C. Brandon Ogbunu, PhD
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2026
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Ogbunugafor C. Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. The Quarterly Review Of Biology 2026, 101: 248-249. DOI: 10.1086/742494.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStructural causal influence captures the forces of social inequality in models of infectious disease
Surasinghe S, Manivannan S, Scarpino S, Crawford L, Ogbunugafor C. Structural causal influence captures the forces of social inequality in models of infectious disease. Biology Letters 2026, 22: 20250655. PMID: 42613058, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0655.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDeconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity
Manivannan S, Ogbunugafor C. Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2026, 16: jkag166. PMID: 42361316, PMCID: PMC13535436, DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkag166.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWhen evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)
Ogbunugafor C. When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006). Genetics 2026, iyag140. PMID: 42334028, DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyag140.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnergetic constraints shape the diversity of feasible ecological networks
Long C, Angulo M, Ogbunugafor C, Solé R, Saavedra S. Energetic constraints shape the diversity of feasible ecological networks. PLOS Computational Biology 2026, 22: e1014330. PMID: 42160376, PMCID: PMC13211307, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014330.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMaynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space
Manivannan S, Ogbunugafor C. Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2026, 123: e2610113123. PMID: 42150083, PMCID: PMC13214018, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2610113123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOur cosmos, ourselves
Ogbunugafor C. Our cosmos, ourselves. Science 2026, 392: 261-261. DOI: 10.1126/science.aef5342.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check
Ogbunugafor C. Dawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check. Nature 2026, 652: 30-31. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-00970-6.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersOn the Manifest Naivete of Techno‐Optimists: A Review of More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Ogbunugafor C. On the Manifest Naivete of Techno‐Optimists: A Review of More Everything Forever by Adam Becker. American Journal Of Biological Anthropology 2026, 189 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70214.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
Environment-by-Environment Interactions Differ Across Genetic Backgrounds
Schmidlin K, Ogbunugafor B, Sastokas A, Geiler-Samerotte K. Environment-by-Environment Interactions Differ Across Genetic Backgrounds. Molecular Biology And Evolution 2025, 42: msaf287. PMID: 41206453, PMCID: PMC12631786, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf287.Peer-Reviewed Original Research