Structural variants and speciation: multiple processes at play

EL Berdan, TG Aubier, S Cozzolino… - Cold Spring …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Research on the genomic architecture of speciation has increasingly revealed the
importance of structural variants (SVs) that affect the presence, abundance, position, and/or …

Mechanisms of intrinsic postzygotic isolation: from traditional genic and chromosomal views to genomic and epigenetic perspectives

R Reifová, SL Ament-Velásquez… - Cold Spring …, 2023‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Intrinsic postzygotic isolation typically appears as reduced viability or fertility of interspecific
hybrids caused by genetic incompatibilities between diverged parental genomes …

Combining molecular, macroevolutionary, and macroecological perspectives on the generation of diversity

L Bromham - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Charles Darwin presented a unified process of diversification driven by the gradual
accumulation of heritable variation. The growth in DNA databases and the increase in …

Sex‐biased gene content is associated with sex chromosome turnover in Danaini butterflies

P Mora, M Hospodářská, AC Voleníková… - Molecular …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sex chromosomes play an outsized role in adaptation and speciation, and thus deserve
particular attention in evolutionary genomics. In particular, fusions between sex …

Speciation

CL Peichel, DI Bolnick… - Cold Spring …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
What drives the emergence of new species has fascinated biologists since Darwin.
Reproductive barriers to gene flow are a key step in the formation of species, and recent …

An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids

C Vargas-Chávez, L Benítez-Álvarez… - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
The genomic basis of cladogenesis and adaptive evolutionary change has intrigued
biologists for decades. The unique insights gained from a genome-level perspective have …

Karyotype and LTR-RTs analysis provide insights into oak genomic evolution

RB Cao, R Chen, KX Liao, H Li, GB Xu, XL Jiang - BMC genomics, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Whole-genome duplication and long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR-
RTs) amplification in organisms are essential factors that affect speciation, local adaptation …

Meiotic Drive and Speciation

JB Searle… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's
laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection …

Genomic approaches are improving taxonomic representation in genetic studies of speciation

K Delmore, H Justen, KM Kay… - Cold Spring …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Until recently, our understanding of the genetics of speciation was limited to a narrow group
of model species with a specific set of characteristics that made genetic analysis feasible …

Hierarchical architecture of neo-sex chromosomes and accelerated adaptive evolution in tortricid moths

F Yang, LJ Cao, P Nguyen, ZZ Ma, JC Chen… - Genome …, 2025‏ - genome.cshlp.org
Sex chromosomes can expand through fusion with autosomes, thereby acquiring unique
evolutionary patterns. In butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), these sex chromosome …