Benjamin Rubin

Benjamin Rubin

Bioinformatician and evolutionary genomicist.

Publications

  1. Rubin BER (2018 preprint) Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of substitution and DNA repair gene evolution. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/415570.
  2. Rubin BER, Jones BM, Hunt BG, Kocher SD (2019) Rate variation in the evolution of non-coding DNA associated with social evolution in bees. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 374: 20180247.
  3. Rubin BER, Kautz S, Wray BD, Moreau CS (2019) Dietary specialization in mutualistic acacia- ants affects relative abundance but not identity of host-associated bacteria. Molecular Ecology 28(4): 900-916.
    • commentary: Pringle E (2019) Convergence, constraint and the potential for mutualism between ants and gut microbes. Molecular Ecology. 28(4): 699–702.
  4. Rubin BER, Sanders JG, Turner KM, Pierce NE, Kocher SD (2018) Social behavior in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts. Royal Society open science 5: 180369.
  5. Kocher SD, Mallarino R, Rubin BER, Yu DW, Hoekstra HE, Pierce NE (2018) The genetic basis of a social polymorphism in halictid bees. Nature Communications 9: 4338.
  6. Moreau CS, Rubin BER (2017) Diversity and persistence of the gut microbiome of the giant Neotropical bullet ant. Integrative & Comparative Biology icx037.
  7. Rubin BER, Moreau CS (2016) Comparative genomics reveals convergent rates of evolution in ant-plant mutualisms. Nature Communications 7: 12679.
    • commentary: Pennisi E (2016) Peaceful ant-plant partnerships lead to genomic arms races. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aah7229.
  8. Sullam KE, Rubin BER, Dalton CM, Kilham SS, Flecker AS, Russell JA (2015) Divergence across diet, time and populations rules out parallel evolution in the gut microbiomes of Trinidadian guppies. ISME J 9(7): 1508-1522.
  9. Rubin BER, Sanders JG, Hampton-Marcell J, Owens SM, Gilbert JA, Moreau CS (2014) DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure. MicrobiologyOpen 3(6): 910-921.
  10. Rubin BER, Gibbons SM, Kennedy S, Hampton-Marcell J, Owens S, Gilbert JA (2013) Investigating the impact of storage conditions on microbial community composition in soil samples. PLoS ONE 8: e70460.
  11. Kautz S, Rubin BER, Moreau CS (2013) Bacterial infections across the ants: frequency and prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia. Psyche 2013: e936341.
  12. Rubin BER, Anderson RM, Kennedy D, Palmer TM, Stanton ML, Lovette IJ (2013) Polygyny in the nest-site limited acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae. Insectes Sociaux 60: 231-241.
  13. Moreau CS, Wray BD, Czekanski-Moir JE, Rubin BER (2013) DNA preservation: a test of commonly used preservatives for insects. Invertebrate Systematics 27: 81-86.
  14. Kautz S, Rubin BER, Russell JA, Moreau CS (2013) Surveying bacterial diversity in ants: comparing 454 pyrosequencing with traditional methods. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79: 525-534.
  15. Rubin BER, Ree R, Moreau CS (2012) Inferring phylogenies from RAD sequence data. PLoS ONE 7: e33394.
  16. Rubin BE, Makarewich CA, Talaba AL, Stenzler L, Bogdanowicz SM, Lovette IJ (2009) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1212-1214.