. (2009) Managing Global Software: the MAS way. SETLabs Briefings on Knowledge Engineering and Management, Infosys Limited.
Pasala, A., Sethuraman, A., Niranjani S., Gorthi, R.P., Gadde B., Context-aware Mobile Assistant Agents in Software Project Management. Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2008, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766780
Sethuraman, A., Yalla, K.K., Sarin, A. and Gorthi, R.P., 2008, January. Agents assisted software project management. In Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore Annual Compute Conference (p. 5). ACM. DOI: 10.1145/1341771.1341777